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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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Out-of-place: the lack of engagement with parent networks of caregiving fathers of young children
Authors: Brooks, Rachel ; Hodkinson, Paul
Appeared or available online: July 19, 2019 -
Tracing pathways of relatedness: How identity-release gamete donors negotiate biological (non-)parenthood
Author: Gilman, Leah
Appeared or available online: July 19, 2019 -
Enemies, allies or citizens? The subject positions of men in the making of birth leave for fathers in Israel
Authors: Perez-Vaisvidovsky, Nadav
Appeared or available online: May 30, 2019 -
The shame and shaming of parents in the child protection process: findings from a case study of an English child protection service
Author: Gibson, Matthew
Appeared or available online: May 30, 2019 -
Disguised compliance or undisguised nonsense? A critical discourse analysis of compliance and resistance in social work practice
Authors: Leigh, Jadwiga ; Beddoe, Liz ; Keddell, Emily
Appeared or available online: May 28, 2019 -
Adoption wars: inequality, child welfare and (social) justice
Author: Kirton, Derek
Appeared or available online: March 29, 2019 -
Yang sheng, care and changing family relations in China: About a ‘left-behind’ mother’s diet
Author: Lin, Xiaodong
Appeared or available online: November 2, 2018 -
‘My own blood’: Family relationships of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people in the UK
Author: Devenney, Kelly
Appeared or available online: November 2, 2018 -
Resisting the commodification of intimate life? Paternal love, emotional bordering and narratives of ambivalent family consumerism from Scottish and Romanian fathers
Author: Macht, Alexandra
Appeared or available online: November 2, 2018 -
What is ‘good timing’ in parenthood? Young mothers’ accounts of parenthood and its timing
Authors: Wissö, Therése
Appeared or available online: August 10, 2018 -
The imprint of trauma on family relationships: an enquiry into what may trouble a ‘troubled family’ and its implications for whole-family services
Author: Tew, Jerry
Appeared or available online: August 10, 2018 -
Revisiting the use of ‘counselling’ as a means of preparing prospective parents to meet the emerging psychosocial needs of families that have used gamete donation
Authors: Crawshaw, Marilyn ; Daniels, Ken
Appeared or available online: August 10, 2018 -
The personal life of Facebook: managing friendships with social media
Authors: Policarpo, Verónica
Appeared or available online: August 3, 2018 -
Views from birth children: exploring the backstage world of sibling strangers
Authors: Rees, Alyson; Pithouse, Andrew
Appeared or available online: August 3, 2018 -
Governing through ‘the family’ in China: Cultivating ethical political subjects through officials’ ‘nearest and dearest’
Authors: Zhang, Shaoying ; McGhee, Derek
Appeared or available online: July 3, 2018 -
Who gets custody of the friends? Online narratives of changes in friendship networks following relationship breakdown
Authors: Aeby, Gaëlle ; van Hooff, Jenny
Appeared or available online: July 3, 2018 -
Parenting in stepfamilies: revisiting the stepfather’s role
Author: Atalaia, Susana
Appeared or available online: May 24, 2018 -
The significance of friendship in UK single mothers’ intimate lives
Author: Morris, Charlotte Ann
Appeared or available online: May 22, 2018