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Journal articles on the topic "Flourishing Families"
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Huntington, Clare. "FLOURISHING FAMILIES*." Family Court Review 50, no. 2 (April 2012): 273–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-1617.2012.01450.x.
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Sypnowich, Christine. "Flourishing children, flourishing adults: families, equality and the neutralism-perfectionism debate." Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 21, no. 3 (November 7, 2017): 314–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2017.1398477.
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Booth, Alison Stevens, and Fiona Mary Cameron. "Family event participation: building flourishing communities." International Journal of Event and Festival Management 11, no. 2 (April 21, 2020): 223–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijefm-10-2019-0048.
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PurposeFamily participation in community events and festivals is framed by certain conditions related to their ability to enhance their quality of life (QOL) and family flourishing. For communities to flourish, families must feel safe, secure, accepted and included. The research has the following aims: (1) to consider whether location is a determinant in family QOL and event participation, and (2) to identify how cultural identity and family issues may affect families' QOL and the role events play in their ability to flourish as a family.Design/methodology/approachAn integrated mixed-methods design was used derived from quantitative and qualitative traditions, including surveys, interviews and secondary data. The survey component combined Jepson and Stadler's St Albans 2015 QOL study survey with research instruments used by the Rotorua Lakes Council (RLC). The Rotorua sample included 521 valid anonymous online surveys and 11 semi-structured interviews. The RLC's Arts and Culture team provided expert advice, strategic plans and reports; secondary data were gathered from media reports.FindingsWhen comparing key Rotorua and St Albans data, the participants' responses were very similar. What appear significant are socio-economic and cultural differences and family-flourishing factors specific to Rotorua's location and population. The findings show that the biggest obstacles for families attending events are money, work commitments and family obligations. The events reflect the region's unique cultural profile and provide a distinctive identifier of place and people that create a unique small-city event portfolio.Research limitations/implicationsThis study's findings have reinforced that for small-city events to succeed and attract high levels of patronage, council and community must work cooperatively towards common goals. Our findings indicate the importance, to our participants, of emotional attachment to Rotorua's natural landscape, built environment and unique cultural heritage. Additionally, arts and culture research focusing on new-migrant and multi-generational event participation is worth further consideration for preserving Rotorua's cultural history. Perceptions within the Rotorua community of their family experience at local events are central to our ongoing research and the further successful delivery of the RLC's event portfolio.Originality/valueThis research offers a case study that serves to build further areas of inquiry into the role events play in QOL, family flourishing and maintaining indigenous cultures. Study findings have reinforced that organisations, practitioners, festivals and events succeed in attracting high levels of patronage for a small city. This study provides insights for designing culturally inclusive event portfolios that include events and festivals that target family audiences.
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Morse, Jennifer Roback. "No Families, No Freedom: Human Flourishing in a Free Society." Social Philosophy and Policy 16, no. 1 (1999): 290–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265052500002338.
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This essay has one simple theme: the family does a very important job that no other institution can do. What is that job? Inside a family, helpless babies are transformed from being self-centered bundles of impulses, desires, and emotions to being adult people capable of social behavior of all kinds. Why is this job important? The family teaches the ability to trust, cooperate, and self-restrain. Neither the free market nor selfgoverning political institutions can survive unless the vast majority of the population possesses these skills. Why is the family uniquely situated to teach these skills and the values that go with them? People develop these qualities in their children as a side effect of loving them. What does this have to do with a free society? Contracts and free political institutions, the foundational structures of a free society, require these attributes that only families can inculcate. Without loving families, no society can long govern itself, for the family teaches the skills of individual self-governance.
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Iltis, Ana. "Bioethics and Human Flourishing: Christian Wisdom in a Secular Age." Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality 25, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 145–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbz002.
