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- Fernqvist, Stina, 1977-
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Re-actualizations of abuse? Outcomes of the 2016 maintenance reform in Sweden
- 2023
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In: 11th Conference of the European Society on Family Relations, 14-16 juni, Roskilde. - Uppsala.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In Sweden, family policies strongly promote gender equality and children’s rights. Post-separation child maintenance is underpinned by parents’ shared legal responsibility and the assumption that children benefit from contact with both parents. According to these regulations, the liable parent pays an agreed monthly amount directly to the resident parent and public authorities are not involved. However, if there is a history of abuse in the family, or if the liable parent does not pay, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (SSIA) can function as an intermediary between the parents to make sure that children receive necessary financial support. This means that parents with experiences of such problems must disclose them to the SSIA, and the need for the SSIA to step in is then re-assessed every six months.We argue that this scheme ignores the reality of gender inequality, parental conflicts, and intimate partner violence and thus could have a substantial impact of everyday lives for separated parents and their children. In the study, we analyzed 649 recorded phone calls (~55 hrs) from parents to the SSIA. Post-separation conflict of some kind was disclosed in 133 of these calls, which were analysed thematically. Our analysis focuses on how violence is re-actualized in separated families through regulations and routines that facilitate economic abuse. We show how the SSIA encouraged parents to be in contact also in cases of possible violence, which may increase risks, and argue for the need of increased awareness and capacity building among welfare state agencies regarding these issues.
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- Fernqvist, Stina, 1977-
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Performing Propriety in Swedish Social Benefits Case Records
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Drawing on theory and previous research that focuses on moral dimensions and categorization processes in social work practice, this paper discusses how parents are portrayed in Swedish social services records on eviction risk and focuses on how these individuals are constructed as clients with regards to notions of functionality and propriety in relation to financial problems. The data consists of 37 financial aid case records from the social services and the analysis of these texts suggest that (dis)ability and economic hardship often constitute two non-connected narratives in this data and that performative features of financial propriety and deservingness are often accentuated in these processes. It is argued that financial difficulties are primarily linked to the client's perceived negligence, passivity and a general inability to handle money, even in cases where the client's cognitive difficulties could be relevant in order to understand the financial situation. On a practical level, this may make it difficult for the client to get proper and proactive support in relation to the financial problems.
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- Laugen, A. T., et al.
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Sperm competition in yellow dung flies: No consistent effect of sperm size
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In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. - : Wiley. - 1010-061X .- 1420-9101. ; 35:10, s. 1309-1318
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The male competition for fertilization that results from female multiple mating promotes the evolution of increased sperm numbers and can impact sperm morphology, with theory predicting that longer sperm can at times be advantageous during sperm competition. If so, males with longer sperm should sire more offspring than competitors with shorter sperm. Few studies have directly tested this prediction, and findings are inconsistent. Here we assessed whether longer sperm provide a competitive advantage in the yellow dung fly (Scathophaga stercoraria; Diptera: Scathophagidae). Initially, we let brothers with different temperature-mediated mean sperm lengths compete - thus minimizing confounding effects of genetic background - and found no clear advantage of longer sperm. We then used flies from lines subjected to bidirectional selection on phenoloxidase activity that had shown correlated evolutionary responses in sperm and female spermathecal duct lengths. This experiment also yielded no main effect of sperm size on siring success. Instead, there was a trend for a shorter-sperm advantage, but only when competing in females with longer spermathecal ducts. Our data corroborated many previously reported findings (last-male precedence, effects of copula duration and body size), suggesting our failure to find sperm size effects is not inherently due to our experimental protocols. We conclude that longer sperm are not competitively superior in yellow dung flies under most circumstances, and that, consistent with previous work, in this species competitive fertilization success is primarily determined by the relative numbers of sperm competing.
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