(2010), have pointed to the significance of parent’s preferences, their ideas of parenthood, and cultural values in affecting choices of what form of childcare to use, and whether or not to use the home care allowance. Preferences regarding childbearing are argued to be shaped by the socio...
Furthermore, it is a transition that may represent a shift in context for the child and require them to contend with systems, policies, and people that may have very different ideas and expectations with regards to issues such as culture, gender identity and ethnicity. The transition is a ...
Ease back in.If you can, gradually ease yourself and baby into the new routine. “I came back in the middle of the week and for the first week, I only worked half days,” says Alex Villalobos-McAnderson, a mindful leadership coach and mom of two boys. “This really helped with the ...
the decline of marriage and the rise of cohabitation, the renewed rise in childlessness, women’s increased participation in higher education, and the failure of the state and market to provide enough early childcare support (to make possible both work and children for women). Interestingly, ferti...
Childcare: Your baby will need its mom 99,9% of the time. That doesn’t mean you need to be taking care of your baby 99,9% of the time. It’s ok to let someone else watch or hold your baby for a little bit so you can take a shower, eat, stretch, take a breath. ...
The transition to parenthood, defined here as first pregnancy and the year after birth, is a key moment in the life course for the reification of gender inequalities (Martinengo et al., Citation2010; Yavorsky et al., Citation2015). Although men’s involvement in childcare and housework has ri...
Why do responsibilities for childcare for the family still mainly fall on the elderly, and providing for the aged, especially for care for the elderly unwell, still remain the responsibility of adult children? Although functionality is the major purpose of intergenerational family relations in the t...
Ontheotherhand,childcareisexpensive.Therefore,alargeproportionofthemoneyaworkingmotherearnswillbesentonchildcare.Whatismore,ifbothparentsareoutworkingallday,theyonlyseetheirchildrenforafewhoursintheevening.Thiscanhaveanegativeeffect,aschildrenmaystarttoseetheirparentsasstrangers.Finally,workingmotherusuallyhastolookaf...
In this manner, the demographic question of who, when, and how individuals get married becomes a unique entry point to capture the fraught processes of ideational change in the country. Within the public discourses around family formation, emerging ideas around individualization and secularization—whic...
However, significant theoretical developments in psychology have replaced Maslow’s ideas. This article is intended as a psychological approach to the individual level of analysis of the SDT. It aims to shed light on two important implications for the value dimension of the SDT by applying to it...