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The purpose of this research was to study how couples experience happiness in their relationship. To focus the central phenomena the research questions were divided into two categories according to their nature: 1) What kind of impressions do the participants have on a happy relationship? (internal factors) 2) How do the participants try to support the happiness in a relationship? (external factors). Eight couples participated in the research: couples without children, families with children and grandparents. A qualitative method was used in this study. The data were collected by interviewing couples in May and June 2017, and the form of the interviews was a half-structured theme interview. In the interview-guide, the questions were divided into four themes according to the background theories: personality, appreciation, deeds and interaction. Theory bound qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the data. The analysis revealed 13 subgroups which describe the factors that the participants accounted to be supporting factors in a relationship. These factors: 1. Personality: compatibility of personalities, commitment, personal growth in relation to honesty and trust. 2. Appreciation: mutuality, spouses' own time and space, accepting the spouse's imperfection. 3. Deeds: serving the spouse, doing things together, paying attention to each other. 4. Interaction: open discussion and listening to the spouse, giving positive feedback, showing love both physically and verbally. The results of the study align the previous studies except the subgroup including spouses' own time and space. In the previous studies those issues were not included as supporting factors in the happiness of a relationship. This study could be applicable and useful in relationship therapy or in other connections where the previous factors concerning mutual interaction are regarded as important. In the future a similar research could be made with a greater group of participants by interviewing couples both together and separately. The effects of digitalization on interaction and happiness in relationships could also be current and interesting themes. Regarding home economics science, the most important result of this research is the understanding of the importance of interaction between personalities and people. Interaction plays an important role both personally and between people in general concerning happiness and well-being. Well-being in relationships could be described as a content and quality factor in everyday life and housing. The experienced balance in family and everyday life reflects in all communities where family members act daily.

We are living in a more diverse society than ever. Diversity is a broad theme, and this study includes gender and sexual orientation. Through those themes study examines diverse families and relationships. It is important to include diversity to children’s and youth literature because it allows everyone to identify to the characters and have social cohesion to their community. Theoretical background is the earlier studies of children’s and youth literature and literature education, family and relationship studies. Earlier research shows that there is very little diversity in sexual orientation and the discourse about families is predominantly heteronormative nucler family in children’s and youth literature. The aim of this study was to find out what kind of discourses of diversity in families and relationships are in a selected group of children’s and youth literature. The research data consisted of six children’s and youth books which were candidates for Finlandia prize in children’s and youth literature in 2020. There were children’s picture books as well as youth novels. Qualitative method and discourse analysis was used to analyze the material. Illustrations were analyzed as well as text. The research showed six discourses which were influenced by the notion of the gender and sexual orientation. The discourses of diverse families were: 1) heteronormative nuclear family, 2) diverse families, 3) family, illness and death and 4) family’s wealthiness, and the discourses for the diverse relationships were 5) be who you want and 6) heterosexuality is still predominant. This study reaffirms earlier research about diversity of families and relationships by showing that heteronormative nuclear family and heterosexuality is predominant in children’s and youth literature. However, the discourses of diverse families and relationships were varying and shown in most of the books.

Aims: The aim of the study was to study representations of family, relationship, parenting and gender produced in the Perhebarometri, and to make an interpretation of what types of families, partnerships, parenting and gender are accepted. The research questions were: 1. What kind of representations does the Perhebarometri produce about family, relationship, parenting and gender? and 2. What is left unsaid in representations? I explored representations against Riitta Jallinoja's familism and good parenting and Jaana Vuori's discourses on motherly care and shared parenting. Methods: The study's material was “My Family” — Finnish perceptions of the family in 2007 and 1997. I analysed the material with a content analysis preceded by the theme of the expressions of the following: family, relationship, gender, marital status, fatherhood, motherhood and parenting. I interpreted the material through social representation. Results and conclusions: The family meant intimacy, mental support and being together for the Finns. Children, the form of a couple and kinship determined the family in both years. The form of a couple relationship had a large impact as a determinant of the family and accepted patterns of partnership included marital and cohabitation and registered partnerships obtained in the 2007 data. The relationship models were determined by regularity and evidenced by the form of residence, marriage or registered relationship. Parent sexuality was assumed to affect the abilities to raise children and parenting appeared as good and right or different and bad, according to the material, which emphasized the hetero assumption in the parental relationship and the importance of the nuclear family. Gender had been brought up in the Perhebarometri through two sexes, male and female. The regulation of society by laws and collectively shared perceptions, as well as norms, influences what type of family an individual belongs to. If a family form is not recognized in official definitions, it does not statistically exist. Perspective of equality, people should not be categorized outside in surveys by their gender, and the survey options should consider gender diversity.

When moving to a new dwelling, residents try to make it a home or feel like one. This is done by customizing the space, getting used to it and the surroundings, decorating the apartment with their own things and finally by living there alone or with others. The result of this process is called feeling of home. Home making as is home and family in general is considered feminine. However, men also move and make homes, either alone or with someone else. In this study I look at the formation of the home and the feeling of home of men, as well as their roles at home when they move to live with their companion. I tell three different stories about moving in together: a couple moves into a new dwelling, a man moves into a woman's home and a woman moves into a man's home. The study is narrative in material and in analysis. The narrative analysis is made applying a model by Heikkinen (2018), in which a new wholesome narrative is constructed from fragmented material. The material consisted of three stories of heterosexual couples moving in together, presented in an audiovisual form on Muuttopäiväkirjat -reality show on Finnish public media service Yle. In the analysis I formed new narratives from the short scenes scattered between episodes, describing the formation of home from the man's point of view. I review these narratives comparing them to the theoretical background formed on home, relationship and the role of men, among other things. The results are narratives that construct social knowledge. They are based on my interpretation of the moves presented in the reality-tv series. The narratives are perspective-widening analysis rather than the truth about the moves presented in the series. The narratives I have formed tell about three different situations in which a man’s position in their home and relationship is formed in different ways: 1. A young couple’s expectations of home do not match each other 2. A man’s feeling of home gets broken and rebuild as a woman moves to his home 3. The man moves in with the woman and finds a home from the family