Personal Well-Being, Kinship Tie, and Mother-Infant and Father-Infant Interactions in Single-Wage and Dual-Wage Families in New Delhi, India

Roopnarine, Jaipaul L.; Talukder, Enayet; Jain, Deepti; Joshi, Priti; Srivastav, Parul

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“…Across families, mothers held infants about 8 per cent of the time and fathers about 2 per cent of the time observed (Roopnarine et al, 1990). Sharma's (2000) observations of families in Shanti Nagar, a peri-urban area outside of New Delhi, also showed that mothers held their infants about 8.1 per cent of the time.…”

Section: Early Caregiving and Father-child Emotional Bondsmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…In turn, infants approached (1.28 for mothers and 1.22 for fathers) and touched (1.83 for mothers and 1.52 for fathers) their fathers and mothers about equally (Roopnarine et al, 1990). For both mothers and fathers, then, these findings based on observations during specified, relatively brief periods when the father was present suggest a strong pattern of social investment in the infant, with each parent being responsive and attentive to the child's social needs and overtures.…”

Section: Early Caregiving and Father-child Emotional Bondsmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Indian Fathers: Family Dynamics and Investment Patterns

Roopnarine

Krishnakumar

Vadgama

2013

Psychology and Developing Societies

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Despite unprecedented economic and social changes within the Indian family, not much attention is paid to the role of the father in the socialisation of young children. This overview provides a contemporary look at the Indian father in the context of ideological beliefs about roles and responsibilities, levels and quality of involvement with infants and young children, and maternal employment and caregiving patterns. Ideological beliefs about men's and women's roles and responsibilities within the family have not changed appreciably. Fathers appear responsive to the needs of young children, but mothers still assume major responsibility for childrearing. Maternal employment affects caregiving patterns modestly. There is a need for studies on fathers' involvement and investment in infants and young children within changing work and family patterns using more complex research designs.

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Section: Early Caregiving and Father-child Emotional Bondsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Early Caregiving and Father-child Emotional Bondsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Indian Fathers: Family Dynamics and Investment Patterns

Roopnarine

Krishnakumar

Vadgama

2013

Psychology and Developing Societies

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“…Moreover, in light of the relationship between SES and liberal gender role ideology (Kulik, 2005), it was found that high-SES fathers tend to be more involved in their children's lives than low-SES fathers. This trend has been found in Western countries (Coltrane, 2000) as well as in various Asian countries such as China (Chuang & Su, 2008), Korea and the Philippines (Tan, 1997), and India (Roopnarine, Talukder, Jain, Joshi, & Srivastav, 1992). Besides examining the contribution of the fathers' background to explain their involvement in childcare, we also focused on the fathers' childhood experiences with paternal involvement.…”

