Padre versus Pappa - en kvalitativ komparativ studie om mäns erfarenheter och attityder till faderskapet i Spanien och Sverige

Abstract

Different institutional and culture contexts are argued to create differences in fathers practices and attitudes toward fatherhood. By in-depth interviews with swedish and spanish fathers, this Bachelor thesis aims to describe fathers experiences and attitudes toward fatherhood and how they relate to the institutional and culture context. The selection of swedish and spanish fathers aims to illustrate differences and similarities in two welfaremodels that differ. The main difference was how social policy provoces differences in the distribution between paid and non-paid work, where the spanish fathers remain as the main breadwinner. Differences also appeared in attitudes toward formal care. Similarities that were found can be related to genderstructures. Both the spanish and the swedish fathers adopted the “new-fatherhood” image - they incorporated care-giving and closeness to their own fatherhood. However the fathers care differed from mothers, being based on out-going activites while mothers remained in the private sphere.