Journal of Marriage and Family

The fact that society is surprised when a "resilient" child emerges from a dysfunctional family reflects our limited understanding of the power of role assignments and the enduring quality of personality type, forces that interact with the influences...

The familial environment, especially the pervading parental attitude or emotional tone of parent-child interactions, has long been identified as an important factor in understanding child development. It is related to a variety of child variables such...

This volume is the first to emerge from the Family Research Consortium (FRC), a group sponsored by The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The FRC had its origins in the mid-1980s, when NIMH brought together researchers involved in the scientific...

Fair Start for Children: Lessons Learned from Seven Demonstration Projects is a well-written and coherent collection of edited chapters describing an initiative designed to alleviate some of the problems facing America's children of poverty. The program...

I love this book Catherine Kirkwood has translated the voices of 30 formerly abused women into descriptive, conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and practical insights the likes of which I have not seen since the Dobashes' pioneering work.Before...

The Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods: A Contextual Approach is described as "a perspective on the past and a map for the future" (p. xi), an effort on the part of "family studies to take stock of itself' (p. xi). This massive undertaking represents...

Many contemporary family studies scholars integrate feminist perspectives into their analysis or at least treat gender as a form of social organization that shapes family life. What distinguishes this book is how Kristine M. Baber and Katherine R. Allen...

Patterns of adolescent pregnancy resolution have changed dramatically over the past 30 years. Contrary to popular belief, there has been a decrease in the fertility rate among adolescents. In the United States, the fertility rate for adolescents aged...

Much of the research addressing the causes of adolescent nonmarital sexual activity has adopted a microlevel orientation, examining the influence of the adolescent's social, psychological, and physical characteristics on his or her sexual behavior. However,...

In 1990, 33.7 million people in the United States were limited in their usual activities by a chronic health condition or impairment (Adams & Benson, 1991). Progress in medical technology has increased the number of babies born with disabling conditions...

Few social issues have received as much attention and concern in this country as the education of children and youth. Nonetheless, the number of youth who experience or are at high-risk for academic failure continues to represent a problem of epidemic...

The influence of maternal drug use and unconventional behavior on children's behavioral problems, cognitive functioning, and self-esteem is examined for children aged 8 and older born to adolescent mothers. Analyses are based on 581 unique mother-child...

The primacy of men's economic provision and the substantial impact of their economic resources on families suggests that marital status should be an important correlate of men's labor market behavior. In this article we investigate the relationship between...

The involvement of divorcing families with the court system is commonly thought to be transient, ending with the ratification of the terms of the divorce, and, subsequently, with divorce itself. This is the case with some families, whose involvement...

By one estimate, 44% of children born between 1970 and 1984 will live for a time in a single-parent family (Bumpass & Sweet, 1989), and Furstenberg and Cherlin (1991) project that 60% of children born in the 1990s will have this experience. Unfortunately,...