Introduction
Adoption, affiliation, and family recomposition—inventing family continuity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12447241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 385-392 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The History of the Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1081-602X • E-ISSN: 1873-5398 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/s1081-602x(99)80253-x |
| OpenAlex | W2013617573 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 3 |
This special issue deals with adoption practices and family recomposition in different societies in the past. Children's survival and family continuity were of major concern, and individual interests were linked, if not subordinated, to family groups. There were many different ways to perpetuate assets and power within the framework of the family. In Europe, systems that stress the importance of patrimonial arrangements houses are generally associated with the Roman conception of property, whereas systems favoring egalitarian redistribution within enlarged kinship groups have affinity with “barbarian” customs. In Japan, China, or on the Pacific atolls, we find other kinds of family systems, but in all of them adoption, affiliation, or family recomposition give priority to family continuity and well-being, inventing solutions to conflict, penury, infertility, and death. No future could be imagined without children, and the succession of generations was secured by these practices, resulting in early geographical, social, and family mobility for children and sometimes young men and women
Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Gerontology
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| Citations per year | 0.32 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |