Series: Sociology of Children and Families

Drawing on the multinational qualitative study Children's Understandings of Well-being (CUWB), this book offers practical insights into conducting fieldwork across diverse contexts. Featuring experts from 13 countries, the book provides valuable perspectives for researchers across a wide range of academic settings.

Drawing on extensive empirical research, this book examines paternal involvement in caregiving practices and asks what is currently happening to involved fatherhood? Navigating Contemporary Fatherhood in Europe investigates fatherhood in various everyday settings, such as outdoor spaces, workplaces, and the home, while considering the influence of policy frameworks across different European countries. By analysing fathers' experiences and the impact of...

Couples at Work offers a unique look into how couples manage paid employment, housework and childcare. The author explores how employment structures, policies, and practices intersect with individual attitudes to either reinforce or challenge gender inequalities in the domestic sphere through the 'doing' and 'undoing' of gender.

Based on interviews with British stepmothers, Reimagining Stepmother by Patrycja Sosnowska-Buxton uses a feminist sociological lens to reimagine their roles and practices. Combining firsthand accounts, it explores stepfamily dynamics and how stepmothers navigate them, offering new insights into gendered and social structures in contemporary stepfamilies.

Understanding what 'family' means — and how best to support families — depends on challenging politicised assumptions that frame 'ordinary' families in comparison to an imagined problematic 'other'. Learning from the perspectives of people who were in care in childhood, this innovative book, Thinking Through Family, helps redefine the concept of family. Linking two longitudinal studies involving young adults in...