UAntwerp Dept. of Literature seeks full-time doctoral researcher in contemporary anglophone fiction under my supervision. Fully funded up to 4 years.
Deadline: 30 April 2026 @uantwerpen.be www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...
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#MorningReads Marriage & wealth reinforce each other producing large wealth gaps between married & cohabiting couples. Study found that when cohabitation becomes an alternative to marriage (as in Québec) marriage’s wealth advantage weakened. #FamilyStudies #livingtogether

Parenthood Desires and Intentions Among Italian Transgender Adults Research has shown that many individuals engaged in gender affirmation still wish to become parents despite personal, psychosocial, and structural barriers. The present study adopted an intersectio...

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Younger age and stronger partner relationship quality were the only significant predictors of both desire and intent. Findings highlight how relational support and life stage shape trans parenthood goals—and the need for better-informed healthcare support. #LGBTQFamily #FamilyStudies

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This study theorizes estrangement as a catalyst for redoing family through a dynamic process of rebuilding kinship's meaning, structure, and content. Background Research on family estran...

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Applying redoing family theory to estrangement interviews, findings show family remade through chosen & symbolic kin: trusted peers, surrogate elders, and sustained non-estranged ties—advancing family as mediated practice over static institution. #FamilyStudies

Child & Family Studies Professor nominated for Early Academic Career Excellence Award for research on Mindfulness and Relationships Image Dr. Matthew E.

More of this, please. Science and scientists need to be celebrated -- it encourages them and young people looking at career paths in a complex world.

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#mindfulness #academicachievement #employeerecognition #familystudies #latinx #depression #relationships

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Who Cares? – Ein Forschungsblog des Projekts „Who Cares? Familien- und Sorgebeziehungen im Wandel"

Von den (Groß-)Vätern zur Familie – Ab dem WS wird unser Blog vom Projekt „Who Cares? Familien- und Sorgebeziehungen im Wandel“ fortgeführt. Die Fächervielfalt steigt, das Thema bleibt: Familien in ihrer Vielfalt erforschen. Mehr unter sorge-erforschen-hd.de. #FamilyStudies grossvater.hypotheses.org

Odisee’s Social research cluster focuses on justice, inclusion & family support.

👪 Centre for Family Studies: parenting & empowerment
🏙️ Social Work Research Centre: rights & urban citizenship

#EUResearch #SocialWork #FamilyStudies #Brussels

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This research note examines whether the fatherhood bonus—the earnings increase that men, on average, experience after the birth of a child—varies by sex of child, a largely overlooked dime...

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Fathers of daughters experience a larger fatherhood bonus than fathers of sons. For married men, daughters’ births are linked to longer work hours, while sons’ births show no increase—suggesting child’s sex shapes men’s views of “good fathering.” #FamilyStudies #GenderMatters

New on NOTCHES!

Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community by William Jankowiak

Read the exclusive author interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PT

#LGBTQHistory #HistoryOfSexuality #FamilyStudies #ReligiousHistory #Polyamory #Polyamorous #Mormon

The Global Living Arrangements Database, 1960–2021 - Scientific Data Scientific Data - The Global Living Arrangements Database, 1960–2021

📢 The Global Living Arrangements Database (GLAD) is out! 🎉 Check out all the details on how we built this new data infrastructure of the CORESIDENCE project in our article just published in Scientific Data.

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#demography #familystudies

"Fathering Children with Disabilities" explores the often-forgotten role of fathers in caring for children, bridging the gap between #DisabilityStudies, #GenderStudies, and #FamilyStudies 📖 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#NewBook @PalgraveSoc

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Among other topics, respondents were asked about their attitudes towards gender ideology, gendered division of household work, female employment across the life cycle, work-family conflict, different living arrangements, and family models.

