Constructing family: A typology of voluntary kin

Braithwaite, Dawn O.; Bach, Betsy Wackernagel; Baxter, Leslie A.; DiVerniero, Rebecca; Hammonds, Joshua R.; Hosek, Angela M.; Willer, Erin K.; Wolf, Bianca M.

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“…These findings point to several research and practice implications. Given the complexity of social relationships, qualitative research is needed to better understand the role of social relationships in the emotional health of African Americans, particularly with reference to kin, non-kin, voluntary kin (Braithwaite et al, 2010), and church-kin relationships. Research using mixed methods also would be valuable, such as incorporating a qualitative component with a subset of participants in a survey such as the MIDUS.…”

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Associations Between Social Relationships and Emotional Well-Being in Middle-Aged and Older African Americans

Warren‐Findlow

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Social relationships may enhance emotional health in older age. The authors examined associations between social relationships and emotional health using data from the Milwaukee African American sample of the second Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS II) study, 2005-2006 (n = 592). Self-reports indicated good, very good, or excellent emotional health, distinguished from fair or poor. Social relationships were measured by relationship type (family or friend), contact frequency, and levels of emotional support and strain. Control variables included demographic characteristics, types of lifetime and daily discrimination, neighborhood quality, and other social factors. In adjusted results, each increase on a family emotional support scale was associated with 118% greater odds of reporting better emotional health (odds ratio [OR] = 2.18, 95% confidence interval [CI] [1.43, 3.32]). Friend emotional support also was associated with better emotional health (OR = 1.59, CI [1.07, 2.34]). Daily discrimination substantially reduced reported emotional health; family and friend support buffered this effect.

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Associations Between Social Relationships and Emotional Well-Being in Middle-Aged and Older African Americans

Warren‐Findlow

Laditka

et al. 2011

Res Aging

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“…It refers to more permeable boundaries around the nuclear family by stressing the family significance of voluntary kin [46] or fictive kin, i.e. people considered to be family members despite being unrelated by statuses associated with blood relatedness or marriage.…”

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Family Inclusiveness and Spatial Dispersion: The Spatial Consequences of Having Large and Diversified Family Configurations

Widmer

Viry²

2017

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This article stresses the critical role of family inclusiveness for shaping the spatiality of families. Some individuals have a rather exclusive definition of their family, focusing on partner, children, siblings and parents. Others develop inclusive definitions of family by considering extended kin, step relatives and friends as significant family members. Family inclusiveness is hypothesized to account for a large share of the dispersion of family members throughout space. Data consisted of a stratified sample of 300 mothers of school-aged children living in the cosmopolitan city of Geneva. The results show that spatial dispersion of families increases with the number of family members considered significant. Inclusion of family members beyond the nuclear family of origin is paradoxically associated with a localised family context. Overall, this study emphasises the importance of family inclusiveness as a key dimension for understanding family spatiality in globalized societies.

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“…Studying some of these relationships might allow researchers to determine whether partners who share a standard for domestic labor contribute more equally to that labor than couples who do not share a standard. Voluntary kin relationships (Braithwaite, Bach, Baxter, Diverniero, Hammonds, Hosek, Willer, & Wolf, 2010) may ascribe less importance to contributions to domestic labor than to emotional support, shared time, and commitment. A truly comprehensive theory of the division of domestic labor would aim to account for dynamics in the range of familial systems that exist in contemporary life.…”

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Which Ruler Do We Use? Theorizing the Division of Domestic Labor

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2011

Journal of Family Communication

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Constructing family: A typology of voluntary kin

Cited by 131 publications

References 35 publications

Associations Between Social Relationships and Emotional Well-Being in Middle-Aged and Older African Americans

Associations Between Social Relationships and Emotional Well-Being in Middle-Aged and Older African Americans

Family Inclusiveness and Spatial Dispersion: The Spatial Consequences of Having Large and Diversified Family Configurations

Which Ruler Do We Use? Theorizing the Division of Domestic Labor

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