Politicising parenthood in scandinavia is a timely contribution to ongoing policy debates on welfare state models parenthood and gender equality it will be of particular interest to students and teachers of welfare studies family policy and gender studieshow to respond to the needs of working parents has become a pressing social policy issue in contemporary western europe this book . Politicising parenthood in scandinavia gender relations in welfare states patricia kennedy university of wollongong pkennedyuoweduau research online is the open access institutional repository for the university of wollongong for further information contact the uow library research pubsuoweduau publication details kennedy p 2008 politicising parenthood in scandinavia gender . Politicising parenthood in scandinavia is a timely contribution to ongoing policy debates on welfare state models parenthood and gender equality it will be of particular interest to students and teachers of welfare studies family policy and gender studies. 2010 politicising parenthood in scandinavia gender relations in welfare states community work family vol 13 no 2 pp 251 252. This book highlights the politicising of parenthood in the scandinavian welfare states while focusing on the relationship between parents and the state and the ongoing renegotiations between the public and the private drawing on new empirical research leading scandinavian academics provide an up to date record and critical synthesis of nordic work family reforms since the 1990s a broad