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Textures of family life — further thoughts on change and commitment
Author(s)	Carol Smart
Journal title	Journal of Social Policy, vol 34, no 4, October 2005
Pages	pp 541-556
Source	http://www.journals.cambridge.org
Keywords	Divorce ; Attitude ; Grandparents ; Family relationships ; Social change.
Annotation	This article attempts to account for the existence of parallel systems of values in families whose grandparents condemn divorce, yet act to support their adult children when they face relationship breakdown. The article seeks to understand the context in which values are formed and how they can gradually become more complex and contradictory as social and personal contexts change. The article explores change across two generations of family relationships, in order to add to the debate on whether commitments within families are in decline. It also considers the question of how policies on families can be formulated, given the complexity and contradictory nature of the values that family members hold. The study on which this is based is part of a linked series of small-scale empirical projects which for the ESRC Research Group on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare (CAVA). (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-051118208 A
Classmark	SOH: DP: SW: DS:SJ: TMH
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