1rst draft of research paper 2

Shamoon Baba

Eng 101.0800

Magdalene Bogacka

Recognition of the efforts of the black man in child growth and development

           

Whiles scanning through Coltrane’s Fathering: Paradoxes, contradiction, and dilemmas, and stumbling upon the acknowledgment of the efforts and participation of black fathers in active child development really sent shock waves of good impressions to my attention. At one point of his reading, he makes a niche of “levels of predictors of fathers’ involvement” in which black men came top of the list of the fathers of other races who participate in child rearing and house work-more so, “Intimate fathers”. One can easily jump into conclusion to think of white men as the ones who should per se possess the “know how” to child growth and development but evidently the black man has put himself on the map with the phenomenal relations they have with their biological offspring as studies have shown. Divorce is not a blocking factor from financial contributions and commitments to the child’s growth and development. And as such, black men have rather challenged this factor amongst others like unemployment and imprisonment. I therefore give a reaffirming support to the earlier point stated by Coltrane on noticed behaviors of black fathers. Mobilizing two backing sources to support my stance, I present the movie “John Q” which exhibits a profound father and son relationship as noted too that fathers in general are more connected to their sons than daughter. The movies will serve as visual support to my position. And with the second source from a book by Michael E Conner “Black fathers: an invisible presence in America”, I advocate for the works of black fathers to be recognized by researchers and academic studies.

 It can be ultimately comprehensible that fathers who work hard –mostly low paying jobs-to provide food and shelter for their family ought to see themselves as a “good fathers” like the reading states.  This can easily be backed with simple logic of why one would spend on another if not for intimate reasons since that person is obviously not running a charity service. As this drama and tears filled movies rolls, a co-resident father (intimate) breaks his back in provision of food and shelter for him and his family. He shares love and responsibilities in the growth and development of their only child to whom unfortunately faces a life threatening surgical transplant. Since the company he worked for had their health insurance policy changed and the pending policy didn’t cover such high bills, the father is faced with the challenge of raising 75,000 dollars to facilitate his son’s surgery or he gets released to go home to await his dead. A vivid display of what a father would do for and with a child is put on show. Looking at how the father and son related like friends and when it was necessary to put his feet down, he did like a father is supposed to. Playing a “double bind” of loving and strict parenting, Denzel expresses the deep seated fatherly love for his son and husband reliability for his wife. This serves as an embedded behavior of typical black males that are not publicized by the media or not being given the adequate support to make others copy from.