The cultural capital of motherhood and the values of family upbringing: a comparative analysis

Family leadership and environmental sustainability: a case of the single fathers in Russia

“…The research interest shown by the Russian authors in the problems of the paternal families can be observed in the analysis of the causes and typology of the male monoparenthood, characteristics of a social portrait of the single father with children, experienced difficulties, educational practices [4][5][6][7][8][9][10], contradictory generation of "caring" masculinity and involved fatherhood [11,12] as well as in the study of protection of rights, technologies, and measures enabling to support the single fathers as new clients of the social services [6,8,13]. Deficient researches and poor studies of the single fathers as a social group give rise to its polar assessments: from positive heroic images of forced single fatherhood due to severe illness, death, or deviance of the mother [14] to negative ones relating to the fathers estranged or underperforming their parental responsibilities [8,15].…”

“…A separate category of the Russian publications is devoted to description of practices of working with fathers in various governmental and non-governmental organizations. In the presented studies, the main factors of the increasing paternal monoparenthood are family instability and transformation of family values; decrease in parental role asymmetry due to breaking traditional gender order; fatherhood development as a parental substitute, appearance of a "new" masculinity and alternative models of paternal behavior, growth of paternal movements, prevalence of labor precarization, educational and professional mobility [4,12]. The foreign researchers state that although, as before, the majority of single parents are mothers, the number of single fathers who are the main guardians of their children is gradually increasing [16].…”