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Parenting in Post-Divorce Estonian Families: A Qualitative Study

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Estonia is a society characterised by persistence of traditional gender role attitudes. Accordingly, taking care of children is considered to be mainly mother's task and children's living arrangements following divorce are usually solved in the most traditional way - children stay with their mother. Based on qualitative interviews with divorced mothers the study focused on the attitudes of mothers towards fathers’ involvement in parenting following divorce. It was possible to differentiate between three post-divorce parenting patterns: (1) cooperative parenting with nonresident father involved with his children, (2) distant parenting characterized by loose contacts between children and nonresident father, and (3) sole parenting without any paternal involvement or financial support. The interviewees basically agreed that shared parental responsibilities would be the ideal form of post-divorce parenting but in practice their expectations concerning father's involvement were rather modest. The interviewees mostly approved prevailing in Estonia normative gendered parental role obligations with mother as the primary parent who had to take main responsibility for children both in the marriage as well as in the post-divorce period.

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  • Leeni Hansson, 2010. "Parenting in Post-Divorce Estonian Families: A Qualitative Study," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 15(1), pages 1-10, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:15:y:2010:i:1:p:1-10
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.2074
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