Time: 12:30 – 14:00

Venue: Room G01, G/F, Hui Yeung Shing Building (HYS G01), CUHK

Speaker: Prof. Yinni PENG (Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University)

Moderator: Prof. Susanne Yuk-ping CHOI (Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Co-Director, Gender Research Centre, CUHK) 

Abstract:

My research examines gendered parenting and intergenerational collaboration in arranging childcare for two children in urban Chinese families after China ended its one-child policy. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 66 urban Chinese parents, I compare three types of families (singleton couples, nonsingleton cofuples, and mixed couples) to highlight how urban Chinese parents’ singleton status affects their intergenerational negotiation and collaboration in childcare. Moving beyond the grandparent–parent dyad, my study reveals that intergenerational collaboration in raising two children is a dynamic process shaped by multiple norms, constant negotiation, various coping strategies, and even family tensions between parents, grandparents, and adult siblings. By highlighting the differences of childcare arrangements for two children across generations, my findings demonstrate the constructed and contested process of childcare in multiple family relationships and shed light on new family norms of intergenerational obligations and extended family support in childcare.

Speaker’s Biography: Dr. Yinni Peng is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University. She works on gender and family, migration, and digital technology and media. She is the co-author of Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family, and Gender in China, the winner of the 2018 Best Book, RC 31 Sociology of Migration, International Sociological Association . Her research is published in Gender & Society, Sex Roles, Human Relations, The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Population, Space and Place, Journal of Family Issues, Current Sociology, British Journal of Sociology of Education and so on. She is an associate editor of Gender, Work and Organization.

Language: English

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