As the everyday family lives of children and young people come to be increasingly defined as matters of public policy and concern, it is important to raise the question of how we can understand the contested terrain between 'normal' family troubles and troubled and troubling families. In this important, timely and thought-provoking publication, a wide range of contributors explore how 'troubles' feature in 'normal' families, and how the 'normal' features in 'troubled' families. Drawing on research on a wide range of substantive topics - including infant care, sibling conflict, divorce, disability, illness, migration and asylum-seeking, substance misuse, violence, kinship care, and forced marriage - the contributors aim to promote dialogue between researchers addressing mainstream family change and diversity in everyday lives, and those specialising in specific problems which prompt professional interventions. In tackling these contentious and difficult issues across a variety of topics, the book addresses a wide audience, including policy makers, service users and practitioners, as well as family studies scholars more generally who are interested in issues of family change. Book jacket

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Val Gillies, Carol-Ann Hooper, Jane Ribbens McCarthy

Jane Ribbens McCarthy; Val Gillies; Carol-Ann Hooper

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FAMILY TROUBLES? 2
Contents 4
Notes on contributors 7
Foreword 14
Preface 16
1. Troubling normalities and normal family troubles: diversities, experiences and tensions 18
Introduction 18
Children, families and relationality 20
Changes, challenges and troubles 24
Troubling normalities and normalising troubles 28
Expectations, power and contestations 31
Introducing the book as a whole 34
Introduction to Part One 40
2. Cultural context, families and troubles 44
3. Representing family troubles through the 20th century 52
Contexts and sources 53
The Kid (1921): working through loss and abandonment 54
The Kidnappers (1953): working through loss and bereavement 56
Boys from the Blackstuff (1982): working through loss and deprivation 57
Conclusion 59
4. The role of science in understanding family troubles 62
What constitutes good science? 62
Questions needing scientific input 63
Quantitative and qualitative research 65
Overall conclusions on the role of science 71
5. Family troubles, methods trouble: qualitative research and the methodological divide 76
The logic of qualitative inquiry 77
Qualitative contributions to the study of family trouble 80
The methodological divide 81
Introduction to Part Two 88
6. Disabled parents and normative family life: the obscuring of lived experiences of parents and children within policy and research accounts 92
Introduction 92
Children and young people’s experience of parental disability: the ‘young carer’ approach 93
Disabled parents’ perspectives 95
Conclusion 98
7. Normal problems or problem children? Parents and the micro-politics of deviance and disability 102
Introduction 102
Method and participants 103
The micro-politics of children’s problems 104
Mothers 105
Fathers 106
Non-professional actors 107
Schoolteachers and administrators 108
Medical professionals 110
Conclusion 111
8. Troubled talk and talk about troubles: moral cultures of infant feeding in professional, policy and parenting discourses 114
Introduction 114
Infant feeding: a troubled policy terrain? 114
Methods and analysis 115
Breast is best? A morally sanctioned maternal identity 116
Breastfeeding as troubling: a deficit maternal identity? 117
Formula-feeding: troubling the normal? 119
Discussion and concluding remarks 120
9. Children’s non-conforming behaviour: personal trouble or public issue? 124
Introduction 124
‘Medicalisation’ of non-conforming behaviour 124
Research design/methodology 125
Early concerns with children’s behaviour 126
Public disapproval of children’s behaviour 127
Seeking external support for children’s behaviour 128
Benefits of medical diagnosis 131
Limitations of medical diagnosis 131
Reflections: personal trouble or public issue? 132
10. Revealing the lived reality of kinship care through children and young people’s narratives: “It’s not all nice, it’s not all easy-going, it’s a difficult journey to go on” 136
Introduction 136
Kinship care: ‘normal’ and ‘natural’ 137