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Yes, the myth of the family men for feminist was broken

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#fertility #familystudies

Research Articles Open access A qualitative exploration of adoptive family practices in contemporary India: the voices of adoptees of closed adoptions Author: Sushri Sangita Puhan. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/20467435Y2024D000000014 Pages: 305–320 ‘I try to do something a bit different’: exploring fathers’ integration of care ethics in everyday family lives Author: Jason Preston DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/20467435Y2024D000000016 Pages: 321–336 Full Access Intergenerational transmission of social memory: a narrative review Author: Cristian Rojas-Granada DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/20467435Y2024D000000027 Pages: 337–351 Full Access Doing (in)equality in Swedish families: women’s narratives of outsourcing domestic work Authors: Ann-Louise Silfver and Ulrika Widding DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/20467435Y2024D000000029 Pages: 352–367 Full Access Shrinking futures: ecologically childfree as emotion management Author: Isabella Clark DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/20467435Y2024D000000031 Pages: 368–385 Full Access Cultivating parental virtuosi: therapeutic grammar and neuro-claims in Danish parenting courses Authors: Stine Thidemann Faber and Anne Hovgaard Jørgensen DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/20467435Y2024D000000033 Pages: 386–401 Open access Digital group archives in residential childcare: an investigation into memory responsibility Authors: Siân E. Lucas, Andrew Burns, Ruth Emond, and Laura Reid DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/20467435Y2024D000000034 Pages: 402–418 Full Access The diversity of grandparents in rural China: a new classification based on the shift in grandparents’ ideology and family structure Author: Ye Wang DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/20467435Y2024D000000035 Pages: 419–437

The latest issue of Families, Relationships and Societies is out now!
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🚨 Call for Essays! 🚨
Oxford Intersections' Gender Justice is a new project spotlighting gender expansion & liberation across global contexts. Check it out:
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Families, Relationships and Societies "Families, Relationships and Societies" published on by Policy Press.

Do you want to join the International Editorial Board for Families, Relationships and Societies? You’re in luck, we’re recruiting!
Applications close 31 August
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#FamilyStudies #SocSky sociology

Plenty of ideas and inspiration to take back to our own research @doctinak.bsky.social. Grateful for the knowledge exchange and the beautiful setting that made it even more special! 🏝️

#ESFR2025 #FamilyStudies #Parenthood

NEW: Handbook of Literacy in Families and Communities, edited by Patricia A. Edwards, Catherine Compton-Lilly and Guofang Li

🆓 content: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

More information: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

#FamilyLiteracy #Sociology #FamilyStudies #GenderStudies

The Family and the LGBTQ Population Over the past two decades, attention to LGBTQ+ adults and their families in the U.S. has grown significantly due to advocacy movements, policy debates, and improved data collection. Early U.S. Census ...

In honor of today, check out this #freshout grand review of the demographic LGBT family lit. From data gains to persistent gaps, we trace how family structures, identities, and outcomes are (and aren’t) captured in mainstream research. #LGBTQ #Demography #FamilyStudies w/ @chrisajulian.bsky.social

Research Articles Epistemic injustice in a parenting support programme for refugees in Norway [Full Access] Authors: Tale Steen-Johnsen and Lisbeth Ljosdal Skreland DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/204674321X16687031331255 Pages: 448–463 Parental and work-related identities among primary caregiving and primary breadwinning mothers and fathers [Full Access] Authors: Mariana Pinho and Ruth Gaunt DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/204674322X16597663169119 Pages: 464–484 Readiness parenting: practices of care by parents of children with chronic kidney disease in Portugal [Full Access] Authors: Andréa Bruno de Sousa, Ana Rita Goes, and Anette Wickström DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/204674321X16463025919528 Pages: 485–501 Growing together: displaced women’s resilience and growth in reciprocal relationship [Open access] Authors: Lucy Holmyard, Avril Bellinger, Janet Smithson, and Anke Karl DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/204674321X16587314856737 Pages: 502–518 Family stories: investigating trauma-informed narratives, change behaviours and environments in complex family experiences [Full Access] Authors: Emma Maynard, Wendy Sims-Schouten, Nikki Fairchild, and Amy Warhurst DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/204674321X16697219676128 Pages: 519–536 The changing role of migrant grandparents and the emergence of dual-core familism in urban China [Full Access] Authors: Hongyu Xu and Yixiong Huang DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/204674321X16675621882568 Pages: 537–554 Knowledge forms and gendered moralities in policies of infant care in Brazil [Full Access] Author: Claudia Fonseca DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/204674321X16533933612496 Pages: 555–571 Is my best friend toxic? A textual analysis of online advice on difficult relationships [Full Access] Authors: Kinneret Lahad and Jenny van Hooff DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/204674321X16613283926068 Pages: 572–587

