| dc.description.abstract | Twenty-two years have passed since the "father`s quota” in 1993 was supplemented as a part
of the Norwegian paid parental leave scheme exclusively reserved for the father.
This is a relatively new situation as men traditionally have not recently been associated with
the role as main carers for young children. This thesis aims to explore fathers` experiences of
being in paternity leave and how they shape this time together with their child. Expectations
and understandings of what it means to be in paternity leave play a role in how the fathers
construct, coordinate and experience their leave projects. Influenced by ethnography this
study focus on fathering practices from fathers` perspectives through logbooks, interviews
and daddy blogs.
With point of departure from social constructivism, drawing on social studies of children and
childhoods and gender studies, this study aim to give a qualitative analysis of the on-going
processes within a group readily associated with the paternal leave model as they form their
fatherhoods on paternity leave.
The study does not take measure of the care these father´s exercise, but rather explores how
these fathers´ understandings of children, childhoods and fatherhoods shape their intentions of
the paternity leave and on how they perform fatherhood.
Keywords: care-practices, fathers, fathering, paternity leave, rationality of care, social
constructivism. | nb_NO |
