Contents

pp iii-v

Notes on contributors

pp vi-xii

Foreword

pp xiii-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xvi

1 - Troubling normalities and normal family troubles: diversities,experiences and tensions

pp 1-22

Part One - Approaching family troubles ? Contexts and methodologies :Introduction to Part One

pp 23-26

2 - Cultural context, families and troubles

pp 27-34

3 - Representing family troubles through the 20th century

pp 35-44

4 - The role of science in understanding family troubles

pp 45-58

5 - Family troubles, methods trouble: qualitative research and the methodological divide

pp 59-70

Part Two - Whose trouble ? Conteste d definitions and practice: Introduction to Part Two

pp 71-74

6 - Disabled parents and normative family life: the obscuring of lived experiences of parents and children within policy and research accounts

pp 75-84

7 - Normal problems or problem children? Parents and the micro-politics of deviance and disability

pp 85-96

8 - Troubled talk and talk about troubles: moral cultures of infant feeding in professional, policy and parenting discourses

pp 97-106

9 - Children's non-conforming behaviour: personal trouble or public issue?

pp 107-118

10 - Revealing the lived reality of kinship care through children and young people's narratives: “It's not all nice, it's not all easy-going, it's a difficult journey to go on”

pp 119-130

Part Three - The Normal, The Troubling And The Harmful?: Introduction to Part Three

pp 131-134

11 - Troubling loss? Children’s experiences of major disruptions in family life

pp 135-150

12 - The permeating presence of past domestic and familial violence: “So like I’d never let anyone hit me but I’ve hit them, and I shouldn’t have done”

pp 151-162

13 - Thinking about sociological work on personal and family life in the light of research on young people’s experience of parental substance misuse

pp 163-172

14 - The trouble with siblings: some psychosocial thoughts about sisters, aggression and femininity

pp 173-184

15 - Children and family transitions: contact and togetherness

pp 185-194

Part Four - Troubles and transitions across space and culture: Introduction to Part Four

pp 195-198

16 - ‘Troubling’ or ‘ordinary’? Children's views on migration and intergenerational ethnic identities

pp 199-208

17 - Colombian families dealing with parents’ international migration

pp 209-222

18 - Families left behind: unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK

pp 223-232

19 - Young people's caring relations and transitions within families affected by HIV

pp 233-244

20 - Estimating the prevalence of forced marriage in England

pp 245-256

Part Five - Working With Families: Introduction to Part Five

pp 257-262