Social distancing has been the central public health strategy for tackling the coronavirus pandemic worldwide. But the ‘Stay Home, Stay Safe’ order in the United Kingdom and the consequent closure of nurseries and schools also created an unprecedented degree of proximity within households. Based on interviews with mothers of young children in Scotland, this article provides early insight into the ways that mothers manage the forced intimacies of family life under lockdown and the opportunities they create through the innovative management of space and time. The result is a more expansive understanding of the family in contemporary Scotland and a notion of intimacy characterised as much by the necessity of distance and distinction as by proximity and mutuality.

中文翻译：

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“每个人都在我身边！”

保持社交距离一直是应对全球冠状病毒大流行的核心公共卫生战略。但英国的“待在家里，保持安全”的命令以及随之而来的托儿所和学校的关闭也创造了前所未有的家庭内部亲密度。根据对苏格兰幼儿母亲的采访，本文提供了对母亲在禁闭期间管理家庭生活中被迫亲密关系的方式的早期见解，以及她们通过创新的空间和时间管理创造的机会。结果是对当代苏格兰的家庭有了更广泛的理解，以及一种亲密的概念，其特点是距离和区别的必要性以及接近性和相互性的必要性。