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Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life Series Editors Graham Allan Keele University Keele, United Kingdom Lynn Jamieson University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, United Kingdom David H.J. Morgan University of Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom ‘ThePalgraveMacmillanStudiesinFamilyandIntimateLifeseriesisimpress- ive and contemporary in its themes and approaches’ - Professor Deborah Chambers,NewcastleUniversity,UK,andauthorofNewSocialTies. The remit of the Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life seriesistopublish majortexts, monographsandedited collectionsfocus- ing broadly on the sociological exploration of intimate relationships and family organization. The series covers a wide range of topics such as partnership, marriage, parenting, domestic arrangements, kinship, demo- graphicchange,intergenerationalties,lifecoursetransitions,step-families, gayandlesbianrelationships,lone-parenthouseholds,andalsonon-famil- ialintimaterelationshipssuchasfriendshipsandincludesworksbyleading figuresin the field,in theUK andinternationally, andaimsto contribute to continuepublishing influential andprize-winningresearch. More information aboutthisseries at http://www.springer.com/series/14676 AnnaSparrman(cid:129)AllanWesterling(cid:129)JudithLind(cid:129)KarenIdaDannesboe Editors Doing Good Parenthood Ideals and Practices of Parental Involvement Editors AnnaSparrman AllanWesterling DepartmentofThematicStudies–Child CenterforChildhood,Youth& Studies FamilyResearch,DepartmentofPeople& LinköpingUniversity Technology Linköping,Sweden RoskildeUniversity Roskilde,Denmark JudithLind KarenIdaDannesboe DepartmentofThematicStudies–Child DepartmentofEducationalAnthropology Studies SchoolofEducation LinköpingUniversity AarhusUniversity Linköping,Sweden Aarhus,Denmark PalgraveMacmillanStudiesinFamilyandIntimateLife ISBN978-3-319-46773-3 ISBN978-3-319-46774-0(eBook) DOI10.1007/978-3-319-46774-0 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2016960731 ©TheEditor(s)(ifapplicable)andTheAuthor(s)2016 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsaresolelyandexclusivelylicensedbythePublisher, whetherthewholeorpartofthematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation, reprinting,reuseofillustrations,recitation,broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinany otherphysicalway,andtransmissionorinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation, computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. Theuseofgeneraldescriptivenames,registerednames,trademarks,servicemarks,etc.inthis publicationdoesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecificstatement,thatsuchnamesare exemptfromtherelevantprotectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. Thepublisher,theauthorsandtheeditorsaresafetoassumethattheadviceandinformation in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publishernortheauthorsortheeditorsgiveawarranty,expressorimplied,withrespectto thematerialcontainedhereinorforanyerrorsoromissionsthatmayhavebeenmade. Coverillustration:PatternadaptedfromanIndiancottonprintproducedinthe19thcentury Printedonacid-freepaper ThisPalgraveMacmillanimprintispublishedbySpringerNature TheregisteredcompanyisSpringerInternationalPublishingAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS The idea for this book on parenthood was first born in 2013 during a meeting of the Nordic Network of Child Researchers held at Linköping University,Sweden.ResearchersfromSweden,DenmarkandNorwaymet to discuss the current state and future direction of Nordic academic researchaboutchildrenandchildhood.Fromthislargerbodyofresearch- ers, a smaller group from Denmark and Sweden interested in family, parenthoodandthe welfarestatecrystallised. The members of the group soon discovered that, despite our different research topics, we shared an interest in the normative aspects of parent- hood.Rightthere,inLinköping,wedecidedtoplanajointpublicationto bring together knowledge about good parenthood. Simultaneously, we decided to hold a session at the Conference of the European Society of FamilyRelations inMadridin2014.Thesessionwasagreatsuccess, and wewouldliketothankEstherDermottforhelpfulfeedbackonourpapers and the rest of the session participants for contributing to a good and constructive discussion.Asweidentified sharedthemes, theoreticalinter- ests, empirical sites and analytical perspectives, an intricate complexity of parenthood took shape. The common denominator behind these shared elements