FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Alternative Family

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

Young people transitioning from out-of-home care to adulthood encounter an abrupt change in status dictated by government regulations, which call their social ties into question. Despite frequently challenging or disrupted family relationships, international research shows that family becomes highly salient again during this period. This article examines how young people with out-of-home care experience negotiate th…

Reference · Wikidata

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Book · DOAB

A typical trajectory continues to dominate the life course in Switzerland: most people marry, have children, and adopt an unequal division of work between spouses. How can we understand this (relatively) weak diversity in family forms? Swiss institutions remain largely conceived in reference to the “Male Breadwinner” model: do individuals who do family in alternative ways encounter specific difficulties, which encou…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

In recognition of society's changing family dynamics, due to divorce, separation, and the adaptation of cohabitating relationships, a significant amount of children are growing up in homes separate from that of their biological fathers, and are subsequently experiencing the addition of an alternative father figure in their lives. Further, a significant amount of American children are growing up in single-parent home…