Description:
Who cares for parental caregivers? The short answer is, parenting groups do. Who Cares for Parents examines how parenting groups collectively build and contribute significant resources to form a broader care infrastructure for adult family caregivers with children. This book looks at the content of care parenting groups provide for parents, through comparative research including mothers, fathers, and nonbinary parents. Cases include some of the most recognizable parenting groups in the United States, some with vast networks of parent members numbering in the thousands or even millions, like the Parent Teacher Association, La Leche League, and MOMS Club International. The book also examines newer and, perhaps, less well known groups like the City Dads Group, the Upper East Side (UES) Mommas, as well as smaller sets of local dads' groups and a babysitting co-op.
Review Quotes:
"The book addresses the ongoing conflict between the cultural ideal of intense mothering/parenting, the need for most families to rely on dual incomes, and the lack of affordable and available child care. Who Cares about Parents? will be useful for undergraduate social science courses and researchers interested in contemporary family issues and policies. . . . Recommended."
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