Children's personal lives in the family: Achieving relational agency and individual privacy in intrafamilial relationships in Türkiye

This paper aims to explore how children's achieving privacy is interwoven with parental recognition of their agency, by providing empirical accounts of family lives in Türkiye. Building on a relational understanding of agency and privacy, it debates both concepts as so- cial constructs that can be distinctively understood in western and Turkish cultures. It employs ethnographic research with children aged 10–14 years and their fami- lies to illustrate everyday contexts of parental privacy invasions and children's exercise of relational agency in response. A relational approach towards achieving agency and privacy as an interlaced process mirrors children's experience of power asymmetries within fam- ily relationships.