The Father’s Role in Child Care: Parental Leave Policies in Lithuania and Sweden
This article contributes to the debate on the father’s role in child care by looking at two distinct cases of child care policy development: Sweden and Lithuania. The findings show that Sweden continues to embrace the dual-earner-carer model very successfully. Parental leave, including non-transfera...
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| author | Jolanta Aidukaite Donata Telisauskaite-Cekanavice |
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| description | This article contributes to the debate on the father’s role in child care by looking at two distinct cases of child care policy development: Sweden and Lithuania. The findings show that Sweden continues to embrace the dual-earner-carer model very successfully. Parental leave, including non-transferable father’s quota, is very popular among the population. In Lithuania we find the dual-earner model, as there is still more emphasis on the mother’s employment than on the father’s child care involvement. Based on the experts’ views and document analysis, we conclude that in Lithuania the parental leave benefit is increasingly seen as a measure to ensure the family’s financial security, but not as an instrument to enhance fatherhood rights. Yet, the state intentionally supports kinship familialism as grandparents are entitled to take parental leave. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8c39762dc77c412aa08cd964b0157b182022-12-22T03:41:39ZengCogitatioSocial Inclusion2183-28032020-10-0184819110.17645/si.v8i4.29621671The Father’s Role in Child Care: Parental Leave Policies in Lithuania and SwedenJolanta Aidukaite0Donata Telisauskaite-Cekanavice1Lithuanian Social Research Centre, LithuaniaLithuanian Social Research Centre, LithuaniaThis article contributes to the debate on the father’s role in child care by looking at two distinct cases of child care policy development: Sweden and Lithuania. The findings show that Sweden continues to embrace the dual-earner-carer model very successfully. Parental leave, including non-transferable father’s quota, is very popular among the population. In Lithuania we find the dual-earner model, as there is still more emphasis on the mother’s employment than on the father’s child care involvement. Based on the experts’ views and document analysis, we conclude that in Lithuania the parental leave benefit is increasingly seen as a measure to ensure the family’s financial security, but not as an instrument to enhance fatherhood rights. Yet, the state intentionally supports kinship familialism as grandparents are entitled to take parental leave.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/2962child carefamily policieslithuaniaparental leavesocial policiessweden |
| spellingShingle | Jolanta Aidukaite Donata Telisauskaite-Cekanavice The Father’s Role in Child Care: Parental Leave Policies in Lithuania and Sweden Social Inclusion child care family policies lithuania parental leave social policies sweden |
| title | The Father’s Role in Child Care: Parental Leave Policies in Lithuania and Sweden |
| title_full | The Father’s Role in Child Care: Parental Leave Policies in Lithuania and Sweden |
| title_fullStr | The Father’s Role in Child Care: Parental Leave Policies in Lithuania and Sweden |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Father’s Role in Child Care: Parental Leave Policies in Lithuania and Sweden |
| title_short | The Father’s Role in Child Care: Parental Leave Policies in Lithuania and Sweden |
| title_sort | father s role in child care parental leave policies in lithuania and sweden |
| topic | child care family policies lithuania parental leave social policies sweden |
| url | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/2962 |
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