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- Anttila, Sonja, et al.
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“I didn’t Even Realize I Agreed to Meet the Child so Rarely.” Negotiations and Parental Desires in LGBTQ Family Forming Processes
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Family Issues. - 0192-513X .- 1552-5481. ; 44:6, s. 1637-1661
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores the negotiations taking place in LGBTQ families before a child is born or added to the family. It asks who takes part in the negotiations and what issues are negotiated about. An online questionnaire answered by LGBTQ parents (n = 74) was analyzed with qualitative content analysis. The chain of phases leading to having a child can be referred to as a family forming process with various negotiation topics. The four phases are identified as parental desires, consideration of practices, reflecting on the decision, and concrete actions toward having a child. Besides the LGBTQ parents-to-be, significant others such as friends and the family of origin and external others such as donors and fertility clinics took part in the negotiations. Future parents needed to think about their desires in advance to enable fair and equal negotiations.
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- Bildtgård, Torbjörn, 1970-, et al.
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New Intimate Relationships in Later Life : Consequences for the Social and Filial Network?
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Family Issues. - 0192-513X .- 1552-5481. ; 38:3, s. 381-405
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study is to investigate the consequences for linked lives ofentering into new intimate relationships in later life. The empirical data isbased on qualitative interviews with 28 Swedes aged 63 to 91 years, whohave established a new intimate relationship after the age of 60 years or arecurrently dating. Theories on linked lives and individualization are used. Theresults show that children were generally supportive of their older parents’unions and older individuals were often integrated into the new partner’snetwork. However, a new union also restructured the relationship chain sothat time and energy were redirected to the new partner. Older parentspreferred to be dependent on partners rather than children/others. A newpartner was described as a source for autonomy and a way of “unburdening”children. Results are discussed in light of Western individualism generallyand Swedish state supported individualism in particular.
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- Borevi, Karin, 1968-
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Family Migration Policies and Politics : Understanding the Swedish Exception
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Family Issues. - 0192-513X .- 1552-5481. ; 36:11, s. 1490-1508
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims at characterizing and explaining Swedish family migration policies from a European comparative point of view. The analysis shows that Sweden applies equally strict eligibility rules for members beyond the nuclear family as most other European countries. Moreover, Sweden introduced such stricter rules much earlier than other countries. In other respects, however, Swedish family migration policies stand out as exceptionally liberal in European comparison; few, if any, requirements are imposed on the sponsor and joining family members acquire equal rights status either immediately or 2 years after admission. To explain this situation, the article analyzes political processes behind two important family migration policy decisions in 1997 and 2010. The conclusion is that Swedish welfare state ideology and party politics importantly contribute to understanding why Sweden diverges from European trends in family migration policies.
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- Brandén, Maria, 1982-
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Gender, Gender Ideology and Couples’ Migration Decisions
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Ingår i: Journal of family issues. - 0192-513X .- 1552-5481.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Couples generally move to accommodate men’s, rather than women’s, career opportunities. Using Swedish panel data including 1039 married or cohabiting individuals, this study examines the importance of traditional gender ideology and behavior in explaining this pattern. Two dimensions of gender and migration are examined: (1) the willingness to move for a partner’s career, and (2) the likelihood of couple migration for one’s own work or educational opportunities. Findings show that women are more willing to move for their partner’s career. Childless women are more likely to move with their partners to pursue their own work or education than childless men, whereas mothers are less likely to report this than fathers. Gender ideology and division of household responsibilities do not explain the gender differences in migration behavior. They are more important for individuals’ willingness to move for their partners, with particularly pronounced gender differences among non-egalitarian respondents.
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- Brandén, Maria
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Gender, Gender Ideology, and Couples' Migration Decisions
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of family issues. - : SAGE Publications Inc. - 0192-513X .- 1552-5481. ; 35:7, s. 950-971
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Couples generally move to accommodate men's, rather than women's, career opportunities. Using Swedish panel data including 1,039 married or cohabiting individuals, this study examines the importance of traditional gender ideology and behavior in explaining this pattern. Two dimensions of gender and migration are examined: (a) the willingness to move for a partner's career and (b) the likelihood of couple migration for one's own work or educational opportunities. Findings show that women are more willing to move for their partner's career. Childless women are more likely to move with their partners to pursue their own work or education than childless men, whereas mothers are less likely to report this than fathers. Gender ideology and division of household responsibilities do not explain the gender differences in migration behavior. They are more important for individuals' willingness to move for their partners, with particularly pronounced gender differences among nonegalitarian respondents.
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- Brandén, Maria, et al.
