Taking diversity seriously: Within‐group heterogeneity in African American extended family support networks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Joseph Taylor ◽  
Linda M. Chatters ◽  
Christina J. Cross
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Group Heterogeneity

scholarly journals Extended Family Support Networks of Caribbean Black Adults in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 522-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Joseph Taylor ◽  
Ivy Forsythe-Brown ◽  
Karen D. Lincoln ◽  
Linda M. Chatters
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
The United States ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Black Adults ◽  
Caribbean Black ◽  
National Probability Sample ◽  
Family Closeness

This article investigates the extended family social support networks of Caribbean Black adults (Afro-Caribbeans). Although there are several ethnographic accounts of familial ties and support exchanges among Black Caribbean immigrants, only a handful of studies use quantitative data. This article uses data from the National Survey of American Life, which contains the first national probability sample of Caribbean Blacks in the United States. Age, gender, income, material hardship, and immigration status were all associated with at least one of the four indicators of family support networks. Subjective family closeness and frequency of family contact were significantly associated with both giving and receiving informal support. A significant age and parental status interaction for receiving support indicated that older adults without children received assistance from their extended families less frequently than older adults with children. Overall, study findings affirm the importance of extended family networks for Caribbean Black adults.

scholarly journals Custodial Single Fathers before and during the COVID-19 Crisis: Work, Care, and Well-Being

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Aimzhan Iztayeva
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Single Fathers ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Work Family

As both paid and unpaid work were disrupted during the COVID-19 crisis, the two roles that working custodial single fathers occupy—breadwinners and caregivers—have intensified significantly. Using two independent sets of interviews, this study examines how custodial single fathers navigated work and caregiving responsibilities prior to COVID-19 and compares them to the experiences of single fathers interviewed during the pandemic. The findings are organized into three key themes. First, men with white-collar jobs experienced less work-family conflict than men with blue-collar jobs. The COVID-19 crisis further widened this divide as lack of flexibility put men with blue-collar jobs in a precarious position in the labor market. Second, the way single fathers arranged childcare varied with the availability of extended family and the coparenting relationship with the child(ren)’s mother. The pandemic significantly complicated these arrangements by removing men’s access to extended family and intensifying already conflicted coparenting relationships. Finally, prior to the pandemic, many single fathers struggled with lack of leisure time and diminished social support networks that shrunk with their initial break from their child(ren)’s mother. The resulting feelings of fatigue and loneliness seeped into men’s psychological well-being. COVID-19 and related social distancing measures further exacerbated single fathers’ isolation.

scholarly journals Participatory social network map making with family carers of people living with dementia

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 205979911984444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Campbell ◽  
Andrew Clark ◽  
John Keady ◽  
Agneta Kullberg ◽  
Kainde Manji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Mapping Method ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Family Carers ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Network Mapping

This article focuses on the use of a participatory social network mapping method with family carers. This is one of a suite of methods developed in a 5-year qualitative multi-centre project exploring how neighbourhoods support, enable or disable people with dementia and their families to live well in their communities. The article considers how mapping provides insights into family support networks, revealing the fluidity of support and care within relationships as well as providing opportunity for individuals to represent the complexities of their relationships with more and less significant others. However, the potential offered by the approach goes beyond those of visual representations of networks and contacts. Paying attention to the co-production process, as well as the reflexive dialogue that emerges in the exchange between researcher, participants, and the maps themselves, we consider how the maps emerge as affective artifacts, weighted with emotion.

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