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Make room for daddy

"Using fathers' first-hand accounts from letters, journals, and personal interviews along with hospital records and medical literature, Judith Walzer Leavitt offers a new perspective on the changing role of expectant fathers from the 1940s to the 1980s."[book cover].

Audience
adult
Length
long · 400 pages

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