... to analyse adult sister experiences. Findings Overlapping themes of religion and intimacy between sisters are discussed which reveal faith as a source of intimate connection, sisters as everyday sources of support and care, religion as part of the everyday fabric of sister relations and that sisters...

... may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Single mothers Triple bind theory Work Care COVID-19 pandemic According to triple bind theory (Nieuwenhuis and Maldonado, 2018), single parents and their families are disproportionally caught in the interplay...

...Tine Haubner Purpose In the context of a care crisis in Germany, care work done by volunteers is increasingly being semi-formalized by the state and used in professional care work contexts to relieve families and professionals. However, voluntary care has not yet been adequately studied from...

... animals. This paper unpacks a notion of “multi-species-isms” (and the simpler adjective “multispecies”) as an opposing concept for speciesism that fits with a feminist idea of plurality, as well as the formulation of a relational ethics of “care” that can identify already present traces...

... of taking a critical view of the family when drafting development policies. Empowerment Conditional cash transfer Paid work Unpaid work Care Gender Brazil Conditional cash transfer programmes (CCT) were created in Brazil in the 1990s in a context characterized by the growth...

... as competing priorities and concerns embedded in it. It points to the methodological complexity of evaluating the development of parental leave policies in a cross-country perspective. Gender equality Leave policy Maternity leave Parental leave Paternity leave Socialist countries Fathers Care...

...John Frame Comparing the approaches to care of FBOs and secular NGOs, this paper considers the question: to what extent does faith influence the ways FBOs work with their clients? It builds on the theoretical understanding of faith “infusing” FBOs, distinguishing these service providers from...

...Manuel Abrantes Purpose – This paper addresses the nexus of domiciliary care demand and vulnerable migrant women recruited as domestic workers, focusing on the role of two types of organizations operating at the meso-level: commercial companies and nongovernmental organizations. The purpose...

...Yanxia Zhang; Wei‐Jun. Jean Yeung; Shirley Hsiao‐Li Sun Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate in the context of the persistent low fertility that contributes to an ageing society, what might be the shifting roles of state and family in caring for children? Design/methodology...

...Yanxia Zhang; Wei‐Jun. Jean Yeung; Mary Daly Purpose This article provides an overview and analysis of care as a concept and object of policy makers' attention in Europe, mindful especially of the lessons that can be drawn from the European experience. The aim of this paper is to set out...

... to the institutional care provision for young children. The aim of this paper is to investigate the changes to the institutional care since 1980, with particular emphasis on the most recent years from mid‐1990s, and explore how the institutional care has changed over the recent decades without a clear institutional...

...Yanxia Zhang; Wei‐Jun. Jean Yeung; Yanxia Zhang; Wei‐Jun. Jean Yeung Purpose Asia's traditional experiences with care provision differ considerably from those of the West given the prevalent family‐based social norms about care and policies in this region. In recent decades, Asia has experienced...