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Families with Children in a Turbulent Era
This book analyses how turbulence is interwoven into the everyday life of families with children, thus becoming personal and intimate. Chapter authors use empirical data to highlight the contextual and relational nature of both global and local challenges affecting families, discussing complex dynamics across health, work and the environment.
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This book analyses how turbulence is interwoven into the everyday life of families with children, thus becoming personal and intimate. Chapter authors use empirical data to highlight the contextual and relational nature of both global and local challenges affecting families, discussing complex dynamics across health, work and the environment.
Presenting insights based on cutting-edge research, contributing authors examine how diverse disruptions, which often intersect, are lived and experienced by parents and children. They cover important issues including poverty, Covid-19, working life and climate change. Chapters include micro-level explorations, focusing on accounts of turbulence within single country contexts, as well as macro-level analysis, concentrating on cross-country differences where welfare states, work and everyday family life intersect. They investigate how institutional contexts and macro-level changes influence the micro-level within the household.
Families with Children in a Turbulent Era is an invaluable resource for students and researchers across a wide range of social sciences, including comparative social policy, education, social psychology, social work and family, gender and labour market studies. It is also a thought-provoking read for professionals and policymakers at the local, national and international level, as well as education and social policy administrators.
Presenting insights based on cutting-edge research, contributing authors examine how diverse disruptions, which often intersect, are lived and experienced by parents and children. They cover important issues including poverty, Covid-19, working life and climate change. Chapters include micro-level explorations, focusing on accounts of turbulence within single country contexts, as well as macro-level analysis, concentrating on cross-country differences where welfare states, work and everyday family life intersect. They investigate how institutional contexts and macro-level changes influence the micro-level within the household.
Families with Children in a Turbulent Era is an invaluable resource for students and researchers across a wide range of social sciences, including comparative social policy, education, social psychology, social work and family, gender and labour market studies. It is also a thought-provoking read for professionals and policymakers at the local, national and international level, as well as education and social policy administrators.
Critical Acclaim
‘Turbulence is not new, for most families it is every day. But maybe the turbulence is changing, the bumps bigger, the jolts sharper and more often. What does that do to families, and what does it feel like to children? This book takes the social laboratory of the pandemic, a time that chucked almost everything into the air, and tells the stories of family life as it unfolded. It is thoughtful, scholarly, insightful. It will help the reader understand how families react, suffer and even enjoy big changes that they didn’t expect.’
– Lyndall Strazdins, The Australian National University, Australia
‘Families with Children in a Turbulent Era eloquently brings together studies from a variety of methodological approaches to consider how diverse disruptions shape family life. This is vital reading for scholars in these times of social upheaval, demonstrating the relational and institutional intersections of family life, as well as how families adapt and endure through societal shifts.’
– Katherine Twamley, University College London, UK
– Lyndall Strazdins, The Australian National University, Australia
‘Families with Children in a Turbulent Era eloquently brings together studies from a variety of methodological approaches to consider how diverse disruptions shape family life. This is vital reading for scholars in these times of social upheaval, demonstrating the relational and institutional intersections of family life, as well as how families adapt and endure through societal shifts.’
– Katherine Twamley, University College London, UK
