Adult Behaviour
Anniversaries
Birthdays
Breakdown
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Changing Family Composition
childhood sociology
Children's Accounts
children's agency in family change
Children's Family Structure
Children's Stories
childrens
Children’s Accounts
Children’s Family Structure
Children’s Stories
consensual
Consensual Unions
divorce
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Everyday Family Life
Family Change
family policy research
Family Time
Father's Quota
Father’s Quota
Follow
Held
intergenerational relationships
Lone Mother Families
non-resident
Non-resident Parent
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Nonresident Parent
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parental
Parental Breakup
Parental Divorce
Parental Employment
perspective
qualitative child studies
social inequality children
unions
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Work Family Interface
Work Life Arrangements
work-life balance research
Product details
- ISBN 9780415277747
- Weight: 350g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood. The book is centred around three major changes: parental employment, family composition and ideology. The authors demonstrate how children's families are transformed in accordance with societal changes in demographic and economic terms, and as a result of the choices parents make in response to these changes. Despite claims that society is becoming increasingly child-centred, this book argues that children still have little influence over the major changes in their lives.
This book breaks new ground by researching family change from the child's point of view. Through combinations from childhood experts in Scandinavia, the UK and America, the book shows the importance of studying children's lives in families in order to understand how far children are active agents in contemporary society.
Students of childhood studies, sociology, social work and education will find this book essential reading. It will also be of interest to practitioners in the social, child and youth services.
