Fathers Taking Leave Alone in the UK – A Gift Exchange Between Mother and Father?

O’Brien, Margaret; Twamley, Katherine

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42970-0_10

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“…Such isolation was discussed explicitly by some of our respondents, including Chris whom we cited above. While some previous research has noted that fathers, parenting alone, can feel isolated and lonely (Brandth and Kvande, 2018), other studies have emphasised, instead, associations between the primary care of an infant and subjective happiness (O'Brien et al, 2017). Our research is thus significant in highlighting thatalongside many positive benefits to fathers and their familiesprimary or equal paternal care still has the potential to be associated with particular forms of isolation.…”

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confidence: 74%

“…Brandth and Kvande, 2018;Doucet, 2006a;Merla 2008), our work takes a somewhat broader angle, by exploring the experiences and practices of fathers who are primary carers alongside those who are sharing parenting responsibilities equally with their partners. Our UK focus is also important, tying in with other emerging work on caregiving fathers in the country (Banister and Kerrane, 2018;Norman et al, 2018;O'Brien and Twamley, 2017), amidst a body of previous research that has largely been conducted in other national contexts, including Norway (Brandth and Kvande, 2018), Belgium (Merla, 2008), Canada (Doucet, 2006a;Ranson, 2010) and the US (Chelsey, 2011;Solomon 2017).…”

Section: Out-of-place: the Lack Of Engagement With Parent Network Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Out-of-place: the lack of engagement with parent networks of caregiving fathers of young children

Brooks

Hodkinson

2020

Families, Relationships and Societies

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This article explores the daytime social interactions of fathers in heterosexual households who have assumed primary or equal responsibility for the care of their young children. It outlines how, for most such fathers in our sample, contact with other parents during their day-to-day care was minimal. Many initially rationalised their isolation as a personal preference rooted in their own ‘introverted’ nature, but such individualised narratives underplayed how various systemic factors worked against their integration into parent networks. While these may include, we suggest, less intense pressures than mothers to engage with such groups in the first place, our primary findings concern barriers they faced, including: feeling ‘out-of-place’ in many daytime public spaces; a specific fear of being judged because of their gender; and the difficulty of meeting other fathers with responsibility for day-to-day care. The operation of these factors, we argue, provides evidence of the enduring nature of gender differences with respect to early years parenting and in particular, of the gendering of daytime public parenting spaces ‐ something that may represent a barrier to the extent and longevity of fathers’ caregiving roles.

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Section: Out-of-place: the Lack Of Engagement With Parent Network Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

Out-of-place: the lack of engagement with parent networks of caregiving fathers of young children

Brooks

Hodkinson

2020

Families, Relationships and Societies

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“…This arrangement leaves the main care responsibilities within the household and both partners are thus expected to take their share. This is also supported by qualitative studies finding that fairness in the parents' contribution to childcare is a central factor for fathers' involvement (O'Brien and Twamley, 2017;Henwood and Procter, 2003).…”

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Provider or Father? British Men’s Work Hours and Work Hour Preferences after the Birth of a Child

Hoherz

Bryan

2019

Work, Employment and Society

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This study uses data from the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society to analyse the effect of fatherhood on men’s work hours and work hour preferences. Past research indicates that British men follow the traditional male provider model by either not changing or increasing their working hours when they have fathered a child, but these previous findings are primarily based on descriptive or cross-sectional analyses. Longitudinal analysis of men in the UK (1991 to 2013) shows a significant positive effect of fatherhood on men’s work hours. However, this effect is mainly limited to the fathers of children between one and five years old whose partner is not employed. If the female partner is employed (especially part time) fatherhood leads the male partner to reduce his work hours. Analysis of men’s work hour preferences did not find significant links with the number and age of children.

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“…The influence of fathers' parental leave alone on their involvement in childcare after leave was considered in several qualitative analyses (e.g. Duvander et al, 2017;Gíslason, 2017;Kvande & Brandth, 2017;Lammi-Taskula, 2017;Meil et al, 2017;Nakazato, 2017;O'Brien & Twamley, 2017;Tremblay & Dodeler, 2017;Valarino, 2017;Wall & Leitão, 2017). Here, the book by O'Brien and Wall (2017) on fathers' leave alone has to be highlighted, in which this relationship was studied for various European countries.…”

Section: Fathers On Leave Alone and Their Subsequent Involvement In Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2020

Problemy Polityki Społecznej: Studia I Dyskusje

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This paper examines the relationship between different aspects of the parental leave use by German fathers and their subsequent engagement in childcare. The relationship between the use of parental leave by fathers and their time spent on childcare on weekdays in subsequent years is broken down by three different details to parental leave use (duration, timing and partner's employment status during parental leave). It also examines whether fathers who take parental leave provide more childcare even before they take the parental leave compared to fathers who do not use parental leave. The study is based on German panel data and applies group comparisons with t-test and

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Fathers Taking Leave Alone in the UK – A Gift Exchange Between Mother and Father?

Cited by 21 publications

References 25 publications

Out-of-place: the lack of engagement with parent networks of caregiving fathers of young children

Out-of-place: the lack of engagement with parent networks of caregiving fathers of young children

Provider or Father? British Men’s Work Hours and Work Hour Preferences after the Birth of a Child

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