Sharing Care Equal and Primary Carer Fathers and Early Years Parenting
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Biographical note
Rachel Brooks is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey.
Paul Hodkinson is Reader in Sociology at the University of Surrey.
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.
Sharing Care: An Introduction
Extended Fatherly Involvement: Developments and Understandings
Developing Policy Support for Care Sharing: And Its Limitations
Shifting Care Horizons: Care- sharing Arrangements, Motivations and Transitions
Developing Fatherly Roles and Identities: Towards Parental Equivalence?
Daytime Social Isolation from Other Parents
Care- sharing Futures
Based on original new research;
A comprhensive study that specifically focused on fathers who take on primary or equal responsibility for early-years caregiving in the UK;
Will contribute to international knowledge through its emphasis on the sharing of care and breadwinning between mothers and fathers.
Product details
Biographical note
Rachel Brooks is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey.
Paul Hodkinson is Reader in Sociology at the University of Surrey.