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Sharing care : equal and primary carer fathers and early years parenting /

This timely study explores the experiences of fathers who take on equal or primary care responsibilities for young children. Offering academic insight and practical recommendations, this will be key reading for researchers, policymakers, practitioners and students interested in contemporary families...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Brooks, Rachel, 1971- (Autor), Hodkinson, Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2020.
Colección:Sociology of children and families series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series information
  • Sharing care: Equal and Primary Carer Fathers and Early Years Parenting
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Sharing Care
  • Beyond 'being there'
  • 'Involved' fathering, care-sharing and gender equality
  • The Sharing Care study
  • Fatherly care horizons
  • Outline of chapters
  • 2 Extended Fatherly Involvement
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Continuity and change in contemporary fatherhood
  • The emergence of the 'involved father'
  • Tensions between ideals and practice
  • The pull of paid work for fathers
  • Intensive parenting
  • 'Executive responsibility' and maternal gatekeeping
  • Healthcare provision and advice
  • Ideologies of masculinity
  • Differentiated practices
  • Part II: Primary caregiver fathers
  • Motivations
  • Experiences and impact
  • Reactions of others
  • Family relationships and caregiving competence
  • Parenting styles
  • Division of domestic duties and leisure time
  • Relationship with work
  • Transforming gender identities?
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Developing Policy Support For Care-sharing
  • Introduction
  • Enduring importance of national policy
  • International lessons on parental leave
  • Fathers and UK family policy
  • Policy prior to 1997: Families as private spheres
  • 1997-2010: Work-family balance and enduring maternalism
  • 2010-present: Shared parental leave and greater focus on gender inequalities
  • Mediation of policy
  • Impact of the workplace
  • National and social group norms
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Shifting Care Horizons
  • Introduction
  • Continuities, transformations and care horizons
  • Fathers and care-sharing
  • a plethora of arrangements
  • Parental leavers
  • Primary caregivers
  • Equal care sharers
  • Motivations for care-sharing and fatherly care horizons
  • Explicit prior beliefs and orientations
  • Circumstances, expediency and transformations
  • Coinciding and facilitating factors
  • Shifting horizons
  • Becoming a primary or equal caregiver
  • Maternity leave
  • Transitions and challenges
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Developing Fatherly Roles and Identities
  • Introduction
  • Fathers or gender-neutral parents?
  • 'We feel like parents rather than mum and dad': interchangeable understandings
  • Sharing out tasks and roles
  • Parenting styles
  • Persistent areas of gender difference
  • Comfort, and affective preferences
  • Care co-ordination
  • Parent networking
  • Default maternal responsibility
  • Maternal pressures
  • Paternal barriers
  • Conclusion
  • 6 Daytime Social Isolation from Other Parents
  • Introduction
  • 'Just the two of us': Fathers' lack of contact with other parents
  • Explaining the relative absence of parental social interaction
  • Self-ascribed introversion
  • Differing needs and pressures
  • Barriers experienced by fathers
  • Feeling 'out of place' in parenting-related daytime spaces
  • Fear of being judged