By making the husband and wife legal adversaries, the traditional divorce process only reinforces and escalates anger and distrust. In contrast, mediation employs principles of cooperation and conflict resolution. A description of family mediation is provided and includes guidelines for deciding issues about money and children. (Author)

The author, famous in the field of family counseling, relates his experiences and subsequent inferences in the field of family life. (RWP)

A three-part training model in diagnosing marital and family systems is described. The first unit introduced diagnostic tools and techniques. The second focuses on family systems theory and its relation to diagnosis. The third integrates the derived theory of diagnosing marital and family systems with clinical application. (Author)

This paper is a preliminary statement about morning and night people. The authors collected and analyzed married student responses to open-ended questions concerning "morningness" and "nightness" as factors influencing individual, marital, and family adjustment. This issue has both theoretical and practical significance for marriage and the…

This study attempts to provide and to analyze some ethnographic data as evidence of functionality of an affiliative family. (Author)

An attempt was made to ascertain some of the major features of the Mexican family which have been retained by the Mexican-American family within the United States. Available literature which commented on the family systems was surveyed. (Author)

Contains anecdotal observations of families in a small anthracite coal region in Pennsylvania who regularly present themselves for treatment at the local Mental Health Center. The paper describes a unique cultural tradition and how this tradition influences the operation of the family in this region. (Author)

This article discusses a method of teaching and learning in which the family is used as a paradigm, providing the prototype for subsequent relationships. It is hypothesized that if the dynamics of familial relations are understood, it should be possible to perceive analogous dynamics at work in other relationships. (Author/RWP)

The Family Communication Game, described in this article, provides a simple, flexible structure for an active experience in family communication behavior. (Author)

The increasing popularity of sterilization underscores the need for knowledge about couples choosing male and female procedures. This research delineates four sets of variables that may be important for the decision and examines their relationship with the choice of male or female procedure among a sample of married couples. (Author)

A three-phase model of public consultation and inquiry concerning the needs of the family was undertaken in British Columbia to identify those forces in society which enrich family life and those that pull the family apart. This article contains descriptions of the findings and a general evaluation. (Author)

This paper attempts to reassess the role of grandparent from a social class perspective. The role is analyzed first as a "peculiar noninstitution" for middle-class families in the United States. Grandparenting is shown to differ by degree of "functional centrality" in middle-class families and families of lower socioeconomic status. (Author)

Coping with the problems of growing old may be complicated by demands for economic, psychological, and social support for aging parents. Second-generation children facing major age-related role shifts may not be equipped to provide such support. Both generations are coping with their own aging processes, as well as with changing family…

Persons (N=78) between the ages of 18 and 30 completed a questionnaire on how intra-familial conflict was resolved in their family between: mother and father; mother and self; father and self; and self; and self and each sibling. Verbal aggression was utilized as a conflict resolution mode in nearly all familites. (Author)

Men (N=30) attending childbirth preparation classes were interviewed before and after the birth of a first child. The data suggest that developing some kind of coherent role was more important to men's adjustments to postpartum family life than developing any particular role of high or low home life sharing activity. (Author)