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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Jane Ribbons McCarthy

Bristol University Press

The Policy Press

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

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Policy Press, Bristol, 2013

United States, 2014

Bristol, 2014

First, 2014

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FAMILY TROUBLES?
Contents
Notes on contributors
Foreword
Preface
1. Troubling normalities and normal family troubles: diversities, experiences and tensions
Introduction
Children, families and relationality
Changes, challenges and troubles
Troubling normalities and normalising troubles
Expectations, power and contestations
Introducing the book as a whole
Introduction to Part One
2. Cultural context, families and troubles
3. Representing family troubles through the 20th century
Contexts and sources
The Kid (1921): working through loss and abandonment
The Kidnappers (1953): working through loss and bereavement
Boys from the Blackstuff (1982): working through loss and deprivation
Conclusion
4. The role of science in understanding family troubles
What constitutes good science?
Questions needing scientific input
Quantitative and qualitative research
Overall conclusions on the role of science
5. Family troubles, methods trouble: qualitative research and the methodological divide
The logic of qualitative inquiry
Qualitative contributions to the study of family trouble
The methodological divide
Introduction to Part Two
6. Disabled parents and normative family life: the obscuring of lived experiences of parents and children within policy and research accounts
Introduction
Children and young people’s experience of parental disability: the ‘young carer’ approach
Disabled parents’ perspectives
Conclusion
7. Normal problems or problem children? Parents and the micro-politics of deviance and disability
Introduction
Method and participants
The micro-politics of children’s problems
Mothers
Fathers
Non-professional actors
Schoolteachers and administrators
Medical professionals
Conclusion
8. Troubled talk and talk about troubles: moral cultures of infant feeding in professional, policy and parenting discourses
Introduction
Infant feeding: a troubled policy terrain?
Methods and analysis
Breast is best? A morally sanctioned maternal identity
Breastfeeding as troubling: a deficit maternal identity?
Formula-feeding: troubling the normal?
Discussion and concluding remarks
9. Children’s non-conforming behaviour: personal trouble or public issue?
Introduction
‘Medicalisation’ of non-conforming behaviour
Research design/methodology
Early concerns with children’s behaviour
Public disapproval of children’s behaviour
Seeking external support for children’s behaviour
Benefits of medical diagnosis
Limitations of medical diagnosis
Reflections: personal trouble or public issue?
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”
Introduction
Kinship care: ‘normal’ and ‘natural’
Co-resident siblings, placed children and relationships: revealing dynamics
Conclusion
Introduction to Part Three
11. Troubling loss? Children’s experiences of major disruptions in family life
Introduction
Age and ‘stage’
Death and being more or less troubled
Keeping or losing your post-separation dad
Losses for children in asylum-seeking families
Concluding discussion
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”
Introduction
The study
“When I was just a little girl”
“But that was just a slap”
Concluding remarks
13. Thinking about sociological work on personal and family life in the light of research on young people’s experience of parental substance misuse
Empirical background
The significance of the absence and loss of expected parenting practices
Discussion
14. The trouble with siblings: some psychosocial thoughts about sisters, aggression and femininity
Introduction
Ordinary aggression and ordinary femininity
A psychoanalytic view of aggression
Identity theft
Sisters, secrets and exclusion
Conclusion
15. Children and family transitions: contact and togetherness
Researching children’s constructions of family and close relationships
Family contact: sites and circumstances of children’s negotiations
Family togetherness: maintaining contact and connectedness
Conclusion
Introduction to Part Four
16. ‘Troubling’ or ‘ordinary’? Children’s views on migration and intergenerational ethnic identities
Dilek: translating cultural difference
Sevda: becoming a Londoner: a way to claim Kurdishness
Conclusion
17. Colombian families dealing with parents’ international migration
Introduction
Children and international parental migration
Methods
Parents’ migration: a normal and painful separation
When parents’ migration becomes troubling
Conclusion
18. Families left behind: unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK
Introduction
Methodology
Findings
Conclusions
19. Young people’s caring relations and transitions within families affected by HIV
Introduction
Theoretical perspectives
Young people’s disposition to care
Changing familial relations and ‘emotion work’
Conclusion
20. Estimating the prevalence of forced marriage in England
Background
Method/approach
Profile of FM
Prevalence of FM
Summary
Introduction to Part Five
21. European perspectives on parenting and family support
The studies
Parenting support in the context of child welfare
Approaches to parental support
Conclusions
22. What supports resilient coping among family members? A systemic practitioner’s perspective
Introduction: learning from practice, linking to theory
Relational resilience and family coping
A systemic approach to formulation: adaptation, coping and power
Attachment as representational
Resilience as relational co-construction
An example from practice: couples work, trauma and narratives of healing
Conclusion
23. Troubled and troublesome teens: mothers’ and professionals’ understandings of parenting teenagers and teenage troubles
Introduction
The policy context
The parenting programme and local evaluation
‘Normal’ teenage troubles
Troublesome young people
Troubled young people
Conclusion
24. Contested family practices and moral reasoning: updating concepts for working with family-related social problems
From family problems towards contested family practices
Deeply challenging conflict situations: supervised contacts
Moral reasoning: navigation in exceptional situations
Concluding remarks
25. Working with fathers: risk or resource?
Background
Engaging fathers in the context of change and complexity
Protecting children: fathers as invisible or as risks?
Conclusion
26. What is at stake in family troubles? Existential issues and value frameworks
Introduction
The meanings and contexts of troubles
Existential and moral issues of family troubles
Cultural resources for responding to troubles
Values and diversity in family troubles
In conclusion?
Index

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.

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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