Title:	Out of Time The Consequences of Non-standard Employment Schedules for Family Cohesion
Authors:	Täht, Kadri Melinda Mills
Keywords:	Out of Time
Issue Date:	2016
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	In the course of their analysis, the authors reveal an intriguing paradox. One of their important conclusions is that, contrary to a good deal of the earlier literature based on research in the US, there is little overall evidence of a negative effect of non-standard working hours on the current quality of relations between partners. In part, this can be accounted for by the fact that partners are actively choosing these types of work schedules in order to meet one of their critical partnership objectives —namely to bring up the children with a high degree of direct parental contact and a minimum reliance on public child-care assistance. They therefore in many cases prefer to desynchronise their hours so that at least one parent is available to take care of the children. But, while non-standard hours do not undermine partnership relations at a particular point in time, the authors’ longitudinal analysis of their effects on the risks of divorce produces a much more worrying picture. Almost all types of non-standard hours appear to raise the probability of divorce four years later. This is clearly an issue that warrants a good deal of further research. But it raises the possibility that the flexibility that allows the couple to take turns in taking care of the children has consequences for communication within the couple and hence for the longer-term stability of partnerships.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/20564
ISBN:	978-94-017-7402-4
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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