{"id":2324,"date":"2014-05-27T10:05:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T10:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/?page_id=2324"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:12:16","slug":"becomingaparent","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/research-themes\/becomingaparent\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming a parent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This strand of our research the impact of changing parenting culture, and specifically becoming a parent, on other relationships. How does the transition to a more expertise-based idea of \u2018doing relationships\u2019 affect the ways in which individuals relate to each other? How has that changed over time?\u00a0 The project Leverhulme Trust funded project <em>Parenting: Gender, intimacy and equality<\/em>\u00a0 was particularly concerned with how the \u2018new parenting culture\u2019 affects adults\u2019 experiences of raising their children, and the implications for their sense of self, or \u2018identity work\u2019. This work culminated in the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/gb\/book\/9783030774028?token=pal40ep&amp;utm_campaign=3_fjp8312_palgrave_uk_shopping_pal40ep&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw87SHBhBiEiwAukSeUUAAUmCH_o6gX9xaoVZBZjK6F8DR9M82wd2gYW5HuedLFJhqzBvsxBoC-X0QAvD_BwE\">Couples\u2019 Transitions to Parenthood: Gender, Intimacy and Equality.<\/a> The changes have also been explored in work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/bristoluniversitypressdigital.com\/view\/journals\/frs\/9\/1\/frs.9.issue-1.xml\">adult-child relationship<\/a>, as well as the transition to parenthood in an age of more <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.5153\/sro.4310\">&#8216;anxious reproduction&#8217;<\/a>, particularly in terms of new reproductive technologies.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>More recently, Charlotte Faircloth has been leading the project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/ioe\/departments-and-centres\/ucl-social-research-institute\/research\/50-years-becoming-mother-bam50\">50 Years of Becoming a Mother. <\/a>which takes and inter-generational, longitudinal, and historically comparative approach to research the continuities and changes in women&#8217;s experiences over the last 50 years in the UK. Working with Ann Oakley, this is based on re-analysis of Oakley&#8217;s previous research (of the same name) as well as new data-collection. This strand of out research ties into our interest in documenting <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.5153\/sro.2249\">Changing Parenting Culture<\/a>, providing empirical evidence to\u00a0 understand better these historical trends.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Read on:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5153\/sro.2249\">\u2018Changing Parenting Culture\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/13607804231198619\">Understanding \u2018Gender Equality\u2019: First-Time Parent Couples\u2019 Practices and Perspectives on Working and Caring Post-Parenthood\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/tpp\/frs\/pre-prints\/content-frsd1800063r2;jsessionid=6qphat31o7c0k.x-ic-live-01\">\u2018When equal couples become unequal partners: Couple relationships and intensive parenting culture<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5153\/sro.4310\">Making Parents: Reproductive Technologies and Parenting Culture across Borders.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1332\/204674320X15804876175640\">Childhood, parenting culture, and adult-child relations in global perspectives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This strand of our research the impact of changing parenting culture, and specifically becoming a parent, on other relationships. 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