Název:
"New fathers" and shared parenting
Překlad názvu:
"New fathers" and shared parenting
Autoři:
Dlasková, Julie ; Vodochodský, Ivan (vedoucí práce) ; Hájek, Martin (oponent) Typ dokumentu: Diplomové práce
Rok:
2007
Jazyk:
eng
Abstrakt: [eng][cze] This thesis examines the responsibilities and roles of fathers who practise a shared care arrangement in order to get a better understanding of how traditionally perceived women's and men's tasks are divided between the father and the mother after separation. Special emphasis is given to gender equality in responsibilities and roles traditionally ascribed to women and men, to decide in which aspects, fathers who practice shared care can be seen as 'new fathers'. Previous research projects on fatherhood have indicated that in two-parent families it is typically the mother who takes the major responsibility for private sphere duties such as nurturing or domestic labour, while the father's role lies in providing and financial support (Cohen 1993) (Ranson 2001) (Segal 1990). For this reason the actual existence of the 'new father' in society has been doubted. In-depth interviews conducted in New Zealand with fathers who were in a shared care situation showed that their responsibilities and roles changed after separation and became equalized between both parents. New circumstances, a gender equal attitude and a wish to be a part of the children's lives made the fathers become responsible for nurturing aspects of parenting and day-to-day care. This thesis suggests that study of 'non-traditional' family...fathers who had their children in a shared custody arrangement to find out about their actual day-to-day life, roles they take within a family (and importantly in relationship to their children), attitudes and values and family history. Analysis of the interviews has shown important differences between this group of fathers and fathers presented in previous studies dealing with fatherhood. Firstly, fathers who practice shared care can be seen as 'new fathers' in regard to being involved in responsibility for nurturing and day-to-day care. Secondly other aspects such as a positive attitude towards equal division of responsibilities, or willingness to set up work around parenting indicated that this group of fathers does not rely on the mother to be responsible for these traditionally m others' tasks. Distribution o f responsibilities and roles was mostly dependent on number of parenting days the children stay at each of the parents' and financial substantiality of each of the parents. Underlying factors were attitudes and willingness to share responsibilities and in some cases also the ruling of the family court on post-divorce arrangements. This research has shown that studying shared care arrangements can bring new perspectives to the discussion o f the 'new father'; it has shown that attitudes towards...
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