Italy is a familistic welfare state with a traditional breadwinner regime that is changing into a dual earner regime among the younger generation. The chapter investigates how the tensions among cultural norms of familism, changing laws expanding paternal rights and obligations, and narratives of active fathers affect father involvement with young children. Men’s inclination to change require institutional support, such as: extension of compulsory and paid paternity leave; legal mechanisms to encourage fathers to take parental leave; implementation of planned educational programs designed to enhance fathering skills and to promote father involvement (that need to include mothers so that more egalitarian views of parenting are developed by both genders); an investment in research on fathers.
Ruspini, E., Tanturri, M. (2015). Italy. In M.A. Adler, K. Lenz (a cura di), Father Involvement in the Early Years (pp. 97-126). Bristol : The Policy Press.
Italy
RUSPINI, ELISABETTA;
2015
Abstract
Italy is a familistic welfare state with a traditional breadwinner regime that is changing into a dual earner regime among the younger generation. The chapter investigates how the tensions among cultural norms of familism, changing laws expanding paternal rights and obligations, and narratives of active fathers affect father involvement with young children. Men’s inclination to change require institutional support, such as: extension of compulsory and paid paternity leave; legal mechanisms to encourage fathers to take parental leave; implementation of planned educational programs designed to enhance fathering skills and to promote father involvement (that need to include mothers so that more egalitarian views of parenting are developed by both genders); an investment in research on fathers.
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