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Record Nr.

UNISA996199890503316

Titolo

Children and the changing family : between transformation and negotiation / / edited by An-Magritt Jensen and Lorna McKee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeFalmer, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-47190-4

1-134-47191-2

9780203451821

1-280-03123-9

0-203-46040-5

0-203-45182-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

Future of childhood series

Classificazione

71.21

Altri autori (Persone)

JensenAn-Magritt

McKeeLorna

Disciplina

305.23

Soggetti

Children - Social conditions

Children - Family relationships

Work and family

Children of divorced parents

Social change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: theorizing childhood and family change; Children's changing families and family resources; Children's perspectives on middle-class work  family arrangements; Employed or unemployed parents: a child perspective; Father presence in childcare; Children's experience of their parents' divorce; Children coping with parental divorce: what helps, what hurts?; As fair as it can be? Childhood after divorce; Children's stories of parental breakup; For the children's sake: symbolic power lost?

Childhood and family time: a changing historical relationshipAfterword: Changing childhoods: a case study; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and



family change are colouring the experience of childhood.