Deconstructing Family Time: From Ideology to Lived Experience

Daly, Kerry

doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2001.00283.x

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“…One of the strongest forces in contemporary family life is the increased striving by both genders towards the ideal of a family life characterized by parents and children who enjoy high quality relationships marked by closeness, responsiveness, and shared activity (Coontz, 2005;Daly, 2001;Mintz, 2004;Tubbs, Roy, & Burton, 2005). To balance their concerns that work interferes with participation in family life, many parents specifically set aside "family time" to promote positive and memorable family experiences.…”

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“…Dual-earner parents with children worry about the effect of work hours on children and family relationships and strive to cope by focusing on ritual family interactions like dinners or organized leisure (Daly, 2001;Ochs et al, in press;Kremer-Sadlik & Paugh, 2007). Many report that they would choose to work fewer hours if given the opportunity (Jacobs & Gerson, 2004).…”

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Opportunity for interaction? A naturalistic observation study of dual-earner families after work and school.

Campos¹,

Graesch²,

Repetti³

et al. 2009

Journal of Family Psychology

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Everyday patterns of interaction can strengthen or undermine bonds between family members. This naturalistic observation study focused on an understudied facet of family life: opportunities for interaction among dual-earner family members after work and family members' responses to these opportunities. Thirty dual-earner couples and their children were observed and video-recorded in their homes throughout two weekday afternoons and evenings. Two interaction opportunities were analyzed: (1) the behavior of family members toward a parent returning home from work and (2) the physical proximity of family members throughout the evening. Three main findings emerged. Women, who tended to return home before men, were greeted with positive behavior and reports of the day's information from family members. Men, in contrast, returned home later in the day and received positive behavior or no acknowledgment from family members distracted by other activities. Throughout the evening, mothers spent more time with children whereas fathers spent more time alone. Couples were seldom together without their children. The implications of observed interaction patterns and the contribution of naturalistic observation methods to the study of family relationships are discussed.

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Opportunity for interaction? A naturalistic observation study of dual-earner families after work and school.

Campos¹,

Graesch²,

Repetti³

et al. 2009

Journal of Family Psychology

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“…General late-modern tendencies of reflexive individualization, transformation of intimacy and a general time-pressure in families (Bonke, 2002;Dencik and Schultz Jørgensen, 1999;Giddens, 1991Giddens, /1992Daly, 2001;Hochschild, 1997;Jensen, 2001;Kristjánsson, 1999) may encourage this tendency for parents to ferry their children. The reflexive individual planning is also current among children, who plan their every day mobility with parental ferrying in mind.…”

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The Surveillance of Children's Mobility.

Fotel

Thomsen

2002

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The increased protection of children by monitoring them is said to be a central characteristic of modern childhood. In the field of mobility, this aspect of modern childhood is reflected in the fact that children's everyday mobility is to a great extent kept under surveillance, e.g. by parents, kindergarten or school employees and through general traffic regulation. In this article, we investigate the surveillance of children's mobility -primarily bicycling, walking and car usage -from three different angles. In the first, we investigate the general power relations in mobile practice that add to the surveillance and restriction of children's mobility. In the second, we illustrate how parents monitor children's mobility by chauffeuring them. In the third, we look into how parents remote control children's mobility by means of behavioural restrictions and technology. By using statistical material and qualitative interviews, we illustrate how parents perceive and perform their own surveillance of children's mobility. In addition, we comment on how children perceive their monitored mobility and how they cope with it. Finally, we reflect on the differences in parental mobile monitoring and relate this to welfare and socio-economic structures in the families. Rationalities in contemporary mobilityThis article contributes to the expanding field of the sociology of mobility and it highlights the mobility related norms, practices and perspectives of a very distinct group, namely that of families. It elaborates on children's and parents' views on traffic and mobility from a surveillance perspective and includes insights from the new childhood paradigm within the sociology of childhood (James, 1998; Prout and James, 1990). In spite of the fact that children's mobility accounts for around 20% of the daily travelling population in the EU (EU, 2000), children's perspectives are often left out in the general mobility oriented sociological literature (for instance in Bauman, 2000; Beckman, 2001b;Castells, 1996;Jensen, 2001;Scheller, 2002;Shove, 2002;Urry, 2000).Even though mankind has always been mobile, the quintessential aspect in contemporary societies is that the consequences of mobility thoroughly influence our daily lives, local, national and global politics, as well as our environments and the welfare of human beings. Political and scientific discussions are often focussed on the environmental side effects of increased car-use. Welfare aspects of how mobility influence and shape people's every day life and how side

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“…The authors acknowledge the contributions of Daly (2001) in regards to the conceptualization of family time, but they suggest that further research should focus on parental feelings regarding the time that is actually spent with their children.…”

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“…In the preface to his book, Families & Time, Daly (2001) reflected on his work with young fathers and their children. From his research, he observed that these fathers often lamented about the scarcity of time with their children, wondering how they could spend more time with their children, and how they could manage to make more time for their children.…”

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Introduction to Time and Families

Covey¹

2009

Michigan Family Review

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This issue of Michigan Family Review has a focus on the interface of time and families. The articles in this issue address time and families from different perspectives but they have a common element that sets this issue apart from other writings about families and time. One article explores the juxtaposition of families in regards to increasing demands in the roles of individual family members.Another article proposes a research instrument designed to explore the value family time has for older adults. In the case of both articles, the issue of feelings that family members have regarding their experience of family time is examined.

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Deconstructing Family Time: From Ideology to Lived Experience

Cited by 285 publications

References 19 publications

Opportunity for interaction? A naturalistic observation study of dual-earner families after work and school.

Opportunity for interaction? A naturalistic observation study of dual-earner families after work and school.

The Surveillance of Children's Mobility.

Introduction to Time and Families

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