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.

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Information

Publisher

Bristol University Press

Year

2020

ISBN

9781529206012

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Marriage & Family Sociology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Sharing Care: An Introduction
2 Extended Fatherly Involvement: Development and Understandings
3 Developing Policy Support For Care-sharing: And Its Limitations
4 Shifting Care Horizons: Care-sharing Arrangements, Motivations and Transitions
5 Developing Fatherly Roles and Identities: Towards Parental Equivalence?
6 Daytime Social Isolation from Other Parents
7 Care-sharing Futures
Appendix: Table of Participants
References
Index