William Marsiglio
Biographic Data
| ID | 79824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Marsiglio |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Marsiglio |
| SIGNATURE | MARSIGLIO W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 774 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Thinking about Fatherhood
Becoming Aware, Being Aware
Setting the Stage
Studying Young Single Men
Romantic Involvements
Turning Points in Identity
Looking Forward
Sex, Men, and Babies
Over the past 15 years much pioneering work has been done on the social demography of young men's sexual activities, contraceptive use, and fertility experiences. But how do men develop and manage their identities in these areas? In Sex, Men, and Babies , William Marsiglio and Sally Hutchinson provide a compelling and insightful portrait of young men who are capable of anticipating, creating, and fathering human life. Based on in-depth interviews…
Fatherhood Desires and Being Bothered by Future Childlessness among U.S. Gay, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Men—United States, 2002–2015
Recent legal and social changes in marriage equality, parenting among same-sex couples, and fatherhood discourses may prompt more US gay and bisexual men to desire fatherhood. However, scholars know little about fatherhood desires among these men. Therefore, we investigated temporal changes in fatherhood desires and perceptions of being bothered by future childlessness among US gay, bisexual, and heterosexual men. The sample included childless me…
HealthyDads
Objective This study examines the thematic content and social‐health orientation of fathers' online blogs about parenting, health, and fitness. Background Social media provide avenues for parents to contribute to public discourse about parenthood and to offer guidance on health‐related matters. Concerns about familial well‐being have been central to parenting discourse for ages, but little is known about how parents write and talk about health on…
Gay Dads
Framing Men's Experience in the Procreative Realm
Informed by a critical men's studies perspective, as well as symbolic interactionist and life course themes, we explore how men's relationship to the procreative realm is currently conceptualized in academic scholarship and public policy debates. We articulate opportunities to advance our conceptual understanding of men's experiences with pregnancy and family planning by framing the procreative period as a multilayered, dynamic process. We also d…
Gay Fatherhood
Inclusive Masculinity
Men's Relations with Kids
Using qualitative in-depth interviews with a sample of adult male youth workers ( n = 55), including a subset of twenty-nine fathers, the author explores how men's fathering and youth experiences can be viewed as part of a larger, integrated social mosaic. Informed selectively by social constructionist, symbolic interactionist, life course, and generativity themes, the analysis expands the fatherhood literature by connecting it to men's volunteer…
Understanding Men's Prenatal Experience and the Father Involvement Connection
Cabrera, Fagan, and Farrie's research provides a useful springboard to encourage scholars to think broadly and productively about theoretical, substantive, methodological, and social intervention issues related to men's prenatal experiences, transitional life course events, and subsequent engagement with their young children. To their credit, the authors have taken valuable "baby steps" on the path to building a more nuanced understanding of the …
My Father Before Me
Managing the Multifather Family
Drawing on qualitative in-depth interviews with 46 stepfathers, we explore how stepfathers characterize the biological father and their relations with him. We focus specifically on instances in which stepfathers directly and indirectly act like a father ally; that is, they presumably help the father sustain or improve his relationship with his child. Our analysis generates theoretical insights about father ally properties (development, purpose, a…
Gay Men
Our qualitative study examines the social psychology of gay men's experiences with their procreative, father, and family identities. In-depth interviews were conducted with 19 childless gay men and 20 gay men in the United States who have fathered using diverse means excluding heterosexual intercourse. By focusing on men aged 19 - 55 residing primarily in Florida and New York, our novel analysis illuminates how emerging structural opportunities a…
Special Reviewers
When Stepfathers Claim Stepchildren
Guided by social constructionist and symbolic interactionist perspectives and a grounded theory method, my conceptual analysis explores stepfathers' experiences with claiming stepchildren as their own. Using in-depth interviews with a diverse sample of 36 stepfathers, my analysis focuses on paternal claiming as a core category and generates 10 properties relevant to this social psychological phenomenon: timing, degree of deliberativeness, degree …
Making Males Mindful of Their Sexual and Procreative Identities
Assisting men to appreciate themselves as sexual beings capable of creating human life will help them protect their own health and well-being while safeguarding their partners and potential children. My experience conducting in-depth interviews and focus groups with men aged 16–30 has convinced me that it is possible to enhance young men’s mindfulness about their sexual and procreative identities; the challenge for reproductive health care provid…
