scholarly journals Family Histories, Family Stories and Family Secrets: Late Discoveries of Being Adopted

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Gary Clapton
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
Family Secrets ◽  
Family Histories ◽  
Late Discovery

This paper reviews what we know about the experiences of adopted people who discover in later-life that they are adopted. It begins by discussing how and why various facets of the adoption experience have come to the fore over the 20th and 21st century time span of contemporary adoption. The paper concludes with the fact that research on the late discovery of adoption is in its infancy. It also points to parallels that will exist for people who have been conceived by anonymous donation and raises additional areas for possible research.

scholarly journals Family Ties: Women's Work and Family Histories and their Association with Incomes in Later Life in the UK

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOM SEFTON ◽  
MARIA EVANDROU ◽  
JANE FALKINGHAM
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Positive Finding ◽  
Work History ◽  
Family Histories ◽  
Public Transfers ◽  
Work Histories ◽  
Personal Incomes

AbstractThis article examines the relationship between the family and work histories of older women and their personal incomes in later life, using retrospective data from the first 15 waves of the British Household Panel Survey. The association between women's family histories and their incomes later in life are relatively weak, explaining only a small proportion of the overall variation in older women's incomes. Divorce, early widowhood and re-marriage are not associated with any significant differences in older women's incomes, while motherhood is only associated with a small reduction in incomes later in life. While there are significant differences in the work histories of older women with different family histories, this translates into relatively small differences in their personal incomes, because the types of employment career pursued by most women are not associated with significantly higher retirement incomes and because public transfers dampen work history-related differentials, especially for widows. On the one hand, this could be seen as a positive finding in that the ‘pension penalty’ associated with life-course events such as motherhood and divorce is not as severe as often anticipated. On the other hand, the main reason for this is that the pension returns to working longer are relatively low, particularly for women with few qualifications. The analysis suggests that women retiring over the next two decades are unlikely to benefit significantly from the additional years they have spent in employment, because most of this increase has been in part-time employment. The article highlights the tensions between two objectives: rewarding work, and protecting the most vulnerable, such as carers, long-term disabled and unemployed. Resolving this dilemma involves moving away from a close association between pension entitlements and work history and towards universal entitlement based on a citizen's pension.

scholarly journals Tātai Tara, Genealogical Storying: A Foundation of Decolonisation in Oceania

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Iain Thomas Strathern
Keyword(s):  
Personal Mythology ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Family Secrets ◽  
Essential Nature ◽  
Colonial Culture ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual

<p>This thesis reads Patricia Grace's Baby No-eyes, and Albert Wendt's The Adventures of Vela and The Mango's Kiss to highlight the essential nature of tātai tara (genealogical storying) in the decolonisation of Oceanian identity. Central to the thesis is a personal mythology, a kind of memoir that recounts some of the author's foundational stories in the form of prose and poetry. The first core chapter deals with a discussion of post-colonial 'skins', the things that we believe are part of ourselves that essentially come from being socialised in a colonial culture. The chapter “Skeletons”, explores the family secrets that give rise to shame that is intergenerational. Finally, Flesh and Blood demonstrates the powerful nature of reclaiming family stories as a way of re-education and healing. Ultimately, the thesis aims at an understanding of tātai tara, a process that happens whether we are aware of it or not, and how the individual is a creator of his or her own identity through the level of engagement with the stories.</p>

scholarly journals Tātai Tara, Genealogical Storying: A Foundation of Decolonisation in Oceania

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Iain Thomas Strathern
Keyword(s):  
Personal Mythology ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Family Secrets ◽  
Essential Nature ◽  
Colonial Culture ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual

<p>This thesis reads Patricia Grace's Baby No-eyes, and Albert Wendt's The Adventures of Vela and The Mango's Kiss to highlight the essential nature of tātai tara (genealogical storying) in the decolonisation of Oceanian identity. Central to the thesis is a personal mythology, a kind of memoir that recounts some of the author's foundational stories in the form of prose and poetry. The first core chapter deals with a discussion of post-colonial 'skins', the things that we believe are part of ourselves that essentially come from being socialised in a colonial culture. The chapter “Skeletons”, explores the family secrets that give rise to shame that is intergenerational. Finally, Flesh and Blood demonstrates the powerful nature of reclaiming family stories as a way of re-education and healing. Ultimately, the thesis aims at an understanding of tātai tara, a process that happens whether we are aware of it or not, and how the individual is a creator of his or her own identity through the level of engagement with the stories.</p>

Coveted, detested and unattainable?

