Work and Family Life in Rural Communities
Author: Natasha Mauthner
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 9781842630549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent family policy debates have explored the challenge of balancing the demands of paid work with domestic and family commitments. Drawing on detailed interviews with mothers and fathers from different social, economic and occupational backgrounds, this study explores these concerns from a rural perspective, and investigates how families living in rural areas are combining paid work with raising children. The study was based in and around three diverse rural communities in Scotland and northern England. Taking part were 52 dual-parent households with at least one earner and with one child aged 12 or under. The research explored parents' views of the countryside as a place to raise their family, and found that parents described their rural community as providing an ideal physical, cultural and structural environment.