Data from a large survey of family functioning in Switzerland explore the extent to which various types of conjugal networks affect parenting and parent-child relationships (e.g., problems in assuming parental roles, parent-child disagreements, quality of parent-child relationships, and parental worries about the child). Results show that conjugal networks have significant indirect and direct effects on parent-child relationships but no buffering effect. Bicentric conjugal networks are singled out as indirectly associated with improved parenting practices and parent-child relationships. They strengthen the conjugal subsystem and improve the psychological well being of parents. Interfering and unicentric networks have negative direct effects on some but not all dimensions considered. These results are important for the understanding parenting and parent-child relationships within relational contexts larger than the nuclear family.
This article presents the main results of a qualitative research project focusing on the role of kinship in social identity construction. It highlights three basic social mechanisms of identity transmission: forms of normative reference marks, identity transmission channels, and collective actors. The systemic links between these three mechanisms shape several identity transmission logics. This pluralism of transmission processes is also analysed in a temporal perspective. Each generation exhibits a specific form of identity construction and familial transmission. The analysis is based on a sample of 75 individuals from 25 families in Geneva, Switzerland.
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