Pub Date : 2022-10-14DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2132984
Amélie Keyser-Verreault
ABSTRACT In Taiwan, traditional expectations about female appearance combined with a rising capitalization of women’s physical attractiveness generate tensions between parents, especially mothers, and their daughters. In this article, I explore the expanding and multifarious forms and causes of fat-shaming and beauty-related conflicts within contemporary Taiwanese families, focusing on couple disputes, generational collisions between mothers and daughters, and other types of friction within kinship. Relying on 62 in-depth interviews with highly educated women, findings reveal that, while beauty and its related aspect, thinness, are seen by many women and parents as a determinant of embodied human capital for women, different attitudes toward female beauty result in various forms of interpersonal conflicts. For the sake of children’s future competitiveness and under the social pressure of ‘saving face,’ it is often mothers who introduce appearance dissatisfaction, thus the family becomes the first place where fat-related bullying takes place. Mothers often encourage and even impose on their daughter’s intense bodily discipline, and some of the resulting problematic inducements – particularly forceful behaviours based upon fat-shaming – generate disputes and emotional shocks. This finding illustrates that women’s struggle for body autonomy is often compromised by their relational selfhood, material considerations, and heavy social norms concerning female appearance.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-15DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2122534
McKell A Jorgensen-Wells, Spencer L. James, Adam A. Rogers, Laura M. Padilla‐Walker
ABSTRACT During adolescence, the need for social connection increases. Yet, fostering emotional closeness in relationships becomes more complex, as the need for autonomy also increases and social environments must adapt to become conducive to these seemingly competing needs. This complexity necessitates more research on what happens to close relationships during adolescence to better equip parents, scholars, and practitioners are in helping individuals navigate the unique social atmosphere of adolescence. The current study draws upon multi-level modelling techniques to estimate growth models of Australian adolescents’ closeness to parents and closeness to friends from ages 12–17 as well as explore predictors of these trajectories. Findings reveal that on average, adolescents’ levels of closeness to parents exhibit a moderate decrease while remaining relatively high, and boys appear to have a closer relationship with their parents than girls throughout the period examined. Levels of closeness to friends similarly decline while remaining relatively high, with girls exhibiting both greater levels of closeness and a faster decrease than boys throughout the timeframe examined. These results are discussed in light of the current literature, and recommendations for future studies are provided.
{"title":"Best friends forever and family ties: continuity and change in closeness with parents and friends among Australian adolescents","authors":"McKell A Jorgensen-Wells, Spencer L. James, Adam A. Rogers, Laura M. Padilla‐Walker","doi":"10.1080/13229400.2022.2122534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2022.2122534","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During adolescence, the need for social connection increases. Yet, fostering emotional closeness in relationships becomes more complex, as the need for autonomy also increases and social environments must adapt to become conducive to these seemingly competing needs. This complexity necessitates more research on what happens to close relationships during adolescence to better equip parents, scholars, and practitioners are in helping individuals navigate the unique social atmosphere of adolescence. The current study draws upon multi-level modelling techniques to estimate growth models of Australian adolescents’ closeness to parents and closeness to friends from ages 12–17 as well as explore predictors of these trajectories. Findings reveal that on average, adolescents’ levels of closeness to parents exhibit a moderate decrease while remaining relatively high, and boys appear to have a closer relationship with their parents than girls throughout the period examined. Levels of closeness to friends similarly decline while remaining relatively high, with girls exhibiting both greater levels of closeness and a faster decrease than boys throughout the timeframe examined. These results are discussed in light of the current literature, and recommendations for future studies are provided.","PeriodicalId":46462,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59768887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2113338
Cong Zhang, Sungwon Kim, H. Yoshikawa, Vanessa L. Fong, Xinyin Chen, N. Way, Zuhong Lu
ABSTRACT Grandparents are an important source of social support for parents’ adjustment to parenthood. In this study, we examine how urban Chinese mothers experience grandmother support in relation to their parenting stress, based on the interview and survey data of a sample of 352 first-time mothers with 14-month-old children living in Nanjing, China. We find a lineage-based difference in mothers’ experiences of maternal versus paternal grandmothers’ help with childcare in the context of parenting stress. Maternal grandmothers’ support tends to alleviate mother’s parenting stress, while paternal grandmothers co-living with mothers is positively associated with maternal stress. Differences in caregiving motivations and conflict resolution in maternal versus paternal grandmother care (greater consideration of mother’s needs and more effective communication with mother in maternal grandmother care) may contribute to mothers’ differential experiences of parenting stress. Our study suggests that mothers’ subjective experiences of grandmother support (beyond the mere availability of the support) play an important role in shaping maternal stress and highlights the changing significance of family lineage in shaping intergenerational care support and its implication for co-parenting experiences of parents and grandparents.
