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Doing family while poor: agentic hopelessness as lived knowledge Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Dana Kaplan,Gal Levy,Helly Buzhish-Sasson,Avigail Biton,Riki Kohan-Benlulu
What does ‘doing family while poor’ teach us about agency, resilience and care under COVID-19? Set against a dual backdrop of increasing economic hardships and expanding inequalities, and in light of a shifting perspective in poverty and family studies, we employ David Morgan’s family practices approach to study the lived realities of family life through the perspective of everyday relationships. Our
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Faithfulness without sexual exclusivity: gendered interpretations of faithfulness in rural south-western Uganda, and implications for HIV prevention programmes Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Dominic Bukenya,Billy N. Mayanja,Elizabeth A. Sully,Janet Seeley
This article explores gendered meanings of both faithfulness and sexual exclusivity within intimate long-term relationships, and the implications for HIV prevention messaging. In 2011–12, in-depth interviews were conducted with a random sample of 50 men and women (52 per cent women) in long-term relationships in rural Uganda. Confirming prior research, we found that a double standard exists for sexual
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Remembering David Morgan and his work: collaborations, inspirations and new applications Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Manik Gopinath,Lynn Jamieson,Tina Haux
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A death in the family: experiences of dying and death in which everyday family practices are embedded and enacted Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Kathryn Almack
‘Family’ is an important concept in end-of-life care policy and practice but familial relationships are rarely considered, beyond a bio-medical framework and/or as a resource for informal care. Furthermore, bereavement and grief have largely come to be seen as the domain for psychiatry and psychology. I argue for an exploration of death, dying and bereavement as experiences within which everyday family
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Readiness parenting: practices of care by parents of children with chronic kidney disease in Portugal Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Andréa Bruno de Sousa,Ana Rita Goes,Anette Wickström
Parents of a child with chronic kidney disease (CKD) must safely perform advanced care and treatment while at the same time allowing the child some freedom and maintaining everyday parenting and family tasks. Drawing on interviews with primary caregivers of children with CKD in Portugal, we examine the context of raising a child with CKD and how the parents practise their parenthood. The study takes
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Family sociology as a theoretical enterprise? A personal reflection Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Jane Ribbens McCarthy
David Morgan’s contributions to family sociology started from a direct engagement with theoretical perspectives, but his 1996 publication, Family Connections, took his family sociology in a new, somewhat ‘fuzzy’ direction. Two key motifs for his later work are the emphasis on ‘family’ as an adjective, and its fruitfulness when conjoined with the doing of ‘practices’. Yet his 1996 text also identified
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The relationship between social support and parent identity in community playgroups Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Cris Townley
Community playgroups are member-run parenting groups in Australia, aligned with early childhood services. Parents and carers meet weekly with their babies, toddlers and preschool children. Through interviews with mothers who attend community playgroups, I find that these playgroups are important sites of social support for parents. Social support is interwoven with parental and family identity, and
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(No) recourse to lunch: a frontline view of free school meals and immigration control during the COVID-19 pandemic Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Eve Dickson
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Intergenerational transmission of environmental household practices among South Korean families: continuity and change Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Itay Greenspan,Tally Katz-Gerro,Femida Handy,Sharon Park
We seek to understand how environmentalism is experienced, discussed and transmitted by South Korean families in the context of changing economic and environmental circumstances. Qualitative interviews with three-generation Korean families are used, in a country characterised in the past fifty years by rapid economic changes alongside continuation of traditional collectivistic social structures. We
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Being a transnational researcher and a mother amid the COVID-19 crisis Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Morena Tartari
The article focuses on the author’s experience as a transnational researcher during the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak (January‐April 2020), and discusses the possibilities and impossibilities of the COVID-19 pandemic for mothers who are transnational researchers.The sociological approach of institutional ethnography is utilised to analyse entries from the author’s diary, articles and videos
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Caring through a screen: caring for kin under lockdown Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Rachel Benchekroun