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AbstractThe gulf between Christian and secular bioethics has far-reaching implications for public policy, healthcare organizations, clinicians, and patients and their families. There also are significant differences among various Christian approaches to bioethics. Differences and similarities between Christian and secular bioethics as well as among Christian approaches to bioethics are evident across three domains explored in this issue of Christian Bioethics. The first concerns different approaches to or methods for resolving ethical questions. The second concerns the ways in which understandings of health and disease and human anthropology shape our judgments about what we may do in the pursuit of health or in response to disease. The third concerns how our perceptions of and regard for others affect judgments of moral worth and can influence healthcare decision-making.
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Britten, Adrielle. "The Family and Adolescent Wellbeing: Alternative Models of Adolescent Growth in the Novels of Judith Clarke." International Research in Children's Literature 7, no. 2 (December 2014): 165–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2014.0130.
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YA fiction is largely about adolescent maturation – or flourishing – and in Western narratives this is imagined through narratives of growth. Within the institution of the family, growth is typically imagined in YA fiction in terms of adolescent rebellion, and in this frame the institutions that surround adolescents – schools, families, communities – tend to be depicted as repressive. This article explores an alternative view of the institution of the family offered in Judith Clarke's novels. In One Whole and Perfect Day, for example, adolescents flourish when in families that value mutual care above conformity to normative views of what a family should be; in Night Train, adolescents fail to flourish when sufficient (or ‘good enough’) family caring is not available to them. This article draws on research in cognitive narratology and the interdisciplinary field of wellbeing studies to suggest that Clarke's novels model a kind of caring – ‘good enough’ caring – which entails a nuanced view of successful maturation that carefully holds in balance both the fragility of the individual and an optimistic view of caring for others. Such balance is essential for the flourishing of adolescents and, indeed, of people of all ages.
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Carter, Erik W. "Supporting Inclusion and Flourishing in the Religious and Spiritual Lives of People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities." Inclusion 1, no. 1 (June 1, 2013): 64–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1352/2326-6988-1.1.064.
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Abstract An important aspect of supporting many people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to flourish involves providing meaningful opportunities to participate in the spiritual and religious life of their community. Yet, a review of prevailing practices suggests the spirituality and faith community connections of individuals with intellectual disability, autism, and other developmental disabilities may be inconsistently supported or entirely overlooked. This article suggests an initial framework for research, policy, and practice aimed at fostering inclusion at the intersection of disability, religion, and spirituality. Recommendations are offered for designing services and supports that ensure that (a) people with disabilities can participate fully in inclusive spiritual and religious activities, (b) congregations develop the commitment and capacity to welcome people with disabilities and their families, (c) families receive support in ways that honor their faith commitments and connections, and (d) service systems support people with disabilities and their families in comprehensive and culturally competent ways.
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Pentti, Selja, Åse Fagerlund, and Pär Nyström. "Flourishing families: Effects of a positive psychology intervention on parental flow, engagement, meaning and hope." International Journal of Wellbeing 9, no. 4 (September 25, 2019): 79–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v9i4.1003.
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Crane, Jeffrey, James M. Harper, Roy A. Bean, and Erin Holmes. "Family Implicit Rules, Shame, and Adolescent Prosocial and Antisocial Communication Behaviors." Family Journal 28, no. 1 (January 2020): 72–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1066480719896563.
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This study examined the relationship between implicit family process rules and adolescent prosocial and antisocial communication behaviors. Data came from two-parent families in Wave 5 of the Flourishing Families Project which consisted of 322 families (fathers, mothers, and children ages 13–17). Both observational and questionnaire data were used in data collection. Prosocial and antisocial behaviors were assessed using observational codes from the Iowa Family Interaction Rating Scales. Each of the family members’ perceptions was used to assess constraining family rules and facilitative family rules. Findings showed a direct positive relationship between facilitative family process rules and prosocial communication and a negative relationship with antisocial communication for both girls and boys. Constraining family process rules were also positively related to antisocial communication behaviors in adolescents. Shame was a significant mediator of the relationship between facilitative family rules and prosocial behavior as well as between constraining family rules and antisocial behavior.
