Connecting Children: Care and Family Life in Later ChildhoodConnecting Children focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of different family lives. It portrays the lives of children aged 11-12 and shows how families connect children in different ways both in the household but also in their wider kinship networks. The children studied reflect upon family life and especially upon situations where their own family lives change dramatically, such as when parents divorce or are unable to care for them. |
Contents
Childrens beliefs about care | 25 |
meanings | 47 |
Childrens accounts of family change | 68 |
childrens | 93 |
The importance of siblings | 115 |
The importance of grandparents relatives friends | 130 |
Childrens contribution to family life | 154 |
Children and mothers regulation | 178 |
Conclusions | 202 |
Appendix | 214 |
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