Research on parenting support has constantly received attention in the Nordic countries. Still, there is only limited literature written in English about the subject. However, there is a strong tradition of literature on welfare state policy as well as family support and policy in the Nordic countries. Furthermore, the key literature on parenting support from other countries in Europe is represented here. Several articles in this themed section highlighted the gendered nature of parenting support, one article particularly focusing on the theme. Therefore, I found it important to add recent literature about equality, gender and parenting support to this literature section.
Nordic welfare state and beyond
Anttonen, A., Häikiö, L. and Stefánsson, K. (eds.) (2012) Welfare State, Universalism and Diversity, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Ervik, R. and Kildal, N. (2015) ‘From collective to individual responsibility? Changing problem definitions of the welfare state’, in Nielsen, E., Kildal, N. and Ervik, R. (eds.), New Contractualism in European Welfare State Policies, Aldershot/Hamps: Ashgate Publishing, 93–117.
Esping-Andersen, G. (1990) The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Esping-Andersen, G. (1999) Social foundations of Post-Industrial Economies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Esping-Andersen, G. (2015) ‘Welfare regimes and social stratification’, Journal of European Social Policy, 25, 1, 124–34.
Kananen, J. (2014) The Nordic Welfare State in Three Eras. From Emancipation to Discipline, Farnham: Ashgate.
Kantola, J. (2006) Feminists Theorize the State, Houndmills: Palgrave/Macmillan.
Kautto, M., Heikkilä, M., Hvinden, B., Marklund, S. and Plough, N. (eds.) (1999) Nordic Social Policy: Changing Welfare State, London: Routledge.
Kildal, N. and Kuhnle, S. (eds.) (2005) Normative Foundations of the Welfare State. The Nordic Experience, London: Routledge.
Kuronen, M. and Lahtinen, P. (2011) ‘Supporting families: the role of family work in child welfare’, in Forsberg, H. and Kröger, T. (eds.), Social Work and Child Welfare Politics. Through Nordic Lenses, Bristol: The Polity Press, 11–28.
Family and parenting support policy
Nordic countries
Ellingsæter, A. (2012) ‘Nordic politicization of parenthood: unfolding hybridization?’, in Richter, M. and Andersen, S. (eds.), The Politicization of Parenthood. Shifting Private and Public Responsibilities in Education and Child Rearing, New York: Springer, Dordrecht, 39–53.
Forsberg, H. and Kröger, T. (eds.) (2010) Social Work and Child Welfare Politics. Through Nordic lenses, Bristol: The Polity Press, 11–28.
Hiilamo, H. (2004) ‘Changing family policy in Sweden and Finland during the 1990s’, Social Policy and Administration, 38, 1, 21–40.
Hollekim, R., Anderssen, N. and Daniel, M. (2016) ‘Contemporary discourses on children and parenting in Norway: Norwegian Child Welfare Services meets immigrant families’, Children and Youth Services Review, 60, 52–60.
Lundqvist, Å. (2015) ‘Parenting support in Sweden: new policies in old settings’, Social Policy and Society, 14, 657–68.
Sihvonen, E. (forthcoming) ‘Early interventionist parenting support: the case study of Finland’, Families, Relationships and Societies, https://doi.org/10.1332/204674316X14552878034703 [accessed 13.12.2017].
Stefansen, K. and Farstad, G. (2010) ‘Classed parental practices in a modern welfare state: caring for the under threes in Norway’, Critical Social Policy, 30, 1, 120–41.
Widding, U. (2011) ‘Problematic parents and the community parent education: representations of social class, ethnicity, and gender’, Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, 23, 1, 19–38.
Widding, U. (2015) ‘Parenting ideals and (un-)troubled parent positions’, Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 23, 1, 45–64.
Other countries
Andresen, S. and Richter, M. (2012) The Politicization of Parenthood. Shifting Private and Public Responsibilities in Education and Childrearing, New York: Springer.
Ball, W. (2014) ‘Providing multi-agency children's services in an austere climate: professional narratives on parenting support in Wales’, Families, Relationships and Societies, 3, 3, 321–37.
Daly, M. (2013) ‘Parenting support in politics in Europe’, Families, Relationships and Societies, 2, 2, 159–74.
Daly, M. (2015) ‘Parenting support as policy field. An analytic framework’, Social Policy and Society, 14, 4, 597–608.
Daly, M. and Bray, R. (2015) ‘Parenting support in England: the bedding down of a new policy’, Social Policy and Society, 14, 4, 633–44.
Dermott, E. and Pomati, M. (2016) ‘The parenting and economising practices of lone parents: policy and evidence’, Critical Social Policy, 36, 62–81.