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Cobb, Paul. "Scholars and Society at Early Islamic Ayla." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 38, no. 4 (1995): 417–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568520952600317.
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AbstractWhile historical and archaeological sources confirm that the early Islamic city of Ayla (modern al-ʿAqaba, Jordan) was a flourishing port in the ʿAbbāsid period and afterward, our knowledge of the city's population is limited. However, by examining medieval Arabic biographical works, this study reveals a significant scholarly community from the city, dominated by a small number of large families. Most notably, many members of this community were descendants of clients (mawālī) of the Umayyad family, with ties to neighboring regions of the Near East, especially Egypt and the Hijāz.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Flourishing Families"
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Gustafson, Kathryn Leigh Bunnell. "Emotional Involvement with Grandparents as a Key Component of Prosocial Development: Testing Empathic Concern as a Mediator." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4063.
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Current research shows that grandparents have made significant contributions to at-risk families. However, few studies have examined the benefits of grandparenting in non-at-risk populations. This study considered whether emotional involvement with a grandparent is associated with prosocial behavior in adolescent grandchildren and examines the mediating role of empathy and perspective taking. A longitudinal sample of 500 participants were taken from waves two thru five of the Flourishing Families Project (FFP) and used to construct a latent growth curve model. Results indicate that emotional involvement with a grandparent was positively linked with initial levels of prosocial behavior in grandchildren. Furthermore, results indicated that empathy and perspective taking partially mediated the connection between grandparent's involvement and the initial levels of prosocial behavior in their grandchildren. Discussion focuses on the distinct contribution grandparents give to families.
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Madsen, Kristiane. "Humor as a Moderating Variable of the Relationship Between Family Conflict and Self-Regulation in Children: A Two-Year Panel Study." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2295.
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Conflict is a common problem among families, and children may be negatively affected by this family dynamic. Some family characteristics may protect children from negative effects, even in the midst of conflict. Though little research has been conducted addressing familial effects of humor, the current longitudinal study examined the moderating effect of humor on the relationship between family conflict and child self regulation. Two hundred ninety six two-parent families from the Seattle area were surveyed and observed as a party of Brigham Young University's Flourishing Family Project. Family conflict and coded humor from an observation task were assessed at time 1 and self regulation in the child was assessed at both time 1 and one year later. Results indicated that (1) family conflict negatively influences child self regulation, (2) that humor between fathers and children is associated with child self regulation, and (3) that humor between fathers and children may buffer the effects of family conflict on a child's self regulation. Humor between mothers and children and between mothers and fathers did not moderate the relationship between family conflict and child self regulation. These results suggest that some forms of family humor may provide families with healthy child outcomes. Limitations and implications for family therapy are discussed.
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Van, Langeveld Alisa Danielle Cox. "Sibling Relationships, Stress, and Well-Being During Early Adolescence." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2351.
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This study examined whether the quality of the sibling relationship can alter the negative impact of stress on child well being. Participants were of 311 families (236 two parent families and 75 single parent families) with an adolescent child (M age of child at Time 1 = 11.25, SD = .99, 51% female) who took part in the Flourishing Families Project. Data were assessed using both a multiple time point cross-section and a two wave longitudinal design. Hierarchal linear regression suggested that when assessing the direct effects of sibling on well being, sibling affection is a better predictor of well being, but when assessing indirect effects, sibling conflict is a better predictor. Little evidence was found to support the idea that siblings moderate the impact of stress by buffering or decreasing the negative impact of stress. Results did indicate that sibling conflict was a salient moderator of stress in that conflict exacerbates the already negative impact of stress. Results from this study also suggest that when assessing the buffering or exacerbating impact of siblings, cross-sectional data produces better explanatory power than when these constructs are assessed longitudinally. However a single time point, cross-sectional design does not account for dynamic changes over time in either the sibling relationship, the level of stress or well being. Research designs such as multiple time, point cross-sectional studies or growth curve analyses are recommended.
