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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... someone whoisnot a relative; possibly she would not do it for anyone other thanaparent. This reasoning also may apply to other examples—the fact that people are relatedseems central tounderstanding why theyhelp each other.But whatabout ...
... someone whoisnot a relative; possibly she would not do it for anyone other thanaparent. This reasoning also may apply to other examples—the fact that people are relatedseems central tounderstanding why theyhelp each other.But whatabout ...
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... someone should doforarelative indefined circumstances. But people do seemto acknowledge guidelines,in thesense of considerations whichitis appropriate to take into account in working out whether to offer assistanceto a relative ...
... someone should doforarelative indefined circumstances. But people do seemto acknowledge guidelines,in thesense of considerations whichitis appropriate to take into account in working out whether to offer assistanceto a relative ...
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... 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.
... 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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Janet Finch, Professor Janet V Finch, Jennifer Mason. giving personal care to someone who cannot look after themselves. We wanted to include a wide range of circumstances in adult life wheresuch assistance might be given—between ...
Janet Finch, Professor Janet V Finch, Jennifer Mason. giving personal care to someone who cannot look after themselves. We wanted to include a wide range of circumstances in adult life wheresuch assistance might be given—between ...
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... someone isin need of practical or financial help.Wethen posed questions which invited them to consider matters such as: should relatives provide helpin thesekinds of circumstances? which relatives?what shouldtheydo and why?Asimple ...
... someone isin need of practical or financial help.Wethen posed questions which invited them to consider matters such as: should relatives provide helpin thesekinds of circumstances? which relatives?what shouldtheydo and why?Asimple ...
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