Attachment, emotions and kinship caregiving

An investigation into separation distress and family relatedness in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstani households

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13009482
AutoresBalihar Sanghera (0000-0001-9920-7375, University of Kent, autor correspondente), Mehrigiul Ablezova (American University of Central Asia), Aisalkyn Botoeva (John Brown University)
Ano2012
Volume1
Fascículo3
Páginas379-396
Data de publicação2012-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFamilies Relationships and Societies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2046-7435 • E-ISSN: 2046-7443
EditoraPolicy Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/204674312x656293
OpenAlexW1994578926
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5

This article examines how children relate to birth parents after separation and reunion, which often produce negative emotions and distort family support in adolescence and adulthood. In Kyrgyzstan, large-scale migration to urban areas and overseas, widespread poverty and a weak welfare state have generated the practice of informal kinship caregiving that enables primary caregivers living in poverty to temporarily migrate, leaving their babies and young children in the care of grandparents or other close relatives. A prolonged period of time passes before birth parents and children are reunited. Attachment theory is employed to understand and explain how under informal kinship caregiving, children can have varying emotional bonds with birth parents that affect social relationships later in life. The article aims to contribute towards an understanding of the dynamics of emotions in family relationships

Affect (linguistics · Developmental psychology · Distress · Grandparent · Kinship · Kinship care · Political science · Poverty · Sociology · Welfare · Child Welfare and Adoption · Clinical Psychology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology · Social Psychology