Ellingsæter, A., Jensen, A-M. and Lie, M. (eds.) (2013) The Social Meaning of Children and Fertility Change in Europe, New York: Routledge.
Faircloth, C., Hoffman, D. M. and Layne, L. L. (eds.) (2013) Parenting in Global Perspective: Negotiating Ideologies of Kinship, Self and Politics, London: Routledge.
Faircloth, C. and Murray, M. (2014) ‘Parenting: kinship, expertise, and anxiety’, Journal of Family Issues, 16, Special Issue, 1–14.
Gillies, V. (2011) ‘From function to competence: engaging with the new politics of family’, Sociological Research Online, 16, 4, 30 November, www.socresonline.org.uk/16/4/11.html [accessed 13.12.2017].
Gillies, V., Edwards, R. and Horsley, N. (2017) Challenging the Politics of Early Intervention, Who's ‘Saving’ Children and Why, Bristol: Policy Press.
Hennum, N. (2014) ‘Developing child-centered social policies: when professionalism takes over’, Social Sciences, 3, 3, 441–59.
Keller, H. and Bard, K. A. (eds.) (2017) The Cultural Nature of Attachment, Contextualisizing Relationships and Development, Strüngmann Forum Reports.
Knijn, T. and Hopman, M. (2015) ‘Parenting support in the Dutch ‘participation society’’, Social Policy and Society, 14, 4, 645–56.
Lee, E., Bristow, J., Faircloth, C. and Macvarish, J. (eds.) (2014) Parenting Culture Studies, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Macvarish, J. (2016) Neuroparenting: The Expert Invasion of Family Life, London: Palgrave/Macmillan.
Martin, C. (2015) ‘Parenting support in France: policy in an ideological battlefield’, Social Policy and Society, 14, 4, 609–20.
Ostner, I. and Stolberg, C. (2015) ‘Investing in children, monitoring parents: parenting support in the changing German welfare state’, Social Policy and Society, 14, 4, 621–32.
Ramaekers, S. and Suissa, J. (2012) The Claims of Parenting. Reasons, Responsibility and Society, Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Equality and gendered parenting and family support
Nordic countries
Ellingsæter, A. L. and Leira, A. (eds.) (2006) Politicising Parenthood in Scandinavia: Gender Relations in Welfare States, Bristol: Policy Press.
Eerola, P. and Mykkänen, J. (2015) ‘Paternal masculinities in early fatherhood: dominant and counter narratives by Finnish first-time fathers’, Journal of Family Issues, 36, 12, 1674–701.
Eydal, G. B. and Rostegaard, T. (eds.) (2016) Fatherhood in the Nordic Welfare States, Bristol: Polity Press.
Leira, A. (2006) Politicising Parenthood in Scandinavia. Gender Relations in Welfare States, Bristol: The Policy Press.
Lundqvist, Å. (2011) Family Policy Paradoxes. Gender Equality and Labour Market Regulation in Sweden, 1930–2010, Bristol: Polity Press.
Perälä-Littunen, S. (2007) ‘Gender equality or primacy of the mother? Ambivalent description of good parents’, Journal of Marriage and Family, 69, 341–51.
Símonardóttir, S. (2017) Constructing the “Good” Icelandic Mother through Dominant Discourses on Bonding, Breastfeeding and Birth, Phd Thesis, University of Iceland, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Reykjavik: University of Iceland.
Other countries
Daly, M. (2013) ‘Parenting support: another gender-related policy illusion in Europe?’, Women's Studies International Forum, 41, 223–30.
Faircloth, C. (2013) Militant Lactivism? Attachment Parenting and Intensive Motherhood in the UK and France, New York: Berghahn Books.
Featherstone, B. (2004) Family Life and Family Support: A Feminist Analysis, London: Palgrave/Macmillan.
Miller, T. (2011) ‘Falling back into gender? Men's narratives and practices around first-time fatherhood’, Sociology, 45, 6, 1094–109.
Romagnoli, A. and Wall, G. (2012) ‘“I know I'm a good mom”: young, low-income mothers’ experiences with risk perception, intensive parenting ideology and parenting education programmes’, Health, Risk and Society, 14, 3, 273–89.
Valencia, L. (2014) ‘Being a mother, practicing motherhood, mothering someone: the impact of psy-knowledge and processes of subjectification’, Journal of Family Issues, 16, Special Issue, 1–20.
Vincent, C., Ball, S. and Braun, A. (2010) ‘Between the estate and the state: struggling to be a “good” mother’, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 31, 2, 123–38.
