As the everyday family lives of children and young people come to be increasingly defined as matters of public policy and concern, it is important to raise the question of how we can understand the contested terrain between 'normal' family troubles and troubled and troubling fam…
This title takes a fresh look at how 'troubles' feature in 'normal' families, and how the 'normal' features in troubled families. In addressing chapter draw on research on a wide range of substantive topics including infant care, sibling conflict, divorce, disability, illness, m…
This title takes a fresh look at how 'troubles' feature in 'normal' families, and how the 'normal' features in troubled families. In addressing chapter draw on research on a wide range of substantive topics including infant care, sibling conflict divorce, disability, illness, mi…
Based on repeat interviews from a range of generational perspectives, this book explores the nature of contemporary British Chinese households and childhoods, examining the extent to which parents identify themselves as being Chinese and how decisions to uphold or move away from…
Based on repeat interviews from a range of generational perspectives, this book explores the nature of contemporary British Chinese households and childhoods, examining the extent to which parents identify themselves as being Chinese and how decisions to uphold or move away from…
Based on interviews undertaken with British Chinese families, this book explores the nature of contemporary British Chinese households and childhood experiences. By speaking to parents and children of each family, using repeat interviews over a nine-month period, accounts of fam…
This volume integrates two recent strands of research regarding traumas experienced within families - family therapy and socio-legal studies. For each phase of the divorce-remarriage cycle, the author describes the stages of development and illustrates the effects on family memb…