{"id":3854,"date":"2020-04-03T14:26:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T13:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/?page_id=3854"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:59:15","slug":"parenting-childhood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/parentingculturestudies\/research-themes\/intensiveparenting\/parenting-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Parenting, childhood and adult-child relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While \u2018parenting culture\u2019 and \u2018childhood\u2019 are now well-established fields of multidisciplinary scholarship so far, the tensions and resonances between these two bodies of work have not been significantly explored, particularly in diverse, global contexts.<\/p>\n<p>The reality of this lacuna was brought home to us (Charlotte Faircloth and Rachel Rosen) in 2017, when Ana Vergara del Solar (an author in our subsequent special issue of FRS) invited both of us to an event at Diego Portales University in Chile titled <em>Children\u2019s and Parents\u2019 Perspectives on the Parent-Child Relationship<\/em>. The conversations we started there established the need for our two fields of work to engage in dialogue. We organised an event at University College London in 2018 (<em>Parenting Culture, Childhood, and Adult-Child Relations in the Contemporary Age<\/em>), and subsequently a special issue, in an effort to do just this. The articles in that special issue can be found below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/tpp\/frs\/2020\/00000009\/00000001;jsessionid=6g2lgtnkkhzb.x-ic-live-01\">Childhood, parenting culture, and adult-child relations in global perspectives<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Families, Relationships and Societies, Volume 9, Number 1, March 2020<\/p>\n<p>Guest edited by Charlotte Faircloth and Rachel Rosen<\/p>\n<p>Editorial<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/contentone\/tpp\/frs\/2020\/00000009\/00000001\/art00001;jsessionid=bht6d2u5l2g5c.x-ic-live-01\">Childhood, parenting culture, and adult-child relations in global perspectives<\/a><br \/>\npp. 3-6(4)<br \/>\nAuthors: Faircloth, Charlotte; Rosen, Rachel &#8211; Top 5 most read article in FRS 2020<\/p>\n<p>Articles<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/contentone\/tpp\/frs\/2020\/00000009\/00000001\/art00002;jsessionid=bht6d2u5l2g5c.x-ic-live-01\">Adult-child relations in neoliberal times: insights from a dialogue across childhood and parenting culture studies<\/a><br \/>\npp. 7-22(16)<br \/>\nAuthors: Rosen, Rachel; Faircloth, Charlotte &#8211; Top 5 most read article in FRS 2020<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/contentone\/tpp\/frs\/2020\/00000009\/00000001\/art00003;jsessionid=bht6d2u5l2g5c.x-ic-live-01\">\u2018Teachers know best\u2019: low-income families and the politics of home\u2010school relations in Singapore<\/a><br \/>\npp. 23-40(18)<br \/>\nAuthor:\u00a0Chiong, Charleen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/contentone\/tpp\/frs\/2020\/00000009\/00000001\/art00004;jsessionid=bht6d2u5l2g5c.x-ic-live-01\">The state-as-parent: reframing parent\u2010child relations in Rwanda<\/a><br \/>\npp. 41-57(17)<br \/>\nAuthors:\u00a0Benda, Richard; Pells, Kirrily<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/contentone\/tpp\/frs\/2020\/00000009\/00000001\/art00005;jsessionid=bht6d2u5l2g5c.x-ic-live-01\">Parents\u2019 economic efforts in the discourses of Chilean children: ethical reflexivity and reciprocal care<\/a><br \/>\npp. 59-74(16)<br \/>\nAuthors:\u00a0Vergara del Solar, Ana; Sep\u00falveda Galeas, Mauricio; Salvo Agoglia, Irene<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/contentone\/tpp\/frs\/2020\/00000009\/00000001\/art00006;jsessionid=bht6d2u5l2g5c.x-ic-live-01\">\u201cOf course we\u2019ll like it, we\u2019re kids!\u201d: interrogating childhood and parenting through children\u2019s food<\/a><br \/>\npp. 75-90(16)<br \/>\nAuthor:\u00a0Patico, Jennifer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/contentone\/tpp\/frs\/2020\/00000009\/00000001\/art00007;jsessionid=bht6d2u5l2g5c.x-ic-live-01\">Accidents waiting to happen: news coverage of children\u2019s health and safety in Turkey in the 1980s and 1990s<\/a><br \/>\npp. 91-106(16)<br \/>\nAuthor:\u00a0Arzuk, Deniz<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/contentone\/tpp\/frs\/2020\/00000009\/00000001\/art00008;jsessionid=bht6d2u5l2g5c.x-ic-live-01\">Parenting apps and the depoliticisation of the parent<\/a><br \/>\npp. 107-124(18)<br \/>\nAuthors:\u00a0Ramaekers, Stefan; Hodgson, Naomi<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/contentone\/tpp\/frs\/2020\/00000009\/00000001\/art00009;jsessionid=bht6d2u5l2g5c.x-ic-live-01\">Children, parents and non-parents: to whom does \u2018the future\u2019 belong?<\/a><br \/>\npp. 125-141(17)<br \/>\nAuthors:\u00a0Rosen, Rachel; Suissa, Judith<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/contentone\/tpp\/frs\/2020\/00000009\/00000001\/art00010;jsessionid=bht6d2u5l2g5c.x-ic-live-01\">Parenting and social solidarity in cross-cultural perspective<\/a><br \/>\npp. 143-159(17)<br \/>\nAuthor:\u00a0Faircloth, Charlotte<\/p>\n<p>Open Space<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/contentone\/tpp\/frs\/2020\/00000009\/00000001\/art00011;jsessionid=bht6d2u5l2g5c.x-ic-live-01\">The study of childhood: thoughts from a family life researcher<\/a><br \/>\npp. 161-167(7)<br \/>\nAuthor:\u00a0Brannen, Julia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/contentone\/tpp\/frs\/2020\/00000009\/00000001\/art00012;jsessionid=bht6d2u5l2g5c.x-ic-live-01\">Parallels and ruptures in the neoliberal intensive parenting regime<\/a><br \/>\npp. 169-172(4)<br \/>\nAuthor:\u00a0Gillies, Val<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/contentone\/tpp\/frs\/2020\/00000009\/00000001\/art00013;jsessionid=bht6d2u5l2g5c.x-ic-live-01\">Braiding sweetgrass families: a transmedia project on parenting in Blackfoot Territory<\/a><br \/>\npp. 173-180(8)<br \/>\nAuthors:\u00a0Newberry, Jan; Pace-Crosschild, Tanya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While \u2018parenting culture\u2019 and \u2018childhood\u2019 are now well-established fields of multidisciplinary scholarship so far, the tensions and resonances between these two bodies of work have not been significantly explored, particularly in diverse, global contexts. 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