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In this article, the authors merge the study of support, strain, and ambivalence in family relationships with the study of stress to explore the ways family members provide support or contribute to strain in the disaster recovery process. The authors analyze interviews with 71 displaced Hurricane Katrina survivors, and identify three family relationships that were especially important to postdisplacement experiences: marital or intimate partner, parent–adult child, and fictive kin. These relationships provided support, contributed to strain, or did both, highlighting the complexity of such relationships in the postdisaster context. Women tended to provide more support to and receive more support from family relationships than did men, especially through mother–adult daughter relationships.

Conflicting perspectives: his and her divorce -- Beyond anger: pain, longing, fear, guilt, and grief -- Grieving divorce: the leaver and the left -- Renegotiating relationships I: separating marital and parental roles -- Renegotiating relationships II: two-parent divorced families -- Divorce and custody law: perfect problems, imperfect solutions -- Negotiating agreements I: setting the stage and the first mediation session -- Negotiating agreements II: identifying issues, brainstorming options, and drafting parenting plans -- Mediation research: a 12-year randomized study.

This article examines how women became involved in credit dealings and often in legal action as the result of family relationships between 1300 and 1620. It argues that women's own personal standing and that of their family underlay their ability to function successfully in a world of financial credit that was based upon delayed obligations. It shows also that women displayed considerable knowledge of economic and legal systems as they attempted to pursue their rights or those of a relative. These observations force one to question any assumption that women's position within the family was uniformly characterized by deference or reliance upon others.

The aim of this article is to understand the link between family relationships and internet abuse (IA) using a sample of 18,709 children in 25 European countries. Our results suggest that family relationships are a significant predictor of IA – even when controlling for other significant individual and country-level factors. According to our results, children in two-parent families were less likely to have IA than children in other types of homes, but their advantage seems to derive from having better family dynamics (manifest in more communicative and less autonomous lifestyles) rather than family structure as such. Moreover, the importance of family structure with respect to IA is mediated by children's relational lifestyles. This suggests that positive parenting characterised by high levels of dialogue may work as a protective factor of IA. We also identified sociodemographic risk factors: IA is more common among older and male children, those with lower levels of self-efficacy, and those living in large cities. The specific components of advantageous relational lifestyles can guide interventions to protect children from IA.

This book provides a sensitive exploration of the psychological dynamics of divorce and child custody disputes, including illustrative case examples. Emery emphasizes the importance of recognizing parents' emotional struggles while helping them negotiate as cooperatively as possible.

The article presents an analysis of the family relationships in ancient Babylon, in accordance with the laws of Hammurabi. The author dwells upon the characteristics of selected institutes of family law of the Amorites and comes to the conclusion that the family life in ancient Mesopotamia was very developped. The family in the Hammurabi Code represents the basis not only for economic and financial power of the state, but also for its political stability and security. The rights and obligations of spouses are not equal, but they are together, though each in his own way, achieving the main goal of the marital union - the birth and upbringing of children.