Pub Date : 2022-12-29DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2159498
Jenny Alsarve, K. Boye, Lina Sandström
ABSTRACT In this article we explore how parents (re)negotiate care and housework during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on qualitative interviews with Swedish parents of school-age children, the article contributes new knowledge about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the everyday lives of families and their care and household practices. Previous research indicates that life changing events influence how couples divide and perhaps renegotiate the division of care and housework. Similarly, the pandemic and its accompanying restrictions and recommendations, such as working from home, might trigger the need to renegotiate care and housework. The results of the study suggest that while most of the interviewed parents have been affected in some way by the pandemic, especially with regard to a change of workplace and the restrictions on social interactions, only some argue that this has led them to explicit renegotiate and modify the division of housework and care.
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ABSTRACT This article critically engages with the practices and discourses around fatherhood of men who had experienced unemployment. Comparing and contrasting men’s testimonies with those of their partners was a key feature of the research design. We conducted in-depth interviews in the Basque Country (Spain) with 15 heterosexual couples, aged 30–50, with children under 12. In every case, the father had been unemployed for a period of at least six months. The results indicate that unemployment affected fathers’ involvement in care in very different ways. In some cases, it promoted co-responsibility and a reinterpretation of masculinity, while in others traditional gender roles remained uncontested. Furthermore, we identified tensions between behaviour, on one hand, and expressed preferences, expectations and self-perceptions, on the other. To capture this diversity, we made use of three categories in our analysis: primary caregiving fathers, helper fathers and breadwinner fathers. Employing a broad and multidimensional definition of care, this research facilitates an interrogation of privilege and masculinity, and the extent to which these are challenged in contexts where men are forced to respond to a disruption of their lifestyles due to unemployment.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2157313
Lucas Rossato, Bruna Thaís Salgado Sena, A. M. Ullán, Fabio Scorsolini‐Comin
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to understand how family caregivers of Brazilian children and adolescents with cancer experience and use religious-spiritual coping. This is a qualitative study carried out with 23 participants (being 21 women and two men; age average of 35,9 years old). Semi-structured interviews were virtually conducted, recorded, fully transcribed, organized and analyzed using a thematic-reflective analysis. The results found to allow us to indicate that positive and negative religious-spiritual coping affects the quality of life, physical and emotional health of family members, reverberating in the way they deal with and understand cancer in children and adolescents. The data found demonstrate that paediatric oncology health services and professionals should consider religious-spiritual coping and be prepared to meet the demands of this nature that may arise.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-13DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2156379
Maja Bodin
ABSTRACT In the past decades, parents have used online forums to discuss challenges associated with parenthood, seeking support from other parents as well as professional advice. A highly sensitive topic discussed in these forums is regret about having children. Previous studies from various contexts have highlighted how regret, as expressed online, is often connected to difficulties of living up to and identifying with ideals of parenting, and that parenthood leads to feelings of exhaustion, entrapment and a negative self-image. In this article, I analyze how regret is expressed in two major Swedish online forums, including accounts from 142 parents. Sweden is a country that is often highlighted internationally as a pioneer in gender equality, with laws that protect sexual and reproductive rights and family- friendly policies that support parents in combining family life and work life. In light of this, I focus on the different decisions related to parenthood that people regret, the challenges and disappointments that family life has brought to parents, and the consequences that parenthood has had on their lives. I show how gender-equal parenting ideals are highly present in the discussions, and how they coexist and conflict with more traditional parenting behaviours and patterns.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2153723
Marie-Fleur Philipp, Ludovica Gambaro, Pia S. Schober
ABSTRACT It is often assumed that parental union dissolution leads to more egalitarian gender ideologies among children. Yet evidence on variations in gender ideologies by family structures is scant and based mostly on cross-sectional data. This study offers a closer examination of whether any effect of parental union dissolution can be explained by parents restructuring work and care responsibilities along more egalitarian lines after separation. Drawing on longitudinal data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, this study applies fixed-effects panel models to estimate the effects of parental union dissolution on gender ideologies of 6,577 adolescents between ages 11 and 14. Parental separation is found to result in more egalitarian gender ideologies toward female employment among boys but not among girls. In line with the role restructuring argument, the positive effect of separation on egalitarianism is driven by boys, whose fathers had rarely had full responsibility for childcare before separation. By highlighting differential effects and possible mechanisms, the findings offer a more nuanced understanding of the implications of increasing deinstitutionalization of family relationships.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-02DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2151499
Emily Stevens, Aditi Lohan, Jemima F. Petch, J. Lee, Andrew Bickerdike, Yuan Cao
ABSTRACT The negotiation of parenting arrangements after family separation is complex and emotionally-fraught. Research suggests that Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) Practitioners play a crucial but ambiguous role in managing the complexities of emotion and power imbalances in the FDR process. However, limited research has investigated how parents construct their experiences of FDR and the role of the Practitioner in managing dynamics of power and emotion. Drawing on 87 semi-structured interviews with a national sample of Australian parents who participated in at least one joint FDR appointment, we adopt a social constructionist approach to examine how power dynamics and the emotional dimensions of separation played out in dispute resolution where parents originally achieved an agreement in FDR. We found that Practitioners went beyond the systematic application of techniques to achieve agreement and were attuned to the emotional needs of participants as well as the gendered complexities underpinning these. Given the variety of pathways available to becoming a Practitioner, we suggest that training should provide targeted support to Practitioners in working with these complexities.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-12DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2144415
Hsin-Chieh Chang, Yang-chih Fu
ABSTRACT More than three decades after Jessie Bernard’s argument on marriage is good for men, but not for women, the post-millennium marriage and family literature has largely shown that men’s reported marital satisfaction is higher than women’s across socio-cultural contexts. This study examines gender differences in marital satisfaction from a social network perspective, investigating the role of ‘known friendship network’ using cross-sectional, large-N samples in mainland China, Taiwan, and the United States. The ‘known friendship network’ concept captures the cognitive component of an individual’s perception of their knowledge of the spouse’s ‘interactive networks’ [Milardo, R. M. (1989). Theoretical and methodological issues in the identification of the social networks of spouses. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 51(1), 165–174. https://doi.org/10.2307/352377. We found that knowing more of one’s spouse’s friends enhances marital satisfaction in an incremental fashion, especially in Taiwan and the United States. The lower importance in China may reflect China’s predominantly kinship-based social networks. Regarding how ‘known friendship network’ patterns explain marital satisfaction, the United States has the least pronounced gender differences, while the gender gap is most significant in Taiwan. This study contributes to the cross-cultural literature on relationship satisfaction, social networks, and global family change. Our findings have complex implications for marital selectivity and the gendered connotations of marriage, suggesting a marital expectations mismatch among heterosexual couples in some low fertility contexts.