{"title":"Lineage difference in grandmothers’ childcare help and mothers’ parenting stress in urban China","authors":"Cong Zhang, Sungwon Kim, H. Yoshikawa, Vanessa L. Fong, Xinyin Chen, N. Way, Zuhong Lu","doi":"10.1080/13229400.2022.2113338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2022.2113338","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Grandparents are an important source of social support for parents’ adjustment to parenthood. In this study, we examine how urban Chinese mothers experience grandmother support in relation to their parenting stress, based on the interview and survey data of a sample of 352 first-time mothers with 14-month-old children living in Nanjing, China. We find a lineage-based difference in mothers’ experiences of maternal versus paternal grandmothers’ help with childcare in the context of parenting stress. Maternal grandmothers’ support tends to alleviate mother’s parenting stress, while paternal grandmothers co-living with mothers is positively associated with maternal stress. Differences in caregiving motivations and conflict resolution in maternal versus paternal grandmother care (greater consideration of mother’s needs and more effective communication with mother in maternal grandmother care) may contribute to mothers’ differential experiences of parenting stress. Our study suggests that mothers’ subjective experiences of grandmother support (beyond the mere availability of the support) play an important role in shaping maternal stress and highlights the changing significance of family lineage in shaping intergenerational care support and its implication for co-parenting experiences of parents and grandparents.","PeriodicalId":46462,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43607916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-10DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2107942
L. Haskins, Silondile Luthuli, Sphindile Mapumulo, Tasneem Kathree, C. Horwood
ABSTRACT Informal women workers are vulnerable to poverty and job insecurity, but little is known about how they manage multiple childcare and work responsibilities without maternity protection. We explore perspectives of informal working mothers about the role played by their child’s father. A longitudinal mixed-methods study was conducted among women informal workers. In-depth interviews (IDIs) were conducted at transition points from pregnancy until after women returned to work. Focus group discussions (FGDs) explored the social support systems participants relied on. Twenty-four informal workers were enrolled; 87 IDIs conducted; 14 women participated in three FGDs. Participants had low-paid, insecure informal jobs. Twenty-three participants were in a relationship with the child’s father, and nine were living with him. Fathers played a central role providing emotional, practical and financial support, particularly fathers living in the same household. Most resident fathers took a strong practical role caring for the household and for the baby but traditional practices limited non-resident father’s ability to provide emotional or practical support. Most fathers had low incomes and were unable to provide financial support, so many women returned to work early. Fathers are willing to provide substantial support that is crucial for family well-being, but non-residence is a barrier.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-08DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2109983
Carlos E. Gerena
ABSTRACT Although there is a large body of knowledge on the coming-out experience, only few studies examine the coming-out experience of Latino gay men in the United States and whether cultural norms in the Latino community influence the way fathers respond to their sons’ disclosure of same-sex attraction. The author conducted a systematic review to identify studies that focused on the coming out experience of Latino gay men in the U.S. The author searched ProQuest, PsychINFO, and Social Work Abstracts, using search terms including LGBT, gay or homosexual, Latino or Hispanic, coming out or disclosure, father or parents, or family. Findings revealed that cultural norms influenced the coming out process for most Latino gay men in the studies, resulting in negative health outcomes. Limitations, as well as implications for practice and research were discussed in this article.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-05DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2108720
Lara Augustijn
ABSTRACT Joint physical custody (JPC) is an emerging post-separation care arrangement in which children spend considerable periods of time with both of their parents. Although there is some research on JPC that has focused on children’s well-being, little is known about how this physical custody arrangement affects fathers’ well-being. Therefore, this study investigated the well-being of fathers with symmetric JPC and of non-resident fathers whose children live either mostly or exclusively with their mother. The statistical analysis draws on longitudinal data from waves 4–12 of the German Family Panel (pairfam). Random- and fixed-effects regression models were estimated for 1,372 observations of 389 fathers. The results of the bivariate random-effects models showed that fathers with symmetric JPC reported higher life satisfaction than other fathers. However, the fixed-effects model indicated that these differences were due to positive selection into symmetric JPC. Moreover, the results of the multivariate random- and fixed-effects models showed no statistically significant relationship between physical custody arrangements and fathers’ stress, depressiveness, life satisfaction, and general health. Taken together, this study suggests that physical custody arrangements are unrelated to fathers’ post-separation well-being while hinting at the relevance of selection processes among post-separation families.
