Objective We sought to identify research evidence about stepparents' childrearing behaviors
that contribute to stepchildren's physical, cognitive, social, and emotional well‐being to draw …

Objective The purpose of this review is to examine research evidence about effective
childrearing of stepchildren by coparents in stepfamilies (ie, childrearing that contributes to …

Because of the potential stepparent-stepchild relationships have for tension and conflict,
clinicians have identified the development of a positive stepparent-stepchild connection as …

Objective To determine how engagement in family management practices (ie, parent–youth
closeness, knowledge of youth's friends, shared family meals, and media monitoring) is …

For decades, social scientists have assumed that “fictive kinship” is a phenomenon
associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this …

The different dimensions of parenthood—for example, biological relatedness, child-rearing,
co-residence—are disconnected in increasingly many families as the result of upward trends …

Fatherhood has become an achieved status among complex, disadvantaged families.
Stepfathers may have an advantage over nonresident biological fathers in earning the father …

Objective The purposes of this review are (a) to summarize holistically and synthesize
research evidence about “what works” regarding effective stepfamily childrearing (ie …

Stepfamily relationships remain important over the life course to both children and parents.
Unfortunately, limitations in availability of longitudinal data that include useful measures of …

Objective To examine whether intergenerational religious concordance moderates the gap
in affectual solidarity between adult children and their biological versus stepparents over an …