Thinking Through Family: Narratives of Care Experienced Lives

Front Cover\nSeries page\nThinking Through Family: Narratives of Care Experienced Lives\nCopyright information\nDedication\nEpigraph\nTable of Contents\nList of Figures and Table\nAcknowledgements\n1 Why Think Through ‘Family’?\n	Introduction\n		The studies\n	Conceptualizing ‘family’\n		‘Doing’ family: practices and display\n		Thinking beyond childhood\n		Austerity and ‘the other’\n		Thinking beyond the ‘troubled’ family?\n	Thinking through ‘family’ in care experienced lives\n	The structure of this book\n	Summing up\n2 Learning From Care Experienced Perspectives\n	Hearing a different story?\n	Care experienced lives in context\n		Childhood and placement experiences\n		Early adulthoods\n		Becoming a parent\n		Summing up\n	Politics and ethics: researching ‘family’ in care experienced lives\n	A narrative perspective on care experienced family lives\n	The studies\n		Against All Odds?\n		Evaluation of Pause\n	Bringing the studies together\n3 Doing Family: The Significance of the ‘Ordinary’\n	Introduction\n		What do we mean by ‘ordinary’?\n	The significance of the mundane\n		(Un)remarkable practices?\n	The role of the everyday in understanding complex family connections\n	What is (extra)ordinary?\n	Rituals and celebrations\n		Informal celebrations\n		Weddings and funerals\n	Conclusion\n4 Re/Configuring Boundaries: Who Counts as ‘Family’?\n	Introduction\n	Defining ‘family’\n		Family structures\n	Enduring kinship?\n	Ineffable connections and boundary moves\n	Family and ‘not-family’\n		Shifting boundaries and ‘chosen’ kin\n	Conclusion\n5 ‘How Can We Not Talk about Family When Family’s All That We’ve Got?’: Care and Connectedness\n	Introduction\n	Sibling connections\n	Complex and dynamic connections\n	Parenting responsibilities?\n	Austerity and interdependence\n		The possibilities and limits of family support\n	Conclusion\n6 Understandings and Experiences of Parenthood\n	Introduction\n		The state as ‘corporate grandparent’?\n		Stigma and intersectionality\n	Becoming a parent\n		Stigma and instability\n		Misrecognition of motherhood?\n		And fatherhood?\n		Support and recognition\n	Practicing family-at-a-distance\n		Family display\n		Enabling the practice of motherhood when children are in care\n	Future imaginaries\n		Children growing up\n		Uncertain possibilities?\n	Conclusion\n7 Thinking Through Family: Implications for Theory and Practice\n	Why ‘thinking through family’?\n	Conceptualizing family: thinking beyond the ‘single story’\n		Family practices and family display\n		Practicing family with a lifeworld orientation\n		The value of the concept of family\n	Reflections on family-minded policy and practice\n		Family-minded approaches in precarious times?\n		Supporting relational interdependency\n			Supportive siblings?\n			Chosen family\n			The limits of loving networks – and the need for continuing professional support\n	Conclusion\nNotes\n	Epigraph\n	Chapter 1\n	Chapter 2\n	Chapter 3\n	Chapter 4\n	Chapter 5\n	Chapter 6\n	Chapter 7\nReferences\nIndex