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Families with Children in a Turbulent Era
This book analyses how turbulence is interwoven into the everyday life of families with children, thus becoming personal and intimate. Chapter authors use empirical data to highlight the contextual and relational nature of both global and local challenges affecting families, discussing complex dynamics across health, work and the environment.
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This book analyses how turbulence is interwoven into the everyday life of families with children, thus becoming personal and intimate. Chapter authors use empirical data to highlight the contextual and relational nature of both global and local challenges affecting families, discussing complex dynamics across health, work and the environment.
Presenting insights based on cutting-edge research, contributing authors examine how diverse disruptions, which often intersect, are lived and experienced by parents and children. They cover important issues including poverty, Covid-19, working life and climate change. Chapters include micro-level explorations, focusing on accounts of turbulence within single country contexts, as well as macro-level analysis, concentrating on cross-country differences where welfare states, work and everyday family life intersect. They investigate how institutional contexts and macro-level changes influence the micro-level within the household.
Families with Children in a Turbulent Era is an invaluable resource for students and researchers across a wide range of social sciences, including comparative social policy, education, social psychology, social work and family, gender and labour market studies. It is also a thought-provoking read for professionals and policymakers at the local, national and international level, as well as education and social policy administrators.
Presenting insights based on cutting-edge research, contributing authors examine how diverse disruptions, which often intersect, are lived and experienced by parents and children. They cover important issues including poverty, Covid-19, working life and climate change. Chapters include micro-level explorations, focusing on accounts of turbulence within single country contexts, as well as macro-level analysis, concentrating on cross-country differences where welfare states, work and everyday family life intersect. They investigate how institutional contexts and macro-level changes influence the micro-level within the household.
Families with Children in a Turbulent Era is an invaluable resource for students and researchers across a wide range of social sciences, including comparative social policy, education, social psychology, social work and family, gender and labour market studies. It is also a thought-provoking read for professionals and policymakers at the local, national and international level, as well as education and social policy administrators.
Critical Acclaim
‘This impressive book illuminates how global polycrises play out in the everyday life of families. Adopting the original framework of “turbulence”, Katja Repo, Mia Tammelin and Petteri Eerola show how parents and children negotiate unsettling experiences. Micro-level familial routines, as well as macro-level “institutional anchors”, all play a part in creating hope for a better future.’
– Margaret O’Brien, University College London, UK
‘Turbulence is not new, for most families it is every day. But maybe the turbulence is changing, the bumps bigger, the jolts sharper and more often. What does that do to families, and what does it feel like to children? This book takes the social laboratory of the pandemic, a time that chucked almost everything into the air, and tells the stories of family life as it unfolded. It is thoughtful, scholarly, insightful. It will help the reader understand how families react, suffer and even enjoy big changes that they didn’t expect.’
– Lyndall Strazdins, The Australian National University, Australia
‘Families with Children in a Turbulent Era eloquently brings together studies from a variety of methodological approaches to consider how diverse disruptions shape family life. This is vital reading for scholars in these times of social upheaval, demonstrating the relational and institutional intersections of family life, as well as how families adapt and endure through societal shifts.’
– Katherine Twamley, University College London, UK
– Margaret O’Brien, University College London, UK
‘Turbulence is not new, for most families it is every day. But maybe the turbulence is changing, the bumps bigger, the jolts sharper and more often. What does that do to families, and what does it feel like to children? This book takes the social laboratory of the pandemic, a time that chucked almost everything into the air, and tells the stories of family life as it unfolded. It is thoughtful, scholarly, insightful. It will help the reader understand how families react, suffer and even enjoy big changes that they didn’t expect.’
– Lyndall Strazdins, The Australian National University, Australia
‘Families with Children in a Turbulent Era eloquently brings together studies from a variety of methodological approaches to consider how diverse disruptions shape family life. This is vital reading for scholars in these times of social upheaval, demonstrating the relational and institutional intersections of family life, as well as how families adapt and endure through societal shifts.’
– Katherine Twamley, University College London, UK
Contents
Contents
1 Families with children in a turbulent era: Setting the scene 1
Mia Tammelin, Katja Repo and Petteri Eerola
2 Family resilience in the narratives of Finnish first-time
parents during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study 9
Inka-Liisa Kuusiaho, Petteri Eerola, Marja Leena Böök
and Anna Rönkä
3 The gender division of childcare during the coronavirus
lockdown in Spain: The perspective of Spanish mothers
and fathers 30
Vicente Diaz Gandasegui, Concepción
Castrillo-Bustamante and Jesús Rogero-García
4 Family life and family time during the COVID-19
pandemic in families with financial difficulties: The
perceptions of parents with school-aged children 51
Katja Repo and Petteri Eerola
5 Everyday life and parenting in poverty in Finland 68
Mia Tammelin and Katri Viitasalo
6 Children’s perspectives in family crises and welfare state
responses 87
Stina Fernqvist
7 Intergenerational learning of eco-friendly behaviour in
family life from the perspective of Finnish youth 106
Mari Pienimäki, Marjukka Colliander and Päivi Honkatukia
8 It takes a neighborhood to fight educational poverty:
Resilient ‘educating communities’ in times of multiple crises 126
Andrea Parma, Stefania Sabatinelli, Paola Savoldi and
Anna Tagliaferri
9 Work–life conflict among European parents in a turbulent
era: The roles of family policies, work culture, and
job-related characteristics 146
Mari Anttila and Milla Salin
10 Parental work schedules and hours from a cross-national
perspective: A welfare regime analysis on 29 countries 172
Wen-Jui Han, Pablo Gracia and Jianghong Li
11 Conclusion: Institutional anchors supporting families
amid turbulence 202
Mia Tammelin, Petteri Eerola and Katja Repo
1 Families with children in a turbulent era: Setting the scene 1
Mia Tammelin, Katja Repo and Petteri Eerola
2 Family resilience in the narratives of Finnish first-time
parents during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study 9
Inka-Liisa Kuusiaho, Petteri Eerola, Marja Leena Böök
and Anna Rönkä
3 The gender division of childcare during the coronavirus
lockdown in Spain: The perspective of Spanish mothers
and fathers 30
Vicente Diaz Gandasegui, Concepción
Castrillo-Bustamante and Jesús Rogero-García
4 Family life and family time during the COVID-19
pandemic in families with financial difficulties: The
perceptions of parents with school-aged children 51
Katja Repo and Petteri Eerola
5 Everyday life and parenting in poverty in Finland 68
Mia Tammelin and Katri Viitasalo
6 Children’s perspectives in family crises and welfare state
responses 87
Stina Fernqvist
7 Intergenerational learning of eco-friendly behaviour in
family life from the perspective of Finnish youth 106
Mari Pienimäki, Marjukka Colliander and Päivi Honkatukia
8 It takes a neighborhood to fight educational poverty:
Resilient ‘educating communities’ in times of multiple crises 126
Andrea Parma, Stefania Sabatinelli, Paola Savoldi and
Anna Tagliaferri
9 Work–life conflict among European parents in a turbulent
era: The roles of family policies, work culture, and
job-related characteristics 146
Mari Anttila and Milla Salin
10 Parental work schedules and hours from a cross-national
perspective: A welfare regime analysis on 29 countries 172
Wen-Jui Han, Pablo Gracia and Jianghong Li
11 Conclusion: Institutional anchors supporting families
amid turbulence 202
Mia Tammelin, Petteri Eerola and Katja Repo
