Changing fatherhood in the 21st century Incentives and disincentives for involved parenting

Changing fatherhood in the 21st century

Incentives and disincentives for involved parenting

Prokos

Anastasia H.

Prokos, Anastasia H.

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University of California, Berkeley

Center for Working Families

University of California, Berkeley. Center for Working Families

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Berkeley, CA Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley 2002 2002 monographic

Berkeley, CA

Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley

2002

monographic

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Based on in-depth interviews with fathers in two-parent households in the San Francisco Bay Area, this paper explores how fathers' perceptions of different aspects of workplace and family encouraged and discouraged their involvement in child rearing. Disincentives included: (1) assumptions about complementary marriage and intensive motherhood; (2) families' financial needs; (3) workplace structures, including inflexible, long hours and fathers' perceptions of their ability to be replaced by another worker; and (4) workplace cultures that ignored workers' family lives and defined work as the most important aspect of life. Incentives included: (1) advanced scheduling of care work; (2) a critical stance on marriage as an institution; (3) workplace structures including flexible schedules and the ability of fathers to take advantage of them; and (4) workplace cultures that encouraged talk about family at work and that equally valued family and workplace matters.

Anastasia H. Prokos is a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Working Families, University of Califonia, Berkeley.

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper No. 45

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper

No. 45

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