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Ding, Yu-Ting, and 丁雨婷. "Flourishing Stories of the Aging Families of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/c83z9m.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
復健諮商研究所
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Since the beginning of the millennium, the aging families of children with intellectual disability have got much attention both in the field of practice and academia. At the same time, flourishing have been rising with the development of positive psychology. In the review of the relevant literature, it is discovered that little research has been done in a positive prospective to reflect on the positive meaning of the flourishing aging families of children with intellectual disability. However, most of the researchers have explored the difficulties and challenges of aging families of children with intellectual disability from perspective of demand, and put forward improvement suggestion according to the research result. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to combine the theory of flourishing to achieve the following objectives: 1) to comprehend the real life of aging families of children with intellectual disability; 2) comprehend the active source of strength of the flourishing aging families of children with intellectual disability; 3) comprehend the challenges and copying strategies of the flourishing aging families of children with intellectual disability. In this study, case study of qualitative research is conducted, and three aging families of children with intellectual disability were interviewed in depth. We found that the characteristics of aging families of children with intellectual disability include: 1)They have regular and structural families routines and health maintenance; 2)Caregivers have positive emotion and strong resilience; 3)The input of them is out of love and blood ties, and families have a clear meaning and purposes of life; 4)The existing social resources (formal or informal) is made of full use, and the future aging placement or willing is planned by families; 5)They actively participate in social activities, maintaining good social interaction, positive relationship and accomplishment. This study concluded that if we want to realize the flourishing of the aging families of adults with intellectual disabilities, it is necessary to meet a premise and the three elements. The premise is that the caregivers are flourishing, who can meet the PERMA. Three elements are personality traits, social resources and social interaction. Accordingly, the study has developed a flourishing factor pattern of aging families of adults with intellectual disability, and according to it, related suggestions have been put forward for reference for caregivers of families with aging people with intellectual disability, disability rights promoters and formal service providers of government.
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Chang, Ya-Chun, and 張雅淳. "The Application of Positive Psychology in Promoting Family Flourishing in High-Risk Families." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/eq2nc7.
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博士國立臺灣師範大學
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The current study aimed at understanding the behaviors and attitudes toward family flourishing in high-risk families, developing positive psychology-based family education program, and evaluating the program effects on in behavioral and attitude changes toward family flourishing among high-risk families. Experimental design was conducted in the current study, in which 68 participants form 30 families were given a 2.5-day “positive psychology-based family education program”. Each participant, regardless of a parent or a child from the high-risk family, was asked to fill out the “family flourishing questionnaire” in the beginning, at the end, and three weeks after completing the program. The “high-risk family interview”, the “high-risk family interview from social worker”, as well as program materials including “activity sheets” and “course feedback forms” were also used in the study to evaluate and record participants’ learning status, performance, within-family interaction, feedbacks, and accomplishments of the program assignments. Statistical analysis were carried out to examine the effectiveness of the program, and the results were as follows: 1.The behaviors and attitudes towards family flourishing were both above average on the response scales among high-risk family members. Both outcomes left rooms for further improvements. 2.There were significant differences in family flourishing questionnaire between the pre-and the post-program measures. This differences were both observed in parent’s and children’s responses. The post-program scores on the behavior and attitude family flourishing were significantly higher than those in the pre-program questionnaire. This result suggested that the developed positive psychology program could improve high-risk family member’s attitude and behavior towards family flourishing. However, significant differences were not identified in the “parents’ attitude and behavior of meaningful-accomplishment” and the “children’s attitude of positive emotion” sub-scores between the pre-and the post-program. 3.Based on the three-week follow-up questionnaire, the scores in engagement, positive emotion, and attitudes and behaviors toward family flourishing seemed to decrease, while the scores were still greater than the baseline assessment. This result provided preliminary evidence of the continuous effect among the program receivers. 4.The administration of the designed positive psychology-based family program overall resulted in positive outcomes including increased family attachment, family strength, a sense of family belonging, transitions in family roles and stronger connections in social resources. Finally, based on the above results, main suggestion from this study was that family education courses should be promoted in high-risk families. Future directions for families, educators, and future research were also provided.