{"title":"Physical custody arrangements and fathers’ post-separation well-being","authors":"Lara Augustijn","doi":"10.1080/13229400.2022.2108720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2022.2108720","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Joint physical custody (JPC) is an emerging post-separation care arrangement in which children spend considerable periods of time with both of their parents. Although there is some research on JPC that has focused on children’s well-being, little is known about how this physical custody arrangement affects fathers’ well-being. Therefore, this study investigated the well-being of fathers with symmetric JPC and of non-resident fathers whose children live either mostly or exclusively with their mother. The statistical analysis draws on longitudinal data from waves 4–12 of the German Family Panel (pairfam). Random- and fixed-effects regression models were estimated for 1,372 observations of 389 fathers. The results of the bivariate random-effects models showed that fathers with symmetric JPC reported higher life satisfaction than other fathers. However, the fixed-effects model indicated that these differences were due to positive selection into symmetric JPC. Moreover, the results of the multivariate random- and fixed-effects models showed no statistically significant relationship between physical custody arrangements and fathers’ stress, depressiveness, life satisfaction, and general health. Taken together, this study suggests that physical custody arrangements are unrelated to fathers’ post-separation well-being while hinting at the relevance of selection processes among post-separation families.","PeriodicalId":46462,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45944610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-05DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2105737
Sadie K. Goddard-Durant, A. Doucet, Helena Tizaa, J. Sieunarine
ABSTRACT Growing research documents how systemic anti-Black racism leads to negative physical and mental health outcomes for Black populations, including Black mothers. There is also increasing attention to the concept of resilience as a way of theorizing how Black persons draw on strategies and resources to avoid, overcome or recover from these experiences. This paper, guided by a decolonial framework, intersectional theories and Black feminist epistemologies, reports on key findings from a qualitative, community-based study of young Black motherhood, which included in-depth interviews and focus groups with 13 Black Caribbean-Canadian mothers in the Greater Toronto Area. We demonstrate how barriers caused by anti-Black racism, gender inequalities, xenophobia, and classism operate in the lives of young Black mothers, and we reconfigure resilience from a Eurocentric, individualized concept towards a feminist intersectional one. Findings challenge the conceptualization of ‘normal’, universal, and time-bound development privileged in resilience research; demonstrate that the adversities young Black Caribbean-Canadian mothers encounter in trying to care and provide for their families are rooted in the cumulative intersectional impacts of racialized, gendered, xenophobic, and classed experiences, contexts, and policies across the life course; and highlight the critical importance of working with decolonizing research processes, intersectionality theories, and Black feminist epistemologies.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-27DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2103017
Nikolett Somogyi, Beáta Nagy, Réka Geambașu, Orsolya Gergely
ABSTRACT During the first COVID-19-related lockdown in the spring of 2020, working parents of young children were in difficult situation when having to manage the multiple burdens. In the studied societies, unpaid household tasks are considered to be primarily female responsibilities, intensive mothering ideals are widespread, and the access to flexible-work arrangements is marginal. In present study, we demonstrate how the above characteristics, created a context, in which – despite the difficulties – participants could evaluate this period overall positively during the first lockdown. Fifty-two interviews were conducted with partnered Hungarian mothers living in Hungary and in Transylvania (Romania), in May–June 2020. Since the home-sphere became the main scene of life during the lockdown, women’s caregiving role has increased in worth. Performing it well provided them an increased wellbeing benefit, and it helped them to evaluate the lockdown period positively. They appreciated having the longed-for opportunity to telework, which enabled enacting intensive mothering in a better accordance with social expectations than before the pandemic.
