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Implications — a Personal View

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Mothers and Fathers

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The main aims of this study were to describe the everyday parental behaviour of a group of middle class couples and to develop a grounded analysis of the important elements in this process. As far as possible I have tried to allow my respondents’ accounts of parenthood to speak for themselves by using a style of analysis which, hopefully, has allowed me to examine critical features of their family lives without moving too far away from their original statements.

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Notes and References

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  2. See, for example, R. Rapoport and R.N. Rapoport, Dual Career Families (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971).

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  5. I borrow this term from the Rapoports, Working Couples (1978), op.cit., p. 185.

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  1. Kathryn C. Backett Ph.D.
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© 1982 Kathryn C. Backett

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Backett, K.C. (1982). Implications — a Personal View. In: Mothers and Fathers. Edinburgh Studies in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05204-2_9

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