Volume 41 (2018), Edition 1

Prenatal tests promise security and control in transition to parenthood. Methods screening the unborn child without harming it are highly accepted. These include ultrasonics and – with a growing tendency – early non-invasive tests, which analyze...

With a queer-theoretical informed perspective the article focuses on the phases of family-building in lesbian* relationships which want to bear responsibility for a planned child. After outlining the legal frame conditions for lesbian* couples with...

The article presents findings from a qualitative empirical study on families in which parents are equally responsible for and involved in the everyday tasks of domestic work and child rearing. It focuses on the difficulties, but at the same time on...

The amendment of the parental leave legislation 2007 provides fathers a better basis for family commitment and allows an extended space of possibilities for families. However, there are still operational, institutional and couple-related obstacles....

Parents’ responsibility for their child is produced by political discourses and during negotiations between subjects and institutions. Currently, there is a shift of responsibilities between families and day care centers, caused by the expansions...

This article examines the making of familial realities in state supported child minding. Outsourced reproduction work evokes new forms of doing responsibility. Families who give into care are just as much concerned as those who take into care....

The number of young people who do not grow up in their biological family has steadily increased in recent years. Group homes are an alternative family setting for young people. Do they see their caregivers as alternative attachment figures? And can...

Psychiatry is a place for refamilialisation, where tasks of socialisation are put into an institutional frame. The aim is to entangle the psychiatrised subject in a social network of responsibilities and compliance. In my ethnographic study I want...

This paper departs from the juridical and political regulation of intimacies and care in so called rainbow families in order to scrutinize the question of how certain configurations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and queer (LGBT*Q) families...

If inner models of primary attachment have to be restructured in the light of new experiences, the concepts of ›paternity‹ and ›maternity‹ undergo a change as well, and destabilize culturally equilibrated models of ›masculinity‹ and...

The French historian Henry Rousso reflects on changing paradigms in his field, starting with von Ranke’s change in the 19th century from philosophical to source-dependent studies and writings of history, Maurice Halbwachs’ concept of collective...

How to integrate confidentiality as an essential of psychonalytic treatment and the necessity to report case material in scientific discussions? The request for an informed consent for the publication of a patient’s case material is not without...