TY  - GEN
T1  - Family boundaries : the invention of normality & dangerousness
A1  - Knowles, Caroline, 1954-
LA  - English
PP  - Peterborough, Ont.
PB  - Broadview Press
YR  - 1996
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm44964852
AB  - Family Boundaries shows what can be accomplished when families are viewed from the multi - perspectives of biography and of agencies charged with detecting and managing child abuse and setting boundaries of acceptable behavior in family life. Apart from our personal notions of the family, a social sense of it has developed from the professional practice - narratives which focus on dangerousness, thus rendering the family in rather rigid and archaic administrative terms. Furthermore, these administrative inventions of the family and the resulting attempts to effect child protection take on powerful meanings because they are supported in social policy and in law, and are constantly reflected in popular media images of family. The regulatory apparatus of these administrative inventions of family, the author argues, falls disproportionately on the poor and on mothers to whom it assigns a pivotal role as internal regulators. This book surveys the conceptions of motherhood, fatherhood, and childhood that emerge from the practices of agencies. It urges that there is a need to create forms of family management which balance the necessity to protect children with the rights of mothers and the responsibilities of fathers. In doing so, Family Boundaries presents fresh insight into how we think about family relationships and the demands they impose.
OP  - 212
CN  - HV697 .K66 1996eb
SN  - 0585230897
SN  - 9780585230894
SN  - 9781442602564
SN  - 1442602562
SN  - 9781551111087
SN  - 155111108X
KW  - Family social work.
KW  - Family policy.
KW  - Child welfare.
KW  - Child abuse.
KW  - Family violence.
KW  - Child Abuse
KW  - Violence familiale.
KW  - Jeunesse : Protection, assistance, etc.
KW  - Service social familial.
KW  - Politique familiale.
KW  - Enfants : Violence envers.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Social Services & Welfare.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Social Security.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Sociology : Marriage & Family.
KW  - Child abuse
KW  - Child welfare
KW  - Family policy
KW  - Family social work
KW  - Family violence
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - e-books.
KW  - Livres numériques.
ER  -