Miteinander spielen und umeinander sorgen: Geschwisterbeziehungen in Mehrkindfamilien

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Abstract

In multi-child families, children grow up with different sibling relationships, which differ in terms of age, the distance between them and the distribution of the gender ratio. This article expands care research to include empirical findings on family care practices among siblings by focusing on the intra-family distribution of child care and responsibility in multi-child families from a doing family perspective. First, three types of quantitative distribution of sibling care work are developed from qualitative sibling interviews. The documentary method is then used to reconstruct different orientation frameworks within the types in which siblings are involved in care work. This reveals that the assumption of care work can be interpreted as a natural obligation placed on the children, which is, however, also experienced positively.
Translated title of the contribution
Playing together and caring for each other
Sibling relationships in multi-child families

Details

Original languageGerman
Article number4
Pages (from-to)521-534
Number of pages14
JournalDiskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung = Discourse : journal of childhood adolescence research
Volume20
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2026
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

unpaywall 10.3224/diskurs.v20i4.06

Keywords

Keywords

  • Mehrkindfamilien, Care-Arbeit, Geschwister, Doing Family Konzept