scholarly journals CAUCASIAN PARENTS’ EXPERIENCE WITH TRANSNATIONAL-TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4.1) ◽  
pp. 479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soyeon Park
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Transracial Adoption ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Cultural Socialization ◽  
The Family ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

<p>This qualitative research explored American Caucasian parents’ experience with transnational-transracial adoption. Guided by social constructivism and phenomenology, the goal of this study was to understand how parents perceive and interpret their experience when adopting a child transracially, specifically from China and Korea. Data from in-depth interviews with 17 parents revealed the essence of their experience as embedded in family relations distinctive at various stages of the adoption process. Prior to adoption, transracial adoptive parents possessed well-established ideas about the family and parenthood, which enhanced their commitment and sense of ownership throughout the adoption process. While meeting the child and developing a relationship, parents experienced a complicated mixture of emotions, including tension, anxiety, guilt, and grief. The results also offer further insight into the perspective of American Caucasian parents regarding the cultural socialization of their children. The lack of knowledge and resources regarding the adopted child’s birth culture influenced the parents, often resulting in feelings of helplessness.<strong></strong></p>

scholarly journals Homoseksuelle foreldre – (u)vanlige familier? Ungdom, unge og voksnes oppveksterfaringer fra familier med homoseksuelle foreldre

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorid Krane Hanssen
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Normal Families ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
The Family ◽  
Same Sex Parents ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Key Words Family

Familier er konstruerte på svært mange ulike måter. Denne ulikheten og dette mangfoldet kan utrykkes som a bewildering variety of alternative lifestyles (Cheal 1999), hvilket indikerer behovet for å stille spørsmål om “familien“ virkelig eksisterer. Denne artikkelen er en del av et større studie som innebefatter intervjuer med 25 personer i alderen 15 til 45 år. Felles for disse er at de alle har vokst opp med homoseksuelle foreldre. Fokuset i denne artikkelen er hvilken betydning begrepet “familie“ har for dem; hvordan de definerer familierela-sjoner og familiemedlemmer, hvordan de vurderer sine familier i forhold til hva samfunnet aksepterer/ikke-aksepterer, og hvilken betydning foreldreskapet har for dem. I artikkelens første del diskuteres familiebegrepet ut fra et perspektiv knyttet til forståelsen av mangfold og ulikhet, mens andre delen av artikkelen diskuterer informantenes refleksjoner hovedsakelig i lys av begrepene doing family og family relations. Hensikten med artikkelen er å gi et innblikk i hvilke erfaringer og refleksjoner ungdom, unge og voksne med homoseksuelle foreldre har gjort seg ved å vokse opp i disse tilsynelatende “uvanlige“ familiene. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Jorid Krane Hanssen: Homosexual Parents – (Un)normal Families? Some Experiences from Growing up in Families with Homosexual Parents Families are constructed in many different ways. The diversity can be expressed as a bewildering variety of alternative lifestyles (Cheal 1999), and indicates the need for a discussion whether “the family“ really exists. The analysis re-ported on in this article is part of a larger study, based on in-depth interviews with 25 persons – aged 15 to 45 – who have grown up with homosexual parents. The focus in this particular article is on how “family“ is experienced and conceptualized among the interviewees. The article discusses how the interviewees construct their images of family, family-life and parenthood, and also how they reflect upon whether their families are accepted as “real“ families in the society. The first part of the article discusses the concept of family from a perspective of diversity, while the second part concentrates on the interviewees’ reflections in relation to two main themes in the analysis; “doing family“ and “family relations“. The aim of the article is to provide some insight into the life of families with same-sex parents, from the perspective of those who actually have grown up in these families. Key words: Family, relations, homosexual parents, parenthood, diversity.

CRIMINOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF FAMILY RELATIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Aldona Kipāne
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Core ◽  
Criminological Research ◽  
The Family ◽  
Insight Into

The dynamic variability of the modern world determines not only the need to adapt but also the ability to preserve and maintain the values of separate culture. Over the centuries, family is considered to be one of the core values. Family interaction with the society is undeniable. The family is the foundation of any society and the future of the state. Today's new socio-economic situation has an impact on the emotional atmosphere, quality and relationships within the family. Criminological research in family relationships is a complex problem, its environment and circumstances are an important factor in the individual's socialization. The role of the family is equally important both in the process of proper behavioural shaping and in the production of directed behaviour. The article provides an insight into the content of the studies of family criminology.The aim of the article is to describe the criminological framework of family relations based on special literature, research and practice showing the framework of family criminology. Theoretical guidelines, special literature, views and opinions of Latvian and foreign specialists have been analysed in order to assess the criminological aspects of the phenomenon.The author concludes that the knowledge of family criminology is useful, effective, concrete and practically feasible for the criminological studies of the family institute. This approach has a multi-sectoral nature. 

