“Aeroplanes always come back”: Fly-in fly-out employment: managing the parenting transitions
“Aeroplanes always come back”: Fly-in fly-out employment: managing the parenting transitions Report
- Author(s): Gallegos, D.
- Published: 2005
- Publisher: Centre for Social and Community Research, Murdoch University
Abstract: This project was initiated by Ngala whose staff had identified the potential early parenting challenges for fly-in fly-out families. In 2005, Lotterywest made funds available to Ngala to partner with Meerilinga to undertake research aimed at examining the strategies used by Western Australian families with young children for dealing with the transitions in the family as a consequence of choosing a fly-in fly-out lifestyle. Using the research expertise of the Centre for Social and Community Research, the research focused on the regular transitions from parenting together to parenting apart including issues such as: • work and family roles; • identity issues for families; • child development and attachment issues; • decision making and communication around parenting; • emotional responses of family members to transitions.
- Urls: http:/researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/10916/1/aeroplanes.pdf Full Report, https://web.archive.org/web/20150309162014/http://www.meerilinga.org.au/library/file/research/fifo_executive_summary.pdf Summary
- Publisher Location: Perth
- Keywords: FIFO