Making Males Mindful of Their Sexual and Procreative Identities
Interviewing Young Men about Sex and Procreation
Because clear instructions for interviewing men about their developing procreative identities do not exist, the authors discuss a variety of methodological issues that surfaced during in-depth interviews with young men about relationships, sex, contraception, pregnancy, and fatherhood. The authors interviewed a diverse sample of 50 single male participants, ages 16 to 30, who had dated at least one woman in the past 3 years (or had been married).…
Self-Structure, Identity, and Commitment
We address current debates related to identity theory and the organization of the self by examining how a sample of men involved in the Promise Keepers movement construct, maintain, and organize their identities. Our qualitative analysis shows that these men have undertaken a continuous project of gender identity work to become godly men. We find that the Promise Keepers movement provides these men with both the ideological and the organizational…
Scholarship on Fatherhood in the 1990s and Beyond
Throughout the 1990s, scholars interested in fatherhood have generated a voluminous, rich, and diverse body of work. We selectively review this literature with an eye toward prominent theoretical, methodological, and substantive issues. This burgeoning literature, complemented by social policy makers' heightened interest in fathers and families, focuses on fatherhood in at least 4 key ways. First, theorists have studied fatherhood as a cultural r…
Paternal Engagement Activities with Minor Children
Attitudes toward homosexual activity and gays as friends
Heterosexual adolescent males’ negative attitudes toward gays were examined using data from a 1988 national survey of male youth 15 to 19 years of age. Results indicated that the vast majority of young males, 89%, found sex between two men “disgusting,” and only 12% felt confident that they could befriend a gay person. Multivariate analyses revealed, as expected, that respondents with more traditional male role attitudes, a religious fundamentali…
Gay Men
Our qualitative study examines the social psychology of gay men's experiences with their procreative, father, and family identities. In-depth interviews were conducted with 19 childless gay men and 20 gay men in the United States who have fathered using diverse means excluding heterosexual intercourse. By focusing on men aged 19 - 55 residing primarily in Florida and New York, our novel analysis illuminates how emerging structural opportunities a…
Stepfathers With Minor Children Living at Home
This study uses data from the National Survey of Families and Households to examine stepfathers' perceptions about their stepfather role and the quality of their relationship with their oldest minor stepchild living at home. The sample includes 195 stepfathers coresiding with a spouse or nonlegal partner. Results indicate that these stepfathers have diverse perceptions about seven different aspects of the stepfather role. Almost 52% of stepfather…
When Stepfathers Claim Stepchildren
Guided by social constructionist and symbolic interactionist perspectives and a grounded theory method, my conceptual analysis explores stepfathers' experiences with claiming stepchildren as their own. Using in-depth interviews with a diverse sample of 36 stepfathers, my analysis focuses on paternal claiming as a core category and generates 10 properties relevant to this social psychological phenomenon: timing, degree of deliberativeness, degree …
Contemporary Scholarship on Fatherhood
The principal aim in this thematic essay is to identify and discuss three central foci that have influenced the direction of contemporary sociological scholarship on fatherhood issues in North America. These foci include commentaries on the meaning and changing nature of cultural images of fatherhood, efforts to conceptualize and study the social psychological dimensions of fatherhood, and empirical studies that examine resident and nonresident f…
Exploring Fatherhood Diversity
Our analysis, grounded in a social constructionist perspective, explores the theoretical and political complexities facing researchers and policymakers as they attempt to conceptualize, study, and promote fathers' involvement with their children. Taking into account the growing diversity of life course and residency patterns for men and children today, we stress how the definition of fatherhood and conceptualization of paternal involvement are in…
Framing Men's Experience in the Procreative Realm
Informed by a critical men's studies perspective, as well as symbolic interactionist and life course themes, we explore how men's relationship to the procreative realm is currently conceptualized in academic scholarship and public policy debates. We articulate opportunities to advance our conceptual understanding of men's experiences with pregnancy and family planning by framing the procreative period as a multilayered, dynamic process. We also d…
Contextualizing Father Involvement and Paternal Influence