COVID-19 and UK-wide lockdown measures in spring 2020 confined people to their homes, with implications for exchanging care. In a small-scale qualitative study, I examined the impact on individuals’ everyday caring practices with adult kin beyond the home. In this article, drawing on empirical evidence from my study, I argue that lockdown restrictions on in-person interactions and the increased reliance
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Creating online participatory research spaces: insights from creative, digitally mediated research with children during the COVID-19 pandemic Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Helen Lomax,Kate Smith,Jo McEvoy,Eleanor Brickwood,Kathrine Jensen,Belinda Walsh
Our article draws on research undertaken with children during the 2020‐21 COVID-19 pandemic in order to consider the potential of digitally mediated participatory research for child-centred research practice. Our specific focus is on how children’s inclusion can be centred in the absence of opportunities to meet in person. We reflect on how we sought to support children’s engagement through offline
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Parents displaying family consumption in Ireland Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Elizabeth Kiely,Debbie Ging,Karl Kitching,Máire Leane
This article considers qualitative data collected from 78 parents in an Irish study on the commercialisation and sexualisation of children. It makes a distinctive contribution in showing that the framework of family display (Finch, 2007) can be productively applied to the entire field of family consumption. It shows that consumption narratives can be viewed as a tool that is used to display family
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Reordering family practices in an unequal and disorderly world: contemporary adoption and contact in the UK Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-21 Kate Wood,Brid Featherstone,Anna Gupta
Using findings from The Role of the Social Worker in Adoption – Ethics and Human Rights: An Enquiry, commissioned by the British Association of Social Workers, the following article presents a number of emerging themes regarding post-adoption contact and support in the UK. Three hundred individuals and 13 organisations across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland contributed to the enquiry
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Enduring commitment: older couples living apart Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-14 Manik Gopinath,Caroline Holland,Sheila Peace
As people live longer, there is an increasing possibility of couples becoming separated because one partner moves into a care home. Our qualitative mixed-method pilot study in an English town involved eight married couples aged over 65 years to explore experiences and practices of couplehood in these circumstances. This article focuses on the most striking emergent element of expressed couplehood in
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Shifting roles, changing relations: considerations when doing ethnographic research with multiple families Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Hamide Elif Üzümcü
When conducting ethnographic research, a family researcher becomes involved in the personal lives of the participants. This raises a number of concerns for the researcher when establishing relationships with family members. Drawing on qualitative data from research on children’s intra-familial privacy in Turkey, this article aims to increase awareness of several cultural aspects that may have an impact
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‘Never mind, we can’t help you’: young people’s experiences of the imprisonment of a sibling Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Kirsty Deacon
While there has been an increasing focus on familial imprisonment within academic literature, policy and practice, where this is in respect of children and young people this has tended to focus on their parents. This narrow view of family has seen the omission of sibling imprisonment experiences from these narratives. This article explores these experiences through in-depth interviews with seven young
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Family practices, deportability and administrative violence: an ethnographic study on asylum seekers’ family life in the Swedish migration context Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Jesper Andreasson,Marcus Herz
Utilising data gathered through ethnographic fieldwork this article investigates (a) how asylum seekers portray family life in relation to their decision to flee their country of origin, and (b) how asylum seekers’ ways of doing family life intersect with the Swedish migration context. Analytically, the article leans on sociologically informed theories of family practices and a conceptual discussion
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A school-based cross-sectional study to understand the public health measures needed to improve the emotional and mental wellbeing of young carers aged 12 to 14 years Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Richard A. Sharpe,Natalie Russell,Rebecca Andrews,Whitney Curry,Andrew James Williams
The emotional and mental wellbeing of young carers is known to be poorer than their peers. Data from a large cross-sectional school survey of 7,477 12 to 14 year olds (72 per cent response rate) living in Cornwall, South West of England, were analysed to assess whether existing school-based interventions support the wellbeing of young carers. Outcome measures were derived from the Short Warwick-Edinburgh
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Longing for interdependence, aspiring to independence: a qualitative study on parenting in Germany Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-03 Anna Sieben
