The article examines the goals and ideologies of Swedish arrangements for parental leave and public child care for working parents. Two important goals are gender equality in work, and gender equality in family life and child welfare. It is argued that gender equality has been advanced to some extent as women have been able to integrate paid work into their lives. The choice of taking parental leave is, however, more conditional for men, and it is taken for granted that women take on the lion's share. It is concluded that the reform is more of a farsighted welfare policy for children than a policy for promoting gender equality.
Research has suggested that social networks are important resources for children as well as for adults to resist health problems. For asylum seeking children social networking might be hard to accomplish due to constraints linked to social and legal contexts in the host country. Constraints can also be linked to the family situation and the circumstances they have to cope with in everyday life. The situation of parents, in particular mothers, is important for the coping of children. The over arching research objective is to identify factors that are important for well being of children seeking asylum and to study how they cope with their experiences as asylum seekers. The tension between excluding experiences and expectations regarding how the situation of the child and it's family should improve or deteriorate after the flight is for a child a constitutive reference for how coping strategies are developed. In the analysis I draw on theoretical concepts of resilience, social capital, trust and social recognition. This paper draws on results from an interdisciplinary research project Asylum-seeking children's welfare, health and well-being. Gothenburg Research on Asylum seeking Children in Europe (GRACE), Goteborg University and Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg. The study was financed by the European Refugee Fund. The empirical data are based on qualitative interviews with parents and children who have waited for decisions regarding permanent residence for several months and sometimes more than a year.
Swedish family policies are integrated within a general welfare policy where the state has acquired a significant responsibility for the welfare of individuals, independent of family membership. A common assumption is that the state has contributed to weakening the sense of personal and family responsibility in Swedish families. In this article, the interrelationship between public and private financial support is investigated as are some dimensions of practical help. Drawing on results of a survey carried out in 2001 in Sweden comprising 2666 individuals, this article explores financial support and practical help between family members of different generations. The article presents results regarding the prevalence of private financial support, attitudes to giving support and motives for giving and receiving financial support. The sample, aged from 18 to over 65 years old, was drawn from a public database providing longitudinal data (1993—2001) on public transfers. The respondents supplied information about private transfers given and received over a period of five years. The survey data and the register information from the database make up the full data set.
In order to practise equality, individuals have to strike a balance between the articulation of their individual selves and their norms and moral concerns about mutuality. Strategies for balancing mutuality and autonomy in relationships are vital parts of the process of accomplishing equality. Styles of negotiation and conflict management are involved in the process. This article discusses how styles of conflict management maintain inequality or promote gender equality. It draws on a qualitative study of 22 couples in Sweden. Men and women were interviewed separately about how they share household labour, dispose of and allocate their material resources, and relate to children.
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