Getting to Adoption

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-46
Author(s):  
Abbie E. Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Fertility Drugs ◽  
Family Building ◽  
Family Membership

Chapter 1 explores the factors that influenced couples’ decision to pursue adoption, as well as their feelings, hopes, and fears surrounding adoption. Some couples—particularly heterosexual couples—recounted years of struggling to conceive, often with the help of painful, invasive, and expensive fertility drugs and treatments. Others described genetic or medical barriers to conceiving. This chapter also addresses the kinds of circumstances, beliefs, and experiences that fostered participants’ openness to adoption as a path to parenthood. For example, having family members who were adopted enabled a basic familiarity with adoption as a family-building route, making it less “foreign” than it was to some people—and served as evidence that biogenetic ties were not prerequisites for family membership and love.

St Gregory of Nyssa

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Anthony McGuckin
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Family Members ◽  
General Outline ◽  
Gregory Of Nyssa ◽  
Christian Leaders ◽  
Close Family

Chapter 1 gives Biographical background and studies the historical context(s) of Gregory of Nyssa and his close family members, situating them as aristocratic and long-established Christian leaders of the Cappadocian area. It offers along with the course of Gregory’s Vita a general outline of the main philosophical and religious controversies of his era, particularly his ecclesiastical involvement in the Neo-Nicene apologetical movement associated with the leadership of his brother Basil (of Caesarea), which he himself inherited in Cappadocia, with imperial approval, after 380. It concludes with a review of Gregory’s significance as author: in terms of his style as a writer, his work as an exegete, his body of spiritual teaching, and lastly, the manner in which his reputation waxed and waned from antiquity to the present.

The Construction of Reputation and the Case of Debussy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Wheeldon
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Family Members ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

This chapter considers some of the general mechanisms by which artistic figures are consecrated and weighs their relative contribution to the construction of Debussy’s reputation. Drawing on Gladys Engel Lang and Kurt Lang’s analysis of the survival of reputation in the fine arts, four areas emerge that would seem to be particularly relevant to Debussy: (1) the initiatives undertaken by the composer to establish his own legacy; (2) the posthumous reception of the corpus of works left behind; (3) the actions of heirs and family members on behalf of the deceased: and (4) the efforts of the composer’s close friends and collaborators. Yet, as Chapter 1 demonstrates, the first two were rendered less effective because of the particularities of Debussy’s case—namely, his protracted illness and his death during the First World War.

scholarly journals “It’s just what you do”: Australian middle-class heterosexual couples negotiating compulsory parenthood

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damien W Riggs ◽  
Clare Bartholomaeus
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Desire To Have Children ◽  
First Child ◽  
The Relationship

A distinction is often made between the “choice” of not having children and the claim that having children is “natural”. What disappears in this distinction is the fact that having children is most often a choice. This choice, however, is rendered invisible through the naturalisation of parenthood as a normatively expected aspect of adulthood. Whilst this argument is not new, the topic of how heterosexual couples come to decide to have children has received relatively little attention within the academic literature. This paper reports on findings from the first stage of a longitudinal interview study focused on Australian middle-class heterosexual couples planning for a first child. A thematic analysis of interviews conducted with 10 couples found that a paired contrast was often made between what were constructed as “childless others”, and a “natural” or “innate” desire to have children. The naturalisation of a desire to have children, however, was problematised when participants spoke about expectations from family members that participants should have children. The paper concludes by considering how the relationship between parenthood and adulthood may be a specifically class-based narrative.

Practising Thrift at Dinnertime: Mealtime Leftovers, Sacrifice and Family Membership

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 121-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedetta Cappellini ◽  
Elizabeth Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
The Family ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
Greater Good ◽  
Family Membership

Exploring our relationship with mealtime leftovers tells us a lot about not only our relationships with waste, but with one another, in the home. In our study of British mealtimes we explore how leftovers are transformed and reused as meals. We refer to theories of disposal in exploring the skills involved in transforming leftovers. We also explore the motivations behind these transformations. Drawing on the work of Miller (1998) we examine how the reuse of leftovers involves sacrifice by individual family members for the greater good of the whole family. We also find that reusing and eating up leftovers involves a collective sacrifice by family members which marks out their membership to the family unit.

scholarly journals Job Satisfaction, Turnover Intention and Work Performance in Chinese Family Enterprises

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-95
Author(s):  
Xiaobin Shu ◽  
Yeming (Yale) Gong ◽  
Jie Xiong ◽  
Xin Hu
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Family Enterprises ◽  
Managerial Positions ◽  
Main Effects ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Family Membership

Based on the analysis of survey data of 121 family enterprises in China, we find that the relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention is insignificant for family members, but significant for non-family members. Moreover, our findings also indicate that the effect of job satisfaction on work performance is less salient for family members, but more significant for non-family members. Our results further show that managerial positions moderates the main effects. This paper enriches the literature of family business by examining the importance of family membership and managerial position in the governance of family enterprises in an emerging country.

