The article deals with the economic activities of modern families. The author finds out that the amount of domestic work is not decreasing with the modernisation and technological development. There is only a displacement of emphasis of this work with raising hygienic, psychological, pedagogical and other standards. People devote to family labour twice as much time as to paid work or studies, which affects all other family relations, including parental. This leads to the question, whether 'new' fatherhood is possible at all. The social-historical evidence show active fatherhood as a many times failed project. Today, as in the past, the main obstacle to the active fathering seems to be practices of liberal capitalism and patriarchal ideologies. Possibilities of new fatherhood crucially depend on effectiveness of efforts for sustainment and development of welfare state.
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