Experiences Of Family Relationships Research Articles

Traversing: Familial Challenges for Escaped North Koreans

Abstract This research contributes to the development of migration theories by examining the challenges and opportunities faced by UK-resident migrants from North Korea in maintaining transnational family ties. Particularly, it reflects critically on the role played by ‘place’ as a regulatory apparatus in shaping the migrants’ experiences of family relationships in a transnational social space. The findings are drawn from thematic analysis of data from life history interviews with 14 North Korean defectors. In the light of the prevalence of back-and-forth stepwise migration for the defectors and their families across multiple nation states, I propose the concept of ‘traversing’ to describe the strenuous transnational familial experiences and complex mobility trajectories of North Korean escapees, which goes beyond a linear journey from the sending to the host place. While existing migration research has capitalized on the host place in selectively enabling and stratifying migrants’ access to transnational family rights, I argue that, instead of assuming forced migrants have free access to their home countries, it is important to consider the interplay between multiple places in understanding the challenges for vulnerable migrants to access essential family rights and maintain transnational family relationships.

Food in contemporary migration experiences between Britain and Australia: A duoethnographic exploration

In this paper we use duoethnography (collaborative autoethnography) to explore food in our migration experiences between Australia and Scotland. In doing so we highlight how autoethnography is underutilized in food scholarship. Previous research on food and migration highlights how migrants maintain and adapt homeland foodways. By contrast, we show how young migrants from high-income countries embed themselves in new food settings: through local food shopping, new recipes, cooking practices, and eating out. We demonstrate the importance to migrants’ food experiences of family relationships, ideas of home, processes of home-making, and changing individual identities. We argue that scholars should attend further to food in voluntary migrations amongst English-speaking nations in the contemporary globalized era. Further, we conclude that duoethnography amongst trusted friends who are also scholars offers a particularly valuable and appropriate method to probe emotional, sensory, and embodied aspects of food experience.

Experiences of Family Belonging among Two Generations of Sexually Diverse Australians

ObjectiveTo extend knowledge about how lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans+, and queer (LGBTQ+) people relate to their families of origin by paying particular attention to their experiences of belonging within this context.BackgroundAlthough the impact of family rejection on young LGBTQ+ people is well established, circumstances and expressions of family belonging are less well understood.MethodTaking a qualitative, social generational approach, we asked two groups of Australians, born in the 1970s (n = 14) and 1990s (n = 18), about their experiences of family relationships when they were growing up sexually and/or gender diverse.ResultsA subset of participants described feeling accepted by families of origin, although very few were gender diverse. The 1970s cohort described these experiences as culturally exceptional, and the 1990s cohort as a birthright. Examples from both demonstrate how family belonging can remain conditional.ConclusionExperiences of family belonging reveal both the importance of family to the well‐being and flourishing of LGBTQ+ people, and the entanglement between individual and social understandings of what family acceptance comprises.ImplicationsScholars and support service providers may benefit from recognizing that some sexual minorities experience belonging in their families of origin, but work remains in understanding and challenging the conditions that some families continue to impose.

Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes: An Exploratory Study of Their Experience of Family Relationships and Coping With the Illness.

The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore familial patterns that may be related to type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and to patients' ways of coping with the illness. A purposive sample of 32 Israeli Jewish (n = 12) and Arab (n = 20) individuals with T2DM were recruited from a community population and interviewed about their familial experiences and their illness. Interview data were analyzed using Colaizzi's phenomenological method. Many participants, particularly from the Arab society, reported familial patterns that suggest fused relationships and emotional cutoff. They described highly close and positive family relationships, on one hand, but demonstrated unwillingness to share their difficulties with their family members, on the other hand. Precipitating stressful or traumatic events and day-to-day stress appeared as leading perceived causes of the illness. Maintaining an appropriate lifestyle, stress reduction, and family support were the main coping strategies with the illness. The findings suggest a possible avenue in which fusion with family members and inability to attenuate emotional distress by sharing difficulties with others may contribute to the development of T2DM. Assessment of such family dynamics and ways of coping with stress could lead to more appropriately nuanced treatment for individuals with T2DM and prediabetes.

Predictors of Runaway Behavior Among At-Risk Youth.

This study examines the factors influencing runaway experiences among at-risk youth. Using the data of 1,743 at-risk youth from the 2016 survey of Korean adolescents' contact with media usage and harmful environment, a logistic regression analysis was conducted. This study shows that factors associated with the adolescents' experiences of family relationships, violence victimization, and harmful environment influence the occurrence of runaway behavior in at-risk adolescents. A significant outcome of this study is the identification of a harmful environment as a factor affecting runaway behavior. The factors identified need to be considered in the development of prevention programs targeting runway behavior among at-risk youth. School nurses are uniquely positioned to review and revise educational strategies to raise adolescents' awareness regarding the effects of harmful environments and to promote violence prevention. This framework provides school nurses with systematic methods for early identification and management of risk factors among at-risk youth runway behavior.

