scholarly journals Family display, family type, or community? Limitations in the application of a concept

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-360
Author(s):  
Julie Walsh ◽  
Sally McNamee ◽  
Julie Seymour
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Family Types ◽  
Migrant Family ◽  
Do So

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 that migrant family children do display a type of ‘Family’, and that this is influenced by familial constructs privileged by intended audiences. We contribute further by arguing that whilst some families do display core values attached to Family ‘types’, this is not the case in the example of the Mennonite community and researchers should be cognisant of applying this concept to all contexts. This is because the priority for display may not be the presentation of legitimate Family, but other features of collective identity.

Family Type Predicts Mental Health Problems in Young Adults: A Survey of Students at a University in Botswana

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kennedy Amone-P'Olak ◽  
Boniface Kealeboga Ramotuana
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Single Mother ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Intact Family ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Family Types

In Africa, the structure of the family is changing rapidly. The effects of this change on mental health remain unknown. This study investigated the extent to which different family types (intact, single-mother, and multiple) predict mental health problems in young adults in Botswana (N = 264, mean age = 21.31, SD = 2.40). In a cross-sectional design, the study sampled students registered at various faculties at the University of Botswana. The revised symptoms checklist (SCL-90-R) was used to assess symptoms of mental health problems (depression, anxiety and hostility). Binary logistic regression analyses were performed to obtain odds ratios (ORs) and 95 per cent confidence intervals (CIs) of mental health problems for mother-only and multiple family types relative to the intact family type. Compared to the intact family type, single-mother (OR = 2.34; 95% CI: 1.21, 4.51) and multiple family types (OR = 1.56; CI: 0.88, 2.78) were associated with an increased risk of depression. For anxiety, the ORs were 2.27 (CI: 1.18, 4.38) and 1.10 (CI: 0.56, 1.82) for single-mother and multiple family types respectively. For hostility, the ORs were 2.60 (CI: 1.34, 5.04), and 0.79 (CI: 0.44, 1.42) for single-mother and multiple family types, respectively. Family types predict mental health problems in young adults and therefore the interventions to mitigate the effects should consider family backgrounds and the ramifications of family types for treatment and care.

scholarly journals Family type and parents’ time with children: Longitudinal evidence for Denmark

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-380
Author(s):  
Peter Fallesen ◽  
Michael Gähler
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Intact Family ◽  
Parental Time ◽  
Individual Traits ◽  
Family Types ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
Parental Family

Parental time with children is important for children’s developmental outcomes. Family type may affect the amount of time parents can and will invest in children. Using time-use panel data obtained from two waves of the Danish Time Use Survey, linked with administrative records, the study shows that parental family type had a substantial impact on the time parents spent with children. When controlling for constant unobserved individual traits, likely to affect both time-use and family type, differences in time-use increase, indicating positive selection into non-intact family types. Single parents and parents in reconstituted families spent less time on developmental activities, such as talking, reading and playing with the child, whereas parents living in reconstituted families also spent less time on non-developmental activities, such as transporting the child or performing basic childcare. Based on our findings, there are indications that cross-sectional results showing little difference in parents’ involvement in children across family types partly emanate from differential selection in family types.

scholarly journals John Muir

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen M. MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Core Values ◽  
First Century ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
City Parks ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Nature Preservation ◽  
Do So

A century after John Muir’s death, Glen MacDonald examines his legacy and argues that while Muir’s message of the value of wilderness to society might need to evolve for a twenty-first century audience, it is still relevant. For instance, Muir believed in the transformative power of visiting remote wildernesses such as Yosemite and urged everyone to do so, and his conception of nature preservation as preserving nature in a specific moment in time is now understood to be misguided. His specific prescriptions for relating to the natural world now seem old-fashioned, but his core values and his passion for getting Californians out in nature is just as important today, whether those natural places are national parks or city parks.

Duration in Parental Structures and High School Graduation

1993 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger A. Wojtkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
National Survey ◽  
High School Graduation ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Family Types ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
School Graduation ◽  
Nonintact Families

This article extends research on the effects of living in nonintact family types during childhood and adolescence on high school graduation. Data from the National Survey of Families and Households show that not only do years spent in mother-only families have a negative effect on high school graduation but so do years spent in mother-stepfather and father-stepmother families. In addition, living only with grandparents or other relatives has a negative effect as does living on own. These effects are additive so that the more years spent in nonintact families, the lower the chances of graduating high school. The research also shows that the effects of years spent in nonintact families do not vary much by family type at birth, age at experience, gender, or year of birth. However, years in mother-stepfather families were negative for whites but not for blacks.

Family structure and children’s unmet health-care needs

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Irvin ◽  
Farhan Fahim ◽  
Saeed Alshehri ◽  
Panagiota Kitsantas
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Single Mother ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
Family Types ◽  
Unmet Health Care Needs ◽  
Single Mother Family

This study assessed children’s unmet health-care needs within different family types (two-parent biological/adoptive, two-parent stepfamily, and single-mother family type) using data from the 2011/2012 National Survey of Children’s Health. Findings indicate that 10.4% of children in single-mother family types had unmet health-care needs compared to 8.7% of children from a two-parent stepfamily and 5.3% for those from two-parent biological/adoptive families. Further analyses revealed racial/ethnic disparities with Black children from two parent-biological/adoptive families being 1.54 (95% confidence interval 1.13, 2.05) times more likely to have unmet health-care needs, while Hispanic children were less likely to have unmet health-care needs relative to their white counterparts. Children from lower income two-parent families had a higher likelihood of unmet health-care needs. The noncontinuous insurance coverage was a risk factor for increasing unmet health-care needs across all three different family types. These findings show major differences in unmet health-care needs among children living in different family structure types. It is recommended that interventions for increasing access to care need to be tailored differently across various family types in order to achieve continuous and sufficient health-care services for our children.