Initial Medical Evaluation of an Adopted Child

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 642-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Medical Illness ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Special Needs Children ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Developmental Problems ◽  
Medical Evaluation ◽  
The Family

Providing health care for adopted children always has been a significant part of pediatric practice, and pediatricians have provided services in different areas of the adoption process for many years. Recent changes in adoption prompt a reevaluation of the pediatrician's role in managing the medical care of adopted children and their families. There has been a gradual shift from viewing adoption as a childless couple's opportunity to find an infant to focusing on the needs of the child first by placing children within families who can help them realize their fullest potential. Increasingly, adoption agencies work with older children and special needs children who have physical handicaps, emotional problems, or chronic medical illness. Private adoptions are often arranged outside of agencies, sometimes with open discussions between birth and adoptive parents. In addition, there are now more than 10 000 international adoptees entering this country each year. The pediatrician must be equipped to evaluate the special needs of all these children and to help their new families integrate them into the family unit. This statement addresses the initial medical evaluation of adoptive children who may have acute and long-term medical, psychological, and developmental problems because of their genetic, emotional, cultural, psychosocial, and/or medical backgrounds. Prior to adoption, or at the time of entry into the family, the pediatrician should begin a careful medical assessment of the child and should counsel the family appropriately regarding adoption issues. Pediatricians should be alert to the following potential problems:

scholarly journals A Phenomenological Study of the Art of Occupational Therapy

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Williams ◽  
Margo Paterson
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Therapeutic Relationships ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

If research evidence is to guide practice, the literature must reflect the art as well as the science of Occupational Therapy practice. The purpose of this research was to provide insight into the phenomenon of professional artistry and its meaning to Occupational Therapists. A phenomenological approach was used to collect data from three Occupational Therapists using in-depth interviews. Moustakas's method was employed to analyze the data. Interview data described practitioners' views of professional artistry of Occupational Therapy practice, how it developed, and how it was manifested in different roles. Analysis demonstrated that professional artistry formed the very heart of Occupational Therapy through a key role in the establishment of therapeutic relationships, which in turn imparted deep satisfaction to the Occupational Therapists' practice.

scholarly journals “Making families”: parenting and belonging in transnational adoption in Flanders

Afrika Focus ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrien De Graeve
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Transnational Adoption ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Private Realm ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Insight Into

The goal of this PhD project is to address major gaps in the present research by providing a theoretical and empirically-informed account of the narratives and performances of transnational adoptive parents. By exploring how adoptive parents both normalize and problematize the perceived differences of their children and families, and by examining what work is done and which imaginations are drawn upon in relation to that difference, it aims to gain insight into how racial, cultural and genetic diversity is metabolized within the so-called private realm of the family. Based within a feminist and constructivist anthropological epistemology, this thesis explores the identity work that parents conduct both for themselves, and on behalf of their children, and examines the citizenship potential of adoptive parents’ parenting work. 

The Diagnostic Value of the Bene-Anthony Family Relations Test

1996 ◽  
Vol 83 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1299-1303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Handré J. Brand
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Developmental Disorders ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Diagnostic Value ◽  
Evaluation Technique ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Treatment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Insight Into

The aim of this study was to assess whether interning psychologists, who used the Bene-Anthony as an evaluation technique in the psychotherapeutic treatment of their clients, were of the opinion that the test results deepened their insight into the nature of their clients' family dynamics. Subjects were 32 children, ages 4 to 16 years, who were referred for evaluation for the presence of emotional or specific developmental disorders. The interns were of the opinion the Bene-Anthony significantly contributed to their understanding of the family dynamics. Family relationships appeared to be more complex after the application of the test than they seemed before, and the test also clarified the negative nature of the family relationships. The Bene-Anthony may be effectively used for evaluation of family systems in which dysfunctionality occurs.

