Family and Work: The Family's Perspective

Contents


Executive Summary
Conclusions
1 Introduction
2 Methodology
2.1 Sample Description
2.2 Family Structure and Employment Patterns
2.3 Ages of Children
2.4 Education and Occupation
2.5 Income
2.6 Interview schedules
3 The "Time" Issue
3.1 Time Spent with Children
3.2 Parents' Working Hours
3.3 Parents' and Children's Time Together
3.4 Time Spent "Witnessing" or Sharing Children's School Lives
3.5 Conclusions
4 About Work: the Children's Perspective
4.1 What Children Know About Parents' work
4.2 Do Children Think Their Parents Like Working?
4.3 What Parents Want Children to Know About Their Work
4.4 Conclusions
5 About Work: the Parents' Perspective
5.1 Parent's Employment Choices
5.2 Parents' Experiences of Work
5.3 Working at home
5.4 Conclusion
6 About Parenting
6.1 How Parents See Themselves
6.2 Conclusions
7 About Family Life: the Children's Perspective
7.1 Typical mornings and afternoons
7.2 Responsibility
7.3 Conclusions
8 About the Spillover between Family and Work
8.1 Mood spillover
8.2 The Impact of Working: the Children's Perspective
8.3 The Impact of Working: the Parents' Perspective
8.4 Conclusions
9 Wishes
9.1 Children's Wishes
9.2 Parents' Views
9.3 Conclusions
10 Older Children Looking Back
10.1 Older Children's Re-evaluations
10.2 Conclusions
11 Future Intentions
11.1 How Children Want to Combine Family and Work
11.2 Conclusions
12 Non-parental care
12.1 The Children's Perspective
12.2 The Parents' Perspective
12.3 Conclusions
13 Other Themes
13.1 Parental Relationships
13.2 Single Parents
13.3 Fathering
14 The Process of Making Work and Family Work
14.1 Balance
14.2 Listening to the Children
14.3 Conclusions
15 Conclusions
References
Appendix A: Interview Schedules
Parent Interview
Children's Interview
Appendix B: Participant Questionnaire
Work and Family - Participant Questionnaire