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Alcoholics --- Self-help groups --- Twelve-step programs --- Rehabilitation --- Alcoholics anonymous.

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All across America, angry fathers are demanding rights. These men claim that since the breakdown of their own families, they have been deprived of access to their children. Joining together to form fathers' rights groups, the mostly white, middle-class men meet in small venues to speak their minds about the state of the American family and, more specifically, to talk about the problems they personally face, for which they blame current child support and child custody policies. Dissatisfied with these systems, fathers' rights groups advocate on behalf of legal reforms that will lower their child support payments and help them obtain automatic joint custody of their children. In Defiant Dads, Jocelyn Elise Crowley offers a balanced examination of these groups in order to understand why they object to the current child support and child custody systems; what their political agenda, if enacted, would mean for their members' children or children's mothers; and how well they deal with their members' interpersonal issues concerning their ex-partners and their role as parents. Based on interviews with more than 150 fathers' rights group leaders and members, as well as close observation of group meetings and analysis of their rhetoric and advocacy literature, this important book is the first extensive, in-depth account of the emergence of fathers' rights groups in the United States. A nuanced and timely look at an emerging social movement, Defiant Dads is a revealing investigation into the changing dynamics of both the American family and gender relations in American society.

Self-help groups --- Child support --- Custody of children --- Divorced fathers --- Fathers --- Dads --- Men --- Parents --- Househusbands --- Divorced men --- Divorced parents --- Single fathers --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- United States

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In 1818 Michael Faraday and a handful of other London artisans formed a self-help group with the aim of teaching themselves to write like gentlemen. For a year and a half Faraday’s essay-circle met regularly to read aloud and criticise one another’s writings. The ‘Mental Exercises’ they produced are a record of the life, literary tastes and social and political ideas of Dissenting artisans in Regency London. This book is the first to publish the essays and poems produced by Faraday’s circle. The complete corpus of the essay-circle’s writings is accompanied by detailed annotations, extracts from key sources and a full-length introduction explaining the biographical, historical and literary context of the group. This edition will be valuable not only for historians of Romantic and Victorian science, but for literary scholars and historians working on early nineteenth-century writing, reading and class issues, and for all readers interested in the development of the mind of a great scientist.

Self-help groups --- Self-help techniques. --- English language --- Report writing --- Germanic languages --- Self-change techniques --- Self-directed change --- Life skills --- Psychology, Applied --- Groups, Mutual help support --- Groups, Mutual support --- Groups, Self-help --- Groups, Support --- Mutual help support groups --- Mutual support groups --- Networks, Self-help --- Support groups --- Group counseling --- Rhetoric --- Study and teaching. --- Style --- Faraday, Michael, --- Faraday, M. --- Faradeĭ, Mikhail, --- Faradeĭ, Maĭkŭl, --- Fa-la-ti, --- פאראדײ, מ. --- Faradeĭ, Maĭkl, --- Фарадей, Майкл, --- Friends and associates. --- Sources.