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Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a social science journal designed to advance scholarship and debate in the growing field of families and relationships across the life course. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues from interdisciplinary, social science perspectives, whilst maintaining a solid grounding in sociological theory and methods and a strong policy and practice focus.
Publisher: Policy Press
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Being a good digital parent: representations of parents, youth and the parent–youth relationship in expert advice
Author: Wall, Glenda
Appeared or available online: April 5, 2021 -
Conscious coupling: loss of public promises of a life-long bond? An exploration of authenticity and autonomy in commitment processes across contemporary long-term relationship forms
Authors: Blake, Sharon ; Janssens, Astrid
Appeared or available online: March 17, 2021 -
Guiding the young child: trajectories of parents’ educational work in Singapore
Authors: Göransson, Kristina
Appeared or available online: February 9, 2021 -
Representations of ‘progressive fatherhood’ in postcolonial Zimbabwe: binaries, ambivalences and ambiguities
Author: Mitchell, Sarah Jane
Appeared or available online: January 29, 2021 -
Paid parental leave and fathers’ involvement: capturing fathers’ gender beliefs and fathering perceptions
Authors: Streckenbach, Luisa A. ; Castiglioni, Laura ; Schober, Pia S.
Appeared or available online: January 21, 2021 -
Romance, companionship and masculinities in establishing relationships by Mexican Mormon men
Author: Siles, Ali
Appeared or available online: January 19, 2021 -
(No) recourse to lunch: a frontline view of free school meals and immigration control during the COVID-19 pandemic
Author: Dickson, Eve
Appeared or available online: January 19, 2021 -
‘Er, not the best time’: methodological and ethical challenges of researching family life during a pandemic
Authors: Faircloth, Charlotte; Twamley, Katherine; Iqbal, Humera
Appeared or available online: January 6, 2021 -
Displaying intimate friendships: Chinese children’s practices of friendships at school
Author: Zhu, Yan
Appeared or available online: November 30, 2020 -
Fostering ‘digital citizens’ in Norway: experiences of migrant mothers
Authors: Bønnhoff, Heidi Esma Dahl
Appeared or available online: November 24, 2020 -
Gendered perceptions of workaholism and the gender gap in parenting time
Authors: Buchanan, Tom ; McFarlane, Adian ; Das, Anupam
Appeared or available online: October 29, 2020 -
Mothering practices across three generations of Chinese women: from liberated woman, virtuous wife and good mother, to intensive full-time mother
Author: Guo, Xin
Appeared or available online: October 26, 2020 -
Schooling, work and house life: women’s triple shifts in times of a global health crisis
Author: Joiko, Sara
Appeared or available online: September 25, 2020 -
Couples’ daily childcare schedules: gendered patterns and variations
Author: Henz, Ursula
Appeared or available online: September 21, 2020 -
Unclear endings: difficult friendships and the limits of the therapeutic ethic
Authors: Eramian, Laura ; Mallory, Peter
Appeared or available online: September 21, 2020 -
“I thought, Oh shit, because I was 19.” Discourses and practices on young fatherhood in Denmark
Author: Reinicke, Kenneth
Appeared or available online: July 24, 2020 -
Persistent stigma despite social change: experiences of stigma among single women who were pregnant or mothers in the Republic of Ireland 1996–2010
Authors: Bradley, Ciara ; Millar, Michelle
Appeared or available online: July 17, 2020 -
Becoming primary caregivers? Unemployed fathers caring alone in Spain
Authors: Castrillo, Concepción; Rogero-García, Jesús; Romero-Balsas, Pedro; Meil, Gerardo
Appeared or available online: July 17, 2020 -
The experience of qualitative research with young fathers: considerations of gender, class and reflexive practice
Authors: Davies, Laura ; Hanna, Esmée
Appeared or available online: July 6, 2020 -
Caveats and criteria: intercultural courtships of shengnü (‘leftover women’) and Western men in urban China
Author: To, Sandy
Appeared or available online: May 22, 2020 -
Good men need to be you dandang: negotiating masculinity in intimate relationships in contemporary China
Author: Cao, Siyang
Appeared or available online: March 23, 2020 -
Knowledge generation and former carers: reflections and ways forward
Authors: Larkin, Mary ; Milne, Alisoun
Appeared or available online: February 6, 2020 -
When equal partners become unequal parents: couple relationships and intensive parenting culture
Author: Faircloth, Charlotte
Appeared or available online: January 31, 2020 -
Beyond the ‘stop gap’: young (adult) women’s experiences of living with parents in the aftermath of the Greek austerity crisis
Author: Kazana-McCarthy, Julia
Appeared or available online: January 29, 2020 -
Perceptions of donor-conceived families: a survey study on the perspectives of teachers
Authors: Indekeu, Astrid ; Lampic, Claudia
Appeared or available online: December 20, 2019 -
Family relationships and internet abuse in 25 European countries
Authors: Rivera, Reynaldo G. ; Santos, David ; Grau, Marc Grau ; DeRose, Laurie F.
Appeared or available online: December 12, 2019 -
Displaying parenthood, (un)doing gender: parental leave, daycare and working-time adjustments in Sweden and the UK
Authors: Kaufman, Gayle ; Grönlund, Anne
Appeared or available online: December 5, 2019 -
“I’m finally allowed to be me”: parent-child estrangement and psychological wellbeing
Authors: Audrey, Helen Linden; Elizabeth, Sillence
Appeared or available online: September 4, 2019