Close Relations and Boundary Work: Family, Kinship, and Beyond.- Conceptualizing Close Relations.- Querying Lesbian Fatherhood.- Gay and Lesbian Collaborative Co-Parenting: Recognising Multiple Parents in the Netherlands and the UK.- Forgetting Gender While Desexualizing Friendship? Heteronormativity and Everyday Practices of Cross-gender Friendship Among Adults in Germany.- The Search for Self: Adoption Reunions Kinship Matters, and Donor-conception.- Negotiating Trans/National Kinship.- Narrative Kinning in Contemporary Memoirs of Korean Adoption.- The Power of Ordinary Things: How Parents' Support of Refugees Shape Mothering and New Forms of Kinning.- 'My Mother Laughs, But She Never Smiles': Children, Mothers, and Migration in Contemporary Swedish Life Writing.- Theorizing Parenting practices and parent-child relations.- Polyamorous Parenthood: Kinship, Gender, and Morality.- Cultivate and Constrain: Swedish Middle-Class Parents Negotiate Ideals about Children's Emotions and Parents' Responses to them.- Childless Women's Relationships with Children of Others: Narratives from Two Generations In Lithuania.- 'Mums are Mums': Negotiations of Parenthood Ideals among Swedish Mothers with ADHD.- Morphing Together: Motherhood, Old Grievances, and Corporeal Materiality in Deborah Levy's Hot Milk.