@inbook{f1aaaf85e09a42438b4502307d18091e,
title = "Parenthood and We-ness in Everyday Life: Parenting Together Apart",
abstract = "This chapter explores narratives of sharing parental responsibility in everyday life among parents who do not live together. It is a social-psychological analysis of qualitative interview data focusing on family relations and social networks in everyday life in Denmark. The interview data stem from a large research project on the consequences of individualisation for social networks and family life. One of the dilemmas of post-divorce parenting comprises sharing parental responsibility while simultaneously separating from the other parent. Applying a case-based analysis, two interpretative frameworks of good parenthood is identified: devotion and symmetry. Moreover, it is discussed how these frameworks intersect with the conflict narrative of divorce. To further explore the meaning of good post-divorce parenting, a concept of we-ness is introduced in the context of divorce. The chapter concludes by arguing that post-divorce parenthood can be understood as reinventing the family (Beck-Gernsheim 2002) and re-constituting we-ness in novel ways.",
keywords = "Conflict, Narrative approach, Post divorce parenting, Recognition, Social psychology, Sociological imagination, We-ness",
author = "Allan Westerling",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-46774-0_11",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-319-46774-0",
series = "Studies in Family and Intimate Life",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "127--136",
editor = "Anna Sparrman and Allan Westerling and Judith Lind and Dannesboe, {Karen Ida}",
booktitle = "Doing Good Parenthood",
edition = "1",
}