TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring separated fathers’ understandings and experiences of ‘home’ and homemaking
AU - Campo, Monica
AU - Fehlberg, Belinda
AU - Natalier, Kristin
AU - Smyth, Bruce M.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This paper considers fathers’ understandings and experiences of home after relationship separation–an issue that has received little research attention to date–through interviews with four separated fathers conducted as part of a larger qualitative study. Key themes to emerge were: the significance attached by participant fathers to home and homemaking through their focus on everyday interactions; the concern that their home might be viewed by children as secondary; and a sense of the vulnerability and transience of home arising from their children’s presence and absence. Viewed overall, the fathers in this study conveyed their determination to offer their children a loving, stable, and secure home life as a fundamental dimension of their commitment to post-separation fathering while also describing key challenges they experienced in doing so.
AB - This paper considers fathers’ understandings and experiences of home after relationship separation–an issue that has received little research attention to date–through interviews with four separated fathers conducted as part of a larger qualitative study. Key themes to emerge were: the significance attached by participant fathers to home and homemaking through their focus on everyday interactions; the concern that their home might be viewed by children as secondary; and a sense of the vulnerability and transience of home arising from their children’s presence and absence. Viewed overall, the fathers in this study conveyed their determination to offer their children a loving, stable, and secure home life as a fundamental dimension of their commitment to post-separation fathering while also describing key challenges they experienced in doing so.
KW - Divorce
KW - fathers
KW - home
KW - post-separation parenting
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111683628&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP180102799
U2 - 10.1080/09649069.2021.1953857
DO - 10.1080/09649069.2021.1953857
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85111683628
VL - 43
SP - 291
EP - 306
JO - Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
JF - Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
SN - 0964-9069
IS - 3
ER -