Download or read book Reshaping Fatherhood written by Anna Dienhart and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-05-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative study of 18 shared parenting couples explores men's and women's resourcefulness as they create together alternatives to traditional parenting patterns. Narrative accounts show a diversity of possible ways to organize family life so both mothers and fathers can be active in parenting. The many strategies followed by these couples - including tag-team parenting, interchangeability of roles, and division of labor - share a flexibility which challenges the many researchers who are fixated on static models of gendered family life.