ArticleSociology2022
Documenting Families: Paper-Work in Family Display among Planned Single Father Families.
Article in Sociology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Wartime Experiences of Single Parents by Choice.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Grappling with tradition: the experiences of cisgender, heterosexual mothers and fathers in elective co-parenting arrangements.Journal of family studies · 2024Article
- Single fathers' experiences of using egg donation and surrogacy to start a family.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Solo Fathers and Mothers: An Exploration of Well-Being, Social Support and Social Approval.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Beyond Mum and Dad: Gendered Assumptions about Parenting and the Experiences of Trans and/or Non-Binary Parents in the UK.LGBTQ+ family : an interdisciplinary journal · 2022Article
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Abstract
This article extends existing sociological scholarship on doing and displaying family by developing the concept of documenting families. We suggest that documenting is conceptually rich insofar as it showcases the relationship, and tensions, between institutional practices and individual experiences of family display. Drawing on our research with men who became parents without partners, we argue that the process of documenting family is made especially evident in studies of what Finch originally referred to as 'non-conventional' family relationships. We explain that documenting sheds light not only on the official and unofficial means through which families are recognised on paper, but also on family practices as work - in this case paper-work - that involves negotiation between different social actors who are generally unequal in terms of their authority and agency to impose situational meaning.
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