The overburdened mother: How social workers view the private sphere
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In: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, Vol. 2017, No. Sonderheft 11, 07.2017, p. 153‒170.
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T1 - The overburdened mother: How social workers view the private sphere
AU - Alberth, Lars
AU - Bühler-Niederberger, Doris
N1 - Journal of Family Research/ Zeitschrift für Familienforschung Special Issue/Sonderheft 11 (2016/2017), Tanja Betz, Michael-Sebastian Honig and Ilona Ostner (Eds.): Parents in the Spotlight: Parenting Practices and Support from a Comparative Perspective, ISBN 978-3-8474-0502-3, eISBN 978-3-8474-0924-3, Barbara Budrich Publishers, Opladen
PY - 2017/7
Y1 - 2017/7
N2 - Child protection intervenes in situations of inadequate parenting. Analyses of child protection routines offer insight into the ideas about the proper care and handling of children that guide interventions in this field. This article is based on interviews with social workers that were used to reconstruct 70 cases of professional interventions by systematically categorizing social workers’ reasoning and the trajectories of their interventions. Our analysis shows that approaches to parents are strongly gendered and organized around mother-focused routines. Such routines aim at a concept of private life that – in the way it is fenced in and asymmetric regarding its gender and generational order – is out of step with broader conceptions of gender and family relations. Our data show that more innovative ideas about parenting and its enhancement are absent from child protection practices.
AB - Child protection intervenes in situations of inadequate parenting. Analyses of child protection routines offer insight into the ideas about the proper care and handling of children that guide interventions in this field. This article is based on interviews with social workers that were used to reconstruct 70 cases of professional interventions by systematically categorizing social workers’ reasoning and the trajectories of their interventions. Our analysis shows that approaches to parents are strongly gendered and organized around mother-focused routines. Such routines aim at a concept of private life that – in the way it is fenced in and asymmetric regarding its gender and generational order – is out of step with broader conceptions of gender and family relations. Our data show that more innovative ideas about parenting and its enhancement are absent from child protection practices.
KW - Sociology
KW - Gender
UR - https://shop.budrich-academic.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Alberth-B%C3%BChler-Niederberger-The-overburdened-mother.pdf
U2 - 10.3224/zff.si11y2016/2017.09
DO - 10.3224/zff.si11y2016/2017.09
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 2017
SP - 153‒170
JO - Zeitschrift für Familienforschung
JF - Zeitschrift für Familienforschung
SN - 0935-4018
IS - Sonderheft 11
ER -