Constructing family: A typology of voluntary kin by Dawn O. Braithwaite
Constructing family: A typology of voluntary kin

Dawn O. Braithwaite

Constructing family: A typology of voluntary kin

Dawn O. Braithwaite with Betsy Wackernagel Bach, Bianca M. Wolf

19 pages first pub 2010 (editions) not a book user-added

nonfiction

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This study explored how participants discursively rendered voluntary kin relationships sensical and legitimate. Interpretive analyses of 110 interviews revealed four main types of voluntary kin: (i) substitute family, (ii) supplemental family, (ii...

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