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Making Sense of After‐School Care Dilemmas in Mothers' Stories of After‐School Care in Finland and Sweden
Author(s) -
Karlsson Marie,
PeräläLittunen Satu,
Böök Marja Leena,
Löfdahl Hultman Annica
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12110
Subject(s) - moral dilemma , child care , sociology , gender studies , psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , nursing , medicine
The study focuses on dilemmas in storied experiences of everyday after‐school care arrangements among Swedish and Finnish mothers. Finland and Sweden, which share a history of strong labour market attachment among women, arrange institutional after‐school care in similar ways. The data consist of interviews with three Swedish and six Finnish mothers. A positioning analysis of four stories shows how decisions related to children's after‐school hours were allocated among different actors. Two reoccurring dilemmas, Competent‐dependent child stories and Unburdened‐deficient mother stories , emerged from the data analysis as related to prevailing moral discourses on childhood and motherhood.