Resourceful family economy during LGBTQ family-forming processes

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2023-04-14 DOI:10.1332/204674321x16786941056585

Sonja Anttila, P. Palojoki, Jaana Vuori, Hille Janhonen-Abruquah

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Abstract

This study explores how LGBTQ parents in Finland account for the role of financial resources in their family-forming process before the child is born or otherwise joins the family. Semi-structured, thematic, face-to-face interviews (n=18) were conducted, audio-recorded, transcribed and analysed with reflexive thematic analysis. The study expands our understanding of financial resources in the family-forming processes of prospective LGBTQ parents and identifies the diversity of the meanings of financial resources experienced by the informants. It can be stated that the role of financial resources appears not only as a concrete need for money to have children but also as a resource that influences decision making and legal aspects during LGBTQ family-forming processes. However, it is not enough to look only at resources; it is equally important to consider the capabilities of individuals. The reconfigurations of family relations were connected to financial decisions and the importance of society’s support in terms of financial resources was essential.

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LGBTQ家庭形成过程中的资源型家庭经济

这项研究探讨了芬兰的LGBTQ父母在孩子出生或加入家庭之前如何考虑经济资源在家庭形成过程中的作用。进行了半结构化、专题性、面对面访谈(n=18)，录音、转录并使用反身性专题分析进行分析。本研究扩展了我们对未来LGBTQ父母在家庭形成过程中的经济资源的理解，并确定了举报人所经历的经济资源含义的多样性。可以说，财政资源的作用不仅表现为生儿育女的具体需要，而且表现为影响LGBTQ家庭形成过程中的决策和法律方面的资源。然而，只看资源是不够的;考虑个人的能力也同样重要。家庭关系的重新配置与财政决定有关，社会在财政资源方面的支持至关重要。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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2.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.