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- According to the SAGE Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family, and Couples Counseling, “chosen families are nonbiological kinship bonds, whether legally recognized or not, deliberately chosen for the purpose of mutual support and love.”
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Jun 14, 2019 · In the book Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship, cultural anthropologist Kath Weston defines chosen family as consisting of “friends, partners and ex-partners, biological and...
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A family of choice is understood to be a client-selected combination of other individuals able to provide healthy and constructive nurture, direction, and other support to sufficiently meet the relational and emotional needs so important to recovery and well-being.
A “family by choice” is a different entity, given that we have a say in who is part of that family. This often has to do with people we identify as friends. They may be friends from childhood, high school, college or the military. They may be coworkers or neighbors.
Oct 8, 2020 · Our specific aims are to: (1) develop an understanding of the beliefs and values that form the definition of “chosen family” for queer and transgender individuals over the age of eighteen; and (2) understand the ways in which “chosen family” functions in terms of care regarding health and illness.
In this paper, we examine several common everyday meanings of choice, propose behavioral definitions of choice, choosing, and preference, and recommend ways for behavioral researchers to talk consistently about these concepts.