seemed to be heterogeneous norms of parenthood in specific settings and situations. Slowly, we developed the concept of doing good parenthood that is the focus of this book. Texts, abstracts, titles and ideas werecirculatedbetweenauthorsandeditorswiththeaimofmakingdoing good parenthood central to the analyses. As a result, the book presents a verybroadandcomplexsetofpracticesofparenthood.Thenormativityof v vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS parenthoodpresentedinthetenchaptershighlightatleasttenversionsof whatgood parenthoodcan mean. We would like to thank all the people – children, parents, teachers, socialworkers–whohavebeeninvolvedinthedifferentresearchprojects. Withoutyou,ourideasandthoughtswouldnothavebeenchallengedand this contribution to knowledge about parenthood would not have been developed. We would also like to extend our warmest thanks to all the contributingauthorsfortheirpatience,hardworkandfaithinthisproject. Theeditorshavemetandworkedtogetheronseveraloccasions.Welooked for a venue located an equal distance from Roskilde, Copenhagen and Linköping in order to save travel time. Professor Lars Plantin of Malmö Universitykindlyofferedhishelp,byallowingustomeetfacetofaceinhis departmentofSocialWork.Thishasbeeninvaluableinassistingustofinish thebook!ThefriendshipandsupportofourNordiccolleagueshavebeen important for the completion of this book, as has Liz Sourbut’s, Nancy Aaen’sandNicholasWrigley’slinguisticediting. Our most sincere gratitude goes to Professor Esther Dermott. Firstly, for being the commentator on our papers at the Madrid conference in 2014. Secondly, and more importantly, we want to express our apprecia- tionforyouforhavingtakenonthegreattaskofcommentingonthebook in the last chapter. In this way, the analysis extends beyond the Swedish and Danish agenda and situates the doing of good parenthood within a widerinternational context.Thankyou! We are very pleased that Palgrave Macmillan decided to publish this bookintheirStudiesinFamiliesandIntimateLifeseriesaswethinkthatit hasthepotentialtoinspirefurtherthinkingaboutbothgoodparenthood andgood childhood,andhowthese conceptsrelate toone another. The publication of this book has been made possible by individual research grants and great support from the academic departments of the four editors. C ONTENTS 1 Introduction:Doing Good Parenthood 1 JudithLind, Allan Westerling,AnnaSparrmanand KarenIda Dannesboe 2 Time forGood Parenthood:A Studyof Intercountry Adoption Assessment 17 CeciliaLindgren 3 NoOneofImportance:LesbianMothers’Constructionsof Permanently AnonymousSperm Donors 29 AnnaMalmquist,AnnaPolskiandKarinZetterqvistNelson 4 Parenting onthe Edge:Doing Good Parenthoodin Child Protection Services Interventions 41 PernilleJuhl 5 AmbitiousParents asIdealor Disorder: DoingGood Parenthood inDenmark and Singapore 53 DilBach 6 AmbiguousInvolvement:Children’sConstructionofGood Parenthood 65 KarenIda Dannesboe vii viii CONTENTS 7 LimitedButCommittedParents:PrimarySchoolTeachers Negotiating Good Parenthoodin a DisadvantagedArea 77 DisaBergnehr 8 Doing Good ParenthoodThrough OnlineParental Involvement inDanish Schools 89 MariaØrskov Akselvoll 9 Teenagers, AlcoholandSex: Doing Good Parenthoodon an On-lineDiscussionBoard 101 JudithLind 10 The Ontological Choreography of(Good) Parenthood 113 AnnaSparrman,David Cardell, Anne-LiLindgren andTobiasSamuelsson 11 Parenthood andWe-nessin EverydayLife: Parenting Together Apart 127 Allan Westerling 12 Doing Good Parenthood:Reflexivity, Practices, and Relationships 137 EstherDermott Index 149 C ONTRIBUTORS Maria Ørskov Akselvoll Center for Childhood, Youth & Family Research, Department of People & Technology, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark Dil Bach Department of Educational Anthropology, School of Education, AarhusUniversity,Aarhus, Denmark Disa Bergnehr School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden David Cardell Department of Sociology, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden KarenIdaDannesboe DepartmentofEducationalAnthropology,School of Education, AarhusUniversity,Aarhus,Denmark Esther Dermott School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol,Bristol,UK Pernille Juhl Center for Childhood, Youth & Family Research, Department of People & Technology, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark JudithLind DepartmentofThematicStudies–ChildStudies,Linköping University,Linköping, Sweden Anne-Li Lindgren Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University,Stockholm, Sweden ix
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