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\u201cKinkeeping\u201d plays a crucial role in a family\u2019s health and well-being, and it\u2019s still predominantly done by women.<\/p>\n

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Every December when Erienne Fawcett was growing up, her rural Minnesota home transformed into a showcase of snowy miniature villages, complete with tiny reindeer and carolers.<\/p>\n

As a child, the intricate scenes felt like \u201cpure magic.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until she was an adult that she realized her experience was the result of \u201chours and hours and hours of work\u201d by her mother \u2014 all part of an elaborate effort to make Christmas special.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Ms. Fawcett became a women and gender studies teacher at North Dakota State University, where she taught her students that this form of invisible labor, dedicated to family bonding and magic-making, has a name: kinkeeping. <\/p>\n

References to kinkeepers began cropping up<\/a> in sociology literature in the mid-20th century. Researchers defined the role<\/a> as a family communicator who helped the extended group stay in touch by sharing family news and planning gatherings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In recent decades, sociology and psychology researchers have expanded the definition to include things like creating or carrying on family traditions, buying gifts for birthdays and holidays, coordinating medical care and performing all sorts of emotional caregiving.<\/p>\n

A kinkeeper is someone who cultivates a sense of \u201cfamily solidarity or connectedness,\u201d said Carolyn Rosenthal, a professor emeritus of sociology at McMaster University in Canada who researched kinkeeping<\/a> in the 1980s. It\u2019s someone who, in many ways, is the family glue.<\/p>\n

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\u201cKinkeeping\u201d plays a crucial role in a family\u2019s health and well-being, and it\u2019s still predominantly done by women.Every December when Erienne Fawcett was growing up, her rural Minnesota home transformed into a showcase of snowy miniature villages, complete with tiny reindeer and carolers.As a child, the intricate scenes felt like \u201cpure magic.\u201dIt wasn\u2019t until she was an adult that she realized her experience was the result of \u201chours and hours and hours of work\u201d by her mother \u2014 all part of an elaborate effort to make Christmas special.Eventually, Ms. Fawcett became a women and gender studies teacher at North Dakota State University, where she taught her students that this form of invisible labor, dedicated to family bonding and magic-making, has a name: kinkeeping. References to kinkeepers began cropping up in sociology literature in the mid-20th century. Researchers defined the role as a family communicator who helped the extended group stay in touch by sharing family news and planning gatherings.In recent decades, sociology and psychology researchers have expanded the definition to include things like creating or carrying on family traditions, buying gifts for birthdays and holidays, coordinating medical care and performing all sorts of emotional caregiving.A kinkeeper is someone who cultivates a sense of \u201cfamily solidarity or connectedness,\u201d said Carolyn Rosenthal, a professor emeritus of sociology at McMaster University in Canada who researched kinkeeping in the 1980s. It\u2019s someone who, in many ways, is the family glue.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5730,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5731,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728\/revisions\/5731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}