{"title":"Daytime Social Isolation from Other Parents","authors":"Rachel Brooks, P. Hodkinson","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv13qfvh2.9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter outlines how the fathers in the study often felt out-of-place within daytime spaces, experienced difficulties interacting with other parents, and were sometimes isolated on the days they cared for their children alone. Comparing these findings with existing literature, the authors explore the reasons why caregiving fathers tend to stay at home alone with their children and the implications for their own well-being and for the prospects of broader take-up by men of shared care arrangements. While fathers themselves commonly individualised the issue by putting their isolation down to their own introverted nature, the authors’ analysis suggests more collective and structural factors were at play. The chapter explores the implications of these findings for some of the themes raised in previous chapters of the book, including their impact on the establishment of ‘interchangeable’ parental identities and the development of the men’s fatherly care horizons – suggesting that, for many although not all of our fathers, while experiences within the home were largely positive, parenting outside the home and in daytime public spaces presented a challenge.","PeriodicalId":290750,"journal":{"name":"Sharing Care","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Sharing Care","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13qfvh2.9","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This chapter outlines how the fathers in the study often felt out-of-place within daytime spaces, experienced difficulties interacting with other parents, and were sometimes isolated on the days they cared for their children alone. Comparing these findings with existing literature, the authors explore the reasons why caregiving fathers tend to stay at home alone with their children and the implications for their own well-being and for the prospects of broader take-up by men of shared care arrangements. While fathers themselves commonly individualised the issue by putting their isolation down to their own introverted nature, the authors’ analysis suggests more collective and structural factors were at play. The chapter explores the implications of these findings for some of the themes raised in previous chapters of the book, including their impact on the establishment of ‘interchangeable’ parental identities and the development of the men’s fatherly care horizons – suggesting that, for many although not all of our fathers, while experiences within the home were largely positive, parenting outside the home and in daytime public spaces presented a challenge.