Personal life perspective on the family Flashcards
1
Q
Personal life
A
- look at the meanings people attach to their relationships in the family
2
Q
what is fictive kin?
A
- people you class as family but aren’t related by blood
3
Q
Carol smart - relative strangers (2014)
A
- did a study of relationships and personal life
- grandparents are underrepresented in research
- donor families bring about a sense of belonging
4
Q
Evaluation of the personal life perspective
A
- deny that there has been a decline of family life
- they ignore what is special about blood and marriage relationships
- focus of the traditional nuclear family unit
- there is always positives within family life but there is always bad parts that everyone faces