We clarify the basic features of a sociological perspective as it relates to the study of fathers' involvement with, and influence on, their children. Our analysis emphasizes the dynamic interplay between social structures and processes at the macro, meso, and micro levels while focusing on social psychological issues. We examine (a) the social, organizational, and cultural contexts for fathering, (b) fathers' social capital contributions, (c) th…
Does Wanting to Become Pregnant with a First Child Affect Subsequent Maternal Behaviors and Infant Birth Weight
William Marsiglio, Frank L. Mott, Does Wanting to Become Pregnant with a First Child Affect Subsequent Maternal Behaviors and Infant Birth Weight?, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Nov., 1988), pp. 1023-1036
Young Men's Procreative Identity
Using a purposive sample of 37 single men aged 16 to 30, in-depth face-to-face interviews, and a grounded theory approach, we explore males' subjective experiences as procreative beings. Our study is informed by symbolic interactionism and 2 sensitizing concepts: procreative consciousness and procreative responsibility. We focus on how males become aware of their perceived fecundity, experience themselves as procreative beings once they become aw…
Self-Structure, Identity, and Commitment
We address current debates related to identity theory and the organization of the self by examining how a sample of men involved in the Promise Keepers movement construct, maintain, and organize their identities. Our qualitative analysis shows that these men have undertaken a continuous project of gender identity work to become godly men. We find that the Promise Keepers movement provides these men with both the ideological and the organizational…
Managing the Multifather Family
Drawing on qualitative in-depth interviews with 46 stepfathers, we explore how stepfathers characterize the biological father and their relations with him. We focus specifically on instances in which stepfathers directly and indirectly act like a father ally; that is, they presumably help the father sustain or improve his relationship with his child. Our analysis generates theoretical insights about father ally properties (development, purpose, a…
Interviewing Young Men about Sex and Procreation
Because clear instructions for interviewing men about their developing procreative identities do not exist, the authors discuss a variety of methodological issues that surfaced during in-depth interviews with young men about relationships, sex, contraception, pregnancy, and fatherhood. The authors interviewed a diverse sample of 50 single male participants, ages 16 to 30, who had dated at least one woman in the past 3 years (or had been married).…
Male Procreative Consciousness and Responsibility
During the past several decades American males' relationship to the reproductive realm has undergone a significant transformation, and current societal conditions are likely to produce additional changes. The present analysis introduces a conceptual framework to describe and assess critically the nature and potential consequences of men's experiences in this life sphere. The conceptual linchpins of this analysis include two specific social-psycho…
New Action Theory and Contemporary Families
Growing diversities among families and households throughout Western societies are documented. The prevailing conceptual approach has been to distinguish 'the family' from alternative life-styles. That dichotomy, rooted in functionalist thought ('old action theory') is rejected. Drawing on what is called 'new action theory' a model for conceptualizing contemporary families is presented. The model assumes that persons construct their families with…
Wider Families As Primary Relationships
No abstract available for this article
Young Nonresident Biological Fathers
This paper summarizes research, policies, and pro- grams related to nonresident, adolescent and young adult biological fathers and outlines avenues for future initiatives in these areas. The discussion is informed by a conceptual model that illustrates how a set of interrelated macro and micro factors affect the way young fathers respond to their paternity and father roles. Research on nonresident young fathers is limited because it is largely ba…
Adolescent Male Sexuality and Heterosexual Masculinity
The theoretical and empirical literature on adolescent sexuality has focused disproportionately on females. Given this bias, and the current public concern over the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among the adoles cent population, a systematic interpretation of adolescent male sexuality is warranted. Adolescent male sexuality is discussed here within the context of an integrated concep…
Understanding Men's Prenatal Experience and the Father Involvement Connection
Cabrera, Fagan, and Farrie's research provides a useful springboard to encourage scholars to think broadly and productively about theoretical, substantive, methodological, and social intervention issues related to men's prenatal experiences, transitional life course events, and subsequent engagement with their young children. To their credit, the authors have taken valuable "baby steps" on the path to building a more nuanced understanding of the …
Adolescent Males' Pregnancy Resolution Preferences and Family Formation Intentions
