Negotiating Family ResponsibilitiesNegotiating Family Responsibilities provides a major new insight into contemporary family life, particularly kin relationships outside the nuclear family. While many people believe that the real meaning of 'family' has shrunk to the nuclear family household, there is considerable evidence to suggest that relationships with the wider kin group remain an important part of most people's lives. Based on the findings of a major study of kinship, and including lively verbatim accounts of conversations with family members concepts of responsibility and obligation within family life are examined and the authors expand theories on the nature of assistance within families and argue that it is negotiated over time rather than given automatically. |
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... her own home, withher bed downstairs, and I used to go up and look after herfor five days. When I left my sister used to comeup. Yousee, we did it turnabout. Interviewer Did you actually go and stay at her house? ...
... her own home, withher bed downstairs, and I used to go up and look after herfor five days. When I left my sister used to comeup. Yousee, we did it turnabout. Interviewer Did you actually go and stay at her house? ...
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... kinds:giving and lending money, occasional or regular helpwith domestic tasks and childcare, offeringahome temporarily or permanently to a relative who has nowheretolive, giving personal care to someone who cannot look after themselves.
... kinds:giving and lending money, occasional or regular helpwith domestic tasks and childcare, offeringahome temporarily or permanently to a relative who has nowheretolive, giving personal care to someone who cannot look after themselves.
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... look after themselves. We wanted to include a wide range of circumstances in adult life wheresuch assistance might be given—between different generationsand between peoplein the same generation. Our studywasin two mainparts, a ...
... look after themselves. We wanted to include a wide range of circumstances in adult life wheresuch assistance might be given—between different generationsand between peoplein the same generation. Our studywasin two mainparts, a ...
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... look after themselves, our respondents weremorelikely toaccord responsibility to relatives ifthe assistance needed was temporary,or didnot demand high levels of skill. Butin questionswhich implied thatthe person needed nursing care ...
... look after themselves, our respondents weremorelikely toaccord responsibility to relatives ifthe assistance needed was temporary,or didnot demand high levels of skill. Butin questionswhich implied thatthe person needed nursing care ...
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... look after their parents when they are old. Theresponse tothiswasone of our 'splitconsensus' items: 58 per cent ofour respondents saidthat children do have an obligation to look after their parents but 39 per cent said that they do not ...
... look after their parents when they are old. Theresponse tothiswasone of our 'splitconsensus' items: 58 per cent ofour respondents saidthat children do have an obligation to look after their parents but 39 per cent said that they do not ...
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Negotiating Family Responsibilities Janet Finch,Professor Janet V Finch,Jennifer Mason Limited preview - 2003 |
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