Increasing numbers of households are impacted by disasters due to population growth, increasing development in higher risk areas, and climate change. While emergency management in Australia aims to reduce quantifiable losses, lived disaster and recovery experiences are relatively mute, with implications for mitigation and post-disaster support. This paper draws on findings from a research project that set out to examine the role of insurance in household recovery after the 2013 Blue Mountains bushfires in New South Wales. Among the 19 interview participants, prioritisation of the needs of children was found to hinder personal recovery. Drawing on this key finding, this paper focuses on parents' emotion work and emotions surrounding home. Innate desires to provide good care monopolised parents' emotions and emotional outlets, as they worked to conceal threats and (re)establish a sense of normalcy. Emotion work drained parents, as did threats to, and the loss of, “home” created through “dwelling.” When homes burnt, so too did memories of children embodied in that home – memories that had permeated the material space. This sense of loss intensified when informing children about losses – an act that breached parents' protective instincts and necessitated additional emotional care. Emotions escalated as capacities for care were challenged or eroded in the absence of home contents that normally would have anchored daily routines and provided stability. Replacing such items dominated parents' recovery efforts – efforts encumbered by competing recovery demands, yet facilitated to some degree by insurance safety-nets. These emotions impacted parents' mental and physical wellbeing in the four years that separated the bushfires and the interviews. While there is considerable literature outlining parents' role in lessening disaster impacts on children, few studies examine parents' capacity to do so. In addressing this gap, this paper highlights avenues to improve psychosocial aspects of disaster recovery.

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困境、决策和灾难：森林火灾恢复中的育儿、安全和重建情绪

由于人口增长、高风险地区不断发展以及气候变化，越来越多的家庭受到灾害的影响。虽然澳大利亚的应急管理旨在减少可量化的损失，但实际的灾难和恢复经验相对较少，对缓解和灾后支持产生影响。本文借鉴了一项研究项目的结果，该项目旨在研究保险在 2013 年新南威尔士州蓝山丛林大火后家庭恢复中的作用。在 19 名受访者中，发现优先考虑儿童的需求会阻碍个人康复。借鉴这一关键发现，本文重点关注父母的情绪工作和围绕家庭的情绪。提供良好照顾的先天愿望垄断了父母的情绪和情绪发泄口，因为他们努力隐藏威胁并（重新）建立正常感。情绪工作使父母筋疲力尽，通过“住所”创造的“家”的威胁和失去也是如此。当房屋着火时，那个家中所体现的儿童的记忆也随之燃烧——这些记忆已经渗透到物质空间。当告知孩子损失时，这种失落感会加剧——这种行为违反了父母的保护本能，需要额外的情感关怀。由于缺乏通常会锚定日常生活并提供稳定性的家庭内容，护理能力受到挑战或侵蚀，情绪会升级。更换这些物品主导了父母的恢复工作——这些努力受到相互竞争的恢复需求的阻碍，但在某种程度上得到了保险安全网的推动。这些情绪影响了父母 在将丛林大火和采访分开的四年中，身心健康。虽然有大量文献概述了父母在减轻灾害对儿童的影响方面的作用，但很少有研究考察父母这样做的能力。为了解决这一差距，本文重点介绍了改善灾难恢复的社会心理方面的途径。