Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2021.2019743
Kristina M. Scharp, Brooke H. Wolfe, Cimmiaron F. Alvarez
ABSTRACT Women who have late-term abortions not only have to cope with losing a child but also the stigma associated with termination. Understanding the ways stigmatizing ideologies are resisted by alternatives has the potential to disrupt meanings that disenfranchise populations. Interested in ideological resistance, we framed this study in relational dialectics theory, which highlights how marginalized discourses resist dominant ones to make meaning of a semantic object. We used RDT’s corresponding method, contrapuntal analysis, which revealed two discourses that competed to illuminate the meanings of women who terminate wanted pregnancies due to health complications (WTHC): the Discourse of Independent Murder (DIM) and the Discourse of Collective Sacrifice (DCS). These discourses interplayed through contractive practices (i.e., disqualification, naturalization, ideal violation), synchronic interplay (i.e., entertaining, countering, negating), and dialogic transformation (i.e., hybridization and aesthetic moment) illustrating a struggle that both reified and resisted the DIM. Theoretical implications and practical applications are discussed.
{"title":"Making Meaning of Women Who Have Late-Term Abortions from the Perspective of Mothers Who Terminated Wanted Pregnancies","authors":"Kristina M. Scharp, Brooke H. Wolfe, Cimmiaron F. Alvarez","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2021.2019743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2021.2019743","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Women who have late-term abortions not only have to cope with losing a child but also the stigma associated with termination. Understanding the ways stigmatizing ideologies are resisted by alternatives has the potential to disrupt meanings that disenfranchise populations. Interested in ideological resistance, we framed this study in relational dialectics theory, which highlights how marginalized discourses resist dominant ones to make meaning of a semantic object. We used RDT’s corresponding method, contrapuntal analysis, which revealed two discourses that competed to illuminate the meanings of women who terminate wanted pregnancies due to health complications (WTHC): the Discourse of Independent Murder (DIM) and the Discourse of Collective Sacrifice (DCS). These discourses interplayed through contractive practices (i.e., disqualification, naturalization, ideal violation), synchronic interplay (i.e., entertaining, countering, negating), and dialogic transformation (i.e., hybridization and aesthetic moment) illustrating a struggle that both reified and resisted the DIM. Theoretical implications and practical applications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"104 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42723941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2040506
Sylvia L. Mikucki-Enyart, Ashley M. Peterson
ABSTRACT Increasing divorce and remarriage rates among middle and older aged adults has resulted in an uptick of later life stepfamilies (LLSF). Despite these growing numbers, research often focuses on stepfamily development in adolescence, leaving lingering questions about how adult stepchildren navigate this transition, including grappling with uncertainties. Guided by uncertainty management theory, we conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 26 adult stepchildren (ASC). Thematic analysis revealed four primary information acquisition strategies: (a) strategic information seeking, (b) strategic information avoiding, (c) incidental information acquisition, and (d) information ambivalence. Further, ASC’s information acquisition tactics are informed by contextual factors germane to LLSFs (e.g., proximity), vary by degree of intentionally, are collaborative in nature, and are connected to relational implications. Together, our findings result in a conceptual model of LLSF uncertainty management that extends understanding of uncertainty management within family systems.
{"title":"Adult Stepchildren’s Uncertainty Management in Later Life Stepfamilies: Illuminating the Role of Context, Intentionality, Collaboration, and Information Implications","authors":"Sylvia L. Mikucki-Enyart, Ashley M. Peterson","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2022.2040506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2022.2040506","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Increasing divorce and remarriage rates among middle and older aged adults has resulted in an uptick of later life stepfamilies (LLSF). Despite these growing numbers, research often focuses on stepfamily development in adolescence, leaving lingering questions about how adult stepchildren navigate this transition, including grappling with uncertainties. Guided by uncertainty management theory, we conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 26 adult stepchildren (ASC). Thematic analysis revealed four primary information acquisition strategies: (a) strategic information seeking, (b) strategic information avoiding, (c) incidental information acquisition, and (d) information ambivalence. Further, ASC’s information acquisition tactics are informed by contextual factors germane to LLSFs (e.g., proximity), vary by degree of intentionally, are collaborative in nature, and are connected to relational implications. Together, our findings result in a conceptual model of LLSF uncertainty management that extends understanding of uncertainty management within family systems.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"119 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46752951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2058947
Aimee E. Miller-Ott, R. A. Cooper, Evan Lobdell
ABSTRACT Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a debilitating progressive illness that wreaks havoc on the person with Alzheimer’s (PWA) and their family. AD impairs the PWA’s cognitive, communicative, and bodily functioning, and family members are challenged to maintain ongoing but significantly altered relationships with the PWA. We aimed to understand how the actions of family members of a PWA served to recalibrate the family system. Among the changes that recalibrated the family system was the renegotiation of roles in family subsystems that positioned family members as ingroup or outgroup members based on acceptable and legitimate support provision. Family members also began focusing on logistics of care and aimed to create “new normal” ways of interacting with the PWA that were painful but necessary for continued connection. This research has implications for what grief looks like with AD, how family members judge support, and how counselors can best work with family members.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2058510
L. Turner, Daradirek Ekachai, Karen Slattery