Rashi’s Choice

2013 ◽  
pp. 233-248
Author(s):  
Ivan G. Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Northern European ◽  
Biblical Commentaries ◽  
European Jewish

This chapter focuses on the master exegete Rashi of Troyes. Although many have written supercommentaries, essays, and even books about Rashi as a biblical or talmudic exegete, until recently few have looked at him as an original medieval Jewish thinker, let alone as a historical source reflective of northern European Jewish mentalité. And yet, no medieval Jew shaped the collective identity of Ashkenazi and even Sephardi Jewry more than this remarkable figure, whose genealogy is obscure but who is often compared and contrasted to his Sephardi analogue, Maimonides, whose genealogy was long and distinguished. Could Rashi have been so widely accepted as 'the' interpreter of biblical-talmudic Judaism for all times had he himself not been a person of his own time as well as a refashioner of it? Rashi proposed Jewish core values to his readers, especially in his Pentateuch (Humash) commentary. He did not write a treatise but wrote biblical commentaries in the form of a selective editing of rabbinic lore. Even when he did not interpret narrative biblical irregularities, he wrote what can be called ‘rewritten Midrash’.

Selection Versus Structure

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 1448-1470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trees De Bruycker
Keyword(s):  
Panel Study ◽  
Network Size ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Geographical Proximity ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Family Network ◽  
New Family ◽  
Frequency Of Contact ◽  
Contact Frequency ◽  
Family Types

This article focuses on one aspect of family networks, namely, the frequency of contact with close kin for adults living in different traditional and new family types. Two mechanisms are hypothesized to account for the differences. The first focuses on structural factors such as the number and type of persons in the primary family network, availability of a second family network, and geographical proximity. The second is selection: Individuals with more postmodern (family) attitudes and relatively strong orientation to friends rather than to family may be selected into certain family types. Data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study ( N = 8,155) give little support for the selection hypothesis in explaining the differences in contact frequency found by family type. The structural hypothesis, however, yields significant results, with network size and geographical proximity being of key importance.

scholarly journals The politics and practices of intersectional prefiguration in social movements: The case of Sisters Uncut

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 985-1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armine Ishkanian ◽  
Anita Peña Saavedra
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Transformative Politics ◽  
Do So

Considering contemporary movements as sites of struggle between attempts at inclusiveness and enduring tendencies to exclude and reproduce power hierarchies, this article examines how movement actors confront and tackle inequalities within their organisational spaces. Drawing on an in-depth study, which relied on Participatory Action Research methods, of the intersectional feminist anti-austerity group Sisters Uncut, the article analyses how actors collectively define and translate intersectionality into practice and the challenges they face in enacting this form of politics, which the authors call intersectional prefiguration. The authors consider intersectional prefiguration as a form of radical democratic politics which acknowledges relations of domination and seeks to transform them within both movements and society. The article discusses how enacting intersectional prefiguration is predicated on actors developing a collective identity, embracing a commitment to organise intersectionally, and adopting specific methodologies through which to do so. The findings have relevance to scholars of social movements and intersectionality and can help advance our understandings of the ways in which movements, prefigurative and otherwise, drive social change and transformative politics and the challenges they face in this process.

scholarly journals Migrant Family Display: A Strategy for Achieving Recognition and Validation in the Host Country

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Family Studies ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
Migrant Family ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Do So

This article draws on the narratives of 10 migrant families living in a predominantly White British northern UK city, Hull, and brings together the typically distinct fields of the sociology of family, transnational family studies and migration studies. By uniquely applying the lens of family display to migrant family accounts, this article offers a timely new way to understand the strategies migrant families employ when negotiating recognition and validation in an increasingly globalised world. Existing applications of family display focus on what might be referred to as unconventional families: same-sex couples, dual-heritage families, single-parent households, and families living in commercial homes. Furthermore, previous migration studies consider the strategies employed by migrant individuals, sometimes within a family, but do not do so through the lens of family display. The concept has not, then, been applied to migrant families and their everyday lives, and with a specific focus on understanding the influence of audience in family display. This article, therefore, contributes to migration and transnational family studies by providing a new way of understanding migrant family lives, and also advancing the concept of family display in three clear ways: by showing that migrant families do display family to audiences beyond the family–including the State–so as to present as a ‘legitimate’ family; by expanding understanding of how family display is enacted; and by arguing that broader narratives influence those related to ‘family’ and impact on how and why migrant families engage in family displays.

Grandparent Affection and Emotional Well-being of Adolescents with Different Family Types

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2199318
Author(s):  
Pilar Ramos ◽  
Carmen Moreno ◽  
Sara Luna ◽  
Francisco Rivera
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Family Type ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Joint Custody ◽  
Biological Parent ◽  
Family Types ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Reference Figure

Despite the increasing importance of grandparents in raising their grandchildren, few studies analyze the impact that these intergenerational relationships have on the grandchildren, especially during adolescence. With a sample of 3432 adolescents between 11 years and 16 years old, we analyze to what degree grandparent affection explains adolescent emotional well-being. The results reveal interesting findings according to family type: traditional two-parent families, families with joint custody, or families with only one biological parent (specifying between father or mother). Lastly, we analyze and discuss the implications of the relevant results related to the grandparents’ sex, lineage, and state of health, the adolescent’s age, as well as finding a higher impact of grandparent affection has on adolescents from families with only the father as a reference figure. This study advocates for reinforcing the role of the grandparents during adolescence, becoming especially relevant for boys and girls living in father-only families.

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