Looking for something to read as you travel to the 1st International Child and Family Conference? 🚄 🚌 🚴‍♀️
Check out this free issue of Families, Relationships and Societies bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
#FamilySociology #FamilyPolicy #SocSky #FamilyStudies

For #InternationalDayOfFamilies, we suggest FAMILY BEYOND FAMILY: The Varieties of Kinship Experience, edited by Parker Shipton and James P. Ito-Adler.

Read more here: bit.ly/3AT44NY

#FamilyStudies #Sociology #Anthropology

If your department is hiring soon, please keep an eye on @kefanxue.bsky.social! She does great work on young caregivers in China and is finishing up her PhD at Oxford @osgaoxford.bsky.social! #academicsky #childhoodstudies #familystudies #sociology

Making a Family: Kinning and Conception in Lesbian Families In the Netherlands, lesbian couples have a relatively high level of agency in shaping conception, as they can choose between different donor constructions (sperm bank donor versus contact donor), h...

Lesbian couples actively shape family bonds, as shown in a new study by @allisongeerts.bsky.social and #GENPARENT. Interviews with 24 Dutch couples reveal how conception choices goes beyond biology to shape relationships in new ways.
#FamilyStudies #LGBTQResearch #Kinship #LesbianFamilies #research

The generational shift towards the reciprocal disclosure of intimacy in daughter–father relationships through physical activity in the UK Within family sociology during the past 30 years, while a general consensus has developed that most parents and children in the Western world have come to share relationships characterised by a greate...

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The generational shift towards the reciprocal disclosure of intimacy in daughter–father relationships through physical activity in the UK doi.org/10.1332/2046...
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Wives’ enduring responsibility? The exercises and outcomes of gender power in urban Chinese families Despite the substantial growth in women’s employment and income, why does housework remain wives’ enduring responsibility? From interviews with 15 young married couples in urban China, and guided b...

My first ever article publication is officially out!!
The title is, Wives’ enduring responsibility? The exercises and outcomes of gender power in urban Chinese families.
#familystudies #genderstudies #chinesefamily #qualitativemethod
Doi below:
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Like this is you are a family scholar, and esp if a gender and family scholar and race and family scholar. Interested in all disciplines! #familystudies

Are middle children more cooperative and honest? Here’s what a massive study discovered Middle children tend to be slightly more cooperative and honest, while only children are more creative. Larger families foster higher levels of humility and agreeableness, but these personality differences are small.

Middle children tend to be slightly more cooperative and honest, while only children are more creative. Larger families foster higher levels of humility and agreeableness, but these personality differences are small. #MiddleChild #SiblingDynamics #FamilyStudies #Cooperation #Honesty

Findings suggest growth in support for both male and female same-sex parents. Underlying value orientations (politics and religiosity) appear to still drive differentials in public opinion. #MorningReads #sociology #demography #familystudies #queerstudies

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective Our goal is to track changes in attitudes about same-sex parents in the United States across a 10-year time span between 2012 and 2022. Background During this period, there have been tra.....

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Attitudes toward same-sex couple parents: A decade
of change.

Find increases in support for samesex parents, and most of the covariates were related to attitudes about same-sex parents in a similar manner in 2012 as 2022. #sociology #demography #familystudies #queerstudies