The current study uses structural equation modeling to examine adoptive parent
communication as it relates to adoptee adjustment directly and indirectly through adoptive …

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

With the goal of understanding the development of positive stepchild–stepparent
relationships, the researchers focused on turning points characterizing the interaction of …

In Spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic introduced unexpected transitions for college
students and their families. Informed by Relational Turbulence Theory, we examined …

This study explores the ways in which adoptees experience and manage uncertainty about
their adoptive status. Grounded in the interpretive paradigm, the researchers conducted …

Framed by relational dialectics theory (Baxter), this investigation considered the meaning (s)
of motherhood in female–female co-motherhood. Analysis identified two competing …

Drawing from family communication patterns (FCP) theory and the communication-based
conceptual model of adoptive identity work (Colaner & Soliz, 2015), we investigated the …

Scholarly attention has recently been given to the ways in which gender and parenting
identities intersect, yet little is known about how children and adolescents with a trans …

In this case study, five international adoptees from Finland were interviewed about their
search and reunion experiences to find out what meanings they ascribed to their identities …

This study examined the utility of communication accommodation theory (CAT) to investigate
stepchildren's perceptions of communication patterns in typical interactions with their …