For me, it was a liberation, like being free again.’ A qualitative approach to the care trajectories of divorced mothers in Spain

Bibliographic Data

ID13009586
AuthorsPaula González Granados (0000-0002-4386-0743, Universidad de Zaragoza, corresponding author), Diana Valero (0000-0001-7565-770X), Diana Valero-Errazu (0000-0002-3252-076X, Universidad de Zaragoza), María José Sierra Berdejo (0000-0003-4009-0971, Universidad de Zaragoza)
Year2022
Pages1-16
Publication date2022-11-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFamilies Relationships and Societies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2046-7435 • E-ISSN: 2046-7443
PublisherPolicy Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/204674321x16648932926816
OpenAlexW4308833921
LanguageEN
References cited31

This article deals with the causes and consequences of divorce in a group of women with minor children in Spain, a country in Southern Europe that presents a pre-eminently familistic character based on a marked division of gender roles. We detected an imbalance between qualitative and quantitative studies on this topic, of which the latter are more numerous in the recently published literature. For this reason, here we wish to show the people behind the data by conferring two questions making up the analysis axes of this research. First, we deal with the causes of couple breakups, which are related to inequality in the distribution of housework and care tasks in all cases. Second, we analyse their speeches about work and family conciliation after divorce, with particular importance given to the presence, or not, of a strong family network

Character (mathematics · Conciliation · Demographic economics · Economics · Gender inequality · Inequality · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Wish · Gender Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology · Social Sciences and Policies