Personal Life Perspective

Question 1

What is the personal life perspective explanation of ties beyond blood and marriage?

Answer 1

-Wider conception of what family is
-By focusing on individual meaning it shows a range of different intimate relationships- helps create sense identity
-E.g fictive kin- aunts and uncles, LGBT chosen families, dead relatives and pets
-Recognises choice- Postmodernists support

Question 2

What is the personal life perspective explanation of donor conceived children?

Answer 2

-Smart- issue of blood and genes led to: some parents emphasising social relationships over genetic ones e g effort put in to raising child is more important than cell
-Lesbian couples struggled with equality of genetic and not mothers
-Recognises family has functions