This study focuses primarily on adolescent Black males and examines the subcultural interpretation of racial patterns related to pregnancy resolution and family formation issues for young males. Toward this end, this research assesses the extent to which parental education is related to young Black males'preferences, beliefs, and intentions, and attempts to determine whether parental education influences Blacks' views in a similar manner and to t…
Pregnancy Resolution and Family Formation
This article examines gender differences in adolescents' personal views about pregnancy resolution and family formation as they relate to a vignette describing their involvement in an unplanned pregnancy within the context of an ongoing, stable relationship. We use a sample of 577 White and Black high school students from a metropolitan, midwestern city to contrast males' and females' preferences and beliefs about pregnancy resolution and family …
Commitment to Social Fatherhood
William Marsiglio, Commitment to Social Fatherhood: Predicting Adolescent Males' Intentions to Live with Their Child and Partner, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 50, No. 2 (May, 1988), pp. 427-441
Couples and the male birth control pill
Contraceptive decision making is likely to become more complex when male oral contraceptives are marketed and as sex‐role preferences become more egalitarian. A mailed survey of 47 married couples selected from a newspaper “Birth Listing” column in Columbus, Ohio was used to contrast spouses' views, to assess levels of actual and perceived consensus among partners, and to identify predictors of greater stated likelihood of male pill usage. Modest…
Husbands' sex-role preferences and contraceptive intentions
Confronting the Teenage Pregnancy Issue
Social marketing is advocated here as a viable approach for increasing responsible teenage contraception. The innovative field is reviewed and the major issues dealing with the adoption and implementation of a social marketing approach to teenage contraception are discussed. Research on teenagers' sexual and contraceptive attitudes and behaviors is also reviewed. The discussion emphasizes that the use and adoption of effective contraceptive metho…
Couples and the male birth control pill
Contraceptive decision making is likely to become more complex when male oral contraceptives are marketed and as sex‐role preferences become more egalitarian. A mailed survey of 47 married couples selected from a newspaper “Birth Listing” column in Columbus, Ohio was used to contrast spouses' views, to assess levels of actual and perceived consensus among partners, and to identify predictors of greater stated likelihood of male pill usage. Modest…
Adolescent Male Sexuality and Heterosexual Masculinity
The theoretical and empirical literature on adolescent sexuality has focused disproportionately on females. Given this bias, and the current public concern over the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among the adoles cent population, a systematic interpretation of adolescent male sexuality is warranted. Adolescent male sexuality is discussed here within the context of an integrated concep…
Does Wanting to Become Pregnant with a First Child Affect Subsequent Maternal Behaviors and Infant Birth Weight
William Marsiglio, Frank L. Mott, Does Wanting to Become Pregnant with a First Child Affect Subsequent Maternal Behaviors and Infant Birth Weight?, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Nov., 1988), pp. 1023-1036
Teenage Fathers
Commitment to Social Fatherhood
William Marsiglio, Commitment to Social Fatherhood: Predicting Adolescent Males' Intentions to Live with Their Child and Partner, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 50, No. 2 (May, 1988), pp. 427-441
Adolescent Males' Pregnancy Resolution Preferences and Family Formation Intentions
This study focuses primarily on adolescent Black males and examines the subcultural interpretation of racial patterns related to pregnancy resolution and family formation issues for young males. Toward this end, this research assesses the extent to which parental education is related to young Black males'preferences, beliefs, and intentions, and attempts to determine whether parental education influences Blacks' views in a similar manner and to t…
Pregnancy Resolution and Family Formation
This article examines gender differences in adolescents' personal views about pregnancy resolution and family formation as they relate to a vignette describing their involvement in an unplanned pregnancy within the context of an ongoing, stable relationship. We use a sample of 577 White and Black high school students from a metropolitan, midwestern city to contrast males' and females' preferences and beliefs about pregnancy resolution and family …
Wider Families As Primary Relationships
No abstract available for this article
Paternal Engagement Activities with Minor Children
Male Procreative Consciousness and Responsibility
During the past several decades American males' relationship to the reproductive realm has undergone a significant transformation, and current societal conditions are likely to produce additional changes. The present analysis introduces a conceptual framework to describe and assess critically the nature and potential consequences of men's experiences in this life sphere. The conceptual linchpins of this analysis include two specific social-psycho…
Stepfathers With Minor Children Living at Home
