Download or read book Families and Kinship in Contemporary Europe written by Riitta Jallinoja and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of seeing the family as a 'monolithic' entity, as though separate from its surroundings, this new approach draws attention to assemblages of various types that in different constellations and through different transactions relate people to each other as families and kin.