Doing Good Parenthood

Anna Sparrman is Professor at the Department of Thematic Studies – Child Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.Allan Westerling is Associate Professor at the Department of People and Technology and the Centre for Childhood, Youth and Family Life research at Roskilde University, Denmark.Judith Lind is Lecturer at the Department of Thematic Studies – Child Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.Karen Ida Dannesboe is Assistant Professor at the Department of Educational Anthropology, School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

• Introduction: Doing good parenthood; Judith Lind, Allan Westerling, Anna Sparrman and Karen Ida Dannesboe.- 1. Time for good parenthood: A study of intercountry adoption assessment; Cecilia Lindgren.- 2 No one of importance: Lesbian mothers’ constructions of permanently anonymous sperm donors; Anna Malmquist, Anna Polski and Karin Zetterqvist Nelson.- 3 Parenting on the edge: Doing good parenthood in child protection services interventions; Pernille Juhl.- 4 Ambitious parents as ideal or disorder: Doing good parenthood in Denmark and Singapore; Dil Bach.- 5. Ambigous Involvement: Children’s construction of good parenthood; Karen Ida Dannesboe.- 6 Limited but committed parents: Primary school teachers negotiating good parenthood in a disadvantaged area; Disa Bergnehr.- 7 Doing good parenthood through online parental involvement in Danish schools; Maria Ørskov Akselvoll.- 8 Teenagers, alcohol and sex: Doing good parenthood on an on-line discussion board; Judith Lind.- 9 The ontological choreography of (good) parenthood; Anna Sparrman, David Cardell, Anne-Li Lindgren and Tobias Samuelsson.- 10 Parenthood and we-ness in everyday life: Parenting together apart; Allan Westerling.- 11 Doing good parenthood: Reflexivity, practices, and relationships;Esther Dermott.