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Unravelling the tensions: exploring the interplay of paid care work, family obligations, and transnational care among Zimbabwean migrant care workers in the UK Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Obert Tawodzera
An increasing number of studies have examined the impact of migration on reconciling familial care obligations with demanding paid care work. However, much of this research focuses on women who emp...
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In their own voices: immigrant mothers’ experiences and perceptions of the group-based self-assured parents programme for parents in disadvantaged areas in Sweden Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Sabina Kapetanovic, Therése Skoog
Culturally responsive parenting interventions are crucial for immigrant parents in disadvantaged areas. This qualitative study delves into the experiences of 18 immigrant mothers (Mage = 41.2 years...
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Race, class, parenting and children’s leisure: children’s leisurescapes and parenting cultures in middle-class British Indian families Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Esra Demirkol Colosio
Published in Journal of Family Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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How do family adversity and youth stressful experiences lead to adult economic adversity? An integration of multiple life course mechanisms Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Kandauda As. Wickrama, Tae Kyoung Lee, Thulitha Wickrama, Tara E. Sutton
The primary objective of the present study was to apply multiple life course mechanisms, drawn from the life course epidemiological perspective, to explain the long-term influence of family socioec...
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Transition to grandparenthood and early retirement in midlife Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Danilo Bolano, Laura Bernardi
This paper aims to capture the interrelationship between two life transitions linking the generation of elderly parents and their adult children: early retirement and the transition to (grand)paren...
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Motherhood, role conflict, and identity: South African mothers’ experiences amid a pandemic Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Ruani Nel, Luzelle Naudé, Konrad Piotrowski
This qualitative study aimed to explore and describe the role conflict that working South African mothers experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to their maternal and work roles and e...
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Beyond what meets the eye: loyalty in adolescents’ accounts of the child-stepparent relationship Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Bieke Maes, Jan Van Bavel
The child-stepparent relationship has been shown to play an important role in adolescents’ well-being. This relationship develops within a broader family system and is shaped directly by gatekeepin...
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Cisgender men’s narratives about their desires to be pregnant: re/constructing reproduction, gender, and their entanglement Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace Mavuso, Rachelle Chadwick
Pregnancy capacity, and gestational desire are shared by people of different genders and sexes. Yet, gestational embodiment and subjectivity are feminized in the normative cisheteropatriarchal preg...
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Good normative parenting: towards a non-teleological and relational ideal Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Esther Dermott, Tim Fowler
Parenting seems to be continually in the spotlight for political and social commentators. Meanwhile academic and practitioner work on children and child welfare explores how parents can best delive...
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African single mothers and their children in Canada: transnational experiences and sources of support Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Mary Olukotun, Alleson Mason, Christa Fouche, Solina Richter, Lindiwe Sibeko, Sheri Adekola, Bukola Salami
African immigrants comprise an increasing proportion of Canada’s immigrant population and face myriad challenges upon arrival. There are few studies that examine the experiences of African single-p...
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Composition of Ukrainian households under forced migration and its impact on livelihood opportunities at early stage of stay in Krakow Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Katarzyna Kochaniak, Agnieszka Huterska
In this study, we analyze the changes in the composition of Ukrainian households participating in mass migration to Krakow, Poland, at the onset of the war and verify the significance of their newl...
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Introduction to a special issue in memoriam Michael Rush: the politics of fatherhood around the world Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Rudy Seward, Guðný Björk Eydal, Dorota Szelewa
Published in Journal of Family Studies (Vol. 29, No. 6, 2023)
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Pre-Separation family relationships and post-separation involvement among nonresident fathers in the United States Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Raymond E. Petren, Anthony J. Ferraro, Emily Pinto
The transition to separation is an important time for the re-configuration of family relationships and maintaining father involvement. Pre-separation family relationships may affect father involvem...
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The flexibility paradox: why flexible working leads to (self-)exploitation Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Shannon N. Davis
Published in Journal of Family Studies (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2024)
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Contextualizing the work-family experiences of women in the Nigerian banking industry Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Damilola Esther Olotuah, Gözde Inal Cavlan, Cynthia Forson
At the intersection of culture, ethnicity, gender, and religion, this paper offers insights into the lived experiences of Nigerian women by adopting Nkomo and Ngambi’s multilevel framework on Afric...
