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Family Dynamics & fatherhoodbooks

Below are the best books we could find on Family Dynamics and fatherhood.

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Self-Portrait in Black and White: Family, Fatherhood, and Rethinking Race

The son of a “black” father and a “white” mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams found himself questioning long-held convictions about race upon the birth of his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter―and came to realize that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them, or anyone else.

Thomas Chatterton Williams

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Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction

“What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong?” Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery.

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: On Being a Parent

This upbeat and compelling book includes the best selections on parenting from Chicken Soup’s rich history, with 101 stories carefully selected to appeal to both mothers and fathers.

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen

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The New Guy Code: Becoming a Man in a Fatherless Society

This book dives into the fatherless epidemic in America.

Tony Gaskins Jr.

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Dancing with a Porcupine: Parenting Wounded Children without Losing Your Self

Parenting is hard. So what do you do when you’re parenting a child who has experienced trauma or has extra challenges? You often feel alone and inadequate. You want so much to help your child, but you are at the end of your own rope. You feel guilty that sometimes you want to just quit.

Jennie Lynn Owens

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Project Fatherhood: A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America’s Toughest Communities

In 2010, former gang leader turned community activist Big Mike Cummings asked UCLA gang expert Jorja Leap to co-lead a group of men struggling to be better fathers in Watts, South Los Angeles, a neighborhood long burdened with a legacy of racialized poverty, violence, and incarceration.

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All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

The instant New York Times bestseller that the Christian Science Monitor declared “an important book, much the way The Feminine Mystique was, because it offers parents a common language, an understanding that they're not alone” Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their...

Jennifer Senior

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