ABSTRACT

Based on empirical research with parents who carry their children in slings, I propose what I hope will be a new and more progressive way of understanding of parental care relationships, where ideas of dependence/independence are replaced by those of interdependence. Through engagement with feminist literatures which stress relationality between humans and non-humans, I suggest that it may be helpful to broaden our understanding of parental care from an exclusive focus on the mother–child relationship in order to recognise a wider range of actors as participating in this process – including children themselves and the more than human world. Crucially, I also consider the potential for care to flow in multiple directions within these relationships.

摘要

基于对用吊带抱孩子的父母的实证研究，我提出了一种我希望能够理解父母照顾关系的新的、更进步的方式，其中依赖/独立的概念被相互依赖的概念所取代。通过与强调人类与非人类之间关系的女权主义文献的接触，我认为这可能有助于扩大我们对父母关怀的理解，从只关注母子关系，以识别更广泛的参与者参与在这个过程中——包括孩子自己和超越人类的世界。至关重要的是，我还考虑了护理在这些关系中向多个方向流动的潜力。