scholarly journals Creating a family through surrogacy: Negotiating parental positions, familial boundaries and kinship practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2-2019) ◽  
pp. 56-70
Author(s):  
Julia Teschlade ◽  
Almut Peukert
Keyword(s):  
Family Formation ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Wish For A Child ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
The Family ◽  
Absent Mother ◽  
Gestational Surrogacy ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

This article focuses on male same-sex couples who fulfil their wish for a child through gestational surrogacy. As two-father families they must engage with society’s expectation that every child has both a mother and a father. Thus, the position of the mother must be filled, or at least accounted for. The empirical data derive from interviews with male samesex couples from Germany. Following the grounded theory approach, we analyse the couples’ ‘doing (being) family’ from two perspectives. First, we discuss how family roles are negotiated within the family formation process. The fathers employ different strategies to address the issue of the ‘absent mother’. Second, we examine how the couples draw boundaries in family formation processes to ensure that they are seen as the child’s only parents. We argue that social discourses lack broader definitions of (family) relations beyond the gendered categorizations of father and mother.

Krankenkarriere und Existenzbelastung

1976 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Uta Gerhardt
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Financial Cost ◽  
Financial Status ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
Impact On Family ◽  
Reversible Time ◽  
Analytical Category ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

AbstractA sociological notion of illness is introduced which focuses on extra-medical aspects of the illness processes. As a central analytical category of the sociological notion of illness, the stress upon the individual’s social- financial status has three aspects, namely financial cost, loss or change of job, and impact on family relations. Illness forms a multidimensional career structuring a process of vague and reversible time perspectives. An exploratory study of patient careers (University of California,San Francisco Medical Centre) is described with two aims: first, to clarify the theoretical notions, and, second, to develop a method of dynamic data analysis which owes much to the „Grounded-Theory“ approach.

Family Formation and Parenthood

2020 ◽  
pp. 220-254
Author(s):  
Claire Fenton-Glynn
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
New Methods ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Reproductive Techniques ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the interpretation of ‘family life’ under Article 8 and the way that this has evolved throughout the Court’s history. It contrasts the approach of the Court to ‘family life’ between children and mothers, with ‘family life’ between fathers and children, noting the focus of the Court on function over form. It then turns to the establishment of parenthood, both in terms of maternity and paternity, as well as the right of the child to establish information concerning their origins. Finally, the chapter examines the changing face of the family, considering new family forms, including same-sex couples and transgender parents, as well as new methods of reproduction, such as artificial reproductive techniques and surrogacy.

Perception of family sense of coherence during parental transition: A qualitative study

2020 ◽  
pp. 135910532091406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Wan Ngai ◽  
Pui Sze Chan
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Perinatal Period ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Social Support Network ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Family ◽  
Confucian Philosophy ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

This study described the perspectives and interplay of factors affecting the family sense of coherence of Chinese couples during the perinatal period. We adopted a grounded theory approach and conducted semi-structured interviews with 36 Chinese couples during pregnancy and at 2–3 months postpartum. Four major themes emerged involving meaningfulness, comprehensibility, and manageability of new parenthood and factors affecting the family sense of coherence. The strong sense of family unity and harmony embedded in the Confucian philosophy and the collective coping, in particular the strong social support network, seemed to contribute to couple’s experience of new parenthood as meaningful, comprehensible, and manageable.

The Origins and Development of Socioemotional Wealth Within Next-Generation Family Members: An Interpretive Grounded Theory Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Murphy ◽  
Jolien Huybrechts ◽  
Frank Lambrechts
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Socioemotional Wealth ◽  
Life Paths ◽  
The Family ◽  
Generation Family ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Adopting an interpretive grounded theory approach, we find that key events in the early lives of next-generation family members fuel a sense of belonging and identity, which lies at the heart of their socioemotional wealth. As next-generation family members interact more with the family business, they interpret nonfinancial aspects of the firm as an answer to a larger variety of affective needs, which broadens and strengthens their interactive socioemotional wealth frame of mind. In line with our life course theory lens, we observe how key events that build up socioemotional wealth greatly influence the life paths of next-generation family members.

scholarly journals Support for Adjusting the Intentions of Family Members and Users Regarding Care Service Use: Aimed at Care Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 852-852
Author(s):  
Kazutaka Masuda
Keyword(s):  
Care Management ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Negative Feedback Loops ◽  
Care Managers ◽  
The Family ◽  
Home Nursing Care ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

