Dependence and Independence:Perceptions and management of risk in respect of children aged 12-16 in families with working parents
Lewis, J, Sarre, S and Burton, J (2007) Dependence and Independence:Perceptions and management of risk in respect of children aged 12-16 in families with working parents Community, Work and Family, 10 (1). pp. 75-92.
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The contributions that adult men and women make to households in terms of paid and unpaid work have undergone substantial change, particularly in respect of women’s responsibility for income generation, and have been seen as part of the processes of individualization. Recent contributions to the literature have suggested that children are now acquiring independence earlier as part of those same processes. The paper uses qualitative methods to explore the way in which parents in two-parent families, where both are employed, perceive the risks attached to children’s exercise of greater independence, how they seek to ‘manage’ those risks and how far the perceptions of parents accord with those of children. We find parents’ perceptions of risk to be strong, but to have little to do with working patterns. In addition, they are often at odds with the actual behaviour of the child. Risks are managed by negotiation, in which children played an active part. We are also able to make some preliminary comments on the difficulties of interpreting scale measures in relation to interview evidence.
|Divisions :||Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences > Sociology|
|Date :||1 February 2007|
|Identification Number :||10.1080/13668800601110827|
|Uncontrolled Keywords :||risk, children, individualization, working parents|
|Depositing User :||Symplectic Elements|
|Date Deposited :||22 Jul 2011 09:25|
|Last Modified :||08 Nov 2013 12:08|
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