...The research question is what fathers do when home on parental leave without the mother. During the period the quota has existed the father's quota has been substantially extended. Based on interviews with fathers, who have used 10 and 12 weeks leave, this article aims to explore how being home...

...The chapter directs attention to work-life balance after the leave, asking what consequences the leave experience has for fathers’ work involvement. The fathers describe becoming a father and caring for a one-year old as an emotional and existential experience that have changed...

...The development of parental leave policies was the most important area of expansion for the Norwegian welfare state in the 1990s. Schemes were extended, and special rights were granted to fathers. This chapter shows how fathers in various male-dominated work organizations relate to the obligation...

...This chapter is based on interviews with middle managers in engineering who have used the father’s quota. It explores their experiences with taking leave for their career development. The concepts “availability” and “irreplaceability”, which are often applied in studies of the career logic...

...In this chapter the relational themes introduced in Chapter 5 are extended to consider the wider constellation of family relationships that impact on young fathers. The varied nature of grandparent support and its sustainability over time is given detailed attention. The discussion charts how...

..., community and family resources) available to mothers and fathers. It focuses on mothers in care work and fathers in higher status jobs in the private sector. It echoes many of the findings in chapter 6 but through its comparative case approach and also by adopting a temporal lens focusing upon...

...This chapter focuses on the crucial role played by partners and fathers in influencing both the positive and negative feelings mothers have about combining work with motherhood. Almost half of the partnered mothers and daughter mothers had a more or less egalitarian parenting arrangement...

... sector of the labour market; while the system provided certain groups of men with some entitlements and totally excluded others. From 2000, parental leave in Iceland brought revolutionary changes for both parents. As a result, men in Iceland have the longest non-transferable father's leave quota...

...Norway was the first country to reserve part of paid parental leave for fathers, making it a leader in parental leave policies and fathers' rights. From the 1970s, gender-neutral parental leave has been available for fathers, but few had taken up this opportunity to share parental leave...

... and emotional mal-being are not inevitable consequences of separation and divorce. The role of separated fathers in lone parent families, particularly their financial contribution and involvement in their children’s lives, are explored. Cameron David family ‘breakdown’ fathers lone parents lone fathers...

...In recent years there has been considerable policy emphasis on the benefits of increased father involvement with children. However, these discourses have assumed that all father engagement is good for children, rather than acknowledging differences between fathers and recognising that, as with some...

...This chapter discusses the author's own exploratory, qualitative UK research with twenty domestically violent fathers. Overall the study aimed to look at fathers' own perspectives on their violence, its impact on their relationships with children, and their parenting practices. One object...

...This chapter discusses the approaches of projects in addressing children's safety in their interventions with violent fathers. It also looks at how far these informed fathers' views of change in their parenting practices in the context of their violence and abuse. This is not, however...

...The aim of this chapter was to investigate fathers’ rights to family benefits in the Nordic region as well as the outcomes of the policies, and if the rights of fathers are in accordance with the dual earner/dual carer model. In these five countries, child benefits, child maintenance and paid...

...This chapter examines the association between the social practices of fathering before and after family break up, by exploring how the configuration of the (late) modern fatherhood, the caregiving father in the intact family, is related to the configuration of the increasingly involved father...

...This chapter investigates the potential effects of three major reforms in the Swedish parental leave for various subgroups of fathers. The reforms are the first, the second daddy’s quota month and the gender equality bonus introduced in 1995, 2002 and 2008. A difference in difference approach shows...

...The chapter highlights and discusses the main conclusions of the book and how it provides insight into the contemporary policies and practices of fatherhood in the five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. All the Nordic countries have through policies enabled fathers...

...This chapter is about lone, or single, mothers and lone fathers. The number of lone parents is steadily increasing and the past fifteen years has seen a marked increase in the number of lone fathers in many countries such as the United States and Great Britain. The chapter reflects upon forms...

...This chapter offers an overview of the demographic features of the contemporary context in relation to fathers, fathering, and fatherhood. It addresses questions such as: How much are fathers doing with their children? What about housework? Although most of the research highlights trends in the UK...

...This chapter outlines historical debates about images, roles, and responsibilities in previous times and the making of the ‘modern’ father, particularly, though not exclusively, through the law. Historians, such as Gillis, have emphasised the dominant role that fathers have played in children's...