University of Sunderland

Families of choice: negotiating `new family forms and practices'

Focus of the seminar:

To explore the ways in which families of choice both promote and challenge notions of family.  We focus on ideas about fatherhood, kinship, and co-parenting and that looking at family practices rather than family structures is more useful in making sense of both new families and in contributing to broader debates about family life in the 21st Century.

Presentation given by Catherine Donovan and Sheila Quaid

Bibliography November 2009