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Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a social science journal published by  Policy Press which is  designed to advance scholarship and debate in the growing field of families and relationships across the life course.  It explores family life, relationships and generational issues from interdisciplinary, social science perspectives, whilst maintaining a solid grounding in sociological theory and methods and a strong policy and practice focus. 

We are delighted to announce that Volume 2 No 2 has now been published and contains the following papers:

 

 Editorial 
F Authors: Ridge, Tess; Featherstone, Brid

Parenting support policies in Europe 
Author: Daly, Mary

 Restrictions on natural parent contact with infants during care proceedings where forced adoption may be the outcome: some cautions about recent research and developing practice 
Author: Dale, Peter

 Responsibility and resistance: women negotiating the nourishment of children 
Authors: Maher, JaneMaree; Wright, Jan; Tanner, Claire

Carers' perspectives on choosing a care home for a relative with dementia 
Authors: Katz, Jeanne; Holland, Caroline; Mitchell, Kate; Gage, Heather; Thein, Nwe; Sheehan, Bart

 Competing obligations and the maintenance of physical co-presence: the impact of migration and structural constraints on post-accession Polish families in the UK 
Authors: McGhee, Derek; Heath, Sue; Trevena, Paulina

 Generational structuring of childhood images in television commercials 
Authors: Lämsä, Tiina

The globalisation of love? Examining narratives of intimacy and marriage among middle-class Gujarati Indians in the UK and India 
Author: Twamley, Katherine

Qualitative secondary analysis in practice: introduction 
Author: Irwin, Sarah

Young grandchildren and their grandparents: a secondary analysis of continuity and change across four birth cohorts 
Authors: Gray, Jane; Geraghty, Ruth; Ralph, David

Beyond 'average' family life: a secondary analysis of atypicality in 1960s families 
Authors: O'Connor, Henrietta; Goodwin, John

Secondary analysis in reflection: some experiences of re-use from an oral history perspective 
Author: Bornat, Joanna

 

 

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Editorial Management Board

Joint Managing Editors: Tess Ridge, University of Bath and Brid Featherstone, The Open University, UK

Associate Editors: Sarah Cunningham-Burley, University of Edinburgh; Jacqui Gabb, The Open University (co-Editor of Open Space); Lynn Jamieson, University of Edinburgh; David Morgan, University of Manchester (co-Editor of Open Space); Kate Morris, University of Nottingham, Bren Neale, University of Leeds.