Package Deal: Marriage, Work And Fatherhood In Men'S Lives

Appendix 1

Appendix 1 The Men from Meadowview High School These twenty men, listed in the alphabetical order of the first names by which I refer to them, are those who I quote or discuss in detail or on more than one occasion. Their names are pseudonyms, and I have altered or omitted identifying details. These brief descriptions provide comparable information about each man and are intended to help readers to connect the remarks of particular men, which, in the text, are arranged by topic. Two of these men were Hispanic American, three were Asian American, and fifteen were European American. Each of these twenty men is included in the index under his first name. Barry Richards and his second wife, Linda, lived with their two children , a son and a daughter. Barry’s first marriage had lasted only two years when he had been in his early twenties. Barry and Linda had lived together for several years before deciding to get married and have children. Barry had not attended college. He was a maintenance supervisor and worked ten or more hours a day in order to be able to support his family on his income. Linda had worked full time until the children were born, and then worked part time from home. They bought a house almost an hour away from Barry’s work because of the school district. Linda’s parents had since moved close to them. David Brown and his wife, Mary, had one son. David had not attended college. A manager in a retail store, he owned a house near his work, about one hundred miles from Meadowview. David and Mary had started dating one year after he graduated from high school, and they had married soon after. They had moved away from the San Francisco Bay Area when their son was eight to be able to afford the house they wanted on one income. Mary had worked full time on an electronics assembly line until they moved; she then started working part time for 205 the local school district. Their discussion of why they had only one child is in Chapter 1. Frank Smedley and his wife, Carol, had three children, two girls and a boy. Frank had found a well-paying job while he was attending college and had never graduated. He had worked as a design engineer and had been promoted to a management position in the same company. He owned his house in Meadowview and was deciding whether to move away from work to more space and better schools. Carol had been employed full time before the birth of their first child, but had quit to stay at home with the children. George Peters lived with his second wife, Cindy, and their two young children in a new house in a new subdivision in California’s Central Valley. George’s education since high school had all been vocational. Both George and Cindy worked full time for a large manufacturing company. They had an hour and a half commute each way to their jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area. George had two teen-aged daughters from his first marriage, which ended in divorce when the children were young. Both these daughters lived with their mother. Gordon Mackenzie was married with three sons. The son of a skilled machinist and of a college-educated mother who stayed at home to raise her children, Gordon himself had a college degree and worked as a mechanical engineer. He and his wife had met, married, and had their first child when he was in college. Since then, his wife had been employed part time. Greg Turner and his wife, Maggie, had been married for eight years, having lived together for a year before that. They had two preschoolage daughters. Greg had no education beyond high school and had worked in quality control before stopping work eight months ago to stay home with the children while Maggie, a resource manager, went to college to get her bachelor’s degree. Neither Greg’s nor Maggie’s parents had a college degree. Greg’s father worked as a skilled operative, and after Greg had left primary school his mother had worked full time in electronics manufacturing. Greg and Maggie owned a home near Meadowview. 206 Appendix 1 Hal Long had married for the first time when he was over thirty. He and his wife were trying to have their...