TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - Family troubles, troubling families, and family practices JO - Journal of family issues A1 - Morgan, David H. J. SP - 2225 EP - 2238 VL - 40 IS - 16 N2 - What does it mean to talk of family problems as opposed to individual problems? The use of the word clearly reminds the reader of the relational character of everyday troubles and, more than this, raises particular issues of dependency, mutuality, and obligations. My approach in terms of "family practices" highlights the ways in which everyday actions and reactions continually constitute family life, while the introduction of the term troubling families adds further levels of complexity to do with the boundaries between public and private. I explore these issues through a fictional example (Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy) as well as sociological case material.

Language: en

LA - en SN - 0192-513X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513X19848799 ID - ref1 ER -