This study uses data from the National Survey of Families and Households to examine stepfathers' perceptions about their stepfather role and the quality of their relationship with their oldest minor stepchild living at home. The sample includes 195 stepfathers coresiding with a spouse or nonlegal partner. Results indicate that these stepfathers have diverse perceptions about seven different aspects of the stepfather role. Almost 52% of stepfather…
Attitudes toward homosexual activity and gays as friends
Heterosexual adolescent males’ negative attitudes toward gays were examined using data from a 1988 national survey of male youth 15 to 19 years of age. Results indicated that the vast majority of young males, 89%, found sex between two men “disgusting,” and only 12% felt confident that they could befriend a gay person. Multivariate analyses revealed, as expected, that respondents with more traditional male role attitudes, a religious fundamentali…
New Action Theory and Contemporary Families
Growing diversities among families and households throughout Western societies are documented. The prevailing conceptual approach has been to distinguish 'the family' from alternative life-styles. That dichotomy, rooted in functionalist thought ('old action theory') is rejected. Drawing on what is called 'new action theory' a model for conceptualizing contemporary families is presented. The model assumes that persons construct their families with…
Contemporary Scholarship on Fatherhood
The principal aim in this thematic essay is to identify and discuss three central foci that have influenced the direction of contemporary sociological scholarship on fatherhood issues in North America. These foci include commentaries on the meaning and changing nature of cultural images of fatherhood, efforts to conceptualize and study the social psychological dimensions of fatherhood, and empirical studies that examine resident and nonresident f…
In Appreciation
Young Nonresident Biological Fathers
This paper summarizes research, policies, and pro- grams related to nonresident, adolescent and young adult biological fathers and outlines avenues for future initiatives in these areas. The discussion is informed by a conceptual model that illustrates how a set of interrelated macro and micro factors affect the way young fathers respond to their paternity and father roles. Research on nonresident young fathers is limited because it is largely ba…
Fatherhood
This title provides theoretical analysis and empirical research from a number of social sciences on what it means to be a father in times of changing families and gender roles at work and in society at large. The topics of the 13 essays include finding models, life-course patterns, and a comparison between perceptions toward fathers' roles in child rearing in the US and Japan
Constructing Fatherhood
Theorizing Fatherhood Poststructuralist Perspectives 'Expert' Discourses and the Construction of Fatherhood Fatherhood in the Popular Media Biographies of Fatherhood Negotiating Fatherhood Discourses and Experiences
Procreative Man
Exploring Fatherhood Diversity
Our analysis, grounded in a social constructionist perspective, explores the theoretical and political complexities facing researchers and policymakers as they attempt to conceptualize, study, and promote fathers' involvement with their children. Taking into account the growing diversity of life course and residency patterns for men and children today, we stress how the definition of fatherhood and conceptualization of paternal involvement are in…
Contextualizing Father Involvement and Paternal Influence
We clarify the basic features of a sociological perspective as it relates to the study of fathers' involvement with, and influence on, their children. Our analysis emphasizes the dynamic interplay between social structures and processes at the macro, meso, and micro levels while focusing on social psychological issues. We examine (a) the social, organizational, and cultural contexts for fathering, (b) fathers' social capital contributions, (c) th…
Scholarship on Fatherhood in the 1990s and Beyond
Throughout the 1990s, scholars interested in fatherhood have generated a voluminous, rich, and diverse body of work. We selectively review this literature with an eye toward prominent theoretical, methodological, and substantive issues. This burgeoning literature, complemented by social policy makers' heightened interest in fathers and families, focuses on fatherhood in at least 4 key ways. First, theorists have studied fatherhood as a cultural r…
Young Men's Procreative Identity
Using a purposive sample of 37 single men aged 16 to 30, in-depth face-to-face interviews, and a grounded theory approach, we explore males' subjective experiences as procreative beings. Our study is informed by symbolic interactionism and 2 sensitizing concepts: procreative consciousness and procreative responsibility. We focus on how males become aware of their perceived fecundity, experience themselves as procreative beings once they become aw…
Psychology (40 works) · Sociology (32 works) · Social Psychology (27 works) · Developmental psychology (23 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (21 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Political science (14 works) · Social science (13 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (12 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (11 works)