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confidence: 97%

Explaining fathers' involvement in childcare: an ecological approach

Kulik

Sadeh

2014

Community, Work & Family

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The study was conducted among a sample of 113 Israeli fathers, and aimed to examine the variables that explain paternal involvement in care of children between the ages of one and six. Based on Bronfenbrenner's ecological approach, the study examined the contribution of variables representing three ecological systems of the fathers: the ontogenic system -the fathers' background variables, and their childhood experiences with paternal involvement; the microsystem -children's characteristics (age and temperament); and mothers' characteristics (education, hours of work outside of the home, and fathers' assessments of maternal gatekeeping); and the macrosystem -type of community of residence (rural or urban). Maternal gatekeeping most significantly explained paternal involvement in most of the domains of childcare that were examined. Fathers living in urban communities who assessed their wives' maternal gatekeeping as high tended to be more involved in the domain of physical care than their counterparts living in rural communities. The child's temperament explained paternal involvement in the domains of showing love and playing with the children, whereas the fathers' childhood experiences with paternal involvement were related to their involvement in the domain of physical care. The implications of the findings for families and communities are discussed.L'étude a été réalisée auprès d'un échantillon de 113 pères israéliens, et vise à examiner les variables qui expliquent l'engagement paternel dans les soins des enfants âgés d'un à six ans. Basé sur une approche écologique de Bronfenbrenner, l'étude a examiné la contribution des variables représentant les trois systèmes écologiques des pères: le système ontogénétique -les variables de l'arrière-plan des pères, et de leurs expériences de l'enfance concernant la participation paternelle; le microsystème -les caractéristiques des enfants (d'âge et de tempérament); et les caractéristiques des mères (éducation, heures de travail en dehors de la maison, et évaluations des pères de la fonction de garde-barrière («gatekeeping») maternelle); et le macrosystème -type de communauté de résidence (rural ou urbain). La garde-barrière maternelle a expliqué de la manière la plus importante la participation paternelle dans la plupart des domaines de la garde d'enfants qui ont été examinés. Des pères vivant en milieu urbain qui ont évalué la garde-barrière maternelle de leurs femmes comme élevée avaient tendance à ê tre plus impliqués dans le domaine de la prise en charge physique que leurs homologues vivant dans des communautés rurales. Le tempérament de l'enfant expliquait l'engagement paternel dans les domaines de témoigner de l'amour et de jouer avec les enfants, alors que les expériences de l'enfance des pères avec l'engagement paternel étaient liées à leur participation dans le domaine des soins

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“…The 'preference' for physical play over care taking occurs even when men profess a belief that parents should share child-care responsibilities (Hyde & Texidor, 1988). In addition, differences between maternal and paternal styles have been found in France, Switzerland, and Italy (Best, House, Barnard, & Spicker, 1994;Frascarolo-Moutinot, 1994;Labrell, 1996), in India, regardless of whether or not mothers are employed (Roopnarine, Talukder, Jain, Joshi, & Srivastav, 1992), and in African-American (Hossain, Field, Pickens, Malphurs, & Del Valle, 1997;Hossain & Roopnarine, 1994) and Hispanic-American households (Hossain et al, 1997).…”

Section: Cultural Variations In Paternal Stylesmentioning

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Fathers’ influences on children’s development: The evidence from two-parent families

2003

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Although it is often assumed that men have an important influence on their children's development, the supportive evidence can be difficult to locate and summarize. In this paper, we analyse the evidence with respect to four emergent themes. First, men often appear to interact with their children less sensitively than mothers do, and many children thus appear to form closer attachments to their mothers than to their fathers. Second, the data also indicate that fathers may play specific and important roles, with men in some cultures having clearly defined roles as playmates to their children. Third, paternal play styles predict later socio-emotional development while paternal involvement seems to predict adult adjustment better than maternal involvement does. Such evidence suggests, fourth, that we need appropriate measures of fatherhood that are not simply borrowed from the study of motherhood.Thirty years ago, fathers were described as 'forgotten contributors to child development' (Lamb, 1975). Since then, men have been in and out of the research focus, but there is now a large database with which to assess the roles of men in families. For the past 15 years, more than 700 articles on fathers have been cited each year in the Psychological Abstracts database. Although we assess current research on the nature and importance of father-child relationships in this paper, therefore, we must acknowledge from the outset that a brief review can only sketch the broad outlines particularly as the study of fatherhood has become so complex and multi disciplinary. Readers are referred elsewhere for more complete summaries of the recent research (Day & Lamb, in press; Lamb, in press;Tamis-LeMonda & Cabrera, 2002). In the interest of simplicity and brevity, we confine our analysis to research on two-parent households.We argue here that, when two parents live with their children, fathers contribute to their children's development in important ways. Not only should we take men into account when studying families [as do the other papers in this special edition], but we should also consider

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Personal Well-Being, Kinship Tie, and Mother-Infant and Father-Infant Interactions in Single-Wage and Dual-Wage Families in New Delhi, India

Cited by 23 publications

References 14 publications

Indian Fathers: Family Dynamics and Investment Patterns

Indian Fathers: Family Dynamics and Investment Patterns

Explaining fathers' involvement in childcare: an ecological approach

Fathers’ influences on children’s development: The evidence from two-parent families

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