Co-resident siblings, placed children and relationships: revealing dynamics 138
Conclusion 144
Introduction to Part Three 148
11. Troubling loss? Children’s experiences of major disruptions in family life 152
Introduction 152
Age and ‘stage’ 154
Death and being more or less troubled 155
Keeping or losing your post-separation dad 157
Losses for children in asylum-seeking families 159
Concluding discussion 162
12. The permeating presence of past domestic and familial violence: “So, like, I’d never let anyone hit me but I’ve hit them, and I shouldn’t have done” 168
Introduction 168
The study 169
“When I was just a little girl” 169
“But that was just a slap” 171
Concluding remarks 176
13. Thinking about sociological work on personal and family life in the light of research on young people’s experience of parental substance misuse 180
Empirical background 181
The significance of the absence and loss of expected parenting practices 182
Discussion 186
14. The trouble with siblings: some psychosocial thoughts about sisters, aggression and femininity 190
Introduction 190
Ordinary aggression and ordinary femininity 192
A psychoanalytic view of aggression 193
Identity theft 194
Sisters, secrets and exclusion 196
Conclusion 198
15. Children and family transitions: contact and togetherness 202
Researching children’s constructions of family and close relationships 203
Family contact: sites and circumstances of children’s negotiations 204
Family togetherness: maintaining contact and connectedness 206
Conclusion 208
Introduction to Part Four 212
16. ‘Troubling’ or ‘ordinary’? Children’s views on migration and intergenerational ethnic identities 216
Dilek: translating cultural difference 218
Sevda: becoming a Londoner: a way to claim Kurdishness 220
Conclusion 223
17. Colombian families dealing with parents’ international migration 226
Introduction 226
Children and international parental migration 226
Methods 228
Parents’ migration: a normal and painful separation 229
When parents’ migration becomes troubling 232
Conclusion 235
18. Families left behind: unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK 240
Introduction 240
Methodology 241
Findings 241
Conclusions 246
19. Young people’s caring relations and transitions within families affected by HIV 250
Introduction 250
Theoretical perspectives 251
Young people’s disposition to care 252
Changing familial relations and ‘emotion work’ 254
Conclusion 257
20. Estimating the prevalence of forced marriage in England 262
Background 262
Method/approach 265
Profile of FM 266
Prevalence of FM 267
Summary 270
Introduction to Part Five 274
21. European perspectives on parenting and family support 280
The studies 280
Parenting support in the context of child welfare 281
Approaches to parental support 285
Conclusions 290
22. What supports resilient coping among family members? A systemic practitioner’s perspective 296
Introduction: learning from practice, linking to theory 296
Relational resilience and family coping 298
A systemic approach to formulation: adaptation, coping and power 299
Attachment as representational 301
Resilience as relational co-construction 302
An example from practice: couples work, trauma and narratives of healing 302
Conclusion 305
23. Troubled and troublesome teens: mothers’ and professionals’ understandings of parenting teenagers and teenage troubles 308
Introduction 308
The policy context 308
The parenting programme and local evaluation 309
‘Normal’ teenage troubles 311
Troublesome young people 313
Troubled young people 317
Conclusion 318
24. Contested family practices and moral reasoning: updating concepts for working with family-related social problems 322
From family problems towards contested family practices 322
Deeply challenging conflict situations: supervised contacts 324
Moral reasoning: navigation in exceptional situations 327
Concluding remarks 329
25. Working with fathers: risk or resource? 332
Background 333
Engaging fathers in the context of change and complexity 334
Protecting children: fathers as invisible or as risks? 337
Conclusion 340
26. What is at stake in family troubles? Existential issues and value frameworks 344
Introduction 344
The meanings and contexts of troubles 346
Existential and moral issues of family troubles 349
Cultural resources for responding to troubles 353
Values and diversity in family troubles 355
In conclusion? 362
Index 372

