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oapen-20.500.12657-587092022-10-15T03:17:33Z Families – Beyond the Nuclear Ideal Cutas, Daniela Chan, Sarah Sociology: family and relationships Gay and Lesbian studies / LGBTQ studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSJ Gender studies, gender groups bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book examines, through a multi-disciplinary lens, the possibilities offered by relationships and family forms that challenge the nuclear family ideal, and some of the arguments that recommend or disqualify these as legitimate units in our societies.That children should be conceived naturally, born to and raised by their two young, heterosexual, married to each other, genetic parents; that this relationship between parents is also the ideal relationship between romantic or sexual partners; and that romance and sexual intimacy ought to be at the core of our closest personal relationships - all these elements converge towards the ideal of the nuclear family. The authors consider a range of relationship and family structures that depart from this ideal: polyamory and polygamy, single and polyparenting, parenting by gay and lesbian couples, as well as families created through assisted human reproduction. 2022-10-14T14:52:21Z 2022-10-14T14:52:21Z 2012 book ONIX_20221014_9781780930138_40 9781780930138 9781780930121 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58709 eng Science Ethics and Society application/pdf n/a 9781780930138.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781780930114 10.5040/9781780930114 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781780930138 9781780930121 Bloomsbury Academic 240 London open access
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book examines, through a multi-disciplinary lens, the possibilities offered by relationships and family forms that challenge the nuclear family ideal, and some of the arguments that recommend or disqualify these as legitimate units in our societies.That children should be conceived naturally, born to and raised by their two young, heterosexual, married to each other, genetic parents; that this relationship between parents is also the ideal relationship between romantic or sexual partners; and that romance and sexual intimacy ought to be at the core of our closest personal relationships - all these elements converge towards the ideal of the nuclear family. The authors consider a range of relationship and family structures that depart from this ideal: polyamory and polygamy, single and polyparenting, parenting by gay and lesbian couples, as well as families created through assisted human reproduction.
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