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JOURNAL OF FAMILY ISSUES
Volume 35, Issue 8, Pages 1048-1065Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X14522241
Keywords
father-child relationship; family demography; child care; family; household labor; gender
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- ESRC [ES/F037937/1, ES/L011662/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [RES-000-23-0704, ES/L011662/1, RES-000-23-0704-A, ES/F037937/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Comparing a cluster of European countries that have recently experienced very low fertility with other industrialized countries, we hypothesize a connection between fertility behavior and fathers' increasing participation in unpaid work. Using cross-national time use data we find significant evidence of recent increases in the contribution of younger, more highly educated fathers to child care and core domestic work in very low-fertility countries that have recently experienced upturns in fertility. The pace of these increases exceeds that found in the comparison group of other industrialized countries. We interpret these findings as suggestive evidence for a process of cross-national social diffusion of more egalitarian domestic gender relations, in particular among more highly educated fathers, acting to facilitate a turnaround in the pattern of postponed and foregone fertility which has characterized lowest low- and very low-fertility countries.
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