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Benvinda, Mónica Carrola dos Santos Sesifredo. "Relação entre clima familiar, regulação emocional e os problemas de externalização : o papel do consumo de substâncias e do florescimento." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/29530.
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São inúmeros os desafios que os adolescentes enfrentam nesta etapa de vida, que irão refletir-se no seu bem-estar físico, mental e no envolvimento em comportamentos de risco. Os problemas de externalização na adolescência traduzem um sofrimento do sujeito, que muitas vezes o próprio não consegue explicar mas que se reflete noutras áreas de vida. Como tal, o presente estudo teve como objetivo compreender a relação entre os problemas de externalização, as dificuldades de regulação emocional, o clima familiar (conflito, coesão e apoio, hierarquia), o consumo de substâncias (tabaco, álcool e drogas) e o florescimento. Procurou-se perceber as diferenças entre os grupos de adolescentes com maior e menor risco de apresentarem problemas de externalização, e também testar o efeito mediador do florescimento e dos consumos de substâncias na relação entre as dificuldades de regulação emocional e o clima familiar e os problemas de externalização. Participaram no estudo 723 adolescentes com idades compreendidas entre 12 e 18 anos, estudantes no 3ºciclo do ensino básico e secundário, de nove escolas na zona da Grande Lisboa e da Ilha de S. Miguel (Açores). Os adolescentes completaram um protocolo com questionários de autorrelato direcionado às variáveis em estudo. Os resultados indicaram que os problemas de externalização se relacionam positivamente com as dificuldades de regulação emocional e com o clima familiar negativo (conflito e hierarquia) e com os consumos de substâncias; por outro lado, relacionam-se negativamente com o clima familiar positivo (coesão e apoio) e com o florescimento. O grupo com maior risco de apresentar problemas de externalização mostrou níveis mais elevados de dificuldades de regulação emocional, uma perceção mais negativa do clima familiar, maiores níveis de consumos de substâncias e menores níveis de florescimento. Confirmou-se também o efeito mediador do florescimento entre as dificuldades de regulação emocional e o clima familiar, e os problemas de externalização; confirmou-se também o efeito mediador dos consumos de substâncias entre o clima familiar e os problemas de externalização, mas não entre as dificuldades de regulação emocional e os problemas de externalização. Estes resultados fornecem resultados relevantes para o desenho de programas de promoção do bem-estar e prevenção do consumo de substâncias e de problemas de ajustamento socioemocional nos adolescentes, bem como para a prática clínica e para a investigação.There are numerous challenges that adolescents face in this life period, which will reflect on their physical, mental well-being and involvement in high risk behaviours. Externalising problems in adolescence reflect a subject's suffering, which he or she often cannot explain but is reflected in other life areas. As such, the present study aimed to understand the relationship between externalisation problems, emotional regulation difficulties, family atmosphere (conflict, cohesion and support, hierarchy), substance use (tobacco, alcohol and drugs) and flourishing. It was sought to understand the differences between the group of adolescents at higher and lower risk of presenting externalising problems, and to test the mediating effect of flourishing and substance use in the relationship between externalising problems and the difficulties of emotional regulation,the family atmosphere and the externalising problems The study included 723 adolescents aged 12 to 18 years, students of the middle school of primary and secondary education, from nine schools in Greater Lisbon and São Miguel Island (Azores). The adolescents completed a protocol with self-report questionnaires directed to the variables under study. The results indicated that externalisation problems are positively related to the difficulties of emotional regulation and the negative family atmosphere (conflict and hierarchy) and substance use; on the other hand, they relate negatively to the positive family atmosphere (cohesion and support) and flourishing. The group at higher risk of externalising problems showed higher levels of emotional regulation difficulties, and it was related a more negative perception of family atmosphere, higher levels of substance use and lower of flourishing levels. The mediating effect of the flourishing between the difficulties of emotional regulation and family atmosphere and externalisation problems was also confirmed; the mediating effect of substance use between the family atmosphere and externalising problems was also confirmed,and the mediating effect between the relationship of externalising problems and the emotional regulation difficulties was not confirmed. These results provide relevant data for the design of programs to promote well-being and prevention of substance use and socio-emotional adjustment problems in adolescents, as well as for clinical practice and research
Books on the topic "Flourishing Families"
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Anderson, A. Flourishing with food allergies: Social, emotional, and practical guidance for families with young children. Southbury, CT: Papoose Pub., 2008.
