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- Title
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON? THE TRANSMISSION OF VALUES, FAMILY PRACTICES, AND WORK-FAMILY ADAPTATIONS TO SONS OF WORK-SHARING MEN.
- Authors
BJØRNHOLT, MARGUNN
- Abstract
This article explores egalitarian patterns of work and household responsibility as transferred from one generation to the next using a father-son approach. The fathers participated in an experimental study, referred to as the Work-Sharing Couples study, in Norway, during the first part of the 1970s. In this study, both spouses worked part-time and shared household and childcare responsibility equally. An analysis of the interviews done with the sons indicates that egalitarian patterns that are established in one generation do not necessarily transfer to the next generation. The sons, who are today themselves the fathers of young children, were found to live in "neo-traditional" work-family arrangements, although, to a large extent, they identified with their fathers and expressed egalitarian attitudes. These findings challenge the assumption that greater participation by men in childrearing in children's early years will have a lasting effect on future gender relations.
- Subjects
NORWAY; PSYCHOLOGY of fathers; CHILD rearing; CONCEPTUAL structures; CONTENT analysis; FATHER-child relationship; INTERVIEWING; LONGITUDINAL method; PARENTAL leave; PARENTS; SEX distribution; SOCIAL values; SONS; SOUND recordings; WORK; THEMATIC analysis; FATHERS' attitudes
- Publication
Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research & Practice about Men as Fathers, 2010, Vol 8, Issue 3, p276
- ISSN
1537-6680
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3149/fth.0803.276