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Children’s perspectives on dual residence: Everyday life, family practices and personal relationships
Get PDFOver the past decades, the ways in which children’s care is arranged after parental separation have changed significantly in many societies. Dual residence, where children live across two households spending equal amounts of time with each parent, is particularly common in Sweden. Despite the dramatic increase in dual residence in Sweden, knowledge from children’s point of view is limited. This thesis aims, through children’s perspectives, to provide knowledge about everyday life when lived across two households, with a special focus on family practices, influence and personal relationships. The thesis draws on qualitative interviews with children and teenagers, whose stories, descriptions and reflections have been analysed using thematic analysis. Both theoretically and methodologically, the basis of this thesis is the sociology of childhood, in which the active and reflective roles of children are accentuated. This perspective guides the analysis, highlighting the ways in which children participate in, and influence, decisions regarding how their dual-residence arrangements are put into practice. Family life is understood as a process of doing, and the concept of family practices is adopted to shed light on the particular practices that constitute everyday life for children in dual residence arrangements. The thesis includes four articles, each of which illuminates a separate theme. Article I, II and III are empirical articles highlighting different aspects of everyday life in the context of dual residence, and the fourth article is a literature review. Article I focuses on dual residence as a mobility practice, emphasizing the practical, emotional and relational transitions involved when children live in and move between two homes. Participants’ reflections about relationships with parents are discussed in Article II. Article III focuses on children’s influence over their residence arrangements and practices therein. Article IV investigates the meta-data of the research on dual residence (when, where, who, and how) and their purposes and study findings (what). In summary, findings illuminate the nuances and the everyday complexities of living in two homes. Routinely managing practical and emotional transitions requires effort, even if they become an ordinary part of life to which many children become acclimatised. These transitions may also lead children to reflect about family relationships and think more explicitly about what they mean to them. Taken together, the thesis demonstrates that dual residence involves both positive and negative aspects where children’s experiences differ and change over time. In the final part of the thesis, key elements that influence children’s well-being and the way they feel about practising dual residence are discussed. Children’s relationships lie at the centre of dual-residence family life and they play a crucial role in the way dual residence is experienced. By focusing children’s perspectives, this thesis sheds light on how dual residence can be understood, it highlights the significance of listening to children and considering their views regarding issues that affect their lives
Children in Motion: Everyday Life Across Two Homes
No full textOnce a week, almost one in ten Swedish children moves between two homes, replacing the routines and practices of one household with those of another. They are children in dual residence arrangements, dividing their time equally between two households after parental separation. Being on the move physically, as well as emotionally and relationally, is a part of their everyday lives. In this chapter, the author addresses children’s perspectives on living their everyday lives in two households and belonging to two homes and how they make sense of regularly shifting between different locations and (perhaps) contrasting family practices, rules and routines. Children’s accounts reveal how moving becomes a routine everyday practice, yet the regular change is perceived differently by different children. While highly valued by some, others find it difficult to handle the emotional stress of constantly leaving one parent behind, or the practical juggling of packing and moving. In the children’s accounts, they reveal how they take part in shaping their dual family lives, post-separation. The chapter draws on qualitative interviews with 20 children and young people living in dual residence arrangements. By using family practices as the analytical focus when analysing children’s accounts, the aim is to understand how everyday life is shaped by mobility. It is argued that the practices associated with dual residence are deeply embedded in physical, emotional and relational dimensions of mobility
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Shared Residence in Sweden; Children’s Experiences of Sharing their Time between two Households
No full textAbout 40 % of Swedish children experience their parents’ separation. The number has been rather constant for the last ten years; however the proportion of children sharing their time between their two parents on a 50-50 basis after divorce has been growing rapidly. Shared residence (or joint physical custody) has increased from 4% to approximately one third of children with separated parents since the beginning of the nineties. The aim of the study is to explore these children’s day-to-day experiences of sharing their time between two households. It focuses on how the children actively participate in the process of shaping family life and their own childhoods in the context of family change. How do they frame their family life, their leisure and their friendships while belonging to two families and moving between two households
Children's Experiences of Joint Physical Custody: the Swedish Case
No full textBackground The last decades have been characterized by societal change and family transition. In Sweden, like in other western countries, family structure is being transformed by, among other things, high rates of divorce. About 40 % of Swedish children experience their parents’ separation before they turn eighteen years. The number has been rather constant for the last ten years; however the proportion of children sharing their time between their two parents on a 50-50 basis after divorce has been growing rapidly. Joint physical custody (or shared residence) has increased from 4% to approximately one third of children with separated parents since the beginning of the nineties. According to recent international research, the increasing number of children sharing their time between two households after their parents’ separation seems to be a trend across the western world (although the Swedish number seems to be extraordinarily high). Despite the large and increasing amount of children growing up in shared care we have very little knowledge about these children’s lives and how they make sense of their belonging to two different households. The actual living arrangements of Swedish children in joint physical custody vary widely. A majority change houses every week, while others change several times a week or on a monthly basis. Some have parents living in the same neighborhood whereas others have to travel quite a distance between their two homes. There are flexible arrangements and there are rigid ones, and there are parents in deep conflict and parents that get along well. We know from previous research that low-conflict and flexible arrangements is more beneficial for children in joint physical custody. Yet we do not know how the children themselves experience shifting between two households and what impact it has on different aspects of their everyday life. Objectives The aim of the present study is to shed light on the features of one among several contemporary family models following family dissolution and to explore children’s own everyday experiences of sharing their time between two households. The study focuses on how the children actively participate in the process of shaping family life and their own childhoods in the context of family change. The study addresses the following questions: •How do children in joint physical custody frame their family life, their leisure and their friendships while belonging to two families and moving between two households? •How do they shape their family life and practices? How are they doing family? •Do children participate in the decisions concerning their living arrangements? To what extent, in what ways and how do they consider their participation? Method The paper is based on an ongoing empirical study with a qualitative approach (part of a larger mixed-methods research project). The data will be collected by semi-structured interviews with about twenty children aged ten to eighteen and focus groups. The participants were mainly recruited via schools. Preliminary results The paper aims at developing some of the major themes and discussing the preliminary results from the above mentioned qualitative study about children’s experiences of joint physical custody. At this point the empirical data is being gathered and consequently the results presented are preliminary. However I plan to announce some of the major findings in the forthcoming paper. In a small study preceding the current project, co-parented children’s conceptualizations of family were explored. It was found that the children conceptualize family in terms of relationships rather than blood ties or legal ties. Furthermore, in their view a family is based on practices and a common home (or in this case, one with each parent). According to these children, what is most important is the quality of the relationships. In line with this argument, what matters to them is being able to keep a close relationship with both their parents, which they stress is only possible as long as they share an everyday life. Despite the fact that they value being able to keep an everyday relationship with both of their parents when sharing their time on a 50/50 basis, they do experience disadvantages and difficulties –practical as well as emotional- caused by their shifting between two homes. The current study aims at further illuminating the practicalities of everyday life for children in shared residence, especially focusing on family practices, leisure and friendships. Relevance There are a great number of children and parents concerned with joint physical custody, in Sweden and elsewhere. Accordingly, there is an obvious demand for knowledge about its implications on children’s lives
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