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Anderson, A. Flourishing with food allergies: Social, emotional, and practical guidance for families with young children. Southbury, CT: Papoose Pub., 2008.
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Parens, Erik, and Josephine Johnston, eds. Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190940362.001.0001.
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The potential use of CRISPR-Cas9 and other new gene editing technologies to alter the DNA of human beings raises a host of questions. Some questions are about safety: Can these technologies be deployed without posing an unreasonable risk of physical harm to current and future generations? Can all physical risks be adequately assessed and responsibly managed? Gene editing technologies also raise other, equally if not more difficult, questions that touch on deeply held, personal, cultural, and societal values: Might such technologies redefine what it means to be healthy, normal, or cherished? Might they undermine relationships between parents and children or exacerbate the gap between the haves and have-nots? The broadest form of this second kind of question about the impact of gene editing on values is the focus of this book: What might gene editing—and related technologies—mean for human flourishing? An interdisciplinary group of scholars asks age-old questions about the nature and well-being of humans in the context of revolutionary new biotechnology that has the potential to change the genetic makeup of both existing people and future generations. These authors aim to help readers engage in a conversation about the ethics of gene editing. It is through this conversation that citizens can influence laws and the distribution of funding for science and medicine; that professional leaders can shape understanding and use of gene editing and related technologies by scientists, patients, and practitioners; and that individuals can make decisions about their own lives and the lives of their families.
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Fowler, Tim. Liberalism, Childhood and Justice. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529201635.001.0001.
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The book develops a novel theory of children’s place in liberal theory. It argues that justice requires promoting children’s wellbeing, not merely their fair access to resources. I argue that one important driver of children’s wellbeing is the ethical doctrines held by others in their society, as such a just society requires a culture that is conducive to children’s current and later flourishing. I outline a conception of children’s interests rooted in their ability to develop their talents, and in their current and future relationships with their family and wider community. I then apply this theory to the morality of parenting, and to two important distributive questions, school funding and parental subsidies. I argue that parents have important moral rights over their children, but that these rights are considerably more circumscribed than is often believed. I suggest that children’s deepest interests are furthered by equality of opportunity, and that the importance of parenting implies that states should transfer resources to families.
Book chapters on the topic "Flourishing Families"
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Morse, Jennifer Roback. "No Families, No Freedom: Human Flourishing in a Free Society." In Human Flourishing, 290–314. Cambridge University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511570704.012.
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Sypnowich, Christine. "Flourishing children, flourishing adults: families, equality and the neutralism-perfectionism debate." In Family Values and Social Justice, 36–54. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429447594-4.
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Warr, Deborah, Gretel Taylor, and Richard Williams. "Artfully thinking the prosocial." In Building Better Societies. Policy Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447332022.003.0007.
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This chapter explores how arts-based activities form part of an experimental approach for social research that fuses sociological insights with creative practice. As an ethos, people conceive the prosocial as seeking to promote collective human flourishing, while a prosocial practice is inclusive and imaginative. The potential to flourish is supported by involvement in diverse social relations that connect people as families, friends, communities, neighbourhoods, and nations. Experiences of social collectivity, however, are being shredded through the expanding dominance, and cascading impacts, of market-oriented ideologies. The chapter shows how the status of the social as a nonmarket domain has little value or sense when seen from within these dominant ideological framings.