Becoming a Breckinridge

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-29
Author(s):  
Anya Jabour
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Family Members ◽  
University Of Kentucky ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Family Tradition ◽  
The Family ◽  
Future Work

Chapter 1 uses Breckinridge’s unpublished memoirs in conjunction with other sources to explore Breckinridge’s family and childhood in Lexington, Kentucky. Breckinridge grew up surrounded by family; she also understood that she was responsible for maintaining the family tradition of public service. Both Breckinridge’s family legacy and her relationships with other family members would have a profound impact on her future career. In addition, her youthful exposure to social inequality and her attendance at the coeducational University of Kentucky heightened her awareness of racism and sexism, helping to pave the way for her future work on behalf of women’s rights and civil rights.

What Do We Know About Gay and Lesbian Couples?

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 251-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence A. Kurdek
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Household Labor ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Limited Data ◽  
Lesbian Couples

Research on gay and lesbian couples is highlighted with regard to household labor, conflict, satisfaction, perceived social support, stability, and the variables that predict relationship quality. Relative to partners from married heterosexual couples, partners from gay and lesbian couples tend to assign household labor more fairly, resolve conflict more constructively, experience similar levels of satisfaction, and perceive less support from family members but more support from friends. The limited data available indicate that gay and lesbian couples may be less stable than married heterosexual couples. The factors that predict relationship quality tend to be the same for gay, lesbian, and heterosexual married couples. Overall, research paints a positive picture of gay and lesbian couples and indicates that they tend to be more similar to than different from heterosexual couples.

Sexual Minority Parent Families

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-148
Author(s):  
Abbie E. Goldberg ◽  
Reihonna L. Frost ◽  
Néstor Noyola
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Parenting Interventions ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Lesbian Couple ◽  
Family Building

Parents’ preparedness for parenthood and their parenting skills have important implications for child development and family functioning. Thus, there is great value in addressing parents’ parenting skills via prevention and intervention. Yet despite a modest literature on the use of empirically validated parenting interventions with heterosexual couples, even less work has examined the utility or validity of empirically validated parenting interventions for lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer (LGBQ) parents. This chapter provides an overview of select research on LGBQ family building, the transition to parenthood, and parenthood, followed by a discussion of evidence-based parenting interventions. It attends to ways in which the LGBQ parenting research can inform unique considerations or modifications to existing intervention approaches. It concludes with a case study that illustrates some of the challenges that a lesbian couple might face in building their family and navigating parenting issues.

“I Don’t Look Like Her”: Race, Resemblance, and Relationships in Multiracial Families

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-166
Author(s):  
Chandra D. L. Waring ◽  
Samit D. Bordoloi
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Childhood Memories ◽  
Multiracial Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Family Membership ◽  
Over Time

Race and resemblance are tied to family membership, and relationships characterize family dynamics. In this article, we argue that race, resemblance, and relationships intersect in distinct, layered ways in multiracial families. While scholarship has documented how multiracial families have historically been considered outside of the norm, little research has explored the impact of this racialized reality on family relationships. This article examines how phenotype shapes family interactions and, over time, the family relationships between a child and her or his mother, father, and sibling(s) through the voices of 60 black/white biracial adults. By reflecting on their earliest childhood memories to their most recent encounters, their narratives illuminate experiences shaped by their status in a multiracial—and historically unorthodox—family. We underscore how multiracial families are perceived by others based on racial resemblance (or lack thereof), how family members contend with these racialized perceptions, and how black/white biracial Americans perceive their own family relationships.

scholarly journals “My emotions on the backseat”. Heterosexually partnered men’s experiences of becoming fathers through surrogacy

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-49
Author(s):  
Christina Weis
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Unique Form ◽  
Level Of Involvement ◽  
Role Preference ◽  
Surrogacy Arrangement ◽  
Parenting Expectations ◽  
Family Building ◽  
Transition To Fatherhood

Surrogacy is a family building option for people unable to conceive or carry a pregnancy. In heterosexual couples seeking surrogacy, a woman who is not the intended father’s partner, facilitates this pregnancy. Whilst normative discourses reinforced by contemporary healthcare policies highlight the importance of involving fathers throughout pregnancy, little is known about heterosexually partnered men’s experiences of surrogacy. This qualitative study explores how surrogacy shapes men’s construction of their father identity and parenting expectations. Drawing on interviews with ten men (nine self-identifying as white and one as white-Asian; all employed in professional occupations) during or after their surrogacy arrangement, we explore their transition to fatherhood, interactions in the pregnancy, and relationship with the surrogate and their intimate partner. This is the first study explicitly focusing on heterosexually-partnered men’s experiences of surrogacy. The findings provide new insights into this unique form of family building, expanding understanding of men’s role preference and level of involvement in a triad surrogacy relationship.

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