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social science subjects > sociology > gender and sexuality > media portrayals of fathers

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media portrayals of fathers  

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  • Since the inception of television, programs and commercials have dramatized the family, delivering the trials and joys of domestic life to the living rooms of viewers often watching in the company of family members of their own. It is interesting to isolate for close scrutiny the depiction of one particular family member, the television father. [Source: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media; Fathers, Media Portrayals of]

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