Abstract
ABSTRACTThe paper examines how in Britain the time fathers and couples spend in employment shifts in the first years of children’s lives, the conditions under which this happens and how fathers feel about and experience time with their families and time in paid work. In order to achieve these aims new longitudinal analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is carried out together with secondary analysis of narrative case studies drawn from a qualitative study of Fatherhood across the Generations. By linking these datasets the paper examines the potential for corroboration and complementarity between different types of data. Further, it seeks to show how qualitative cases corroborate, elaborate and expand on the main employment trajectories in the MCS population of fathers and how these extend understandings of fathers’ experience of time within families.
Highlights
Le papier examine comment en Grande-Bretagne les pères et les couples passent leur temps à faire l’emploi dans les premières années de la vie des enfants, les conditions dans lesquelles cela se produit, et comment les pères connaissent l’expérience du temps avec leur famille et au travail rémunéré
Afin d’atteindre ces objectifs une nouvelle analyse longitudinale des données de la Millennium Cohort Study, UK (MCS) est réalisée, en même temps que l’analyse secondaire des narratives tirées des recherches qualitatives au sujet de la Paternité à travers les Générations
We have conducted new longitudinal analysis of the British Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) together with secondary analysis of narrative case studies drawn from a qualitative study of Fatherhood across the Generations
Summary
Le papier examine comment en Grande-Bretagne les pères et les couples passent leur temps à faire l’emploi dans les premières années de la vie des enfants, les conditions dans lesquelles cela se produit, et comment les pères connaissent l’expérience du temps avec leur famille et au travail rémunéré. In particular the paper examines how, in Britain, the time couples spend in employment shifts in the first years of children’s lives, the conditions under which these shifts occur and how fathers feel about and experience time with their families and time in paid work To achieve these aims, we have conducted new longitudinal analysis of the British Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) together with secondary analysis of narrative case studies drawn from a qualitative study of Fatherhood across the Generations. UK time use data and the UK’s household panel survey (Understanding Society) suggest that men continue to be less involved in childcare than mothers (Lader, Short, & Gershuny, 2006; Poole, Speight, O’Brien, Connolly, & Aldrich, 2013), a picture confirmed by qualitative research (Dermott, 2008; Henwood & Procter, 2003) This is typically attributed to fathers’ continuing full-time or long employment hours. Fathers are more likely than mothers to start work early or to finish late and the self-employed are likely to work longer, non-standard hours (Hilbrecht & Lero, 2013)
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