This article presents interpretative analysis of 25 qualitative interviews with parents of preschool children in Germany, which focused on starting daycare and centred on topics of closeness and distance in the parent–child relationships. The article draws on sociological studies on intensive parenting, and cultural psychological theories of parenting. The analysis reveals that parents discuss starting
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A systematic review of family and social relationships: implications for sex trafficking recruitment and victimisation Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Lidia Puigvert,Elena Duque,Guiomar Merodio,Patricia Melgar
Sex trafficking is a current, severe and intense global phenomenon. Many studies have made substantial efforts to map the routes and relations between countries of origin, transit, destination, and the methods of recruitment and retention. With a focus on the role of social relationships, for this article, we conducted a literature review using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and
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How young, disadvantaged fathers are affected by socioeconomic and relational barriers: a UK-based qualitative study Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Louisa Donald,Rosemary Davidson,Suzanne Murphy,Alison Hadley,Shuby Puthussery,Gurch Randhawa
This article is based on the interviews of nine young, socially disadvantaged fathers from the UK. Young fathers are more likely to experience socioeconomic deprivation and disrupted pathways towards parenthood, which affect their participation in socially accepted trajectories of ‘father involvement’. Whilst this has received some attention in research, studies have largely neglected to examine the
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Representations of ‘progressive fatherhood’ in postcolonial Zimbabwe: binaries, ambivalences and ambiguities Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Sarah Jane Mitchell
The aim of this article is to explore how the Swedish ideal of ‘progressive fatherhood’ is represented in the context of a photo competition and exhibition organised by the Swedish Embassy in postcolonial Zimbabwe. Drawing on Rose’s (2016) method of visual discourse analysis (VDA), the article examines how Zimbabwean fathers are represented as being progressive through both image and text, and the
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Conscious coupling: loss of public promises of a life-long bond? An exploration of authenticity and autonomy in commitment processes across contemporary long-term relationship forms Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Sharon Blake,Astrid Janssens
Strong mutual commitment is typically conceived of as involving a public promise of a life-long bond, but social theorists have posited that external relationship anchors are being replaced with a private meaning of commitment. This narrative analysis of semi-structured interviews with ten White British couples in long-term relationships (15+ years) of different forms (married, civil partners, cohabitants)
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Persistence of the norm of filial obligation among Chilean adults Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-25 M. Beatriz Fernández,M. Soledad Herrera
Norms of filial obligation can predict how and whether children provide support to their ageing parents. Using a nationally representative sample, this study describes the degree to which Chilean adults adhere to these norms, and analyses which variables are associated with their degree of adherence to these norms. It found that adults are more likely to adhere to these norms when their parents require
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Motivations and reactions to social undervaluation of single people in married society: an Indonesian perspective Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-25 Karel Karsten Himawan,Matthew Bambling,Sisira Edirippulige
Being single and of marriageable age in a society where marriage is the norm invites perceptions of social undervaluation and vulnerability to social pressure to conform. The current study examines the reasons for more Indonesian adults remaining single, the perceived societal stigma related to this, and how they react to such undervaluing societal perceptions. Never-married Indonesian adults (N=350;
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‘It is important that my kids see us all spending time together and that we do spend time together’: Pacific mothers and fathers displaying post-separation family connections Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Moeata Keil,Vivienne Elizabeth
In this article, we draw on Finch’s (2007) concept of family display to examine how collectivist understandings of family intersect with gender to shape mothers’ and fathers’ post-separation displays of family life. Drawing on interviews with fifteen separated Pacific parents (ten mothers and five fathers), we explore how mothers and fathers navigate how, when, with and for whom they display family
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Better than average? Parental competence beliefs and socioeconomic background Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Katherin Barg,William Baker
This article investigates the extent to which parents believe they are better than average parents using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. The article builds on a long tradition of sociological research focusing on the interconnections between parenting, class, education and inequality. We find that mothers with low levels of education are more likely to say they are average or worse than average
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Two families, many stories and the value of autobiography Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Dame Janet Finch,David H.J. Morgan
