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Parental imprisonment has damaging effects on children's lives and family relationships. Drawing on Morgan's theories of family and on the sociology of childhood, this article argues that children of male prisoners actively construct relationships through family practices of display, intimacy and risk. Using the voices of children whose fathers are in prison, the article shows how this group of children may conform to, evade and resist practices of family, changing their relationships with their fathers. Further, as these theories on family and children typically are used in relation to middle-class families and to show how families are constructed and maintained, this article shows how family practices may also contribute to the reversal of parent–child relationships and the erosion of intimacy. The article draws on qualitative in-depth interview data from a Danish study of children and young people aged 5–27, whose fathers/stepfathers presently or previously are/were incarcerated.

Using a temporal lens, the article shows how fathers' incarceration leads to a loss of attunement to the temporal rhythms of their children's everyday lives. This lack of synchrony has implications for both the being and the becoming of the child. Through in‐depth interviews, the article draws on data from a Danish study of mothers and children, aged 5–27, whose father/stepfather was incarcerated. Findings show the significance of a multifaceted understanding of time showing the implications of fathers' imprisonment for children, suggesting that policy initiatives would be enriched by a focus on challenges to synchrony from the child's perspective.

Most women living on Danish farms work off the farm and have a non‐farming education and background. The first part of the paper discusses how farm women's identity is understood theoretically and then suggests a perspective inspired by theories of modernity and everyday life, enabling a view of farm women as knowledgeable actors. The second part is an empirical study, based on qualitative interviews, of how farm women who work outside agriculture experience living on a farm. The study shows that living on a farm poses specific dilemmas for these women because they individually have to reconcile practices on the farm with norms and practices they bring with them from their earlier experiences, as well as with norms associated with gender relations more generally in society. However, the women are actively trying to reconcile their different experiences and by doing so they are reconstructing female identity and, in turn, gender identity in agriculture.

Mobilitet associeres oftest med autonomi og uafhængighed - begreber der samtidig er maskulint ladede. Men hvordan ser en feminin mobil identitet ud i hverdanslivets transportpraksis?

This article explores the complicated process of post-deployment homecoming in military families in Denmark. Based on qualitative interviews with spouses and children of formerly deployed soldiers, the article analyses some of the main challenges related to homecoming and military-to-family transitions in military families. It illuminates how deployment affects family practices and social relations by especially focusing on gender equality, fatherhood, and masculinity. Based on interviews with spouses and children, the article outlines three masculinity positions available to Danish homecoming veterans: gender equality masculinities, militarized masculinities, and troubled masculinities.