Introduction to the Transaction edition -- Preface -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Fatherlessness -- 1. The remarkable decline of fatherhood and marriage -- 2. The human carnage of fatherlessness -- pt. 2. Fathers in history -- 3. Victorian fathers and the rise of the modern nuclear family -- 4. The shrinking father and the fall of the nuclear family -- pt. 3. Why fathers matter -- 5. What do fathers do? -- 6. The essential father -- pt. 4. Conclusions -- 7. Reclaiming fatherhood and marriage -- Notes -- Index
