Tracing the lives and support needs of young fathers: A participatory, qualitative longitudinal and comparative analysis

追踪年轻父亲的生活和支持需求：参与性、定性纵向和比较分析

• 批准号: MR/S031723/1
• 负责人: Anna Tarrant
• 金额: $ 154.44万
• 依托单位: University of Lincoln
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FS031723%2F1
• 关键词: Tracing; lives; support; needs; young

The proposed study advances understanding of an under-researched topic; the lived experiences and support needs of marginalised young fathers (aged 25 and under). It has an ambitious aim of both understanding and transforming the way society currently thinks about young fathers and the extent to which these ideas influence policy and practice support that enables them to be positively engaged in their children's lives. In the current UK context, young fathers are often viewed as 'a problem' within family social policy (Duncan 2007). In professional settings, including maternity, child and family support services, these negative pervasive assumptions have been found to translate into practices of surveillance or sidelining by practitioners (Neale & Davies 2015). Such practices also exclude young fathers from dominant expectations of 'engaged fatherhood' (Miller 2011), despite proven societal and wide-ranging benefits of men's involvement in caregiving for children, mothers and fathers (Ives 2018). Current policy and practice approaches therefore reinforce and reproduce the very stigma and exclusion they seek to diminish against a backdrop where knowledge about the diversity and dynamics of young fatherhood remains limited. The broad aim of this research is to address this gap in knowledge, offering a unique extended, longitudinal and international evidence base, and evidenced practice and policy solutions that promote gender equality and the citizenship of young men who are fathers.The data and findings generated will be interrogated through fresh theoretical and substantive lenses, addressing the following research questions:1) How do the multiple disadvantages faced by marginalised young fathers impact on their parenting trajectories and longer term outcomes and aspirations?2) How are young fathers' experiences shaped within a shifting climate of policy and professional practice and evolving ideologies of engaged fatherhood?3) What are the benefits and key challenges of initiating supportive, client centred models of intervention in the UK and what might be learnt across comparative, international contexts?The study will document and intensively track the changing lives of a number of young fathers, both over time and in different comparative contexts and implement and evaluate equality friendly practice. This will enable a clearer picture to emerge about the impact of different cultures of understanding and expectations on young fathers and how varied professional responses shape their experiences, their orientation to fatherhood and their capacity to sustain positive relationships with their children and families. The study is multidisciplinary in scope, straddling youth, family and parenthood research and provision, and social work, housing, employment and health care policy; fields that will be drawn upon and integrated. It also engages with a shifting policy landscape that has moved on since the days of New Labour's 10-Year Teenage Pregnancy and Parenthood Strategy (1999-2010). Using creative, participatory qualitative longitudinal (QL) methods of enquiry, the study will produce new understandings of this shifting landscape of family, parenting and youth policy and its impact on the lives of young fathers. Three complementary strands of work will ensure research impact and uptake including: 1) an extended QL study of the dynamics of young fathers' lives and support needs in the UK, examined within a shifting climate of policy and professional practice and evolving ideologies of engaged fatherhood; 2) longitudinal engagement with practice partners from the Young Dads Collective and Grimsby to track and evaluate developments in innovative forms of good practice that respond directly to key policy challenges by recognising young fathers as 'experts by experience'; and 3) an international, comparative enquiry (UK and Sweden) and the development of an international research network on young parenthood.

这项拟议的研究促进了对一个研究不足的主题的理解;边缘化的年轻父亲（25岁及以下）的生活经历和支持需求。它有一个雄心勃勃的目标，即理解和改变社会目前对年轻父亲的看法，以及这些想法在多大程度上影响政策和实践支持，使他们能够积极参与子女的生活。在当前的英国背景下，年轻的父亲往往被视为家庭社会政策中的“一个问题”（邓肯2007年）。在专业环境中，包括产妇，儿童和家庭支持服务，这些消极的普遍假设已被发现转化为从业者的监督或边缘化的做法（尼尔和戴维斯2015）。这种做法还将年轻父亲排除在“参与父亲角色”的主流期望之外（米勒，2011年），尽管事实证明，男性参与为孩子、母亲和父亲提供服务具有广泛的社会效益（伊韦斯，2018年）。因此，在对年轻父亲的多样性和动态的了解仍然有限的背景下，目前的政策和做法加强和复制了他们试图减少的耻辱和排斥。这项研究的广泛目标是填补这一知识空白，提供一个独特的、广泛的、纵向的和国际性的证据基础，以及有证据的做法和政策解决方案，促进性别平等和青年男子为人父的公民身份。1）被边缘化的年轻父亲所面临的多重不利因素如何影响他们的育儿轨迹和长期结果和愿望？2)在政策和职业实践不断变化的环境中，以及在不断演变的父亲参与意识形态中，年轻父亲的经历是如何形成的？3)在英国启动支持性、以客户为中心的干预模式的好处和主要挑战是什么？在比较性的国际背景下可以学到什么？这项研究将记录和深入跟踪一些年轻父亲随着时间的推移和在不同的比较背景下不断变化的生活，并实施和评估有利于平等的做法。这将使人们更清楚地了解不同的理解和期望文化对年轻父亲的影响，以及不同的职业反应如何影响他们的经历、他们对父亲身份的取向以及他们与子女和家庭保持积极关系的能力。这项研究是多学科的范围，跨越青年，家庭和父母的研究和提供，社会工作，住房，就业和保健政策;领域，将借鉴和整合。它还涉及自新工党的10年少女怀孕和生育战略（1999-2010年）以来不断变化的政策格局。使用创造性的，参与性的定性纵向（QL）调查方法，这项研究将产生家庭，养育和青年政策及其对年轻父亲的生活的影响，这种不断变化的景观新的理解。三个互补的工作将确保研究的影响和吸收，包括：1）在英国年轻父亲的生活和支持需求的动态扩展QL研究，在不断变化的政策和专业实践的气候和不断变化的意识形态参与父亲的审查;（二）与来自Young Dads Collective和Grimsby的实践伙伴进行纵向接触，以跟踪和评估创新形式的发展，通过承认年轻父亲是“经验专家”，直接应对关键政策挑战的良好做法; 3）进行国际比较调查（联合王国和瑞典），并建立关于年轻父母的国际研究网络。

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