{"title":"‘The children, the family, the household, and myself, these made the quarantine up for me, and I was really happy with it’ – positive evaluations of the first COVID-19 lockdown among middle-class Hungarian mothers","authors":"Nikolett Somogyi, Beáta Nagy, Réka Geambașu, Orsolya Gergely","doi":"10.1080/13229400.2022.2103017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2022.2103017","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During the first COVID-19-related lockdown in the spring of 2020, working parents of young children were in difficult situation when having to manage the multiple burdens. In the studied societies, unpaid household tasks are considered to be primarily female responsibilities, intensive mothering ideals are widespread, and the access to flexible-work arrangements is marginal. In present study, we demonstrate how the above characteristics, created a context, in which – despite the difficulties – participants could evaluate this period overall positively during the first lockdown. Fifty-two interviews were conducted with partnered Hungarian mothers living in Hungary and in Transylvania (Romania), in May–June 2020. Since the home-sphere became the main scene of life during the lockdown, women’s caregiving role has increased in worth. Performing it well provided them an increased wellbeing benefit, and it helped them to evaluate the lockdown period positively. They appreciated having the longed-for opportunity to telework, which enabled enacting intensive mothering in a better accordance with social expectations than before the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":46462,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42374173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-23DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2103018
Kwaku Abrefa Busia, Francis Arthur-Holmes, A. Chan
ABSTRACT Recent scholarship suggests that women have disproportionately been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic amidst lockdowns and school closures which have altogether increased women’s caregiving burden, unpaid housework and stress levels. Notwithstanding its negative impacts, this article argues that the lockdowns and school closures related to COVID-19 also had beneficial outcomes for some working mothers who had to combine work and family roles. Drawing from qualitative interviews with 39 married working mothers in both formal and informal employment, we find that these women during and after the partial lockdowns in urban Ghana, experienced various outcomes of work-to-family enrichment (increased time spent with family, self-rated improved sleep health, financial security), family-to-work enrichment (reduced family demands, improved work performance and output) and a mix of both (cultivation of life skills, greater personal satisfaction and happiness). Applying a role expansionist framework, we show the ‘positive side’ of the pandemic for married working mothers who had to juggle work and family demands.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-16DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2101504
Jane Lockton, M. Oxlad, Clemence Due
ABSTRACT Inquiry focussing on grandparents’ experiences following a child’s pregnancy loss has concentrated on shorter-term grief and support outcomes. We aimed to understand longer-term wellbeing impacts exploring outcomes 10–20 years after the loss of a grandchild/ren during pregnancy. Our study addressed the questions: what are the longer-term outcomes for grandparents experiencing the loss of a grandchild in pregnancy?; what factors contribute to reduced grandparent/family coping or increased family distress?; what supports could be of benefit to grandparent wellbeing and family coping? We used thematic analysis to analyse interviews with 12 grandparents from Australia and the United States of America. Four themes resulted: The grief is ongoing, the support continues; Subsequent pregnancies: joyful anticipation has changed to anticipatory fear; Adjustment: Our lives, our family, and our wellbeing changed, and; Reflecting on these changes, how did our family cope? These findings confirm those of shorter-term studies but indicate that grandparents’ grief and the support they provide to their children are ongoing and, therefore, grandparents may require information and support for many years following loss. In addition, grandparent coping is influenced by parent coping. Therefore, interventions that focus on family adaptation to loss may also benefit families experiencing multiple losses or continued relationship disruption.
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