Building off essays by Gudykunst and Lee (2001) and Turner and West (2003), the purpose
of this essay is to emphasize the need to be more inclusive in family communication …

This essay surveys articles from the Journal of Family Communication to make the argument
that our journal needs to feature more scholarship on families that heretofore have been …

Despite decades of research and multiple calls to diversify family communication
scholarship, scant attention has been devoted to exploring communication in Black families …

Nonbiological lesbian mothers lack not only biological ties to their children, but have no
legal ties even if those children are intentionally conceived through donor insemination in …

This study expands our understanding of how commercialized genomics shape
communication about Black individuals and Black families. Using critical race theory (CRT), I …

Widening the Family Circle: New Research on Family Communication, Second Edition
continues to address historically under-studied family relationships, such as those involving …

This study investigates perceptions of family communication among members with different
sexual identities. Specifically, from the perspective of heterosexual family members (N …

The State of Families; Law, Policy, and the Meanings of Relationships Page 1 1 The Challenge
of Defining “ Family” Lynn H. Turner and Richard West The family is a critically important social …

We call for an expansion of research on the family communication of people who identify as
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other diverse sexualities and gender …

This special issue is comprised of six peer-reviewed, empirical articles focused on
communication and socialization in Black families. These articles collectively explore how …