The family: In the national interest?

Lepervanche, Marie de

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“…Ethnic restaurants particularly are under constant financial pressure and initially unable to employ people beyond the family structure (Strickland, 2011). Consequently, this phenomenon of collective family labour for profit is culturally acceptable in many ethnic communities and instilled in children from an early age (De Lepervanche, 1988). More recently, Bakas (2018) found similar results based on participant observations of tourism microentrepreneurs in Crete, Greece, finding that parents prefer their offspring to help (for free) rather than employ someone as this would reduce profits.…”

Section: Children's Role Within the Family Unitmentioning

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The impact of adolescent work on parent–child relationships: A multi-generational approach among hospitality family businesses

Telling

Martín

2023

Hospitality &Amp; Society

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Business-owning parents face the decision of whether to involve their own children in the family business. Employing family members for little or no wages is widely documented in the hospitality and tourism industries, though children’s role in such businesses is often missing from the literature. This article seeks to address this gap by exploring parental motives for involving children in the family business and the impact of such decisions on parent–child relationships in later life. The article adopts a multi-generational approach, comparing both parent’s and children’s accounts of adolescent work performed at the family business. The research findings are based on semi-structured interviews with nineteen individuals across five restaurant-owning families. The article concludes that parental motives for adolescent work are a composition of convenience, economic gain and an attempt to educate the next generation. We further argue that adolescent work serves as an ‘imprinting’ mechanism and demonstrate that children perceive their family business involvement to be a purely economic endeavour when their parents neglect to practise imprinting. The research findings indicate that when this happens, offspring recall their adolescent work experience negatively and it is detrimental to parent–child relationships. The originality of the article stems from the research findings which are based on interviews among adults who recalled their past experiences of adolescent work, thus allowing the longer lasting impact of adolescent work on parent–child relationships to be explored, whereas previous work adopting a similar focus has been conducted among adolescents.

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Section: Children's Role Within the Family Unitmentioning

confidence: 92%

The impact of adolescent work on parent–child relationships: A multi-generational approach among hospitality family businesses

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Martín

2023

Hospitality &Amp; Society

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Constructions of family nursing: a critical exploration

Wellard¹

1997

Contemporary Nurse

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Increasingly, the 'family' has become more prominent as part of the interest of nursing. However, this interest has not been accompanied by a critical examination of the current models of family nursing. A critical exploration of the construction of family nursing models reveals a problematic reliance on borrowed theories. Systems theoretical approaches have been widely adopted in nursing, yet are infrequently acknowledged as apolitical constructions that act to minimise the impact of the complex social relations surrounding families. Similarly, the uses of developmental theories in family nursing have not explained the implications of their eurocentric and male construction. The adoption of family nursing models may lead to the decontextualised care of the family and subsequently, to paternalistic nursing responses to families.

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The family: In the national interest?

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The impact of adolescent work on parent–child relationships: A multi-generational approach among hospitality family businesses

The impact of adolescent work on parent–child relationships: A multi-generational approach among hospitality family businesses

Constructions of family nursing: a critical exploration

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