source 5- anotated bibiliography

Lerner, Richard. "Parenthood in America." The Role of the Father in the Family 1998 29 Mar 2009 http://parenthood.library.wisc.edu/Lerner/Lerner.html.

Richard Lerner has his PhD; Anita L. Brennan is a Professor of Education, Director, Center for Child, and Family and Community Partnerships from Boston College.
This piece touches on everything from the nature of parenting to the contextual development, to child rearing styles, socializing, and parent-adolescent relationships. It goes into more detail about dual parenting and whether the child is biological or adoptive then just focusing on parenting in relationship to the father figure. I really liked that this piece had some information on runaways and homeless children both with and without a mother and/or a father. There was information on the different “family structures” that also play a role in all of the different studies that they performed and how these different structures would affect the results of these studies.
This piece was overall helpful because it gave me further insight into my topic and gave many different views that were not present in other sources that I used. I found it was not extremely helpful because of its broad overview and most of the time did not relate just to the father but instead to the mother and father as a team.
The authors of this piece seem some involvement in their field that relates them to this piece but do not have tons of credentials to really back them up and make me feel 100 percent confident.