Contents
Figures
Tables
Editors
Authors
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Foreword / Professor Mary Daly
Introduction / Ashling Jackson and Colm O’Doherty
Part One: The Social Context of Parenting in Ireland
1 A Quiet Revolution: Modernity, Social Change and New Parenting Opportunities / Ashling Jackson
2 Out with the Old, In with the New: Changing Family Patterns in Ireland / Ashling Jackson
3 The Value of Parenting / Colm O’Doherty
4 Happy Parenting / Colm O’Doherty
5 Supporting Parents – Evidence-informed and Evidence-based Policy and Practice / Stella Owens
Part Two: Discourse on Parenting and Emerging Family Issues
6 Parenting and Children’s Development in Ireland: Lessons from Psychology / Elizabeth Nixon
7 “You Don’t Understand!” – Navigating the Parenting Contours of Adolescence / Karen Leonard
8 “There’s an App for That!” – Parenting in a Digital Age / Tom Farrelly
9 Legal Gaps Impacting on Children of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Parents in Ireland / Sandra Irwin Gowran
10 Parenting Alone in Contemporary Ireland / Rosemary Crosse and Michelle Millar
11 Parents with Intellectual Disability / Anna Moore Asgharian
12 Grandchildcare: Grandparents and Childcare in Ireland / Michelle Share and Liz Kerrins
13 Fathers and Parenting / Colin Shaw, Maria Lohan and Noel Richardson
14 Working on Parenting / Edel Lawlor
15 Advancing Parenting – A New Perspective on Parenting Support / Jennifer Kavanagh
16 Parenting in a Multicultural Society: Migrants and Their Experiences of Parenting in Ireland / Gertrude Cotter and Olaniyi Kolawole
17 Foster Parenting / Declan Smith
Conclusion – A New Deal for Parents, A New Deal for Society/ Colm O’Doherty and Ashling Jackson
Index