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Collaboration between co-resident parents
The majority of children in the UK live in households with two parents, yet most of
the academic research on parenting focuses on the relationship between one parent
and one child. More often than not, this one parent has been the mother. There is an
expectation of father involvement in contemporary parenting, but the literature still
tends to emphasise parenting as a one parent-one child interaction, measuring
involvement of the father in terms of time spent with his child. The idea of
collaboration, or collaborative parenting, drawing on research into coparenting in the
US, considers the involvement of both parents with each other, with respect to the
child, as an alternative way of conceptualising parental involvement. Collaboration is
considered a useful concept, as it goes beyond the idea of parenting as being about
time spent directly with the child. Unlike many factors which may predict child
outcomes, a lack of collaboration could be addressed at the family level, through
counselling or education.
The aims of the research were to develop an understanding of the way in which
parents work together, looking in particular at how this is affected by social support;
whether there are associations between parental collaboration and the availability of
time for family and leisure activities, and feelings about the balance between work
and home life; whether parents who collaborate are more likely to adhere to expert
advice on parenting matters; and whether there are associations with a child’s social,
emotional and behavioural development. Emphasis was also placed on the
methodology, as it entailed the development of a method for measuring the concept
of collaboration, using data that was not designed for the purpose. The research was
conducted through a combination of methods, comprising secondary analysis of data
from the first four sweeps of the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) study, and the
conduct and analysis of 20 pairs of semi-structured interviews with parents who had
previously taken part in this study. A condition of the funding received from the
Scottish Government was to make use of the GUS data.
The research found social support affected the process of collaboration in a number
of ways: by enabling collaboration to take place; by removing the need for
collaboration; by increasing the time available to collaborative couples; and by
removing the need to plan ahead. Of particular note were the problems that were
more likely to occur when couples neither collaborated, nor had support from outside
the home. These are the couples who find that work impacts on their family the most.
They are also the ones who are least likely to have time away from their children to
do something for their own interest, and are the ones who are most likely to find it
difficult to access advice. Collaborative couples tended to find more time available
for activities with their children, as well as time for themselves.
Positive associations were demonstrated between collaboration and a child’s social,
emotional and behavioural development, but the strength of the association was not
equal in all situations. When the mother was employed full-time, relatively strong
associations were evident. When she was not in employment, and a number of other
risk factors were present, relatively strong associations could again be seen.
However, when the mother worked part-time, there did not appear to be any
association between child behavioural development and collaboration. Associations
were also demonstrated with the work-life balance of parents. Collaborative fathers
professed less of an impact of the family on their work than non-collaborative ones.
Similarly, collaborative fathers were less likely to say that long hours impacted on
the time they had with their children than non-collaborative fathers, but there was no
equivalent association for mothers. The impact of work on family was more likely to
be lower for both parents when they acted collaboratively
Copyright Education
This is a presentation of IFLA Copyright Literacy Education activities. It provides an update on a project to develop case studies of library associations with copyright literacy education programs which will feed into an upcoming global survey of library associations on their copyright literacy activities. Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss the case studies and how they illustrate a variety of approaches, successes, challenges, and lessons learned as well as advise on approaches for the global survey.Ope
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