Hemophilia is a congenital bleeding disorder that mainly affects men. Men with severe hemophilia experience stigma because they are unable to live up to various ideals of masculinity. This study involves a qualitative analysis of how nine Danish men aged 40–54 years with severe hemophilia manage life as functionally impaired relative to their masculine identity. The analytical focus is on how the men manage on a daily basis, how they construct their identity as a result of the disorder, and the body’s importance in these identity negotiations. The source of their biggest defeat is that the disorder often prevents them from living up to social expectations about men as fathers. This results in a variety of management strategies that they apply to neutralize the stigma, allowing them to (a) distance themselves from the disorder in various practical and verbal ways and to (b) assume primary responsibility for managing the disorder, including internalizing being experts on the disorder. The results identify that men with severe hemophilia are frustrated by the lack of advice provided by the health sector. The article proposes initiatives that can be taken to address the lack of knowledge and to create a broader network of peers for men with hemophilia across varying age groups.

This article presents the voices of 30 young fathers from the first interview-based study in Denmark on young fatherhood. The findings show that men face significant challenges when they become fathers at a young age and that they often feel stigmatised by society. Young fatherhood, however, can also promote social integration and produce forms of empowerment. Unlike most international research on young fatherhood, this study shows that economic circumstances do not play a crucial role in the ability of fathers to gain access to their children. This may be due to support aimed at socially disadvantaged families provided by the state. The results further indicate that early fatherhood should be seen as a transitional process, rather than as an event, with the young father gradually abandoning teenage life and where a delay in the development of the father-child relationship does not necessarily rule out the later emergence of a stable father-child relationship.

Several studies report that men, just like women, go through a complex emotional upheaval when they are about to become parents and that men need support to be able to tackle parenthood in the best way possible. This qualitative study addresses the extent to which parenting courses attended by both the mother and the father constitute an appealing institutional service for first-time fathers and whether they find them useful in tackling the challenges they face during the pregnancy and after the birth. The article explores difficulties with recruiting fathers to such courses and ensuring their continued attendance since men’s masculinity dilemmas can affect the extent to which they are willing to seek help and to complete such courses. The findings indicated that fathers’ sense of responsibility and awareness of their role as a father in their child’s life was strengthened, and overall, they were satisfied both with the topics addressed during the course and with the teaching. Strong networks were formed among some of the parents at the parenting course. Caution is called for when drawing general conclusions about the benefits of such courses for first-time parents, as they are seldom attended by parents with minority ethnic backgrounds or by vulnerable and underprivileged parents.

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For at forstå mænds udfordringer og faldgruber på arbejdsmarkedet i dag kræves et indblik i arbejdets historiske udvikling og specielt oprindelsen til den tætte forbindelse mellem mænd og lønarbejde. arbejdslivs. og arbejdsmarkedsforskningen har dog ofte set bort fra kønsdimensionen, og den del af forskningen, som har problematiseret kønnet, har i stor udstrækning fokuseret på kvinders position på arbejdsmarkedet. Det er overraskende, når man tænker på, hvor stor en del af mænds liv, der netop er knyttet til deres handlinger på arbejdsmarkedet, og hvor stor en del af maskuliniteten, som er grundlagt gennem arbejdet. For at komme denne uoverensstemmelse til livs analyserer artiklen de substantielle bevægelser og forandringer, som har fundet sted med mænd og maskuliniteten på arbejdsmarkedet. Hovedargumentet i artiklen er, at mænd stadigvæk efterlever traditionelle mandlige dyder om forsørgelse, men at der er sket brud og åbninger, som afstedkommer, at mænd ikke udelukkende søger bekræftelse på deres identitet gennem præstationer på arbejdsmarkedet.