FAMILY TROUBLES?......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Notes on contributors......Page 7
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
Children, families and relationality......Page 20
Changes, challenges and troubles......Page 24
Troubling normalities and normalising troubles......Page 28
Expectations, power and contestations......Page 31
Introducing the book as a whole......Page 34
Introduction to Part One......Page 40
2. Cultural context, families and troubles......Page 44
3. Representing family troubles through the 20th century......Page 52
Contexts and sources......Page 53
The Kid (1921): working through loss and abandonment......Page 54
The Kidnappers (1953): working through loss and bereavement......Page 56
Boys from the Blackstuff (1982): working through loss and deprivation......Page 57
Conclusion......Page 59
What constitutes good science?......Page 62
Questions needing scientific input......Page 63
Quantitative and qualitative research......Page 65
Overall conclusions on the role of science......Page 71
5. Family troubles, methods trouble: qualitative research and the methodological divide......Page 76
The logic of qualitative inquiry......Page 77
Qualitative contributions to the study of family trouble......Page 80
The methodological divide......Page 81
Introduction to Part Two......Page 88
Introduction......Page 92
Children and young people’s experience of parental disability: the ‘young carer’ approach......Page 93
Disabled parents’ perspectives......Page 95
Conclusion......Page 98
Introduction......Page 102
Method and participants......Page 103
The micro-politics of children’s problems......Page 104
Mothers......Page 105
Fathers......Page 106
Non-professional actors......Page 107
Schoolteachers and administrators......Page 108
Medical professionals......Page 110
Conclusion......Page 111
Infant feeding: a troubled policy terrain?......Page 114
Methods and analysis......Page 115
Breast is best? A morally sanctioned maternal identity......Page 116
Breastfeeding as troubling: a deficit maternal identity?......Page 117
Formula-feeding: troubling the normal?......Page 119
Discussion and concluding remarks......Page 120
‘Medicalisation’ of non-conforming behaviour......Page 124
Research design/methodology......Page 125
Early concerns with children’s behaviour......Page 126
Public disapproval of children’s behaviour......Page 127
Seeking external support for children’s behaviour......Page 128
Limitations of medical diagnosis......Page 131
Reflections: personal trouble or public issue?......Page 132
Introduction......Page 136
Kinship care: ‘normal’ and ‘natural’......Page 137
Co-resident siblings, placed children and relationships: revealing dynamics......Page 138
Conclusion......Page 144
Introduction to Part Three......Page 148
Introduction......Page 152
Age and ‘stage’......Page 154
Death and being more or less troubled......Page 155
Keeping or losing your post-separation dad......Page 157
Losses for children in asylum-seeking families......Page 159
Concluding discussion......Page 162
Introduction......Page 168
“When I was just a little girl”......Page 169
“But that was just a slap”......Page 171
Concluding remarks......Page 176
13. Thinking about sociological work on personal and family life in the light of research on young people’s experience of parental substance misuse......Page 180
Empirical background......Page 181
The significance of the absence and loss of expected parenting practices......Page 182
Discussion......Page 186
Introduction......Page 190
Ordinary aggression and ordinary femininity......Page 192
A psychoanalytic view of aggression......Page 193
Identity theft......Page 194
Sisters, secrets and exclusion......Page 196
Conclusion......Page 198
15. Children and family transitions: contact and togetherness......Page 202
Researching children’s constructions of family and close relationships......Page 203
Family contact: sites and circumstances of children’s negotiations......Page 204
Family togetherness: maintaining contact and connectedness......Page 206
Conclusion......Page 208
Introduction to Part Four......Page 212
16. ‘Troubling’ or ‘ordinary’? Children’s views on migration and intergenerational ethnic identities......Page 216
Dilek: translating cultural difference......Page 218
Sevda: becoming a Londoner: a way to claim Kurdishness......Page 220
Conclusion......Page 223
Children and international parental migration......Page 226
Methods......Page 228
Parents’ migration: a normal and painful separation......Page 229
When parents’ migration becomes troubling......Page 232
Conclusion......Page 235
Introduction......Page 240
Findings......Page 241
Conclusions......Page 246
Introduction......Page 250
Theoretical perspectives......Page 251
Young people’s disposition to care......Page 252
Changing familial relations and ‘emotion work’......Page 254
Conclusion......Page 257
Background......Page 262
Method/approach......Page 265
Profile of FM......Page 266
Prevalence of FM......Page 267
Summary......Page 270
Introduction to Part Five......Page 274
The studies......Page 280
Parenting support in the context of child welfare......Page 281
Approaches to parental support......Page 285
Conclusions......Page 290
Introduction: learning from practice, linking to theory......Page 296
Relational resilience and family coping......Page 298
A systemic approach to formulation: adaptation, coping and power......Page 299
Attachment as representational......Page 301
An example from practice: couples work, trauma and narratives of healing......Page 302
Conclusion......Page 305
The policy context......Page 308
The parenting programme and local evaluation......Page 309
‘Normal’ teenage troubles......Page 311
Troublesome young people......Page 313
Troubled young people......Page 317
Conclusion......Page 318
From family problems towards contested family practices......Page 322
Deeply challenging conflict situations: supervised contacts......Page 324
Moral reasoning: navigation in exceptional situations......Page 327
Concluding remarks......Page 329
25. Working with fathers: risk or resource?......Page 332
Background......Page 333
Engaging fathers in the context of change and complexity......Page 334
Protecting children: fathers as invisible or as risks?......Page 337
Conclusion......Page 340
Introduction......Page 344
The meanings and contexts of troubles......Page 346
Existential and moral issues of family troubles......Page 349
Cultural resources for responding to troubles......Page 353
Values and diversity in family troubles......Page 355
In conclusion?......Page 362
Index......Page 372

As the everyday lives of children and young people are increasingly understood as matters of public policy and concern, the question of how we can understand the difference between "normal" family troubles and troubled or troubling families has become more important. In this timely and thought-provoking book, a wide range of contributors address topics such as infant care, sibling conflict, divorce, disability, illness, substance abuse, violence, kinship care, and forced marriage, in an effort to explore how the concept of trouble features in normal families and how the concept of normal features in troubled families.</DIV>

This title takes a fresh look at how 'troubles' feature in 'normal' families, and how the 'normal' features in troubled families. In addressing chapter draw on research on a wide range of substantive topics including infant care, sibling conflict, divorce, disability, illness, migration and asylum-seeking, substance misuse, violence, kinship care, and forced marriage

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