Embodied Family Choreography documents the lived and embodied practices employed to
establish, maintain, and negotiate intimate social relationships in the family, examining …

This chapter outlines an 'intensification'of parenting: the process whereby child-rearing has
become a much more labour-intensive, demanding task. Drawing on work in the sociology …

'The Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life series is impressive and
contemporary in its themes and approaches'–Professor Deborah Chambers, Newcastle …

" Following on from Making Sense of Motherhood (2005) and Making Sense of Fatherhood
(2010), Tina Miller's book focuses on parenthood and mothers' and fathers' unfolding …

The subject of stability for children in long‐term foster care is an emerging field within social
work with vulnerable children. In Sweden, the adoption of foster children is not a common …

How does the use of parent–daycare mobile communication applications reconfigure the
emplacement and timing of parenting? In what ways, if any, do parents' practices challenge …

Building on interviews with 31 Swedish mothers and drawing on the concepts of emotion
work, feeling rules, and cultural, economic and social capital, the article examines the …

In this article, the Swedish findings from a European comparative study on 0–3-year-old
children and their digital lives are presented and discussed in relation to domestication …

The family is increasingly a site of political intervention as a locus of pervasive social
inequalities and a potential resource for resolving injustices. Contemporary political theory …

Parents of children in out-of-home care receive little support from social services. Drawing
on qualitative data collected in the project 'Parent at a distance', in which social services in …