No More Kin: Exploring Race, Class, and Gender in Family Networks

Roschelle, Anne R.

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“…We saw instances where women used familial ties for social support in ways that are consistent with a literature that describes minority populations as prioritizing family well-being over individual well-being (see Moore and Pachon 1985;Roschelle 1997). Our observations are also reminiscent of classic studies of extended African-American families in the 1960s and 1970s, where pooling resources aided in survival (Liebow 1967;Rochelle 1997;Stack 1974).…”

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confidence: 71%

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Creating Networks for Survival and Mobility: Social Capital Among African-American and Latin-American Low-Income Mothers

Dómínguez¹,

Watkins²

2003

Social Problems

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362

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Section: Social Supportsupporting

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“…Researchers observe that limited resources can leave expectations for reciprocity unmet (Hogan, Eggebeen, and Clogg 1993). Unmet reciprocity can increase tension and potentially lead to the dissolution of relationships (Belle 1982;Menjívar 1997Menjívar , 2000Roschelle 1997). …”

Section: The Role Of Social Capital In Survival and Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Creating Networks for Survival and Mobility: Social Capital Among African-American and Latin-American Low-Income Mothers

Dómínguez¹,

Watkins²

2003

Social Problems

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362

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“…Studies that attempt to measure the amount of social capital in someone's life, for example, assume that the presence of social capital alone is positive (Kawachi, Kennedy, Lochner, & Prothrow-Stith, 1997;Kawachi, 1999;Lochner et al, 1999). Putnam (2000), Coleman (1990), Portes (2000), and others contend that social capital also can have a negative component, preventing individuals from accessing needed resources, depleting limited time and energy, and introducing destructive behaviors (Corcoran & Adams, 1997;Roschelle, 1997;Antonucci, Akiyama, & Lansford, 1998). Savage and Russell (2005), for example, studied homeless co-morbid women who suffered traumas, and found that a "small but definite" portion of the women's support networks also abused them, caused trauma, and facilitated their drug use.…”

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Disappearing acts: The social networks of formerly homeless individuals with co-occurring disorders

Hawkins

Abrams

2007

Social Science & Medicine

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Studies of the social lives of men and women living with co-occurring disorders (substance abuse and serious mental illness) suggest that social networks critically influence recovery. In this paper, we examine some of the reasons that the social networks of individuals with co-occurring disorders are small, and the impact of small networks for this population. Using a social capital framework with cross-case analysis, we analyze 72 in-depth qualitative interviews with 39 formerly homeless mentally ill men and women who were substance abusers. All were participants in the New York Services Study (HYSS), a federally funded study of mentally ill adults in New York City. The patterns suggest that networks shrunk because 1) social network members died prematurely, 2) study participants withdrew or pushed others away, and 3) friends and family members faced so many obstacles of their own that they could not provide resources for the study participants. We suggest that as networks diminished, some participants responded by attempting to rebuild their networks, even if the networks provided negative social capital, and others isolated themselves socially to escape the pressures and disappointments of interaction. KeywordsUSA; New York Services Study (NYSS); social capital; social networks; co-occurring disorders; mental illness; homeless; substance abuse The role of family and friends for individuals with co-occurring disorders (substance abuse and serious mental illness) in recovery is complex and often ambiguous. While close friends and family members can forge ties that produce social capital in the form of significant financial, emotional, and in-kind support to individuals with co-occurring disorders, they can also pose specific problems. Studies of the social lives of co-morbid individuals suggest that social support from family and friends can decrease symptomatology

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“…For example, within the sizeable underclass in the United States today, both blood and fictive kin frequently organize flexibly to provide a broad family base for young children (CrosbieBurnett & Lewis, 1999), promoting continuous responsibility for dependent children even across changes in relationships among adults. In such families, the relevant coparenting "unit" may involve many or even all of those adults involved in the nurturance and support of an identified child regardless of household membership, demanding that researchers be especially attentive in defining the functional family group (Brooks-Gunn &Furstenberg, 1986;Crosbie-Burnett&Lewis, 1999;Roschelle, 1997;Stack, 1974).…”

Section: Coparenting In Diverse Family Systemsmentioning

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Growing Points for Coparenting Theory and Research

McHale

Kuersten‐Hogan

Rao

2004

Journal of Adult Development

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Though the study of coparenting is still in its infancy, an explosion of coparenting research is in the wings. This paper identifies several emerging issues in coparenting theory and research to guide work in the years ahead, including issues in definition, conceptualization, and measurement; the interface between coparenting and adult development; and conceptual benefits that will accrue from studies of interadult coordination across diverse cultures and family systems. We emphasize that theory must lead empirical efforts, that across family systems the strongest coparental alliances are likely to be those in which the coparents both experience and provide support and solidarity for one another's parenting efforts with the children, and that measurement approaches need to be expanded so as to capture more comprehensively each family's organizational cooparenting structures and themes.

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No More Kin: Exploring Race, Class, and Gender in Family Networks

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Creating Networks for Survival and Mobility: Social Capital Among African-American and Latin-American Low-Income Mothers

Creating Networks for Survival and Mobility: Social Capital Among African-American and Latin-American Low-Income Mothers

Disappearing acts: The social networks of formerly homeless individuals with co-occurring disorders

Growing Points for Coparenting Theory and Research

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