scholarly journals Stepfamilies

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Gill Gorell Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
If Current ◽  
Children And Young Adults ◽  
The One ◽  
Year 2000

Family life in Britain is changing daily to include more stepfamilies, which have widely differing structures with varying histories, losses, transitions and economic circumstances. Of the one in five children who currently experience separation before they are 16, over half will live in a stepfamily at some point in their lives. Of the 150 000 couples with children who divorced each year at the end of the 1980s, a further 35 000 had a subsequent divorce. For some children we need to think of step-parenting within wider processes of transition, which include relationship changes of many kinds. The National Stepfamily Association have calculated that if current trends of divorce, cohabitation, remarriage and birth continue, there will be around 2.5 million children and young adults growing up in a stepfamily by the year 2000. The true pattern of re-ordering of partnership and family life is hard to chart, since many couples second or third time around prefer to cohabit rather than to marry.

The child with kidney disease

2021 ◽  
pp. 433-489
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Kidney Diseases ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Paediatric Nephrology ◽  
Adult Kidney ◽  
The World ◽  
Children And Young Adults

As adult nephrologists we recognize the importance of understanding the evolution of kidney disease in children and young adults. We also acknowledge that in many parts of the world there is no distinction between adult and paediatric nephrology and therefore it is important that nephrologists have a sound grasp of paediatric and adult kidney diseases. Transition from paediatric to adult nephrology services is a challenging time for many young adults living with kidney disease and ensuring adult nephrologists appreciate the multiple and often unique challenges growing up with kidney disease bring is an important component of nephrology practice. It is also important that as adult nephrologists we understand the spectrum of kidney diseases that affect children and young adults, which are often markedly different to those we encounter in adult practice.

The Family Meal

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy L. Best
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Family Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Family Meals ◽  
Food Provisioning ◽  
Written Narratives ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One

This chapter explores food and family life, focusing on changes to modern families as expressed in the interviews and narratives about family meals as a form of private food provisioning that is increasingly shaped by tensions between commodified social relations on the one hand, and food as object of care, tied to a gift exchange between parents and children, on the other. Drawing on 260 written narratives about family and food by young adults between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three, collected between 2007 and 2012, the chapter reveals a marked tension between the precariousness of family life, arising in large part from the economic imperatives of work, and the symbolic work of family members, old and young, to maintain family bonds through family food rituals.

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