Faircloth, Charlotte;
Twamley, Katherine;
Iqbal, Humera;
(2023)
‘Parenting’ after Covid-19: When the Quantity of ‘Quality
time’ Becomes Untenable.
In:
Parenting Culture Studies.
(pp. 293-315).
Palgrave Macmillan London: Cham, Switzerland.
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Abstract
This chapter draws on a research study into family life in the UK during Covid-19 (Twamley et al., Family life in the time of COVID: International perspectives. UCL Press, 2023a) and explores the impact it had on ‘parenting’, understood both as a set of day-to-day experiences and a political and cultural concept. The chapter attends to which categorical assumptions about parenting the handling of the pandemic entrenched and which it disrupted. It is suggested that ‘lockdown’ (the term used in the UK for the shutting down of all usual activities outside the home) powerfully magnified the privatization of child-rearing and its associated risk consciousness and moralization, as originally discussed in Parenting Culture Studies. However, space also opened for a push-back against expectations of ‘intensive’ motherhood, albeit in stratified and complex ways.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | ‘Parenting’ after Covid-19: When the Quantity of ‘Quality time’ Becomes Untenable |
| ISBN-13: | 978-3-031-44156-1 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-031-44156-1 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44156-1 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author-accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Covid 19, Lockdown, Privatization, Expansion, Push-back |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177539 |
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