Family troubles?

In this important, timely and thought-provoking publication, a wide range of contributors explore how troublesâ¿? feature in â¿¿normal families, and how the â¿¿normal features in â¿¿troubledâ¿? families.

In this important, timely and thought-provoking publication, a wide range of contributors explore how "troubles" feature in "normal" families, and how the "normal" features in "troubled" families.

Foreword ~ Dorit Braun; Preface; Troubling normalities and normal family troubles: diversities,experiences and tensions ~ Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Carol-Ann Hooper, Val Gillies; Part One: APPROACHING FAMILY TROUBLES: CONTEXTS AND METHODOLOGIES, Introduction to Part One ~ Jane Ribbens McCarthy; Cultural context, families and troubles ~ Jill Korbin; Representing family troubles through the 20th century ~ Janet Fink; The role of science in understanding family troubles ~ Michael Rutter; Family troubles, methods trouble: qualitative research and the methodological divide ~ Ara Francis; Part Two : WHOSE TROUBLE? CONTESTED DEFINITIONS AND PRACTICES, Introduction to Part Two ~ Val Gillies; Disabled parents and normative family life: the obscuring of lived experiences of parents and children within policy and research accounts ~ Harriet Clarke and Lindsay O'Dell; Normal problems or problem children? Parents and the micro-politics of deviance and disability ~ Ara Francis; Troubled talk and talk about troubles: moral cultures of infant feeding in professional, policy and parenting discourses ~ Helen Lomax; Children's non-conforming behaviour: personal trouble or public issue? ~ Geraldine Brady;Revealing the lived reality of kinship care through children and young people's narratives: "It's not all nice, it's not all easy-going, it's a difficult journey to go on" ~ Karin Cooper; Part Three: THE NORMAL, THE TROUBLING AND THE HARMFUL?, Introduction to Part Three ~ Carol-Ann Hooper; Troubling loss? Children's experiences of major disruptions in family life ~ Lynn Jamieson and Gill Highet; The permeating presence of past domestic and familial violence:"So like I'd never let anyone hit me but I've hit them, and I shouldn't have done" ~ Dawn Mannay; Thinking about sociological work on personal and family life in the light of research on young people's experience of parental substance misuse ~ Sarah Wilson; The trouble with siblings: some psychosocial thoughts about sisters, aggression and femininity ~ Helen Lucey; Children and family transitions: contact and togetherness and family contact ~ Hayley Davies; Part Four: TROUBLES AND TRANSITIONS ACROSS SPACE AND CULTURE, Introduction to Part Four ~ Jane Ribbens McCarthy; 'Troubling' or 'ordinary'? Children's views on migration and intergenerational ethnic identities ~ Umut Erel; Colombian families dealing with parents' international migration ~ Maria Claudia Duque-Paramo;Families left behind: unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK ~ Elaine Chase and June Statham; Young people's caring relations and transitions within families affected by HIV ~ Ruth Evans; Estimating the prevalence of forced marriage in England ~ Peter Keogh, Anne Kazimirski, Susan Purdon and Ruth Maisey; Part Five: WORKING WITH FAMILIES, Introduction to Part Five ~ Carol-Ann Hooper; European perspectives on parenting and family support ~ Janet Boddy; What supports resilient coping in families? A systemic practitioner's perspective ~ Arlene Vetere; Troubled and troublesome teens: mothers' and professionals' understandings of parenting teenagers and teenage troubles ~ Harriet Churchill and Karen Clarke; Contested family practices and moral reasoning: updating concepts for working with family-related social problems ~ Hannele Forsberg; Working with fathers: risk or resource? ~ Brid Featherstone; What is at stake in family troubles? Existential issues and value frameworks ~ Jane Ribbens McCarthy