TY - JOUR
T1 - Families, meals and synchronicity
T2 - eating together in British dual earner families
AU - Brannen, Julia
AU - O'Connell, Rebecca
AU - Mooney, Ann
N1 - Funding Information:
The study which is the focus of this article was funded as a collaborative grant between the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Food Standards Agency (FSA) in 2009 (RES-190-25-0010). On 1 October 2010, responsibility for nutrition policy transferred from the FSA to the Department of Health (DH). As a result, the research project also transferred to the DH. The authors would like to thank colleagues at HNR (Human Nutrition Research) and NatCen for their help in drawing a sample from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, their co-researchers (Abigail Knight, Charlie Owen and Antonia Simon) and of course the families who generously gave their valuable time to participate in the study.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Based on a sample of British dual earner families with young children drawn from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, the paper examines their food practices, in particular the conditions under which families are able to eat together or not during the working week. The concept of synchronicity is drawn upon to shed light on whether meals and meal times are coordinated in family life and the facilitators and constraints upon coordination. The paper suggests that whether families eat together is not only influenced by parents' work time schedules but also children's timetables relating to their age and bodily tempos, their childcare regimes, their extra-curricular activities and the problem of coordinating different food preferences and tastes.
AB - Based on a sample of British dual earner families with young children drawn from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, the paper examines their food practices, in particular the conditions under which families are able to eat together or not during the working week. The concept of synchronicity is drawn upon to shed light on whether meals and meal times are coordinated in family life and the facilitators and constraints upon coordination. The paper suggests that whether families eat together is not only influenced by parents' work time schedules but also children's timetables relating to their age and bodily tempos, their childcare regimes, their extra-curricular activities and the problem of coordinating different food preferences and tastes.
KW - children's schedules
KW - dual earner households
KW - meal patterns
KW - synchronicity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84891893444&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13668803.2013.776514
DO - 10.1080/13668803.2013.776514
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84891893444
SN - 1366-8803
VL - 16
SP - 417
EP - 434
JO - Community, Work and Family
JF - Community, Work and Family
IS - 4
ER -