abstract: 'In this article, the authors examine how low-income Black men in South

  Africa and the United States work with their kin to secure fathering and

  ensure the well-being of children. They use ethnographic and life

  history data on men who fathered children from 1992 to 2005 to

  demonstrate how fathers'' roles as kin workers enable them to meet

  culturally defined criteria for responsible fatherhood in two contexts

  marked by legacies of racism, increasing rates of incarceration and

  HIV/AIDS, and a web of interlocking inequalities that effectively

  precludes them from accessing employment with good wages. Using a

  comparative framework based on kin work, the authors identify three

  common processes in both contexts-negotiation between maternal and

  paternal kin, pedifocal approach, and flexible fathering-that enable men

  and their kin networks to secure father involvement in economically

  marginalized communities. The article concludes with a discussion of the

  policy implications of the findings.'
affiliation: 'Madhavan, S (Corresponding Author), Univ Maryland, Dept African Amer
  Studies, 2169 LeFrak Hall, College Pk, MD 20742 USA.

  Madhavan, Sangeetha, Univ Maryland, Dept African Amer Studies, College Pk, MD 20742
  USA.

  Madhavan, Sangeetha, Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Publ Hlth, MRC Wits Rural Publ Hlth
  \& Hlth Transit Res Unit, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa.'
author: Madhavan, Sangeetha and Roy, Kevin
author-email: smadhavan@aasp.umd.edu
author_list:
- family: Madhavan
  given: Sangeetha
- family: Roy
  given: Kevin
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1177/0192513X11426699
eissn: 1552-5481
files: []
issn: 0192-513X
journal: JOURNAL OF FAMILY ISSUES
keywords: fathers; kin; global inequalities; poverty; South Africa; United States
keywords-plus: INVOLVEMENT; SUPPORT
language: English
month: JUN
number: '6'
number-of-cited-references: '51'
pages: 801-822
papis_id: f4cbc1cfab750b338b8be8d314d3b768
ref: Madhavan2012securingfatherhood
times-cited: '26'
title: 'Securing Fatherhood Through Kin Work: A Comparison of Black Low-Income Fathers
  and Families in South Africa and the United States'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000303326600005
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '13'
volume: '33'
web-of-science-categories: Family Studies
year: '2012'