Family resilience plays an important role, especially in dealing with prolonged problems or
crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The absence of family resilience might result in …

Combining queer theorizing, autoethnography, and relational dialectics theory (RDT), this
essay examines how my lesbian mothers and donor struggle to define family, queer family …

This study explores the mother-daughter relationship by examining daughters' constructions
of the mother-daughter relationship in adulthood. Using the guiding concepts of symbolic …

This qualitative study, from the domestic adoptee perspective, reflects the analysis of thirty-
seven online stories of adoptee-birth mother/family reunions. The present study contributes …

Qualitative interviews with men, who considered themselves to be 'active fathers', explored
how they and their partners 'do family', particularly with regards to dividing childcare and …

Communication is often a taken-for-granted part of life, yet it is imperative to everyday lived
experiences as well as the construction and dissolution of family relationships. In adoptive …

Since the adoption of the Child Care Act of 1991, many families in South Africa have been
formed through transracial adoption, particularly through the placement of black children in …

Grounded in face theory (see Brown & Levinson, 1987; Cupach & Metts, 1994; Goffman,
1967) and exploratory in nature, the present study sought to understand the face-related …

Framed by a social constructionist approach to language, this study explored Korean
adoptees' naming and labeling practices for members of their birth family and the motives …

Abstract Language used to construct motherhood varies, not only among groups inside and
outside the adoption community, but among members of each group, as well. Some …