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Working-class Palestinian mothers in Israel: agency, habitus, and maternal responsibility Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Sinyal Athamneh
ABSTRACT Mothers are perceived as responsible for both their children’s complementary education and their emotional well-being, a social construction that challenges the perception of maternal responsibility among working-class Palestinian mothers in Israel in their effort to function appropriately in the face of three power structures: the school system, welfare policies, and the family. This study
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Gender-open grandparenting: an exploratory study Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Elizabeth Rahilly
ABSTRACT More and more aging adults are becoming grandparents in an era of heightened LGBTQ+ awareness, especially of transgender and nonbinary identities. This era is marked by progressive forms of childhood gender socialization as well, including the relatively recent advent of ‘gender-open parenting’: gender-open parents do not assign a gender to their children, and use they/them pronouns for the
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Housework and earnings: intrahousehold evidence from Latin America Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Verónica Amarante, Cecilia Rossel, Federico Scalese
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the intrahousehold allocation of housework and paid work in five Latin American countries. Prior work has consistently shown that income plays a major role in the region’s large gender gaps in the distribution of unpaid work at the aggregate level. However, the extent to which earnings shape intrahousehold decisions regarding the allocation of unpaid work remains unexplored
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Perceptions of parenting among parents who regret having a child: a mixed-methods study Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Konrad Piotrowski, Luzelle Naude, Katarzyna Sanna, Beata Szramka-Pawlak, Karolina Kwarcińska, Michalina Dzielińska
ABSTRACT Regretting the decision to have a child is under-researched. In the present study, a mixed methodology was used to compare the perspective of parents who regretted the decision to have a child (n = 24, 62% of women, age M = 33.42, SD = 4.89) with parents who thought the decision was a good one (n = 35, 51% of women, M = 34.71, SD = 4.43). Parents participated in an in-depth interview about
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Individual, family and neighbourhood factors related to life satisfaction and perceived discrimination among low-income, non-immigrant mothers in seven European countries Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Katharina Ereky-Stevens, Edward Melhuish, Julian Gardiner, Jacqueline Barnes, ISOTIS WP2 team
ABSTRACT We examined associations between dimensions of social exclusion and maternal life satisfaction and maternal perceived discrimination for low-income, non-immigrant mothers of children at preschool and primary school age in seven European countries (Czech Republic, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal – N = 1227), using standardized survey data from a large-scale interview study
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(Grand)childlessness and depression across men and women’s stages of later life Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Elisa Brini, Francesca Zanasi
ABSTRACT The literature on how family status and health in later life relate is extensive. Although research has focused on the health effects of grandparenthood and grandparenting, explorations of whether ageing without children can lead to mental health impairments have achieved mixed results. We bridge empirical traditions to investigate the relationship between family status and mental health in
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Attachment parenting in Greece: a ‘mothers’ only’ affair? Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Eleana Armao, Lida Anagnostaki
ABSTRACT Attachment Parenting is a modern-day parenting philosophy that has become popular in Western countries. It aims to promote healthy psycho-emotional development of children by encouraging maximal emotional and physical contact, especially between the mother and the child, through practices such as long-term breastfeeding and co-sleeping. The iteration of intensive mothering ideals and gender
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Living the clash within: secular/conservative divide of immigrant Turkish parents on the identity formations of British Turks Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Özge Onay
ABSTRACT This article addresses the identity constructions of British Turks in the context of the inherent fragmentation of Turkish immigrant parents situated within the historically complex secular or conservative divisions of Turkish politics. British Turks raised in the UK maintain identities defined within the parameters of the either/or epistemology forced by their Turkish immigrant parents, who
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Differences in the evaluation and satisfaction with foster care between kinship and non-kin foster carers Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Nuria Fuentes-Peláez, Carme Montserrat, Rosa Sitjes-Figueras, Gemma Crous
Understanding the distinctive features of kinship and non-kin foster care has sparked research interest aimed at developing policies and programs. This study analyses 930 cases of fostered children...
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All hands on deck: exploring how Latinx families in California supported child learning during the initial Covid-19 shutdown Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Stephanie M. Robillard, Emily Reigh, Jorge E. Garcia, Miroslav Suzara, Antero Garcia
This study focuses on family perspectives of school and home-based learning during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, revealing both what is lost and gained as a result of families being mo...
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Does routine communication predict marital satisfaction? Between- and within-person effects Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Qingyin Li, Ziyuan Chen, Cui Zhao, Mengyu Xun, Yinglan Li, Xiaoyan Ju, Jing Lan, Xiaoyi Fang
Previous studies have almost exclusively examined the between-person associations between couple communication and marital satisfaction. However, relationship dynamics have also been theorized at t...
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Satisfaction with work–family roles and the relationship with working parents’ life satisfaction: a cross-disciplinary perspective Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Francesca Luppi, Letizia Mencarini, Sarah Grace See
In this paper, we provide an innovative conceptualization of the work–family balance, and its implications for mothers’ and fathers’ life satisfaction, by drawing on ‘Self Determination Theory’ and...