This article is based on many enjoyable conversations with David Morgan over the years, on the topic of our own lived experiences of ‘family’. In order to consider them more systematically, we each wrote an autobiographical account of our experiences up to the age of eighteen, and began to compare them sociologically. When David died in June 2020 the project was by no means finished but he had left
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Neighbours, neighbouring and acquaintanceship: in dialogue with David Morgan Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Vanessa May,Helen Holmes,Sarah Marie Hall
In 2012, David Morgan gave a talk titled ‘Neighbours, neighbouring and acquaintanceship: some further thoughts’ at the University of Turku, Finland. In this article we engage in dialogue with Morgan’s talk, as well as his 2009 book Acquaintances, in particular the observations he made about the simultaneous closeness and distance that characterises neighbouring relationships. We suggest that using
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Involving fathers in family social services in Israel: in the shadow of a conflicted policy Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-23 Ayana Halpern,Nadav Perez-Vaisvidovsky,Reli Mizrahi
While it is widely accepted that social work interventions are more productive when they include fathers, fathers are largely left out of child and family social service interventions in Israel and most Western countries. Current research worldwide focuses on the role that fathers, mothers and social workers play in causing this phenomenon. In this article, we shed light on the importance of a fourth
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Family relatedness: a challenge for making decisions in child welfare Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Rosi Enroos,Tarja Pösö
This article examines children’s and parents’ positions as rights holders and family members in child welfare decision making as seen by social workers who prepare child removal decisions. The study is based on qualitative interviews with social workers, each of which includes the story of one child’s case. The interviews were conducted in Finland, where the consent or objection expressed by parents
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Positioning flexibly scheduled ECEC in the chain of childcare by parents working non-standard hours Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Kaisu Peltoperä,Tanja Vehkakoski,Leena Turja,Marja-Leena Laakso
This study examined how Finnish parents working non-standard hours (N=18) positioned institutional flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care (ECEC) as a link in their chain of childcare. Interview data, analysed following the principles of discursive psychology, yielded three discourses on flexibly scheduled ECEC: the discourse of the child’s best interest, the discourse of the labour market
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Workplace matters: negotiating a sense of entitlement towards taking time off for childcare among Korean fathers working in Sweden Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-07 Yeon-Jin Kim
A gender-equal leave policy for childcare does not necessarily engender a corresponding sense of entitlement in fathers to actually take leave, but few studies have focused on how fathers develop their sense of entitlement at work. This study explores how Korean fathers, accustomed to a work-centred life, changed their sense of entitlement towards childcare leave while working in a father-friendly
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Family structure and children’s cognitive development Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Kristen Schultz Lee,Julie E. Artis,Yaqi Yuan,Sibo Zhao
Previous research on family structure and child development has largely focused on the disadvantages faced by children who transitioned out of married families. However, we know less about how family structure affects child outcomes for children starting out in single-mother families. In this article, we use the kindergarten cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to analyse children’s academic
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Being a good digital parent: representations of parents, youth and the parent–youth relationship in expert advice Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Glenda Wall
Social concern about online behaviour and safety of children and youth has increased dramatically in the last decade and has resulted in an abundance of parenting advice on ways to manage and protect children online. The cultural context in which this is happening is one characterised by intensive parenting norms, heightened risk awareness, and growing concerns about the effects of ‘over-parenting’
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Relationality and linked lives during transitions to parenthood in Europe: an analysis of institutionally framed work-care divisions Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Daniela Grunow,Marie Evertsson
This article ties together key findings from a 12-year cross-national qualitative collaboration that involved researchers from nine European countries. Our comparative analysis draws on longitudinal heterosexual couple data, in which both partners were interviewed first, during pregnancy, and second, between six months and two-and-a-half years after childbirth. We tackle the relational ties that shape
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What does Rachel Carson have to do with family sociology and family policies? Ecological imaginaries, relational ontologies, and crossing social imaginaries Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Andrea Doucet
In the past decade, multiple compounding crises ‐ ecological, racial injustices, ‘care crises’ and multiple recent crises related to the COVID-19 pandemic ‐ have reinforced the powerful role of critical and social policy researchers to push back against ‘fake news’, ‘alternative facts’, and a post-truth era that denigrates science and evidence-based research. These new realities can pose challenges
