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KMID : 1001320140410040019
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Social Welfare Policy
2014 Volume.41 No. 4 p.19 ~ p.37
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Responsibility of Fathering: Concept, Features and Items
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Yoo Ji-Young
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Abstract
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It is commonly accepted that fathers involve in large extent in childcare than ever given that dual earner families are increased in South Korea. Lamb(1986) distinguishes three components of paternal involvement; availability, engagement(or interaction) and responsibility. Among those three components, present study aims to emphasizes the significance of responsibility. Responsibility of paternal involvement particularly needs to be addressed in the sense that childcare has contributed to pertaining inequality for women in both the workplace and domestic life. By performing investigation on literature, present study particularly examines the concept, items and features of responsibility of paternal involvement. Responsibility is illustrated as paternal taking ultimate responsibility for child’s welfare and care such as monitoring, planning, concerning, organizing, arranging and doing for childcare. Thirty one items of reasonability are categorized into six. As its features, present study provides five characteristics of paternal responsibility; it is, for example, hard to quantify the time involved, particularly because the anxiety, worry and contingency planning that comprise paternal responsibility often occur when the parent is ostensibly doing something else. Implications are also drawn.
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KEYWORD
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responsibility, father involvement, paternal involvement, fathering, Lamb
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