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Falling Out of Time: The Challenges of Synchrony for Children with Incarcerated Fathers
Author(s) -
Oldrup Helene
Publication year - 2018
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.12222
Subject(s) - imprisonment , attunement , perspective (graphical) , developmental psychology , psychology , danish , temporality , falling (accident) , criminology , medicine , psychiatry , linguistics , philosophy , alternative medicine , epistemology , pathology , artificial intelligence , computer science
Using a temporal lens, the article shows how fathers’ incarceration leads to a loss of attunement to the temporal rhythms of their children's everyday lives. This lack of synchrony has implications for both the being and the becoming of the child. Through in‐depth interviews, the article draws on data from a Danish study of mothers and children, aged 5–27, whose father/stepfather was incarcerated. Findings show the significance of a multifaceted understanding of time showing the implications of fathers’ imprisonment for children, suggesting that policy initiatives would be enriched by a focus on challenges to synchrony from the child's perspective.