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Flying families between the UK and Nepal: compromised intergenerational care amidst a restrictive migration policy context Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Sanjaya Aryal, Ayse Guveli
Studies on the global care economy rarely focus on the implications of migration policies in maintaining informal intergenerational care among transnational families of care workers in the global S...
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Father involvement and gender equality in the United States: contemporary norms and barriers Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Natascia Boeri
Published in Journal of Family Studies (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2024)
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Trapped in a maze: how social control institutions drive family poverty and inequality Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Molly Monahan Lang
Published in Journal of Family Studies (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2024)
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Promoting father engagement among low-income fathers: fathers’ narratives on what matters in a fatherhood programme in the western US Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Tiffany L. Brown, Roudi Nazarinia Roy, Nancy Dayne, Donovan R. Roy, Anthony G. James, Ana Carrichi-Lopez
Over the past two decades increased attention has been paid to promoting positive father involvement. Much of this effort has occurred through the development of fatherhood education programmes, ho...
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Culture and parenting: Polish migrant parents’ perspectives on how culture shapes their parenting in a culturally diverse Irish neighbourhood Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Carmen Kealy, Carmel Devaney
While it is now widely acknowledged that child-rearing practices vary culturally, there has been little research or consideration on how cultural difference is experienced by Polish immigrant paren...
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Book Review of Banerjee, Pallavi. 2022 Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Erica Yao
Published in Journal of Family Studies (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2024)
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Grappling with tradition: the experiences of cisgender, heterosexual mothers and fathers in elective co-parenting arrangements Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Susie Bower-Brown, Sarah Foley, Vasanti Jadva, Susan Golombok
Elective co-parenting families, meaning two (or more parents) who are not in a romantic relationship having a child together, are becoming more common amongst cisgender, heterosexual parents. The s...
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Closeness in father-adolescent daughter relationships: a South African study Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Michaela C. Moodley, Elmien Lesch
Research indicates that close father-child relationships contribute to the well-being of adolescents. However, most studies on closeness have been conducted in the northern hemisphere on adult rela...
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How mothers manage and make sense of their early adolescent’s interactive screen use: an IPA study in the UK Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Holly Shahverdi, Shani Burke, Alex Kyriakopoulos
Interactive screen use (ISU) for leisure is becoming increasingly popular amongst early adolescents in western societies. ISU adds complexity to family relationships as mothers are required to navi...
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Unauthorized Love: Mixed-citizenship couples negotiating intimacy, immigration, and the state Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Sadie Pendaz-Foster
Published in Journal of Family Studies (Vol. 29, No. 5, 2023)
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Queer stepfamilies: the path to social and legal recognition Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Elizabeth Kiester
Published in Journal of Family Studies (Vol. 29, No. 5, 2023)
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‘No more secrets, it’s over!’: small stories about late adoption disclosure of Chilean adults Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Irene Salvo Agoglia, David Poveda
Today there is broad consensus that adoptive parents should initiate open communication early and continue talking about adoption throughout their children’s lives. However, a significant group of ...
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Parents’ perspectives on smartphone acquisition amongst 9- to 12-year-old children in the UK – a behaviour change approach Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Rachel Perowne, Leslie Morrison Gutman
Smartphone ownership has increased rapidly over the past decade, including amongst children and young people. Evidence is mixed in terms of the impact of smartphones on this population; with a numb...
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What’s culture got to do with it? Latino gay men’s perception of their coming out experience Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Carlos E. Gerena, Stefanie R. Pilkay
Research examining the intersectionality of Latino cultural factors and sexual orientation remains dearth, making it difficult to fully understand the impact cultural factors have on the coming out...
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‘Undoing gender’ or selection effects?: fathers’ uptake of leave and involvement in housework and childcare in South Korea Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Youngcho Lee
A number of studies have documented a positive (causal) relationship between fathers’ uptake of parental leave and a more equitable division of unpaid labour in Western contexts, primarily where me...
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Changing fatherhood: a comparative study of Sweden, Germany and Japan Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Tingting Tan
This research is inspired by Michael’s Rush work. In-depth interviews of 30 Swedish, German and Japanese fathers regarding their attitudes towards traditional, modern and ideal images of fatherhood...
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Risk or fun? Adolescent attitude towards sexting and parental practices Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Gaia Cuccì, Maria Giulia Olivari, Camilla Chiara Colombo, Emanuela Confalonieri
Adolescent sexting is considered a public health and social issue. Parents may play a fundamental role in shaping their children’s attitudes and behaviours toward sexting. Adolescent attitude towar...
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A qualitative exploration of the parenting experiences of ex-military fathers diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Michaela Sturgeon, Gerald H. Burgess, Dominic Murphy
The experience of post-traumatic stress has been implicated in adverse outcomes for trauma-exposed parents and their children. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore how ex-military servi...
