Interest in the impact of family on work has grown in recent years; family is emerging as a
significant source of understanding work attitudes and behaviors. However, no consensus�…

The body of stepfamily research published this decade exceeded the entire output of the
previous 90 years of the century. The complexity and quality of the scholarly work in this�…

Over the past two decades, interest in the transnational lifestyles of contemporary migrants
has grown significantly. In this article, we focus not on transnational identities, processes or�…

Traditionally, marriage has been the social institution for couples that have been together for
a long period. Some decades ago non-marital cohabitation began to appear in the western�…

Family Configurations develops current scholarship on families and intimate lives by
demonstrating that family relationships, far from being fluid and inconsequential, are more�…

This study tests the hypothesis that individuals' identification of family members has an
impact on the type of family-based social capital available to them. Data from a sample of�…

Taking the position that family is socially constructed leads researchers to study family as a
constellation of ideas, images, or terminology that is used to assign meaning to aspects of�…

The number of dual-income families in Nigeria is on the increase due to economic and
educational changes occurring in the country. Despite this shift, the exclusive traditional�…

Researchers recently have shown an increased interest in the impact of societal views (ie,
norms, expectations, stereotypes, myths) on relationships in stepfamilies (Coleman &�…

Queer Kinship on the Edge explores ways in which queer families from Central and Easter
Europe complicate the mainstream picture of queer kinship and families researched in the�…