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VanderWeele, Tyler J. "Measures of Community Well-Being." In Measuring Well-Being, 408–34. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197512531.003.0015.
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A proposal is put forward for a measure of community well-being that can be adapted to numerous specific contexts. The community well-being measure extends beyond simple measures of community satisfaction that are often currently employed. The proposed measure includes items in six domains relevant to community well-being: flourishing individuals, good relationships, proficient leadership, healthy practices, satisfying community, and strong mission. Adaptation of the measure for a variety of contexts is provided so that the proposed approach can be used in nations, cities, neighborhoods, families, workplaces, schools, and religious communities. Discussion covers the complex relationships between individual and community well-being and how measures of community well-being may be useful for tracking and assessment or for reflection purposes, and how it might ultimately be used to improve community well-being.
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Rhode, Deborah L. "Ambition for What? At What Cost?" In Ambition, 182–98. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197538333.003.0008.
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This chapter explores the ambitions that are most likely to yield happiness, well-being, and meaning and examines the costs of ambitions that are more narrowly focused on money, power, and recognition. Although what individuals will find most fulfilling is deeply personal, individuals can benefit from the insights of the world’s great thinkers and contemporary researchers. Discussion focuses on what philosophers have claimed and positive psychologists have documented about contributors to what is variously termed happiness, well-being or flourishing. In general people benefit from a mix of pursuits that supply pleasure, accomplishment, meaning, purpose, and positive relationships. Families, societies, and even individuals themselves are most likely to thrive when people pursue goals beyond their own satisfaction and success. The chapter closes with tools to help them think more deeply about their legacy and what ambition means and should mean for them.
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Wuthnow, Robert. "Introduction." In Remaking the Heartland. Princeton University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691146119.003.0001.
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This book examines the resilience shown by the American Middle West—Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Arkansas, and Oklahoma—despite going through profound social upheavals during the half century that began in the 1950s. It shows that the Middle West has undergone a strong, positive transformation since the 1950s—a time when many families were still recovering from the Great Depression. The transformation is surprising because it took place in the nation's heartland. The region's economy fared surprisingly well; agribusiness was flourishing; elementary and secondary education was among the best in the nation; the region was known for innovative medical research and biotechnology. The chapter suggests that one precondition for the social change that has happened in the Middle West is the fact that the region largely comprised rich land with vast potential for crops and livestock as well as mineral wealth.
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Wokoma, Tonye, and Stephen Lindow. "Violence against women and girls." In Oxford Textbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, edited by Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, William Ledger, Lynette Denny, and Stergios Doumouchtsis, 684–92. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198766360.003.0055.
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Violence against women and girls is defined as ‘any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life’. In this definition, violence is given its gender-related status and constructed as a problem which facilitates the enduring subjugation of women in society. As well as being a violation of individual rights, violence against women and girls prevents them from flourishing and contributing to their families and communities. It thus has an impact on the economic and social well-being of any society. It also holds back progress on international development targets. Violence against women and girls encompasses rape in conflict, female genital mutilation, stalking and harassment, child sexual abuse, ‘honour’-based violence, forced marriage, and domestic violence. It has physical, sexual, psychological, and economic consequences. This chapter examines the health issues relating to violence against women and girls, the steps taken so far to prevent and cater for health implications, and suggests a way forward.
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Gay, Robert. "Virtue Ethics and Medical Law." In Philosophical Foundations of Medical Law, 11–25. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796558.003.0002.
