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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.

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.

Despite growing recognition of fathers’ involvement in family life, dominant narratives still marginalise men’s caring roles. Caring Fathers in the Global Context addresses a pressing gap in our shared understanding: how care is practised and experienced by men across diverse cultural, social and policy settings. Drawing on wide-ranging, international research, this timely edited collection offers a rich, comparative exploration of how men become ‘caring fathers’ and the pathways leading to this. It connects fatherhood studies with care scholarship to provide new theoretical and empirical insights into how care is shared, negotiated and made meaningful in everyday life.A vital and interdisciplinary resource for anyone studying families and social change, this book invites readers to rethink care, masculinity and intergenerational relationships in a rapidly changing world.

Tunteet ovat perhe- ja läheissuhteita rakentava, kiinnipitävä ja hajottava voima. Kaikki perheet ovat omanlaisiaan, mutta niissä koetut tunteet eivät synny vain perheen sisäisessä vuorovaikutuksessa. Perhe ja tunteet yhdistää tunteiden ja läheissuhteiden tärkeät kysymykset, kuten suhteiden uudet, erilaiset ja vaihtuvat muodot sekä niihin liittyvät tunteet muutoksineen läpi elämänkulun. Teoksessa paneudutaan etenkin lasten perhearkeen, sukulaisuuteen ja sukupolvisuhteisiin, perhe-elämän kipupisteisiin sekä sukupuolen kysymyksiin. Esillä ovat muun muassa tunteet erilaisissa konflikteissa, isovanhempien tunteet ja tunteista viestiminen miesten ystävyyssuhteissa. Entä miten perhe-elämää koetaan vankilan varjossa, ja miltä huostaan otettujen lasten äideistä tuntuu? Ja mitä tarkoittaa naisvalitus? Perhe ja tunteet tarjoaa uutta tutkimustietoa ja nostaa esille ne moninaiset tavat, joilla tunteiden kirjo kietoutuu perhe- ja läheissuhteisiin erilaisissa ja erilaisten olosuhteiden muovaamissa arjissa.