La implicación paterna en el cuidado de los hijos en España antes y durante la recesión económica
Authors:
- Lluís Flaquer (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
- Lara Navarro-Varas (Institut d’Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona)
- Fernando Antón Alonso (Institut d’Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona)
- Núria Ruiz Forés (Institut d’Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona)
- Albert Cónsola (Institut d'Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona)
Year: 2018
The purpose of this article is to analyse underlying factors of father involvement in the care of children. The importance of analysing childcare lies both in its high time requirement and in its relevance for the distribution of gender roles within couples. Physical care is where more intensely gender differences appear. The two waves of the Spanish Time Use Survey (2002-03 and 2009-10) serve to analyse the relationship between an increased time spent by fathers doing physical care and the growth of male unemployment during the economic crisis. The results show the relevance of unemployment in greater father involvement in physical childcare. Nevertheless, we should be wary of the sustainability through time of this greater commitment to physical childcare when male occupation starts to recover
Flaquer, L., Navarro-Varas, L., Antón Alonso, F., Ruiz Forés, N., & Cónsola, A. (2018). La implicación paterna en el cuidado de los hijos en España antes y durante la recesión económica. Revista Española de Sociología (RES), On line: 01 Julio 2018, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.2018.61
