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Community, consumerism and credit: the experience of an urban community in North-West Ireland
- Author:
- MANKTELOW Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Community Work and Family, 14(3), August 2011, pp.257-274.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The problems of debt and consumerism are global phenomena. For people on low incomes, consumer credit is often used to pay for essentials; these people pay substantially more for their credit than the better-off. The study addresses how global forces of credit and consumerism are experienced at a local level and what local collective strategies can be developed to counter such forces. The study was conducted in a relatively deprived, urban, public housing estate in the City of Derry, Northern Ireland. The community can be characterised as having strong links of shared communitarian values and informal systems of mutual aid, and weak ties into the wider world producing a sense of insularity, isolation and stagnation. The impact of debt and consumerism in the community was investigated using 4 focus groups held with representatives of key constituencies (women, teenagers, children and older people.) The constituent groups of the local community reported a diverse experience of strain, isolation, powerlessness and guilt. Five key themes were generated from analysis of the data; these themes described the consumerist pressures and reported the financial struggles and resulting threat to well-being. The themes are: the young consumer; being a good mother; celebration and ritual; the pattern of credit and debt; and managing and not managing.
Relationship difficulties in dementia care: a discursive analysis of two women's accounts
- Author:
- FORBAT Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Dementia: the International Journal of Social Research and Practice, 2(1), February 2003, pp.67-84.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article reports the account given by the mother and how this intersects with the account given by the daughter. The discursive analysis presented centralizes a concern with attending to the accounts of people with dementia. Analysis of the talk of people with dementia can make a valuable contribution to understanding care relationships. Such analysis has the potential for shedding light on difficulties in care relationships.
Adults only: disability, social policy and the life course
- Author:
- PRIESTLEY Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 29(3), July 2000, pp.421-439.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
This article examines the relationship between disability, generation and social policy. The moral and legislative framework for the post-war welfare settlement was grounded in a long-standing cultural construction of 'normal' life course progression. Disability and age (along with gender) were the key components in this construction, defining broad categories of welfare dependency and labour force exemption. The article suggests that, as policy-makers pursue their millennial settlement with mothers, children and older people, they also may be forced to reconstruct the relationship between disabled people and the welfare state.
The effects of offspring gender on older mothers caring for their sons and daughters with mental retardation
- Authors:
- FULLMER Elise M., TOBIN Sheldon S., SMITH Gregory C.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 37(6), December 1997, pp.795-803.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Discusses how most caregivers of adults with mental retardation are older women, yet information is sparse regarding the nature of this support. This article explores the relationship between offspring gender and caregiving by older mothers. Finds that gender differences have implications for outreach to, and services for, these families.
Mother–child relations in adulthood within and across national borders: non-Western immigrants in the Netherlands
- Authors:
- ROOYACKERS Ilse N., de VALK Helga A. G., MERZ Eva-Maria
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 36(10), 2016, pp.2010-2035.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The authors examined structures of (trans)national mother–child relationships in adulthood among non-Western immigrants in the Netherlands and assessed how acculturation impacted these intergenerational ties. From the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study, Turkish, Moroccan, Surinamese and Antillean respondents were selected whose mother lived in the Netherlands (N = 360) or abroad (N = 316). First, extending a previous typology of immigrant mother–child relations in the Netherlands, Latent Class Analysis was conducted for transnational relations. As expected, combining information about given and/or received emotional and financial support resulted in an emotional-interdependent and detached transnational mother–child relationship. Second, acculturation effects were estimated by using relationship assignment as a dependent variable, performing Logistic Regressions on our uni-national and transnational sample. Findings were mixed, suggesting acculturation impacts differently on family relations within and across borders. Overall, the results demonstrate the importance of reciprocal affective ties in a transnational context, also in the absence (Edited publisher abstract)
Family work and quality of life: changing economic and social roles
- Author:
- ESRC GROWING OLDER PROGRAMME
- Publisher:
- University of Sheffield. Department of Sociological Studies
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
Recent socio-economic and demographic changes, such as increasing female labour force participation, rises in the age at which children leave home and improvements in longevity are all likely to have increased the number of people 'caught in the middle',that is, juggling paid work and caring responsibilities, whilst still supporting their own children. This research explored changes in economic and social roles across four birth cohorts passing through mid-life (45-59/64 years). It investigated the relationship between multiple role responsibilities and a range of indicators of quality life including health, material resources and engagement in social activities. The project was based upon secondary analysis of four different surveys:the 2000 British Household Panel Study (BHPS), the 1994-95 Family and Working Lives Survey (FWLS), the 1985, 1990, 1995 General Household Survey (GHS) and the longitudinal 1988/89 and 1994 Retirement Survey (RS).
Grandparents: coming of age?
- Authors:
- ZEILIG Hannah, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 10(3), September 2000, pp.4-7.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
The role of grandparents in Britain has recently been attracting unprecedented attention in both social policy and media arenas. For a multiplicity of reasons linked with demographic, social policy and economic factors, it seems likely that more grandparents will play increasingly pivotal roles both within the private sphere of the family, and within wider society at large in many western industrial nations. Presents an overview of research from a variety of disciplines have been prompted to investigate the complexity of issues surrounding 'grand parenting'.
Women with multiple roles: the emotional impact of caring for ageing parents
- Authors:
- MURPHY Barbara, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 17(3), May 1997, pp.277-291.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
As part of a wider study of family caregiving, a sample of women caring for an ageing parent were identified through a random statewide telephone survey of households in Victoria, Australia. In addition to elder care, half these women were in paid employment and a third had dependent children. The findings highlight the need for structures to support carers to maintain multiple roles, including greater flexibility in the workplace and encouragement of greater reliance on informal networks and formal services, both of which require increased societal acknowledgement of the elder care role.
Family change: guide to the issues
- Author:
- FAMILY POLICY STUDIES CENTRE
- Publisher:
- Family Policy Studies Centre
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 12p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing paper is an update to, and extension of, a previous paper "A Guide to Family Issues". The paper looks to explain the changes in family life and also to investigate various policy responses to these changes. The paper looks at the latest statistics and research on family change and family policy, and also maps the responsibilities of different government departments for different aspects of family life. Areas covered include: marriage, divorce, cohabitation, stepfamilies, birth rates, lone parents, and gay relationships.
Women in context: good practice in mental health services for women
- Editors:
- PERKINS Rachel, et al
- Publisher:
- Good Practices in Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 146p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of papers aiming to contribute to a better understanding of women's needs and the development of appropriate mental health services and initiatives that validate women's experiences. Includes chapters on: the survivor perspective; women as carers; women as mental health workers; African women in the diaspora; Asian women; Chinese women; Irish women in Britain; Jewish women; refugee women; lesbians; older women; women with children; women living in rural areas; sexual abuse in childhood; serious long term mental health problems; mental health issues and learning disabilities; problems around food; self injury; secure provision and the special hospitals; sexual harassment and assault in psychiatric services; and key issues in services for all women.