Just Like FamilyPub Date : 2021-07-13DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479828852.003.0004
Andrea Laurent-Simpson
{"title":"“Phil’s Calling Grandma”","authors":"Andrea Laurent-Simpson","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479828852.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479828852.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter demonstrates how both childless and childfree participants discussed the role that their own parents, partners, and sometimes siblings played in supporting their “parent” identities related to their dogs and cats. This confirmation was important to the maintenance of these familial identities. Childfree and childless people often feel stigmatized by society in general, even as American women increasingly delay childbirth or even opt out of having children entirely. Indeed, being without children is stigmatized. Being without children while also parenting animal “kids” can feel more stigmatized. This societal pushback is familiar to nontraditional families in general, but this chapter shows that a unique justification for social judgment of multispecies families without children lies in the multispecies nature of their families. The findings in this chapter reveal that support of the parent identity from significant others was both meaningful and important for the continued performance of parent identities and the emergence of new identities such as “partner,” “parent,” “grandparent,” and “aunt” and “uncle.”","PeriodicalId":388831,"journal":{"name":"Just Like Family","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133213258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Just Like FamilyPub Date : 2021-07-13DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479828852.003.0006
Andrea Laurent-Simpson
{"title":"“This Is My Son Rosenberg”","authors":"Andrea Laurent-Simpson","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479828852.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479828852.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyzes macro-level evidence found in pet-product advertisements to connect the multispecies family form to specific familial identities, like “parent” and “child,” demonstrating how these new relationships are increasingly reproduced in mainstream American culture. The author argues that advertisers have increasingly designed ads that reflect both pet parent and pet as child in the United States, effectively producing and reproducing the companion animal as “family” with all of its attendant identities. Print ads for products such as dog and cat food and toys, obedience school, adoption, household cleaning products, shoes, and insurance show how advertisers are negotiating companion animals as important family members in American society. In turn, these images provide macro-level reinforcement for micro-level interactions that have gradually developed new meanings for what constitutes “family,” “parent,” and “child.”","PeriodicalId":388831,"journal":{"name":"Just Like Family","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127080348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Just Like FamilyPub Date : 2021-07-13DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479828852.003.0003
Andrea Laurent-Simpson
{"title":"“She Loves to Be Read To”","authors":"Andrea Laurent-Simpson","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479828852.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479828852.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Using identity theory, this chapter explores the ways in which traditional family identities emerge within the childfree and childless multispecies family. These role identities, and accompanying behaviors, demonstrate the multispecies family as a type of family structure, different from other, single-species families without children and with increasing levels of macro-level support. Highlighting behavioral expectations of the “parent” in American culture, like caregiving, socializing, and nurturing, this chapter demonstrates how participants are parenting their dogs and cats in ways that are steadily transforming definitions of family as well as who can legitimately claim the “family” label, further increasing the diversification of family structure in the United States. Findings also show the unique repercussions that this family form can have, compared to single-species families without children, for economic expenditure, work-family balance, and emotional support within the multispecies family sphere.","PeriodicalId":388831,"journal":{"name":"Just Like Family","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124181842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Just Like FamilyPub Date : 2021-07-13DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479828852.003.0005
Andrea Laurent-Simpson
{"title":"“They Call Me His Mommy”","authors":"Andrea Laurent-Simpson","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479828852.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479828852.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter develops extant literature to examine the types of identities that are ascribed to pets when human children are part of the household structure. For example, both parents with children currently at home and empty nesters provide narratives suggesting that their children were apt to assign “brother,” “sister,” or “sibling” to the family animal companion. Alternatively, some parents shared that they had thought of the family dog or cat as a sibling for their only child. The concept of boundary maintenance explores the strict boundaries that parents draw between their human children and the family dog and cat. While these boundaries remain intact throughout their children’s childhood, they appear to blur a bit when children leave the nest. This results in the emergence of a “caretaker” identity for empty nesters in which some parental behavior emerges related to the dog and cat, but not in the intense manner with which it is present for childfree or childless families.","PeriodicalId":388831,"journal":{"name":"Just Like Family","volume":"188 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134069738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Just Like FamilyPub Date : 2021-07-13DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479828852.003.0002
Andrea Laurent-Simpson
{"title":"Has the American Family Gone to the Animals?","authors":"Andrea Laurent-Simpson","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479828852.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479828852.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines how various historical, macro-level forces have driven the emergence of the multispecies family as it exists today. After reviewing existing literature on the sociohistorical impact of postmodernity and subsequent recognition of companion animals as sentient, agential beings, this chapter argues that any understanding of the multispecies family as a new, nontraditional family form must take into account the influence of the Industrial Revolution and concomitant demographic transitions on the diversification of family structure within the United States. The second demographic transition is used to explain increasing family diversification in the United States and the ways in which this has been a main driver of the emergence of the multispecies family.","PeriodicalId":388831,"journal":{"name":"Just Like Family","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115841721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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