Converting shared parental leave into shared parenting:

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Javornik ◽  
Liz Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Parental Leave ◽  
Shared Parenting

Converting shared parental leave into shared parenting: the role of employers and use of litigation by employees in the UK

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-82
Author(s):  
Jana Javornik ◽  
Liz Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Major Step ◽  
Shared Parenting ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Uk

The UK government introduced Shared Parental Leave (SPL) in 2014 to expand parents' capabilities to share parenting, by affording fathers similar entitlements to post-birth leave as mothers. Policy sought to simultaneously address other sources of gender inequality to expand parents' capability sets to remain in work after childbirth and to share parenting differently. This social policy development represents a major step forward in addressing gender inequality at home and at work. However, the policy has not produced the desired change in fathers' leave uptake and the implementation has exposed several issues. This chapter argues that legal rights are one possible instrument for reaching that goal andincludes a wider legal and labour market landscape as a potentially relevant source of inequalities. Using the capability approach, it examines how the SPL shapes fathers' capability set to co-parent and how the broader regime of employment and anti-discrimination law addresses gender equality in home and at work. The chapter offers a more comprehensive explanation for the failure of SPL to enhance parents' capability to share parenting in ways they as a couple have reason to value, as well as an example of how to incorporate a multi-level interdisciplinary analysis of legal rights into social policy analysis through a capability lens.

Finland

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Father Involvement ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Major Question ◽  
Early Child Care ◽  
The Social ◽  
Shared Parenting ◽  
Important Challenge

Finland, as exemplar of the social–democratic welfare regime with generous social policies and a dual-earner model, has recently very intentionally targeted the inclusion of fathers in family policy by revising the fathers’ quota in the parental leave provision. Based on a shared parenting ideology, fathers’ participation in early child care has increased significantly in terms of quantity of time since the 1980s. However, fathers of pre-schoolers still continue to work more hours than any other men in Finland and fathers’ share of all the used parental leave days has increased only relatively slowly. Thus, an important challenge for future family policy will be the focus on incentives that further increase fathers’ take up of parental leave. A major question for empirical research is an examination of the extent to which fathers’ enhanced father involvement in the early years contributes to their long-term future participation in their children’s lives.

Share and care: Experiences of equal parental leave in Sweden

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Lidbeck ◽  
T. Tjus ◽  
B. Wickberg
Keyword(s):  
Parental Leave

Analysis of Selected Recommendations of Parents for Improvement of Shared Care and Joint Custody After Parents/Partners´ Divorce/Separation

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-69
Author(s):  
Dagmar Kopčanová ◽  
Bibiana Filípková
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Shared Care ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Joint Custody ◽  
Shared Parenting ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Legislative Changes

Abstract The content of this scientific study is based on the qualitative analysis of selected answers of parents, in the framework of semi-structured interview. The qualitative research is apart of bigger research work P-155/A, dealing with mental health of children in family and school settings. The main goal is to learn and analyse the empirical experience and views of participants, related to joint custody and shared care. The research sample consisted of randomly selected 9 participants who visited Výskumný ústav detskej psychológie apatopsychológie on behalf of some problems regarding custody after divorce/separation. In this contribution the parents´ attitudes towards mutual communication of former partners/parents, functioning of joint custody and shared care and some views related to some limits in this form of shared parenting have been analysed. Some valuable remarks with regard to the need of multi-professional team work, addressed to parents within the process of their divorce/separation proved to be very useful. Parents proposed they would extremely welcome some more help from mental health professionals and their crises intervention actions. On behalf of discussion we notice that the juridical institute of joint custody and shared care is a very important tool, however, some legislative changes of this law should be still done. Concluding the study, we state that in spite of some methodological problems – like a limited number of research participants, we believe that the results can serve as a basis for the next deeper research, bringing more proposals for improvement in this field.

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