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Petersson ◽  
Emil Persson
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa

•This article explores how the image of the USA has developed in two major Russian daily newspapers, Izvestiya and Komsomolskaya Pravda, in a time period comprised of a total 20 weeks’ of study in the years of 1984, 1994, 2004 and 2009. For Russia this time span was dramatic: it moved from seemingly stable superpower in the 1980s, over the chaos after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, to the partial comeback to great power status at the beginning of the 21st century. While telling the story of how the image of the USA has evolved, the article also describes how Russian self-images have developed. The image projected of the USA was Manichean in the 1980s, whereas the most benevolent images were found in the 1990s. The examples from 2004 and 2009 reflect an assertive Russia that is back on the world stage. The USA is here again often criticized, but also — as before — comprises the scale against which Russia itself is measured. •

Ageing 2000—questions for the 21st century

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARAH HARPER
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Age Structure ◽  
Demographic Transition ◽  
General Public ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Biological Aspects

‘Ageing of the population is … one of the most important socioeconomic challenges … for the 21st Century’ Andrej Wojrczak, Director, WHO Centre Health Development, Japan.This statement (WHO 1998: 5), reflects the growing awareness among politicians, policy makers and the general public of issues which have been recognised by gerontologists for the past 30 years or so. In both developed and less developed countries, demographic transition and the shift in the age structure of the population is now being publicly recognised as having fundamental implications for everyone in society. As British gerontology enters a new century, the time appears ripe to reflect on past achievements and highlight some future questions. In the following discussion I consider ageing and later life, discussing both societal and individual ageing, and the experiences, needs and contributions of those in later life. The paper focuses on social gerontology, defined as social, behavioural, historical, demographic and economic aspects of the study of ageing and later life, including the interface of these with health and health services. It thus touches upon medical and biological aspects only when they are of appropriate relevance.

You Zip Your Lips

2018 ◽  
pp. 25-45
Author(s):  
John M. Coggeshall
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Blue Ridge ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
Family Histories ◽  
Upper South ◽  
White Settlement

This chapter describes the white settlement of the Blue Ridge Foothills of upper South Carolina and the documentation of slavery and slave life in the region prior to 1865. The chapter draws upon local (published) histories and some (oral) family histories to document the lives of several enslaved individuals as well. In these family stories are examples of resistance to enslavement and their agency in maintaining their lives.

scholarly journals Family Stories and Family Secrets

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Fivush ◽  
Helena McAnally ◽  
Elaine Reese
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Family History ◽  
Young People ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
Family Secrets ◽  
Family Practices

Families preserve and rewrite history in ways that pass on to the next generation a sense of family history based on what is known and what cannot be told. In this paper, we analyze New Zealand European adolescents’ stories about their parents’ childhood, exploring how these young people tell and do not tell family stories shrouded in secrecy. We identify three major ways in which families express secrets across the generations—through collusion, through confusion, and through whole-family secrets—and discuss the implications of each of these family practices for the preservation of family history.

A Family Jigsaw Story

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine S. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Relational Ethics ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
Family Secrets ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Multiple Meanings

This autoethnographic narrative shows the complexity of family secrets and disclosure, and suggests that family stories — told and untold — are formed systemically, within a system — within a web of disclosures and reactions, trust and hurt, anger and understanding. This story illustrates the cyclical and holistic nature of family relationships; and discusses how family relationships develop through waves of understanding, reflection, pain, and forgiveness. In this narrative, I propose that in order to understand ourselves and our families, we must look at the big picture, within the context of all of our stories, intertwined and interconnected. Our puzzle has no beginning or end. It is part of a cycle of life, dropped in and looking backwards and forwards, reframing and recreating multiple meanings and identities. This paper also discusses the relational ethics of writing about family secrets in autoethnographic research.

Thinking Through Poetry

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjorie Levinson
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
Scientific Communities ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
New Models ◽  
History Of

This is a work of and about literary criticism. Its title signals a contribution to debates about reading. We think “through”—“by means of,” “with”—poems, sympathetically elaborating their surfaces. We “think through” poems to their end—solving a problem, getting to their roots. And we “think through” to “go beyond,” in a philosophical, speculative criticism to which the poem carries us. All three meanings of “through” are in play throughout. The subtitle applies “field” first to Romantic studies—offering new readings of canonical British Romantic poems to address contemporary topics (depth vs. surface, formalism’s return, materialism, theory vs. history of lyric), and narrating, enacting, and conceptualizing the arc of the field’s scholarship since the 1980s. Examples are drawn especially from Wordsworth, but also from Coleridge and, for Romanticism’s afterlife, from Stevens. In addition, “field” indicates the shift during that time-span from a unitary to a field-concept of form, a concept that synthesizes form and history, privileges analytic scale, and displaces entity (text) by “relation” as object of investigation. Connecting early 19th-century intellectual trends to antecedents in Spinoza and related 20th/21st-century revolutions in the postclassical sciences, the book introduces new models to literary study. Unlike accounts of science’s influence on literature, or various “literature + X” approaches (literature and ecology, literature and cognitive science), it constructs its object in a way cognate with work in non-humanities disciplines, thus highlighting a certain unity to knowledge. The claim is that literary critics can renew understanding of their own field by studying the thinking of certain scientific communities.

Conclusion: Precarity and ageing in the 21st century

2020 ◽  
pp. 237-246
Author(s):  
Chris Phillipson ◽  
Amanda Grenier ◽  
Richard A. Settersten
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Older People ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Critical Gerontology

The chapter summarises the importance of ideas associated with precarity and precariousness for understanding later life. The discussion is framed within the context of the development of critical gerontology. The chapter considers how the concept of precarity extends our understanding of the range of insecurities faced in later life. It also considers how the example of a human rights perspective can be used to challenge some of the vulnerabilities experienced by older people.

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