Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Table of contents

Introduction

Scandinavian perspectives

American perspectives

Case studies

Organisation of the book

1 Welfare, gender and fatherhood

Introduction

Welfare regime theory and gender analysis

Typologies of fatherhood regimes

Non-resident fathers and child support regimes

The USA and Anglo-Saxon welfare regimes

Sweden

Comparative studies

Parental leave schemes

The USA

Sweden and the Nordic countries

The decline of patriarchy

Conclusion and discussion

2 The American model: state-enforced agency

Introduction

Non-resident fathers and the child support enforcement regime

Child development perspectives on fatherhood

Father–mother comparisons

Non-resident fathers

Fatherhood in a global perspective

American sociology and the crisis of fatherlessness

Parental and paternal leave

Conclusion and discussion

3 The Swedish model: state-supported agency

Introduction

Parental leave in the 1970s

The Swedish model from the 1990s

Non-resident fathers and child support enforcement

Dismantling patriarchal fatherhood

Father involvement perspectives

Conclusion and discussion

4 The United Kingdom: full-time breadwinners and part-time fathers

Introduction

The changing nature of fatherhood and parental leave debates

Non-resident fathers and child support debates

Conclusion and discussion

5 Ireland: ‘vulnerable fathers’, invisible fatherhood

Introduction

Family support and parental leave debates

Non-resident fathers and the liable relative provision

Child maintenance recovery

The decline of patriarchal power

Conclusion and discussion

6 Fatherhood and the European Union

Introduction

Fatherhood and the European Union Parental Leave Directive (1983)

Europeanisation or Scandivisation

Individualisation and the Parental Leave Directive (2009)

Shared parenting and child maintenance individualisation

Fatherhood, political economy and the European social model

Conclusion and discussion

7 Crystallising the ‘Nordic turn’ in Japan and patriarchal decline in China

Introduction

Japan: crystallising the Nordic turn

Child support

China: the decline of Confucian patriarchy

Conclusion and discussion

8 Individualisation and two varieties of patriarchy and fatherhood

Introduction

Drivers of parental leave regimes and father involvement

Autonomous single-mother and non-resident father households

Fatherlessness and the flight from fatherhood

Epistemology and two influential regimes of fatherhood

The decline of patriarchy

Conclusion and discussion

Great Britain

Ireland

China

Japan

The European Union

Bibliography

Index