The Good Mother, the Good Father, and the Good Parent: Gendered Definitions of Parenting

Pedersen, Daphne E.

doi:10.1080/08952833.2012.648141

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“…For men, the student role corresponds with their parenting role, as it supports the behavioral expectation of fathers as good providers (Pedersen, 2012;Widoff, 1999). Time men spend performing the student role is viewed as an investment in the family.…”

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Factors Influencing Persistence Among Nontraditional University Students

Markle

2015

Adult Education Quarterly

102

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One third of undergraduate students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities are considered nontraditional as defined by the single criterion of being aged 25 years and older. Nontraditional students have significantly lower graduation rates than traditional students. Using a role theory perspective this mixed-methods study examines the factors influencing persistence among a sample of 494 nontraditional men and women undergraduates attending a large public university in the southeastern United States. In this study, persistence rates did not differ between men and women although the factors influencing persistence did. Grade point average and confidence in graduating positively influenced persistence for both men and women. Women enrolled part-time were more likely to persist than those enrolled full-time. Although interrole conflict leads many women to consider withdrawing from school, most do not. Instead they exhibit a will to persist that enables them to overcome obstacles and ultimately graduate.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors Influencing Persistence Among Nontraditional University Students

Markle

2015

Adult Education Quarterly

102

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“…Men describe the fathering role as helping and supporting mothers rather than viewing parenting as a primary responsibility. Fathers tend to view time “outside of work as an opportunity for childcare involvement as opposed to viewing work as a reduction in ideal time spent with children” (Pedersen, , p. 241). In contrast, mothers tend to experience participation in the paid labor force as a reduction of child‐centered time.…”

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“…Because of gender differences in risk taking (Byrnes, Miller, & Schafer, 1999) and power (Ball, Cowan, & Cowan, 1995), as well as social prescriptions for appropriate role enactment (Howard & Hollander, 1997), mothers and fathers often have differences of opinion regarding family rules or how to enact them. Simply stated, men and women have different perceived power or authority in different domains of life, including parenting (Pedersen, 2012).…”

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Essential Differences in the Meaning and Processes of Mothering and Fathering: Family Systems, Feminist and Qualitative Perspectives

Palkovitz

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Adamsons³

2014

J of Family Theo & Revie

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Although empirical studies have not consistently documented differences in mothering and fathering, differences in conceptualizations, opportunities for enactment, and meanings of mothering and fathering can be clearly demonstrated through family systems as well as feminist theories and qualitative research traditions. We argue that employing the same measures to assess fathering and mothering behaviors will document considerable differences in the involvement of mothers and fathers while masking differences in the roles, meanings, and processes associated with those behaviors. The employment of convergent behavioral measures can profitably occur in conjunction with efforts to identify theoretically rich areas where mothering and fathering are distinct in terms of processes and meanings; this will allow us to document essential differences noted in the lived experiences of family members.

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“…In the words of Hays (1996, 8, italics original), this way of parenting has many similarities to what she describes as 'intensive mothering', a dominant ideology in the United States prescribing the mother as 'the central caregiver' and the expectation of her using childrearing methods that are 'child-centred, expert-guided, emotionally absorbing, labour-intensive, and financially expensive'. According to Pedersen (2012), this ideology is still expressed and practised among American families, leading to rather different and unequal ways of parenting for women and men.…”

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Parenting ideals and (un-)troubled parent positions

Widding

2014

Pedagogy, Culture & Society

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This paper examines how some Swedish parents constructed meanings of parenthood. The parents had completed a state-sponsored parenting programme and were interviewed about their experiences of the programme, their everyday lives, their need for support, ideas about the societal context, and their understandings of 'good' and 'bad' parents. The study was grounded in a discourse-analytical tradition and concepts from discursive psychology guided the analysis. When the interviewees described good parents as responsible and engaged, they related to dominant discourses where middle-class values of involvement and ideals of intensive motherhood intersect. The descriptions of bad parenting were also classed and gendered, representing bad parents as irresponsible and uncaring, as not setting limits, and as not spending enough time with their children. The parents represented themselves in various ways as responsible parents, i.e. an untroubled subject position, but also handled troubled parent positions related to notions of gender and social class.

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The Good Mother, the Good Father, and the Good Parent: Gendered Definitions of Parenting

Cited by 69 publications

References 27 publications

Factors Influencing Persistence Among Nontraditional University Students

Factors Influencing Persistence Among Nontraditional University Students

Essential Differences in the Meaning and Processes of Mothering and Fathering: Family Systems, Feminist and Qualitative Perspectives

Parenting ideals and (un-)troubled parent positions

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