Reordering family practices in an unequal and disorderly world: contemporary adoption and contact in the UK

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1332/204674321x16388097229006

K. Wood, B. Featherstone, Anna Gupta

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Abstract

Using findings from The Role of the Social Worker in Adoption – Ethics and Human Rights: An Enquiry, commissioned by the British Association of Social Workers, the following article presents a number of emerging themes regarding post-adoption contact and support in the UK. Three hundred individuals and 13 organisations across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland contributed to the enquiry and the data were analysed thematically. Within this article we will address some of the challenges regarding post-adoption contact and locate these within broader, often unexamined, concerns about poverty and inequalities. Drawing on sociological literature on ‘family practices’ and ‘displaying family’, we will consider both the status of adoption and the realities of carrying out post-adoption contact in an age of ever-increasing complexities in relationships. In doing so, we will explore how those involved in adoption carry out such practices, as well as the implications for professionals tasked with facilitating contact.

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在一个不平等和无序的世界中重新安排家庭实践:当代英国的收养和接触

根据英国社会工作者协会委托的《社会工作者在收养中的角色——道德与人权:调查》的调查结果，以下文章介绍了英国关于收养后联系和支持的一些新主题。来自英格兰、苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰的300名个人和13个组织参与了调查，并对数据进行了主题分析。在这篇文章中，我们将解决一些关于收养后接触的挑战，并将这些挑战定位在更广泛的，通常未经审查的，对贫困和不平等的关注中。在“家庭实践”和“展示家庭”的社会学文献中，我们将考虑收养的现状和在关系日益复杂的时代进行收养后接触的现实。在此过程中，我们将探讨那些参与收养的人如何实施这些做法，以及对负责促进联系的专业人员的影响。

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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.