Couples alignment of pre-birth plans and post-birth realities in Switzerland: non-normative adaptation to the one-and-a-half earner model

Abstract

This innovative book explores the different ways in which dual-earner couples in contemporary welfare states plan for, realize and justify their divisions of work and care during the transition to parenthood. Providing a unique comparative, longitudinal and qualitative analysis of new parents in eight European countries, this timely book explicitly locates couples’ beliefs and negotiations in the wider context of national institutional structures. The chapter, based on the qualitative part of the Becoming a parent survey (enquete Devenir parent) prsents results for Switzerland.