Norman, H orcid.org/0000-0002-2741-1358, Elliot, M and Fagan, C (2018) Does Fathers’ Involvement in Childcare and Housework Affect Couples’ Relationship Stability? Social Science Quarterly, 99 (5). pp. 1599-1613. ISSN 0038-4941
Abstract
Objective
Building on previous analysis conducted by Schober (2012), we explore how paternal involvement in different childcare and housework tasks affects the probability of relationship breakdown between parents.
Methods
We use logistic regression on the U.K. Millennium Cohort Study to predict parental relationship breakdown from nine months to seven years post‐childbirth. Paternal involvement in four childcare and three housework tasks during the first year of parenthood, are used as explanatory variables.
Results
The amount of time the father spends alone, caring for the baby during the first year of parenthood, is associated with the stability of the parental relationship but the effect of involvement in other tasks is moderated by ethnicity and the mother's employment status.
Conclusion
These nonlinear relationships suggest further research is needed to explore the different associations between paternal involvement in childcare and housework and relationship breakdown, which are complex and variable according to different characteristics.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 The Authors. Social Science Quarterly published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Southwestern Social Science Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Fathers; Fatherhood; Childcare; Gendered division of labour; Divorce; Relationship breakdown |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Work and Employment Relation Division (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Feb 2020 11:47 |
Last Modified: | 20 Feb 2020 10:32 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/ssqu.12523 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:157311 |
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