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Single by chance or by choice? The social meanings of singlehood and narratives of choice among unpartnered adults in Israel Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Libby Bear, Shira Offer
Researchers have proposed various explanations for the increase in singlehood in post-industrialized countries, but the questions of how singles interpret their singlehood and what social meanings ...
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Equal sharing or not at all caring? Ideals about fathers’ family involvement and the prevalence of the second half of the gender revolution in 27 societies Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Jonas Edlund, Ida Öun
Using attitude data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) of 2012, we study the prevalence of the second half of the gender revolution – the involvement of men/fathers in care and h...
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Ireland’s paternity leave: sluggish benefit take-up and occupational inequalities Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Stephan Köppe
Ireland used to be a laggard in implementing modern fatherhood policies compared to its European neighbours. In 2016, it was one of the last EU countries to introduce paid paternity leave and three...
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Young people’s reflections on their experiences of shared care and relationships with their parents Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Tracy Merson, Keith Tuffin, Rachael Pond
Objective: The present study examined young people’s reflections on their experiences of parental and child–parent relationships when raised in shared care with low inter-parental conflict, post-se...
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Shifting worlds of father politics? Comparing path-departing change in paternity and parental leave policy in Germany and the UK Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Samuel Mohun Himmelweit
How families balance employment and the care of young children has become a focus of dynamic policy change in many high-income countries since the 1990s. While there has been a broad shift across t...
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Fathers stepping up? A cross-national comparison of fathers’ domestic labour and parents’ satisfaction with the division of domestic labour during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Richard J. Petts, Stéfanie André, Daniel L. Carlson, Heejung Chung, Melissa A. Milkie, Chantal Remery, Casey Scheibling, Kevin Shafer, Mara A. Yerkes
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted work and family life around the world. For parents, this upending meant a potential re-negotiation of the ‘status quo’ in the gendered division of labour. A comparat...
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‘I am a different father’. An intergenerational analysis of the social transformation of fatherhood in the Islamic Republic of Iran Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Rassa Ghaffari, Elisabetta Ruspini
This paper was inspired by Michael Rush’s works on the social construction of fatherhood in non-European contexts. It aims to fill a knowledge gap in gender, family and Iranian studies by exploring...
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The central European world of fatherhood policies: how individual attitudes mediate the norm of threeness in the Czech Republic and Slovakia Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Steven Saxonberg, Hana Maříková
Here is the shorter abstract: Following Rush's suggestion to explore differences across cultures, our study compares the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Appyling Rush's discussion of how individual at...
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Has ‘Nordic Turn’ in Japan crystalized?: politics of promoting parental leave take-up among fathers and the divergence from the Nordic system Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Hideki Nakazato
Michael Rush sheds light on the Japanese ‘Nordic Turn’ in the family policy, including a father-friendly parental leave scheme after the 2000s in his work published in 2015. Despite this and the Ja...
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Enabling family policies, changing gender norms: increasing childcare and housework among Norwegian fathers from 1980–2010 Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Anne Lise Ellingsæter, Ragni Hege Kitterød
Father politics belongs to different ‘worlds’, according to Michael Rush. The Nordic ‘world’ has developed better opportunities for fathers’ involvement in unpaid family work than other Western cou...
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Father’s parental leave use in Spain: the effect of education in the household Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Almudena Moreno-Mínguez, Angel Martín-Román, Alfonso Moral
The aim of this article is to present empirical evidence on the use of parental leave by fathers under the Mediterranean Welfare State, as a Spanish tribute to the legacy of Dr Rush in politics of ...
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‘Are we falling apart?’: manufacturing familyhood through transnationalism Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Dilvin Dilara Usta
This article initiates methodological discussions to understand how transnationalism manufactures cultural discourse of family practices and repairs intimacy within family-kin relationships from a ...
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A dyadic study of the spouses’ assessment of the division of domestic labour and marital satisfaction Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Eugene Tartakovsky
In this study, we tested a model connecting the spouses’ assessment of the division of domestic labour and their marital satisfaction. The suggested model was tested in a dyadic study using a sampl...
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Parenting in a pandemic: a qualitative exploration of parents’ experiences of supporting their children during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-01-21 Adrienne Shum, Marie-Louise Klampe, Samantha Pearcey, Claire Cattel, Lowrie Burgess, Peter J. Lawrence, Polly Waite
This qualitative study examined parents’ experiences of supporting their children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Eighteen parents of children aged 2–16 years from diverse backgrounds, living in the ...
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Accepting social support in single-parent families in Belgium Journal of Family Studies (IF 1.38) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Dries Van Gasse, Dimitri Mortelmans
Being one of the quintessential resources to bounce back from adversities, the complexities of social support in the context of transitions to single parenthood are seldom fully grasped. While many...