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Research Brief No. 8 - A Widening Parental Leisure Gap, Glenn J. Stalker Apr 2016

Research Brief No. 8 - A Widening Parental Leisure Gap, Glenn J. Stalker

Population Change and Lifecourse Strategic Knowledge Cluster Research/Policy Brief

Who in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom have the least time for lei-sure? Our study finds that the distribution of leisure time today depends not only on gender, as previously found, but also on family and employment status. Since the 1960s, the amount of leisure time available to men and to women has become increasingly similar. However, parents of young children and those employed full-time are having increasingly less time for leisure than non-parents and those who are not employed. These analyses demonstrate the need to qualify accounts of over-work and the double-burden.


Transcontinental Parenting: The Refugee Crisis Has Resulted In A Situation In Which Children And Parents Are Forced To Live Apart, Often Living In Different Parts Of The Globe [Video], Komlan Soe, Aida Neary Mar 2016

Transcontinental Parenting: The Refugee Crisis Has Resulted In A Situation In Which Children And Parents Are Forced To Live Apart, Often Living In Different Parts Of The Globe [Video], Komlan Soe, Aida Neary

Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought

This article discusses the role of women and how they may change through migration and how their status as refuge or migrant influences change. The changes will be reflected in their parenting and influence their families and ultimately influences society.


Ruspini, Elisabetta. Diversity In Family Life: Gender, Relationships And Social Change, Genna Duplisea Mar 2016

Ruspini, Elisabetta. Diversity In Family Life: Gender, Relationships And Social Change, Genna Duplisea

Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought

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Rewriting The How-To Of Parenting: What Is Really Modern About Abc’S Modern Family, Sylvia Henneberg Feb 2016

Rewriting The How-To Of Parenting: What Is Really Modern About Abc’S Modern Family, Sylvia Henneberg

Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought

Despite its unconventional family structures and playful gestures at redefining traditional gender scripts, ABC’s domestic comedy, Modern Family, perpetuates perceived notions of femininity and masculinity within the context of three families whose differences from the nuclear family are far from radical. Reassuring even its most conservative viewers on these counts, the show does, however, portray a potentially unsettling approach to parenting. The dynamics of parenting are unstable, bending gender rules and disregarding boundaries normally set by age, race, and social class. As normative notions of parenting are questioned and expanded, parenthood is no longer an immutable institution built on hard …