"Doing the Job as a Parent": Parenting Alone, Work, and Family Policy in Ireland

Autor/inn/en	Millar, Michelle; Coen, Liam; Bradley, Ciara; Rau, Henrike
Titel	"Doing the Job as a Parent": Parenting Alone, Work, and Family Policy in Ireland
Quelle	In: Journal of Family Issues, 33 (2012) 1, S.29-51 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0192-513X
DOI	10.1177/0192513X11420957
Schlagwörter	Family Characteristics; Child Rearing; Interpersonal Relationship; Foreign Countries; One Parent Family; Marriage; Public Policy; Interviews; Surveys; Welfare Services; Child Care; Social Networks; Family Work Relationship; Leisure Time; Employed Parents; Ireland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kindererziehung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Ausland; Single parent family; Ein-Eltern-Familie; Ehe; Öffentliche Ordnung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Fürsorgeeinrichtung; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Freizeit; Irland
Abstract	Recent studies of family life in Ireland have focused on changes in "traditional" family structures, including the increase in one-parent families. This article illustrates the impact dominant conceptions in Irish society that privilege the family based on marriage have on one-parent family policy. The authors focus on two key areas of social interaction associated with family life-- parenthood and (un)paid work--to identify both congruences and tensions between social policy and the needs of one-parent families. The article draws on interview and survey data collected in Galway in 2007 to show how existing welfare policies create some opportunities for those parenting alone while at the same time perpetuating inequalities within the gendered family context and across multiple generations. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10