In
the postmodern West we increasingly find children living in two households, one
of their divorced mother and of one their divorced father. Not uncommon is that
they meet children from the earlier marriage of their mother’s new
man. Similarly their father may have a new wife with children from her earlier
marriage and those children can also meet each other.
The children of those new partners
may also live in the household of their other parent where they can meet,
again, children of a new parent there. In this way, chains of children
meeting each other in different households arise.
It
would be interesting to know how such kids adapt to the laterally extending
family lines and how they bring their absorbed experiences into the wider
world. As the new kinship system shows both more fragmentation and more
integration, which is typical for postmodernity, this system may further
contribute to postmodernity.
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