ABSTRACT This qualitative study explored how working mothers communicatively constructed resilience during COVID-19. We focused on working mothers because the pandemic upended arrangements they had made previously to juggle work and family lives. Drawing on the Communication Theory of Resilience (CTR), the study analyzed data collected from 24 U.S. working mothers who were interviewed via Zoom between July and September 2020. We found five themes characterizing the triggers working mothers faced in the pandemic: financial disruptions, on-the-job issues, space-related concerns, temporal concerns, and role-related issues. Consistent with CTR, mothers responded to these disruptions by crafting resilience with the six processes suggested by previous research. Further, we found a seventh process, “communicating emotional well-being,” that mothers crafted to recalibrate emotional upsets due to the pandemic. The findings also suggested that working mothers saw their own resilience as inextricably tied to the resilience of their children and partners.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2021.2019742
Meng Li
ABSTRACT China’s childrearing culture has undergone dramatic transformations in recent decades, redefining ideals of childrearing in ways that relegate rural-to-urban migrant mothers to a marginalized position. This article explores the repercussions of changing childrearing ideologies in China on the subjectivities of rural migrant mothers through a critical inquiry into their expressions of maternal guilt. Based on interviews with 24 migrant mothers who voiced profound guilt for leaving their children behind, this study uncovers the intersectional oppressive power of three intertwined childrearing ideologies – traditional gender beliefs, the “left-behind children” discourse, and the urban middle-class parenting model. These ideologies, firmly grounded in but also articulated with institutionalized marginalization based on gender, hukou status, and class, frame migrant mothers’ childcare as aberrant and subject them to guilt and self-blame. Integrating Althusser’s concept of interpellation and the theory of intersectionality, this study contributes to the expanding literature of Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication (CIFC) research.
{"title":"“Only Mother Is the Best in the World”: Maternal Guilt, Migrant Motherhood, and Changing Ideologies of Childrearing in China","authors":"Meng Li","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2021.2019742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2021.2019742","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT China’s childrearing culture has undergone dramatic transformations in recent decades, redefining ideals of childrearing in ways that relegate rural-to-urban migrant mothers to a marginalized position. This article explores the repercussions of changing childrearing ideologies in China on the subjectivities of rural migrant mothers through a critical inquiry into their expressions of maternal guilt. Based on interviews with 24 migrant mothers who voiced profound guilt for leaving their children behind, this study uncovers the intersectional oppressive power of three intertwined childrearing ideologies – traditional gender beliefs, the “left-behind children” discourse, and the urban middle-class parenting model. These ideologies, firmly grounded in but also articulated with institutionalized marginalization based on gender, hukou status, and class, frame migrant mothers’ childcare as aberrant and subject them to guilt and self-blame. Integrating Althusser’s concept of interpellation and the theory of intersectionality, this study contributes to the expanding literature of Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication (CIFC) research.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"87 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49141216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-10DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2022.2041997
C. Thompson, E. Hintz, Christopher M. Duerringer
ABSTRACT The exploration of discourse has been enormously generative to critical family communication scholarship (CFC), as scholars have both studied discourse in and of families as well as theorized about what discourse is and does. The heuristic value of discourse to CFC moves us to offer an agenda for future CFC research that asks family communication scholars to theoretically expand beyond discourse. Drawing on the momentum of CFC work grounded in discourse, we aim to: (a) offer scholars more conceptual tools to examine CFC; (b) clarify how some common concepts are differentiated (e.g., discourse, ideology, articulation, interpellation, hegemony, apparatus); and (c) provide research ideas for studying family communication and identity as constituted through other processes emerging from critical theory.
{"title":"Setting the Agenda: Beyond Discourse Dependence and a Dependence on Discourse","authors":"C. Thompson, E. Hintz, Christopher M. Duerringer","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2022.2041997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2022.2041997","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The exploration of discourse has been enormously generative to critical family communication scholarship (CFC), as scholars have both studied discourse in and of families as well as theorized about what discourse is and does. The heuristic value of discourse to CFC moves us to offer an agenda for future CFC research that asks family communication scholars to theoretically expand beyond discourse. Drawing on the momentum of CFC work grounded in discourse, we aim to: (a) offer scholars more conceptual tools to examine CFC; (b) clarify how some common concepts are differentiated (e.g., discourse, ideology, articulation, interpellation, hegemony, apparatus); and (c) provide research ideas for studying family communication and identity as constituted through other processes emerging from critical theory.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"175 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48470465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-30DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2021.2005068
Mary Claire Morr Loftus, E. A. Suter, Michele D. Hanna, Daniel S. Strasser
ABSTRACT Parents (N = 166) in transracial, international adoptive (TIA) families with children from China or Vietnam were surveyed to investigate their experiences with privacy turbulence surrounding the family’s private, adoption-related information. About half described at least one instance of privacy turbulence, with a total of 98 instances. The instances included examples of all six types of privacy turbulence described in Communication Privacy Management theory, but two of those types, namely boundary rule mistakes and boundary definition predicaments, accounted for 90% of the instances of turbulence. Evidence of explicit rules and catalyst criteria for rule formation in the turbulence descriptions suggest ways that TIA parents might be able to avoid or manage privacy turbulence.
