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.