Somewhere Out There
Parental Claiming in the Preadoption Waiting Period
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2366366 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Margarete Sandelowski (autor de correspondencia), Betty Glenn Harris, Diane Holditch-Davis, Diane Holditch‐davi (0000-0001-8912-4832) |
| Año | 1993 |
| Volumen | 21 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 464-486 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/089124193021004003 |
| OpenAlex | W2111021290 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 8 |
| Referencias citadas | 26 |
This article describes the process of parental claiming expressed in multiple interviews conducted with 35 infertile couples waiting to adopt a child. Parental claiming is the special kind of emotional and intellectual work that adopting couples do prior to placement to make someone else's child "somewhere out there" their own. It involves creating an object to claim, undermining the primacy of blood ties, and transforming someone else's child into the right child for them. This kind of work is particularly important to social actors who aspire to statuses to which they know they are not clearly entitled
Object (grammar · Sociology · Work (physics · Child Welfare and Adoption · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology
Preparing Heart and Mind for Becoming a Parent Following a Diagnosis of Fetal Anomaly
The motivations and decision-making processes of parents who adopt older children
Toward a formal theory of interactive resocialization
Adoptive Family “Leap-Frogging” Patterns
Exploring Core Issues in Adoption
Adopted Women Give Birth
Embodying Surrogate Motherhood
Significant Absences
The Psychology Of Adoption
The Stigma of Adoptive Parent Status
The Adopted Child
Birthparent romances and identity formation in adopted children
Discovering’ chronic illness
The clock has been ticking, the calendar pages turning, and we are still waiting
Narrative and Sociology
Basics of Qualitative Research
Basics of Qualitative Research
Does adopted mean different? An attributional analysis
The sacred dimensions of pregnancy and birth
The status and validity of accounts obtained at interview
Parenthood, Its Psychology and Psychopathology
Adoptive parenting and the norm of family emotionality
The Rites of Passage
American Kinship
On Narrative and Sociology
Hidden Rhythms
Reshaped Parenthood Identity
| Obras citantes distintas | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 0,24 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1992 - 2023 (32) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 8 |