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Sharing the Caring : Attitude-Behavior Discrepancies and Partnership Dynamics
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of family issues. - : Sage Publications. - 0192-513X .- 1552-5481. ; 39:3, s. 771-795
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Even though ideals in favor of gender equality in the private sphere are wide spread, discrepancies between ideals and actual behavior are common. Such discrepancies and potential dissatisfaction with gender unequal behavior within a couple are expected to influence partnership dynamics negatively. This study examines how discrepancies between the perceived ideal sharing of parental leave and the actual division of leave, as well as satisfaction with the division are associated with (a) relationship satisfaction, (b) continued childbearing, and (c) union dissolution, using Swedish panel data. The findings cannot confirm an effect of discrepancies on partnership dynamics. However, men who wish they had used a larger share of the parental leave have lower relationship satisfaction, lower continued childbearing, and higher probability of union dissolution. Women are seemingly not affected by their (dis)satisfaction with the division. The findings may reflect a changing father role related to the policy setting and norms in Sweden.
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- Duvander, Ann-Zofie
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How Long Should Parental Leave Be? : Attitudes to Gender Equality, Family, and Work as Determinants of Women's and Men's Parental Leave in Sweden
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of family issues. - 0192-513X .- 1552-5481. ; 35:7, s. 909-926
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A more equal division of parental leave use between parents has been a major political goal in Sweden for a long time, as it is assumed to lead to gender equality in the labor market, as well as in the homes. The assumed correlation between gender equality and shared parental leave has many aspects, but it has been investigated only in part. In this study, we investigate the determinants of men's and women's parental leave use with a focus on attitudes toward family, work, and gender equality. We use the Young Adult Panel Study with surveys conducted in 1999, 2003, and 2009. The findings indicate that gender equality orientation matters for parental leave for fathers. Mothers' parental leave length is primarily influenced by family orientation, whereas fathers' is influenced by the economic dimension of work.
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- Enell, Sofia, et al.
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“My Whole Family Is Not Really My Family” — Secure Care Shadows on Family and Family Practices Among Young Adults and Their Family Members
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Family Issues. - Paris : Sage Publications. - 0192-513X .- 1552-5481. ; 43:8, s. 2210-2233, s. 515-515
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study based in Sweden explores family practices and family displays among young adults with a history of secure care, which limits and restricts contacts and therefore causes fundamental changes in relationships. Almost 10 years after institutional placement, narrations of 11 young adults and 11 nominated family members reveal ongoing struggles between imagined and lived realities of family. These struggles are revealed by memories and emotions evoked by the context of secure care and show how deeply the secure care penetrated their family lives. By using the metaphor of shadows, shadows of recalled horror of secure care (reflecting family displacement) and the pressure to make family work (reflecting restricting practices in secure care where only (birth) family were considered as family and relations of (natural) importance) are discerned. We call for more attention to the perversity of secure care arrangements, at both policy and institutional levels.
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- Evertsson, Marie
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Gender Ideology and the Sharing of Housework and Child Care in Sweden
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of family issues. - 0192-513X .- 1552-5481. ; 35:7, s. 927-949
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We use the Swedish Young Adult Panel Study to study spouses' gender ideology and women's and men's division of routine housework and child care. The results show that men with an egalitarian gender ideology spend 1 hour more in housework per week than do other men and that their spouses spend approximately 2 hours less in housework than do other women. Women's gender ideology, in contrast, only seems to influence women's own time spent in housework (and not their spouses'). Couples wherein the woman and/or the man have a strong egalitarian ideology display a more gender-equal division of child care. Equality in child care and housework are linked and men spend more time in housework when they live in a family with a gender-equal division of child care. In sum, an articulated gender consciousness is a prerequisite for a gender-equal division of unpaid work, even in gender-egalitarian Sweden.
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- Glatz, Terese, 1983-, et al.
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Examination of Parental Self-Efficacy and Their Beliefs About the Outcomes of Their Parenting Practices
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Family Issues. - : Sage Publications. - 0192-513X .- 1552-5481. ; 40:10, s. 1321-1345
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this study, we examined parental self-efficacy (PSE) in light of Bandura's distinction between efficacy expectations and outcome expectations, and their links to parenting practices. We used a sample of 968 parents of children aged 11 to 18 years and examined the factor structure of items measuring PSE and parents' outcome expectations, as well as the links between these two cognitive aspects and parenting practices. The results suggested that PSE and our measure of parents' outcome expectations constituted two distinct factors and were not part of the same overall factor. Additionally, the analyses showed that PSE might be seen as a unidimensional construct with multidimensional aspects and was more strongly linked to parenting practices than were parents' outcome expectations. In general, this study offers a comprehensive model of two different parental cognitive mechanisms as antecedents of parenting behaviors in different developmental periods.
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