Content validity of the PROMIS\xae pediatric family relationships measure for children with chronic illness

BackgroundFamilies play a critical role in supporting the health and well-being of children with chronic illnesses, who face a lifetime of responsibility for self-management of their condition. Our goal was to investigate whether the novel Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System® (PROMIS®) Pediatric Family Relationships measure, developed primarily within the general pediatric population, reflects the experiences of family relationships for chronically ill children and their parents.MethodsWe conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with children (aged 8–17) with common chronic conditions: asthma (n = 6), type 1 diabetes (n = 5), or sickle cell disease (n = 5), and separately with one of their parents (n = 16). Interviews were recorded, and two team members independently coded the written transcripts facilitated by Nvivo 10. The systematic content analysis used a combination of: 1) pre-specified themes corresponding to the six facets of the domain identified during measure development and reflected in the content of the items (i.e., Sense of Family; Love and Caring; Value and Acceptance; Trust, Dependability, and Support; Communication; Enjoyment), as well as 2) open-coding, allowing participants to define important concepts (i.e., disease impact).ResultsFamily relationships were conceptualized in a similar way to the general population, as evidenced by child and parent responses to open-ended questions about family relationships and to specific probes that corresponded with the item content in the Family Relationship 8-item short form. Children spontaneously discussed the impact of their disease on family relationships less often than parents did. Although participants described how living with a chronic illness positively and negatively impacted aspects of family relationships, nearly all participants believed their responses to the PROMIS® Family Relationships items would not change if they (or their child) did not have a chronic illness.ConclusionsAmong a sample of families of children with one of 3 chronic illnesses, participants described family relationships in a way that was consistent with the facets of the PROMIS® Family Relationship domain. This study adds to the content validity of the measure for children with chronic illness.

ЧИ ПІДГОТОВЛЕНІ 14-17 РІЧНІ ВИХОВАНЦІВ ШКІЛ-ІНТЕРНАТІВ ДО СІМЕЙНОГО ЖИТТЯ?

The article is devoted to one of the topical problems of the present – the formation of readiness for family life of boarding school pupils. According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, for the period from 2013 to 2017, the number of orphans and children deprived of parental care fell by 19594 (from 90772 to 71178), but the number of adopted children during the same period, on the contrary, decreased by 769 people (from 3732 to 2963). As of 2017, the network of boarding schools in Ukraine has 663 institutions, in which there are more than 100 thousand pupils. According to the problem under the study, the author emphasizes on the fact that institutions of state maintenance are not able to provide the full experience of family relationships, whose models are assimilated directly in the family. The need for a family of pupils of boarding schools is much greater than the children who grow up in the family. Therefore, as it is emphasized in the article, it is very important to formulate in the consciousness of this category of children ideas about the culture of family relationships, to provide knowledge about family and marriage, responsible parenting, to actualize the motives for the implementation of appropriate actions by pupils for the elevation of the depth of the essence of family life. Indicating on the importance of the present processes of socialization in institutions of boarding type, the author of the article focuses on a number of aspects that contradict the ideas of the development of a harmonious person that would be prepared for the future family life. The presented materials reveal the factors of readiness for family life, characterizing their essence in accordance with the scientific achievements of modern scholars. On the basis of the results of the theoretical study of the topic of readiness of the pupils of institutions of boarding type for family life, the author identified the following factors of readiness for family life: the values of family life; motivation for family life; activities and acts within the framework of friendly relations of small groups; social controlled socialization purposeful influence by the teaching staff of the institution; personal desires and needs of older teenagers in interaction with family. The factors outlined in the publication are the factors of the readiness for family life of the pupils of intuitions of boarding type, the essence of which is that this process unfolds in the socio-cultural educational space and, taking into account the vitality of family relationships, gives grounds to assert that preparation for the family life of older teenagers requires a socio-educational escort.

Impact of pediatric cancer on family relationships.

