Wednesday 11 April 2012 at 09:30 - 11:30 FAMILIES, RELATIONSHIPS, LIFECOURSE 2
CHILDHOODS, TRANSMISSIONS AND INHERITANCES Kramer, A-M.
'Hereditary whatnots': Health, Risk and the Burden of Family History
Drawing on data from a recent project exploring family history in personal and family lives, this paper explores how health narratives emerge in accounts of family history. Using integrated qualitative methods, and drawing on media coverage of family history, data from a 2008 Mass Observation Directive on family history as well as interviews with genealogists, I describe how a lack of knowledge about health histories is often described as a burden. Here knowledge of the family health history is described by non-genealogists as essential to the informed medical subject to determine or contain the level of 'risk' and enable preventative or remedial action. Genealogists meanwhile tend to describe the family 'pattern of deaths' as information of comparable importance to any other information about their ancestors.
I explore how family health history can facilitate some to come to terms with
health problems, but further outline how knowledge can itself be burdensome, where information is unwelcome or considered private. Following Skinner (2006) who suggests that new molecular genetics requires new life strategies and relationships to oneself and one’s future, I suggest that genealogy requires new and active relations to oneself and one’s ancestors’ past.
Milne, S. University of Edinburgh Adult-child Befriending Relationships: Adult Management and Children’s Perspectives
The activity of volunteering is attractive to politicians interested in community cohesion in an age of austerity; intergenerational projects receive specific praise. Adult-child befriending is a particular field of volunteering that can be viewed as an intergenerational activity, although it is not generally referred to as such.
Befriending projects for children may focus on disabled children; young people leaving care, refugees, or young carers. Others recruit adult volunteers to spend time with children viewed as vulnerable, deprived or those experiencing difficulties at home, school or in the community. The majority of children referred to such projects, by social workers, teachers and others, are from low-income lone parent families, who may also face additional difficulties such as; unemployment; drug misuse, disability or violence.
The befriending role is of significant theoretical interest since it sits on the boundary between a formal service arrangement and an informal personal friendship relationship. Adult-child befriending relationships also cross the boundaries between adulthood and childhood and may also be cross-gender relationships. Within this paper these themes will be explored through consideration of
project variations in the organisation, management and
surveillance of adult-child befriending relationships and also through the use of qualitative data from children. Children's perspectives provide a different vantage point from which to evaluate current conceptualisations of adulthood and childhood and also opportunities to understand children's negotiations of personal relationships. This includes insights into their expectations of how volunteering befriending adults could contribute to their lives and their experiences of how the relationships unfolded in practice.
Roll Bennet, P., Bergström, H. Displaying Parental Responsibility: The Case of Childhood Obesity
Drawing on the 'sociology of personal life' this paper explores parent-child relationships when the child is labeled as obese. Food and eating practices are fundamental aspects of parenting, but these everyday practices are challenged in families with a child labelled as obese. Parents of obese children are expected to support excessive weight gain, but in current debates about childhood obesity parents’ lack of ability to control children’s eating habits are often discussed. Therefore, it is of particular interest to look into parent’s understandings of their own practices. Based on interviews with Swedish parents of obese children between 8 - 12 years of age, parents narratives of everyday practices for children’s diet and eating habits are analysed as an act of ‘displaying responsibility’ . It is indicated that parental responsibility is located in three spheres: in respect to children’s overall health and wellbeing, in upholding family normality and as a wish for transferring the responsibility to the child. These findings are discussed in terms of ‘feminist ethics of care’ which illuminates parental dilemmas in finding a balance between responsibility and care for oneself as a parent, the child and the family as a whole.
Stockholm University
ROGER STEVENS 15 University of Nottingham
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