Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article explores fatherhood in the Faroe Islands based on empirical research consisting of interviews with Faroese men in their fifties who are married and have children. It addresses two primary questions: Firstly, how do my respondents describe their childhoods and relationships with their own fathers, and what are the transmissions, continuities, and discontinuities of fatherhood between their generation and their fathers’ generation? Secondly, how do my respondents describe themselves as fathers, and how involved were they when they had young children? My objective is to identify familial attitudes and behaviours that are repeated, transmitted, or modified between two generations of Faroese men who were fathers during two different social periods. The article contributes to discussions about family and gender in the Faroe Islands, and challenges prevailing stereotypes about “older” Faroese fathers. Úrtak Henda greinin kannar faðirskap í Føroyum við støði í empiriskari gransking av samrøðum við føroyskar menn í fimtiárunum, ið vóru giftir og áttu børn. Greinin viðger tveir spurningar: Í tí fyrra vórðu menninir bidnir um at lýsa síni egnu barnaár, viðurskiftini við pápan, hvat teir hava tikið við sær yvir í sín egna pápaleiklut og greiða frá framhaldi og sliti millum millum ættarliðini. Seinni spurningurin bað menninar at lýsa seg sjálvar sum pápar, og hvussu teir tóku lut, tá teir høvdu børn. Endamálið er at skjalfesta hugsanir um endurtiknar, arvaðar ella tillagaðar hugburðir um familjuna í tveimum ættarliðum í tveimum sosialum tíðarskeiðum. Greinin er íkast í orðaskiftið um familju og kyn (gender) í Føroyum og roynir at nýhugsa nakrar ráðandi stereotypar fatanir av føroyskum pápum av “tí gamla slagnum”.
DOI: 10.18602/d32xev24
Author: Runa Preeti Ísfeld
Institution: University of the Faroe Islands
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414087852