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This is the first book to take a sociological approach to grandparenting across diverse country contexts and combines new theorising with up-to-date empirical findings to document the changing nature of grandparenting across global contexts.

Around the globe, families are often faced with a variety of health issues, often as a result of social, political, religious, and economic forces. This multidisciplinary volume addresses the impact these issues have on the family as a unit; how they impact family relationships as well as how the family as a whole responds

This article examines how belonging in Finnish families is negotiated in the presence of mental illness. The research materials consist of in-depth interviews and figurations of significant relationships of Finnish parents of mentally ill grown children (N = 8) and adults themselves suffering from mental health issues (N = 9). A pragmatist reading of stigma focuses on what happens in relations, both within families and with other social groupings. The article suggests significant others of the family as an important lens through which mental illness and belonging gain their meaning in family. Social class and belonging in wider communities make a difference, but it is in the eyes of particular significant others that the social meanings of mental illness and belonging are negotiated. The article suggests that grasping the logic of belonging in family requires an understanding of a wider social figuration that the family is entangled in.

The huge diversity in family life and living arrangements across the globe has far‐reaching implications for the ways in which families are supported and family justice is administered. Given the serious concerns about the number of relationships that break down and the potentially detrimental impacts on children and their parents, it is essential to understand the triggers threatening the stability of couple relationships, including the financial stresses caused by the recent global recession and accompanying fiscal austerity. Since family relationships are central to the psychological, emotional, social, and economic well‐being of adults and children everywhere, policy makers and practitioners should collaborate across international boundaries to develop interventions that promote family well‐being, secure the best interests of children, and ensure the conditions and systems in which families can thrive.

We are in an unprecedented age of technology. Few articles in family journals address online behavior, intimacy patterns, and influences on the ways couples and families communicate through technology. The purpose of this article is to use a multitheoretical model to describe the process of how technologies are affecting couple and family life. Suggestions for future research and applications are presented.

In the 1990s it is no longer ""news"" that families do not operate independently from other social organizations and institutions. Instead, it is generally recognized that families are embedded in a complex set of relationships with other institutions and contexts outside the family. In spite of this recognition, a great deal remains to be discovered about the ways in which families are influenced by these outside agencies or how families influence the functioning of children and adults in these extra-familial settings--school, work, day-care, or peer group contexts. Moreover, little is known

Like a pebble that creates ripples when dropped into still water, depression is a health problem with an impact that reaches beyond the individual to touch family members. This health problem can limit the individual's ability to function and can create distress for loved ones. In this article, the authors present a clinical vignette about maternal depression to highlight the reciprocal nature of depression and family functioning. Family focused interventions based on the Calgary Family Intervention Model and the Illness Beliefs Model are presented and include psychoeducation, circular pattern diagrams, and therapeutic letters. The authors conclude the article with a discussion of implications for nursing practice.

Parents employ a wide range of anticipatory strategies to prepare their children for, and protect them against, risks of racism. This article argues that, while black children need to be equipped with the skills and understanding to navigate racist societies, these practices are also the site of a significant injustice for minority families. Specifically, the imperative to take strategic steps to protect children against threats of racism creates unfair barriers to the enjoyment of some valuable relationship-based goods. In advancing this argument, the article brings recent philosophical work on the family into dialogue with a rapidly developing body of empirical research on racial and ethnic socialization. I show that Brighouse and Swift's 'familial relationship goods' framework generates a valuable new perspective on some contested empirical terrain. But I also highlight, and seek to begin to redress, a problematic silence on race within contemporary philosophy of the family.

Home observations during childhood and criminal records 30 years later are used to address questions of relative impact among features of child rearing influencing male criminal outcomes. The results suggest two mechanisms: Maternal behavior appears to influence juvenile delinquency and, through those effects, adult criminality. Paternal interaction with the family, however, appears to have a more direct influence on the probability of adult criminal behavior.

As a general phenomenon, the signif of the role that fam relationships have played in Amer pot has been far from minimal. Yet little attention has been payed to this phenomenon, & it is perhaps useful to try to measure the % of men serving in each Congress who have had relatives who have also served in Congress, to trace changes in the %'s over time, & to connect these changes with appropriate soc & pol'al processes. For good theoretical reasons, it is believed that the fam has had signif influence on pol'al recruitment, but that its influence has been declining in strength as more segments of the pop are pol'ly mobilized & as the fam moves from a diffuse to a specialized role. Conceptually, then, one should connect the fam, pol'al soc'ization & recruitment, & SE change. IPSA.