@article{ref1,
title="How Children and Their Families Construct and Negotiate Risk, Safety and Danger",
journal="Childhood",
year="2004",
author="Backett-Milburn, Kathryn and Harden, Jeni",
volume="11",
number="4",
pages="429-447",
abstract="This article presents an analysis of the family context and everyday negotiationsaround risk, safety and danger between children and parents in four families drawnfrom a larger qualitative study. The challenges of analysing accounts from severalfamily members are highlighted. Case study families are described; and fragments oftheir interwoven individual and shared biographies, on which respondents regularlydrew to legitimate risk-related beliefs and practices, are outlined. The dynamic,fluid and contingent nature of risk construction and reconstruction in everydayfamily life is discussed and three main themes explored: establishing ‘thebottom line’; assumptions, collusions and contradictions around age,siblinghood and time; and contextualizing risk in the conduct of others. The authorsconclude that, just as with childhood itself, it is important also to contextualize‘risk’ within socioeconomic, cultural and institutionalframeworks; and that, for most children, their families both constitute one suchcontext and mediate wider social structures.<p />",
language="",
issn="0907-5682",
doi="10.1177/0907568204047105",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0907568204047105"
}