杰西·伯纳德(Jessie Bernard)提出婚姻对男性有利，但对女性不利的观点30多年后，千禧年后的婚姻和家庭文献在很大程度上表明，在不同的社会文化背景下，男性对婚姻的满意度高于女性。本研究从社会网络的角度考察了婚姻满意度的性别差异，在中国大陆、台湾和美国使用横断面、大n样本调查了“已知友谊网络”的作用。“已知的友谊网络”概念捕捉了个人对其配偶“互动网络”知识的认知成分[Milardo, R. M.(1989)]。配偶社会网络识别的理论和方法问题。婚姻与家庭，51(1)，165-174。https://doi.org/10.2307/352377。我们发现，了解配偶的朋友越多，婚姻满意度就越高，尤其是在台湾和美国。在中国，重要性较低可能反映了中国主要以亲属为基础的社交网络。在“已知友谊网络”模式如何解释婚姻满意度方面，美国的性别差异最小，而台湾的性别差异最大。本研究对关系满意度、社会网络和全球家庭变化的跨文化文献有所贡献。我们的研究结果对婚姻选择和婚姻的性别内涵有着复杂的影响，表明在一些低生育率背景下，异性恋夫妇的婚姻期望不匹配。
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Pub Date : 2022-11-09DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2142151
Shanaaz Dunn, P. Maharaj
ABSTRACT A growing body of research in South Africa has focused on fathers but few have included men from various racial backgrounds. The aim of this study is to capture the experiences of young fathers from a range of racial backgrounds that are residing in the urban areas of Durban. This study draws on qualitative data collected from interviews conducted with 20 young men. The interviews suggest that the experience of becoming a father was not easy; however, none of the young men denied paternity. Instead, they accepted responsibility and quickly adapted to their role. The fathers made a concerted effort to extend their role beyond that of a breadwinner by providing care for their children and maintaining a presence in their lives. Cultural barriers limit fathers from engaging with their children; however, maternal grandmothers ensured that young men were able to maintain family relations with their children. Thus, young men are redefining the narrative of fatherhood by making an effort to be involved in the lives of their children and as a result, they are challenging existing stereotypes and perceptions. More efforts are needed to encourage young men to assume responsibility for their children and to develop stronger family relations.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-04DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2140690
Sophia Fauser, Youngaih Kim
ABSTRACT We use sequence analysis on data from the Korean Labor & Income Panel Study (1998–2019) to investigate trajectories of women’s labour market participation in the eight years after first childbirth. We pay special attention to the type of employment through which mothers participate in the labour market, distinguishing between regular full-time employment, non-regular employment, self-employment, and non-employment. After creating employment sequences, we use cluster analysis to reveal patterns of employment trajectories and average marginal effects derived from multinomial logistic regression to identify women’s characteristics on the distinct trajectories. We find that women of younger cohorts are less likely to solely focus on family and childcare in the years after childbirth. However, their chances of steady work in regular jobs did not increase. Instead, they are more likely to be on unsteady pathways, combining childcare with regular or non-regular jobs. Our results suggest that increases in females’ employment might be partly attributed to mothers’ higher probability to obtain precarious non-regular work.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-31DOI: 10.1080/13229400.2022.2140067
M. Sanfelici
ABSTRACT This contribution explores the experience of parents struggling with poverty when interacting with welfare services meant to support them and their families. Low-income families face ambivalent social attitudes as well as grudging social assistance, often linked to the fear of creating dependency, in a culture that values independence and competition. Scholars have highlighted how these representations have affected common sense discourses, as well as the design of policies and services. This study contributes to this literature, through an in-depth exploration of the parents’ modes of interaction with welfare services. Forty Italian parents were involved in a national research guided by a constructivist grounded theory methodology. The explanatory model emerged from the analysis is useful to shed light on factors that shape the encounters of families and welfare institutions, allowing different levels of trust among them. The parents’ voice helps to uncover several contradictions of the western societal systems, and the different roles welfare services can play in dealing with socially produced inequalities.
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