Drawing on detailed qualitative research, this timely study explores the experiences of fathers who take on equal or primary care responsibilities for young children. The authors examine what prompts these arrangements, how fathers adjust to their caregiving roles over time, and what challenges they face along the way. The book asks what would encourage more fathers to become primary or equal caregivers, and how we can make things easier for those who do. Offering new academic insight and practical recommendations, this will be key reading for those interested in parenting, families and gender, including researchers, policymakers, practitioners and students.
Rachel Brooks is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey.Paul Hodkinson is Reader in Sociology at the University of Surrey.
Sharing Care: An IntroductionExtended Fatherly Involvement: Developments and UnderstandingsDeveloping Policy Support for Care Sharing: And Its LimitationsShifting Care Horizons: Care- sharing Arrangements, Motivations and TransitionsDeveloping Fatherly Roles and Identities: Towards Parental Equivalence?Daytime Social Isolation from Other ParentsCare- sharing Futures
Rachel Brooks, Alison Fuller, Johanna Waters, UK) Brooks, Rachel (University of Oxford, UK) Fuller, Alison (University of Southampton, UK) Waters, Johanna (University of Birmingham
Rachel Brooks, Alison Fuller, Johanna Waters, UK) Brooks, Rachel (University of Oxford, UK) Fuller, Alison (University of Southampton, UK) Waters, Johanna (University of Birmingham
Berit Brandth, Elin Kvande, as well as rural gender studies.) Brandth, Berit (Berit Brandth is Professor Emerita at Department of Sociology and Political Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her main areas of interest include work, family and care policies with a special focus on fathering and parental leave, welfare state policies and fathers' use of care policies.) Kvande, Elin (Elin Kvande is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Her research interests include dynamics and change in gender relations in organizations, Kvande Kvande
Berit Brandth, Elin Kvande, as well as rural gender studies.) Brandth, Berit (Berit Brandth is Professor Emerita at Department of Sociology and Political Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her main areas of interest include work, family and care policies with a special focus on fathering and parental leave, welfare state policies and fathers' use of care policies.) Kvande, Elin (Elin Kvande is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Her research interests include dynamics and change in gender relations in organizations, Kvande Kvande