"Just living together": implications of cohabitation for fathers’ participation in child care in Western Europe

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• dc.contributor.author González López, María José, 1966-
• dc.contributor.author Miret Gamundi, Pau
• dc.contributor.author Treviño, Rocío
• dc.date.accessioned 2021-05-12T08:38:53Z
• dc.date.available 2021-05-12T08:38:53Z
• dc.date.issued 2010
• dc.description.abstract This article tests the assumption that cohabitation makes a difference in the allocation of child care responsibilities within couples. It has often been presumed that cohabiting individuals are less likely to adhere to traditional gender ideology than married persons, because they tend to have a lower tolerance for poorly functioning relationships, assign more value to individual freedom and base their relationship on egalitarian individualism rather than on the joint utility maximization of married couples. So far, however, most studies have focused on the determinants and consequences of being in cohabitation and have overlooked its gender implications. Here we explore whether fathers in consensual unions are more prone than fathers in marital unions to share childcare responsibilities with their female partners. We use multilevel regression models for panel data to analyse ECHP in the period between 1996 and 2001. Our sample included around 13,000 couples living in heterosexual partnerships with small children (at least one child below age 13), and yielded around 45,000 observations over this period of time in ten Western European nations. We found weak evidence of the influence of cohabitation on gender equality as compared to married couples, while discovering that the diffusion of cohabitation at the societal level is associated with more equal allotment of child care among partners.
• dc.description.sponsorship The research has been financially supported by the Institut Català de les Dones (2008-2009), and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) (projects SEJ2007-62684/SOCI, CSO2008-00654/SOCI and SEJ2007-67569/SOCI). The authors wish to thank the participants of the Stockholm Workshop, “The Family in the Future - the Future of the Family: The Gender Story,” and Livia Sz. Oláh, in particular, for detailed comments on an earlier draft. We also thank the two anonymous reviewers of Demographic Research for their insightful remarks.
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• dc.identifier.citation González MJ, Miret-Gamundi P, Treviño R. "Just living together": implications of cohabitation for fathers’ participation in child care in Western Europe. Demogr Res. 2010;23(16):445-78. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.16
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.16
• dc.identifier.issn 1435-9871
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/47399
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
• dc.relation.ispartof Demographic Research. 2010;23(16):445-78
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PN/SEJ2007-62684
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/CSO2008-00654
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PN/SEJ2007-67569
• dc.rights This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, 2.0 Germany (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/de/deed.en). González MJ, Miret-Gamundi P, Treviño R. "Just living together": implications of cohabitation for fathers’ participation in child care in Western Europe. Demogr Res. 2010;23(16):445-78.
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• dc.subject.keyword Cohabitation
• dc.subject.keyword Europe
• dc.subject.keyword European Community Household Panel (ECHP)
• dc.subject.keyword Gender division of child care
• dc.title "Just living together": implications of cohabitation for fathers’ participation in child care in Western Europe
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