Remaking Families in Contemporary China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoying Qi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Floating Population ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
The Family ◽  
Migratory Movement ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Empirical Material

The book examines a number of emerging family-relations practices engaged in contemporary China. In doing so, it draws attention to new patterns of behavior and expectations related to transformation of the family since the advent of marketization. It also shows why exploration of family-related themes is important in understanding the nature of society, the forces that underpin social relationships more broadly, and the basis and nature of social change. It fills a gap in the literature by examining such heretofore unrecognized topics as the practices related to giving a child a surname. It also examines the previously unrecognized migratory movement of rural and small-town grandparents who join adult children who have relocated to urban areas for employment, providing childcare so that both of the child’s parents can earn an income—thus becoming part of the massive “floating” population that characterizes China’s workforce today. Three other aspects of family life that are underexplored in the literature are also examined—namely, spousal intimacy, divorce, and remarriage and cohabitation in later life. In all of these cases empirical material is refracted through new insights and theoretical developments. Research for this book is based on semistructured in-depth interviews with 178 men and women. The interviews were conducted between 2015 and 2017 in Beijing, Changshu, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Hefei, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong.

Interpretations of Justice: Conceptions of Family and Gender Justice at aNari Adalat(Women’s Court) in South India

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 755-773
Author(s):  
Sarah Potthoff
Keyword(s):  
South India ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Sociology Of Law ◽  
Legal Anthropology ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Family Conflicts ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Insight Into

This article is a socio-legal study situated at the intersection of legal anthropology, sociology of law, and gender studies. It addresses interpretations of family and gender justice by analyzing a family dispute brought before a women’s court in the rural northern part of Karnataka, a state in South India. The analysis is based on ethnographic material collected during a 7-month fieldwork stay. The trials presented provide insight into the potential and the limitations of the women’s court and into the structural conditions upon which success in this comparatively new legal arena depends. In doing so, the article identifies the power structures and obstacles within and beyond the family that restrict women in their quest for justice. The article presents the argument that the family itself plays an ambivalent role: It is a constraint, but can also support the woman’s attempt to increase family and gender justice in family conflicts. To understand this ambivalence properly, one must attend to what family and gender justice mean in any given context and how particular family relations shape this concept beyond a normative liberal reading.

Intergenerational Family Relations in Luxembourg

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Albert ◽  
Dieter Ferring ◽  
Tom Michels
Keyword(s):  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Generation Gap ◽  
Intergenerational Solidarity ◽  
Acculturation Gap ◽  
Family Obligations ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Model Family

According to the intergenerational solidarity model, family members who share similar values about family obligations should have a closer relationship and support each other more than families with a lower value consensus. The present study first describes similarities and differences between two family generations (mothers and daughters) with respect to their adherence to family values and, second, examines patterns of relations between intergenerational consensus on family values, affectual solidarity, and functional solidarity in a sample of 51 mother-daughter dyads comprising N = 102 participants from Luxembourgish and Portuguese immigrant families living in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Results showed a small generation gap in values of hierarchical gender roles, but an acculturation gap was found in Portuguese mother-daughter dyads regarding obligations toward the family. A higher mother-daughter value consensus was related to higher affectual solidarity of daughters toward their mothers but not vice versa. Whereas affection and value consensus both predicted support provided by daughters to their mothers, affection mediated the relationship between consensual solidarity and received maternal support. With regard to mothers, only affection predicted provided support for daughters, whereas mothers’ perception of received support from their daughters was predicted by value consensus and, in the case of Luxembourgish mothers, by affection toward daughters.

Young Adults’ Contextualization of Environmental and Sustainability Issues: A Critical Issue for Environmental Education Intervention

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony KOLA-OLUSANYA
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

As soon as decision makers are expected to make differences towards sustainable future, young adults’ ability to make informed and sound decisions is considered essential towards securing our planet. This study provides an insight into young adults’ knowledge of key environment and sustainability issues. To answer the key research questions, data were obtained using a qualitative phenomenographic research approach and collected through 18 face-to-face in-depth interviews with research participants. The findings of this study suggest that young adults lived experiences that play a huge role in their level of awareness of topical environmental and sustainability issues critical to humanity’s future on earth. 

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