Abstract In Japan, there are key healthcare professionals for home nursing care for elderly people called Care Managers. The care manager coordinates the service while adjusting the family situation and the user’s intentions. The purpose of this study was to examine the practical structure of support for adjusting the intentions of family members and users regarding care service use. Data from seven cases, where family members and users have different intentions regarding care service use, were analyzed using the grounded theory approach. The phenomenon of “confirmation of discrepancies” was discovered with six sub-categories: adjusting the intentions of users and their families, effort to restore relationships, expression of intention to refuse involvement, expression of desire for adjustment, arrangement of opportunities for adjustment of intentions, and appropriate service adjustment. Four patterns occurred in the process of “confirmation of discrepancies”: smooth adjustment, restoration and promotion of mutual relationships, failure to reach an agreement, and negative feedback loops. These patterns were based on a combination of the care managers’ degree of understanding strength, the managers’ degree of insistence, the managers’ degree of representation of mutual feelings, the degree of managers’ prediction of life prospects, the degree of trust in care managers, and the degree of expression of family anxiety.

scholarly journals “Does Everybody Want the Hollywood Fairytale?” Same-Sex Couples Hinting at the Second Demographic Transition in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. e202109
Author(s):  
Luísa Cardoso Guedes de Souza ◽  
Paula Miranda-Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Transition ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Second Demographic Transition ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Gay Couples ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
The Family ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Parenting Intentions

This article examines same-sex couples as a sign of the Second Demographic Transition, investigating how gay and lesbian couples living together in Brasília build their family, whether they intend to have children, and what challenges they face. We conducted semi-structured interviews online to investigate the family formation process and parenting intentions of 42 couples living together in Brasília in 2019, 20 lesbian and 22 gay couples. The organizing themes in the interviews were marriage, children, work, and stigma. This study advances existing scholarship on families by articulating points of connection between the legal institution of same-sex marriage in Brazil, changing social norms regarding family life, and parental gender expectations as signs of the Second Demographic Transition. Studying same-sex couples contribute to a more complex understanding of the family, the gendered division of labor, and the dimension of fertility and parenting intentions.

Language regrets: mixed-ethnic children’s lost opportunity for minority language acquisition in Japan

Multilingua ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-237
Author(s):  
Janice Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
The Social ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach ◽  
Lost Opportunity

AbstractMixed-ethnic children in Japan do not usually acquire the language of their non-Japanese parent. This study looks at their lost opportunity to acquire their minority parent’s language through a retrospective investigation of their language experiences from childhood to young adulthood. Transcripts of interviews with ten mixed-ethnic children (ages 18 to 23) were analyzed based on the constructive grounded theory approach (Charmaz 2014Constructing grounded theory, 2nd edn. London: Sage). Analysis of codes which emerged from the interviews revealed that family relations, parents’ reluctance to speak the minority language and the prioritization of English were some of the factors perceived by the mixed-ethnic children to have contributed to the non-transmission of the minority language. Many of the children described their lost opportunity to acquire the minority language as regretful. Questions posed by Japanese people about their identity and language reminded some participants of their mixed-ethnicity and inability to speak the minority language. These findings suggest that the non-transmission of the minority language has long-term implications on the social and emotional well-being of mixed-ethnic children in Japan.

Images of relationships and emotions: A theoretically informed grounded theory approach to storybooks with youth characters with intellectual disability

2021 ◽  
pp. 174462952098778
Author(s):  
Monica Reichenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
The Family ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

This study aims to understand how Swedish storybooks targeting youth portray, the relationships (social capital) and emotions of characters with intellectual disability. A collection of 37 storybooks were analysed using grounded theory. The results suggest that romantic relationships dominate in the storybooks. In the portrayal of romantic relationships, sexuality had a prominent role for the characters with intellectual disability. Work relationships were portrayed as fulfilling and joyful, and family relationships as plentiful and secure. The characters with intellectual disability felt secure at home, almost as a safe haven. Romantic relationships were described as exciting and filled with curiosity. At work, the characters with intellectual disability felt joy and a sense of belonging, and the family invoked a sense of security. Negative emotions had a less prominent role in the stories. The study concludes a strong relationship between social capital and emotions in the storybooks.

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