This article reviews new scholarship on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families.
The past decade witnessed rapid expansion of data and strong research designs. The most …

Parenting stress is a cross-cultural concept and is impacted by specific family and life
circumstances. Parenting stress is amplified by challenging life situations including poverty …

Modern Families brings together research on parenting and child development in new family
forms including lesbian mother families, gay father families, families headed by single …

Abstract Summary The Avon Longitudinal Study of Children and Parents (ALSPAC) was
established to understand how genetic and environmental characteristics influence health …

New edition of the classic The Role of the Father in Child Development The Role of the
Father in Child Development, Fourth Edition brings together contributions from an …

Claims that children need both a mother and father presume that women and men parent
differently in ways crucial to development but generally rely on studies that conflate gender …

Social and Personality Development looks at the processes by which we come to be who we
are. It covers a range of topics central to personality and developmental psychology. The …

This text deals with the same kinds of problems addressed by self-help books and self-
realization programs: anxiety, frustration, loneliness, depression, self-control. However, it …

Noted for its fair and equal coverage of men and women, Psychology of Gender reviews the
research and issues surrounding gender from multiple perspectives, including psychology …

The New Family Structures Study (NFSS) is a social-science data-collection project that
fielded a survey to a large, random sample of American young adults (ages 18–39) who …