Little is known about the impact of cancer on family relationships from the perspective of the pediatric cancer patient and their sibling(s). This study assessed and compared children's experiences of family relationships in patients receiving active cancer therapy, those who have completed therapy, and siblings. A cross‐sectional study of children with cancer and their siblings aged 8–17 years old was conducted. Children completed the PROMIS Pediatric Family Relationships short form and the Depressive Symptoms, Anxiety, and Peer Relationships short forms. The Mann–Whitney test assessed differences in Family Relationships scores between therapy groups, while the Wilcoxon signed‐rank test assessed differences between patients and siblings. An actor–partner interdependence model (APIM) was used to assess how patient and sibling variables were associated with their own and each others’ family relationships. Two hundred and sixty‐five children completed the assessments. Siblings of patients on‐therapy had worse family relationships than patients on‐therapy (P = 0.015). Family relationships of patients off‐therapy did not differ from their siblings or the patients on‐therapy. Family relationships scores did not differ between the sibling cohorts. The APIM found patient family relationships were impaired when their own peer relationships decreased and when either their own or their siblings had increased depressive symptoms. Sibling family relationships were impaired when their own depression increased, and when the patient counterpart was female, younger age, had less depressive symptoms, more anxiety or a diagnosis of leukemia/lymphoma (compared to solid tumor). Based on these findings, increased psychosocial resources for patients and siblings of children undergoing cancer therapy may be warranted.

A Phenomenological Study of Family Experiences of Resettled Iraqi Refugees.

Using a cross-sectional, phenomenological design, this qualitative study sought to explore Iraqi refugees' experiences of family relationships resettled in a northeastern city in the United States after the start of the 2003 war. Participants' experience of family relationships was situated within the context of their displacement, which included fear and uncertainty during displacement, and experiences of safety and isolation during resettlement. Themes related to family relationships were as follows: shared experiences of losses; increased trust between family members; shifts in communication and gender roles; and constructing a family legacy. Findings from this study indicate that family relationships play a central role in making meaning of forced displacement and resettlement experiences, which have significant clinical implications for family therapists working with refugees.

Experiences of Family Relationships Among Donor-Conceived Families: A Meta-Ethnography.

In this qualitative evidence synthesis, we explore how family relationships are experienced by parents who used gamete donation to conceive. We systematically searched four databases (PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and ProQuest) for literature related to this topic and retrieved 25 studies. Through the analysis of the qualitative studies, a comprehensive synthesis and framework was constructed. Following the meta-ethnography approach of Noblit and Hare, four main themes were identified: (a) balancing the importance of genetic and social ties, (b) normalizing and legitimizing the family, (c) building strong family ties, and (d) minimizing the role of the donor. Underlying these four main themes, a sense of being "different" and "similar" at the same time was apparent. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for studying and counseling donor-conceived families.

Rural parents' messages to their adolescent sons and daughters to leave their home communities

The perceptions of 354 seventh and eleventh graders regarding the frequency and nature of their rural parents' messages to them and their closest-in-age sibling to leave their home communities after high school were explored. Survey data showed that almost half (54%) perceived that their parents encouraged them and/or their closest-in-age sibling to leave the area and about 19% of that group reported that their parents' messages to leave were inconsistent between them and their closest sibling. Parents' messages did not differ by youths' sex or age. Consistency of parents' messages between siblings was associated with youths' well-being, family relationship experiences, and future residential preferences. Semi-structured interviews with a subsample of seventh graders and their mothers highlighted parents' and youths' perspectives on parents' messages. This work highlights the familial processes associated with youth future planning and extends the current work on parents' differential treatment of siblings.

Family contact, experience of family relationships, and views about family involvement in treatment among VA consumers with serious mental illness

Family psychoeducation is a highly effective, but underused, evidence-based practice in the treatment of schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses. This study examined views about family relationships and family participation in care among a sample of 69 consumers with serious mental illness receiving treatment within the Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare system. We found that younger consumers and those with higher levels of psychiatric symptoms were more likely to report family conflict and distress. Of participating consumers, 67% wanted family participation in their psychiatric treatment and those with at least weekly contact with family were more likely to want family participation. Consumers endorsed a number of barriers to family participation in their mental health treatment, including their own concerns about privacy and burdening family and skepticism that family involvement would be helpful. We discuss implications of these findings for the implementation of evidence-based family programs, including efforts toward development of a novel intervention that will address consumers' concerns and promote effective family participation in care.

Entre mari et enfants : aspects sociaux d'un conflit affectif

On confronte dans cet article deux modèles de biographies : d'une part, celui d'un groupe de paysannes du Frioul qui ont fait l'objet d'une enquête, et de l'autre celui des chercheuses qui ont mené cette enquête. On voudrait, à travers cette confrontation, tenter d'identifier et de comprendre deux représentations différentes du mariage et montrer que seule l'interaction entre ces deux modèles est en mesure de nous faire saisir la dynamique interne propre à chacun d'eux.Le premier modèle renvoie à la biographie de femmes qui appartiennent à des familles élargies de petits paysans du Frioul. Avec mes étudiantes, nous avons recueilli et analysé ces histoires de vie tout au long d'un séminaire de recherche qui a duré cinq ans . Dès nos premières discussions, nous avons senti que les problèmes les plus difficiles qui se posent à qui veut travailler sur un terrain ethnologique européen naissent de l'usage de catégories semblables par les enquêteurs et par les informateurs.