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Decolonising research with black communities: developing equitable and ethical relationships between academic and community stakeholders Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Sadie Goddard-Durant,Jane Ann Sieunarine,Andrea Doucet
In this International Decade for People of African Descent,1 the spotlight in Canada and in other Western countries has turned to understanding and documenting the lived experiences of black communities. This interest by scholars is perhaps even greater over the last few months with the heightened attention around the world as the Black Lives Matter movements have highlighted anti-black racism in North
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Introduction to special issue: relationality in family and intimate practices Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Katherine Twamley,Andrea Doucet,Eva-Maria Schmidt
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Karen Barad’s posthumanist relational ontology: an intra-active approach to theorising and studying family practices Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Natasha S. Mauthner
Over the past two decades sociology, including the sociology of family and personal life, has seen a ‘relational turn’ with a growing body of work seeking to explain the ‘social’ by taking social relations as the primary object of sociological analyses. Relational sociologies theorise relations in social terms as either inter-actions or trans-actions. Inter-actions are relations that bring separate
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Researching parental leave during a pandemic: lessons from black feminist theory and relationality Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Patricia Hamilton
In this Open Space piece, my aim is to meditate on the current moment, to draw connections between relationality and black feminist theory and to harness the strategies and tools they might offer; a praxis for living and being in the world as well as changing it. In particular, I will use my project, an intersectional examination of parental leave in the UK, as a lens through which to discover what
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Guiding the young child: trajectories of parents’ educational work in Singapore Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Kristina Göransson
Singapore has established a reputation as a top performer in international student assessment tests and rankings, which is usually understood to be the result of a competitive education system and a distinct Asian parenting culture. Drawing on ethnographic data, the aim of the article is to explore the emotional and moral dimensions of Singaporean parents’ educational work, and how they cope with complex
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Paid parental leave and fathers’ involvement: capturing fathers’ gender beliefs and fathering perceptions Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Luisa A. Streckenbach,Laura Castiglioni,Pia S. Schober
This study examines how multidimensional gender and fathering beliefs of fathers may explain their relative involvement in childcare after considering paid leave uptake. We draw on cross-sectional survey data from one German state, which allow us to distinguish three belief dimensions: (1) gender traditionalism and essentialism, (2) fathering attitudes, and (3) fathering self-concepts and self-efficacy
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Romance, companionship and masculinities in establishing relationships by Mexican Mormon men Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-19 Ali Siles
The contradictory pressures that Mormon belief and practice create for men’s gender identity and sexuality give reason to reconsider the concept of ‘hegemonic masculinity’. Starting from Connell’s conceptualisation, this article analyses narratives by 25 Mexican Mormon men of establishing ‘romantic’ relationships. Participants were recruited through three different Mormon organisations in Mexico City
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From being ‘at risk’ to being ‘a risk’: journeys into parenthood among young women experiencing adversity Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Megan Blaxland,Jennifer Skattebol,Myra Hamilton,Georgia van Toorn,Catherine Thomson,kylie valentine
When young women who have grown up in contact with child protection become mothers, they shift from being regarded as a child ‘at risk’ by the child protection system, to posing ‘a risk’ to their baby. In contrast to their peers, young care leavers transition to adulthood with very few resources and little support; they typically continue to experience the economic and related adversities of their
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‘Er, not the best time’: methodological and ethical challenges of researching family life during a pandemic Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Charlotte Faircloth,Katherine Twamley,Humera Iqbal
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‘Er, not the best time’: methodological and ethical challenges of researching family life during a pandemic Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Charlotte Faircloth,Katherine Twamley,Humera Iqbal
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Remembering David Morgan: a personal reflection Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Tess Ridge
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Testing the social exclusivity of marriage thesis in the context of high familism: do social involvement and support vary by marital status in Israel? Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Shira Offer,Libby Bear