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Virtue ethics is a way of viewing the moral life in terms of the necessary dispositions which shape human action towards the good, and towards human flourishing. Thinking of the moral life in terms of virtue was the dominant approach to moral philosophy in ancient and medieval thought. Although largely absent as a major strand of thought in moral philosophy after the Enlightenment, it has key features which challenge the dominant approaches in moral philosophy. The second half of the twentieth century saw a revival in virtue ethics, inspired by philosophers such as Anscombe and MacIntyre. The Hippocratic tradition provides a virtue framework for medicine, and the revival of virtue ethics has led to further work to explore the importance of virtue in medical practice. In the morally and technically complex world of medical practice, the virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance are necessary for the doctor to act according to the best interests of the patient, which are in line with the proper ends of medicine. The law has a role in prohibiting acts which are not in accordance with the ends of medicine, which cannot be virtuous. It also has a role in helping to arrive at prudential decisions in cases where there are disputes between patients or their families and medical teams about a best course of action. Finally, medical law should have a role in cultivating virtue within medicine for the benefit of patients and doctors.
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Teller, Adam. "Jews and Trade in the Estate Economy." In Money, Power, and Influence in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania. Stanford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804798440.003.0007.
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Jewish merchants were, with Radziwiłł encouragement, the dominant force in local markets. They were particularly important in allowing the estate administration to take advantage of new opportunities in the eighteenth century, which its established systems were unable to do. Trade served the estate economy in three ways: distribution, supply, and revenue generation. The arendarze boosted grain sales in the new economic conditions and Jewish merchants enabled the family to penetrate the new export market in flax and hemp. Jews were extremely important in supplying estate society. This mercantile activity also generated huge revenues in the form of indirect taxation. The importance of Jews in revenue generation is seen in the family’s expanding river trade to Königsberg starting in the 1720s. The freight payments Jewish merchants made to ship their goods on family rafts made this newly flourishing trade viable for the Radziwiłłs, giving them easy access to the international market.
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Lloyd, Vincent. "Hegel, Blackness, Sovereignty." In Nothing Absolute, 174–87. Fordham University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823290161.003.0010.
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Hegel places sub-Saharan Africa outside the path of world history, and he suggests that Africans have no chance at realizing their humanity or flourishing in community. His paradigm African political sovereign has religious authority because she is god-like; indeed, she sacrifices her son and consumes him in what seems like a parody of Christian communion. Instead of earthly sovereign mirroring divine sovereign, the earthly sovereign becomes divine through self-assertion and through severing her affective and familial ties to all other humans. While Hegel represents this as a world where humans and animals are indistinct, he also represents it as Eden-like, prefiguring the full realization of world spirit. This chapter explores Hegel’s account of African sovereignty and its entanglement with his account of European sovereignty. Ultimately, it argues that Hegel’s philosophical method offers an unrealized potential for a political theology that takes Africa, and Blackness, seriously.
Conference papers on the topic "Flourishing Families"
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Pavić, Josip. "The Ottoman fortress above Skradin in Dalmatia." In FORTMED2020 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. Valencia: Universitat Politàcnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/fortmed2020.2020.11419.
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Skradin is a town on the right bank of the Krka river, about 15 km upstream from Šibenik. Located deep in the hinterland, with good road connections, and a luxury of natural resources nearby, it’s no wonder that urban life flourished here since the Iron Age. But being below surrounding hills, this trading centre could never be successfully defended from a prolonged siege. This is why, throughout medieval times, Skradin was usually regarded as a less important neighbour of flourishing Šibenik. Various Croatian noble families, and occasionally the Venetians, ruled the town in fifteenth century. Conquered by the Ottomans in winter of 1521-22, Skradin soon again became an important trading point, the southernmost town in Krka sancak. It was reclaimed by Venetians temporarily from 1647 to 1670, and permanently from 1683. Today, due to the thorough destruction by the Venetian army, the earliest buildings in Skradin date to eighteenth century. The one exception is Turina, a small late medieval fort above the town. Recently branded as a fortress of Šubić family –the powerful magnates from late thirteenth century–, Turina was long considered to be Skradin’s main defensive point even in the Ottoman era. However, several archival sources suggested the existence of another fort, located on a much more favourable position. This theory was finally confirmed by surveying the nearby Gradina hill in the autumn of 2018.