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Children and the changing family : between transformation and negotiation / edited by An-Magritt Jensen and Lorna McKee.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Future of childhood series.
- Future of childhood series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Social conditions.
- Children.
- Children--Family relationships.
- Work and family.
- Children of divorced parents.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (189 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-47190-4
- 1-134-47191-2
- 9780203451821
- 1-280-03123-9
- 0-203-46040-5
- 0-203-45182-1
- 9780203451823
- OCLC:
- 53893435
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