McPherson believes that the concept of family, or what Lupton called "kinship concerns", in Angelou's books must be understood in the light of the children's displacement at the beginning of Caged Bird.
The theme of family and family relationships (which scholar Mary Jane Lupton called "kinship concerns"), from the character-defining experience of Angelou's parents' abandonment to her relationships with her son, husbands, friends, and lovers are important in all of her books.
As kinship care arrangements become more common, providing services that address the needs of both relative caregivers and the children in their care is a growing concern for social workers and other family-service professionals.
I resurrect this profoundly uncool episode from my youth not just because on some level I must still crave negative attention but also because I feel kinship and concern for Dante de Blasio, the young man whose own Afro was the star of a TV commercial this past summer, one that many political observers believe propelled his father, Bill, to the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor.
A recurring theme is the individual's painful trajectory as that individual negotiates between cultures, combats racial prejudice, and copes with shattered families and kinship groups; these concerns are also rendered in playful or parodic modes, as protest literature, or as alternatives to frenetic urban consumer cultures.
Kinship matrix data concerning averaged structures were calculated using CLUMPP software and based on Q matrices.
Second, local cultural norms concerning kinship and fertility may affect the likelihood of living together with kin before the couple is able to establish their own household.
Future research on the interaction between wealth and kin influence, or differences in cultural norms concerning kinship and reproduction, which lie beyond the scope of this study, may further illuminate variations in the influence of kin on reproductive outcomes.
Consistent with other studies (Anderson et al., 2005; Berdes & Eckert, 2007; Bowers et al., 2000), imagination concerning fictive kinship was a determinant of quality care.
Adolescents who value "family and kinship" have fewer practical concerns about the costs and difficulties of parenting.
It is a far cry from his rather clumsy 1931 rendition in terra cotta of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco, with whom Noguchi felt a kinship in their mutual concern for social reform.
