On shifting ground: First-time parents’ ideal world of paid work and family time

Autor:	Miriam Stewart, Nicole Y. Pitre, Deanna L. Williamson, Nicole Letourneau, Kaysi Eastlick Kushner, N. Sopcak, Gwen R. Rempel, Rhonda Breitkreuz
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Immigration General Social Sciences Context (language use) Development Pragmatics Ideal (ethics) Developmental psychology Paid work Family time Ideology Sociology Social psychology Socioeconomic status media_common
Zdroj:	Community, Work & Family. 20:119-141
ISSN:	1469-3615 1366-8803
Popis:	We examined first-time fathers’ and mothers’ perspectives about their ideal world of support in the context of dominant social ideology, ethno-cultural ideals, and the pragmatics of their everyday family, workplace, and socioeconomic circumstances during their first 18 months as parents. Twelve Canadian-born and six Chinese immigrant couples participated in individual in-depth interviews. We conducted a three-part analysis: fathers’ perspectives, mothers’ perspectives, and couples’ perspectives. Fathers focused on fulfilling dual fathering ideals of ‘time with family’ and ‘providing for family’; mothers emphasized fulfilling a mothering ideal of ‘caring for children'. Examining couples’ perspectives revealed a more nuanced understanding of their shared focus on ‘caring for family'. Parents in this study found the current social ideal of the ‘new’ father, who is both financial provider and nurturing co-parent, appealing, yet difficult to achieve. Couples wanted informal (i.e. family and social netw...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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