Looking Beyond Adult Interpretations: Views of Children

The review "Images of the Family: a study of children's perceptions" written April 2002 by Laura Firth looks at how children perceive what a family is. The article clearly captures a simplistic view of family. The writer understood when starting, that little research had been done on this subject. Most of the knowledge of family came from research done from others studies on parents, psychologist, social workers or adult recollection of their own childhood experience. An early processor Morrow (1993) argued that children are rarely seen and never heard in sociological analysis of family l…