Full Description
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.
Contents
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
