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Paperback Like Family: Narratives of Fictive Kinship Book

ISBN: 0813564050

ISBN13: 9780813564050

Like Family: Narratives of Fictive Kinship

(Part of the Families in Focus Series)

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For decades, social scientists have assumed that "fictive kinship" is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this innovative book, Nelson reveals the frequency, texture and dynamics of relationships which are felt to be "like family" among the white middle-class. Drawing on extensive, in-depth interviews, Nelson describes the quandaries and contradictions, delight and anxiety, benefits and costs,...

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