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Caring is Sharing?

Couples Navigating Parental Leave at the Transition to Parenthood

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Caring is Sharing? explores how mixed-sex couples make decisions around parental leave and how these decisions shape their work and family care practices. Drawing on a longitudinal study of couples in England, it shows that practices of couple intimacy influence the processes through which they enact divisions of parental leave and care.

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Caring is Sharing?, Katherine Twamley

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2024
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Subtitle
Couples Navigating Parental Leave at the Transition to Parenthood
Language
English
Publisher
UCL Press
Released
2024
Format
Paperback
Pages
208
ISBN13
9781800087415
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Caring is Sharing? explores how mixed-sex couples make decisions around parental leave and how these decisions shape their work and family care practices. Drawing on a longitudinal study of couples in England, it shows that practices of couple intimacy influence the processes through which they enact divisions of parental leave and care.