Objective This study qualitatively examined family‐building desires of diverse adopted
adolescents. Background Research on parenting aspirations has rarely included youth with …

There are hundreds of thousands of children in foster care in the United States, nearly a
majority of whom are placed with nonrelative foster parents (US Department of Health and …

There is robust agreement that family is central to human experience and that
communication plays a central role in family life. However, there is little lay or scholarly …

This study examines how fostered individuals, foster carers, bio-legal children of foster
carers and birth parents use discourse to construct and maintain family identity and what …

Military and veteran‐connected family scholarship focusing on transitions has a lengthy
history across disciplines. Much of this research involves normative military families (ie, a …

Guided by narrative theorizing, the present study analyzed the ways foster parents create
and tell foster entrance narratives (FENs) to their foster child. Thematic and content analyses …

The relationship between mother and daughter is unlike other family dyads and important to
both parties over a lifespan. One underexplored area of this relationship is how adult …

Over half of children living in cohabiting partner households reside with 1 biological parent
and their parent's partner Scholars suggest that the definition of “stepfamilies” should be …

Marital Communication provides insight into healthy relationships for those who want to
better understand key communication processes between long-term, committed, romantic …

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 …