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.

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