Philosophy preconditions in formation of ''missing father'' phenomenon in modern culture

Widespread attention of researches has been attracted by a number of transformations of modern family. Changes in progress are usually related with intensive women involvement in the market of labour, and also with the internal family gender allocation roles. Woman has begun to devote herself to career more. So, man going to compete with woman in the family and the career is being in crisis of self-identification in the framework of his traditional role as the family head His role of the bread-winner, ensuring all family members, absolute moral authority, disciplining and organizing Father is simply seen doubtful. Loss of man's traditional identity in the family leads to plural marriage forms, increase of divorces and separations, when fathers leave their families. As a rule, the reason of the changes mentioned above is seen in distortion of the cultural base that was supposed to be operated by a precise and positive family view with clear and stable internal family functions, i.e., general family stability. The same point of view, however, misses an important circumstance: the image of a powerful father traditionally had several attributes of the ''missing father''. Example 1. A Model Father in traditional culture was not supposed to participate in bringing up children. Example 2. Relations among Traditional Father and children supposed the power, hierarchy and distance, not emotions and mutual understanding. Thus, it is sensible to suppose that the contemporary model of the ''missing father'' is a direct logical and cultural consequence of the thousands-year-long model of the Traditional Father. On the other hand, the Traditional Father model is strongly connected with the masculinity standard supposed and realised in classic philosophy discourse. Dualism of the traditional Western mind, perception of life attributes in the framework of binary opposition structure, category of formation and attack between man and woman in terms of ''violent hierarchy'' of the good despite the evil, mind and sensuality, heart and nature, may be and must be made a significant reason for formation of both the phenomenon of the Traditional Father in traditional culture, and the ''missing father'' in modern culture. All the philosophical preconditions should be analysed to clearly formulate the problem of fatherhood in modern culture and to find possible ways of its solution in the context of philosophy.

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