Lina Šumskaitė

Associate Professor at Vilnius University at the Sociology and Social Work Institute, Social Policy Department. Her doctoral thesis (2014) focused on men fathering practices. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on family, social policy, gender studies and qualitative research in Social Policy and Social Work programs. Her research is on men’s and women’s procreational intentions, experiences of not having children, and qualitative research on mothering and fathering issues.

Lina has published the following article:

  • Childless Women’s Relationships with Children of Others: Narratives from Two Generations in Lithuania