{"title":"Parents’ Management of Privacy Turbulence Surrounding Private, Adoption-Related Information in Transracial, Internationally Adoptive Families","authors":"Mary Claire Morr Loftus, E. A. Suter, Michele D. Hanna, Daniel S. Strasser","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2021.2005068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2021.2005068","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Parents (N = 166) in transracial, international adoptive (TIA) families with children from China or Vietnam were surveyed to investigate their experiences with privacy turbulence surrounding the family’s private, adoption-related information. About half described at least one instance of privacy turbulence, with a total of 98 instances. The instances included examples of all six types of privacy turbulence described in Communication Privacy Management theory, but two of those types, namely boundary rule mistakes and boundary definition predicaments, accounted for 90% of the instances of turbulence. Evidence of explicit rules and catalyst criteria for rule formation in the turbulence descriptions suggest ways that TIA parents might be able to avoid or manage privacy turbulence.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"55 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48844409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-20DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2021.1999243
Vincent R. Waldron, Dawn O. Braithwaite, Bailey M. Oliver-Blackburn, B. L. Avalos
ABSTRACT Stepfamilies are inherently complex family systems, marked by change, flexible boundaries, and early conflict. But the developmental pathways by which long-term stepparent relationships become positive require more study. We interviewed 38 stepchildren who had reached adulthood, to understand how their relationships with a stepparent became positive. Four relational trajectories defined these positive relationships: punctuated, consistent positive, progressive incline, and modulated turbulent. Distinctive communicative practices were associated with each trajectory, such as communicating assurances, “siding,” or revelations of character. In addition, the trajectories shared three common processes: responsiveness to stepchild vulnerability, stepparent “adding value” to the family, and maturation/reframing of the past. Findings support the existence of multiple pathways to positivity and suggest that major fluctuations are experienced along the way. Findings are interpreted in light of existing research on stepfamily development and Afifi’s theory of resilience and relational load. Recommendations are offered for stepfamilies and professionals who serve them.
{"title":"Paths to Positivity: Relational Trajectories and Interaction in Positive Stepparent-Stepchild Dyads","authors":"Vincent R. Waldron, Dawn O. Braithwaite, Bailey M. Oliver-Blackburn, B. L. Avalos","doi":"10.1080/15267431.2021.1999243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15267431.2021.1999243","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Stepfamilies are inherently complex family systems, marked by change, flexible boundaries, and early conflict. But the developmental pathways by which long-term stepparent relationships become positive require more study. We interviewed 38 stepchildren who had reached adulthood, to understand how their relationships with a stepparent became positive. Four relational trajectories defined these positive relationships: punctuated, consistent positive, progressive incline, and modulated turbulent. Distinctive communicative practices were associated with each trajectory, such as communicating assurances, “siding,” or revelations of character. In addition, the trajectories shared three common processes: responsiveness to stepchild vulnerability, stepparent “adding value” to the family, and maturation/reframing of the past. Findings support the existence of multiple pathways to positivity and suggest that major fluctuations are experienced along the way. Findings are interpreted in light of existing research on stepfamily development and Afifi’s theory of resilience and relational load. Recommendations are offered for stepfamilies and professionals who serve them.","PeriodicalId":46648,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF FAMILY COMMUNICATION","volume":"22 1","pages":"33 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48102572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-02DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2021.2006662
Vincent R. Waldron, T. Socha
ABSTRACT Despite its consequential role, fatherhood is relatively underrepresented in recent family communication scholarship. We use Brofenbrenner’ssocio/bio/ecological model to synthesize existing studies and identify research opportunities. Much existing work has occurred at the level of microsystem, where research makes clear that father-offspring communication has short-term term effects on the relational satisfaction of family members and long-term influences on the relational communication practices of offspring. Although promising work has begun, much more research is needed on the ways in which institutions, emerging media, and cultural discourses shape the experiences of “nontraditional” fathers and those who play fathering roles. In providing conceptual guidance for future research, we encourage family communication scholars to consider the historical development of fatherhood, its evolution over the lifespan, and the unique generative contributions of fathers and “fatherspeak” to family development.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-11DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2021.2000990
Lisa J. van Raalte, Kory Floyd
ABSTRACT This study sought to explore whether relationship satisfaction moderated the relationship between affection and individual health (i.e., depression and stress) and affection and relational well-being (i.e., trust and closeness). The sample (N = 631) was comprised of predominantly female non-married Southwestern college students. Relationship satisfaction did not interact with the relationship between affection and trust, affection and closeness, and affection and depression. However, relationship satisfaction moderated the relationship between affection and stress such that affection was significantly and negative related to stress only for highly satisfied relationships. Dissatisfied participants were affectionately deprived, and their frequency of affectionate behaviors varied. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.
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