Studies have suggested that in individualistic societies, marriage constitutes an exclusive institution associated with reduced social involvement. This article tests this claim in a society that has experienced increased individualisation but has nevertheless remained highly familial. Analyses based on data from the Israel Social Survey show that married respondents were less involved with friends
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Collegial lives and everyday practices: in memory of David Morgan Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Bren Neale
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Displaying morally responsible motherhood: lone mothers accounting for work during non-standard hours Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Sanna Moilanen,Vanessa May,Eija Sevón,Minna Murtorinne-Lahtinen,Marja-Leena Laakso
This study examined how lone mothers rationalise their work during non-standard hours (e.g., evenings and weekends), which they perceive as problematic in terms of child wellbeing, and thereby as violating the culturally shared moral order of ‘good’ motherhood. The data comprise interviews with 16 Finnish lone mothers, analysed as accounts, with a special focus on their linguistic features. The mothers
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Participant pseudonyms in qualitative family research: a sociological and temporal note Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Rosalind Edwards
This article explores the pseudonyms that UK-based family sociologists have used to refer to and discuss participants in writing up their studies from the post-war to the present day. It takes a sociological and temporal perspective on the conventions for naming research participants in qualitative studies of family life. Drawing on major monographs reporting on studies of family lives across the period
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Reflections on my colleague, friend and collaborator-in-cake-eating David Morgan Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Jacqui Gabb
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Putting up (with) the paying guest: negotiating hospitality and the boundaries of the commercial home in private lodging arrangements Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Sue Heath,Rachael Scicluna
This article explores the guest‐host relationship in private lodging arrangements in the UK, a living arrangement that has increased dramatically in recent years in response to escalating housing costs. Utilising data from a UK study of diverse forms of shared housing, and situated within literature on critical hospitality, we first explore the spirit in which hospitality is offered by hosts and the
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Helicopter parenting and female university students’ anxiety: does parents’ gender matter? Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Hayley Love,Ming Cui,Jeffery W. Allen,Frank D. Fincham,Ross W. May
This study examined two potential mechanisms, competence and self-efficacy, that might account for the relationship between helicopter parenting and anxiety symptoms among female university students, and whether any mediating effects differed by parent gender. Structural equation modelling of data collected from 473 undergraduate students showed that both competence and self-efficacy mediated the association
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Family display, family type, or community? Limitations in the application of a concept Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Julie Walsh,Sally McNamee,Julie Seymour
In this paper we develop the concept of family display by responding to David Morgan’s suggestion that researchers should consider whether ‘family displays’ are used to convey a ‘type’ of Family. We do so by applying the concept to the accounts of migrant family children living in an English city, and those of adults that grew-up in Mennonite communities in Mexico and Canada. Analysis uniquely shows
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Tracing pathways of relatedness: how identity-release gamete donors negotiate biological (non-)parenthood Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Leah Gilman
This article draws on an interview study with UK ‘identity-release’ sperm and egg donors, exploring how, in the context of a new ethic of openness around donor conception, they articulate their role in relation to offspring. I show that participants neither dismissed, nor straightforwardly activated, the relational significance of the ‘biological’ substance they donated. Instead, they renegotiated
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Out-of-place: the lack of engagement with parent networks of caregiving fathers of young children Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Rachel Brooks,Paul Hodkinson
This article explores the daytime social interactions of fathers in heterosexual households who have assumed primary or equal responsibility for the care of their young children. It outlines how, for most such fathers in our sample, contact with other parents during their day-to-day care was minimal. Many initially rationalised their isolation as a personal preference rooted in their own ‘introverted’
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Disguised compliance or undisguised nonsense? A critical discourse analysis of compliance and resistance in social work practice Families, Relationships and Societies (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Jadwiga Leigh,Liz Beddoe,Emily Keddell
This article examines how the term ‘disguised compliance’ first emerged and developed into the popular catchphrase that is used in practice today. Using critical discourse analysis, we explore how language affects practice and how social workers draw on a predetermined concept to rationalise concerns relating to parental resistance. We contend that concepts such as disguised compliance are misleading