Used data on 4,667 women from the Iran Fertility Survey to examine trends and social correlates of consanguineous marriage. Found modest increase in proportion of marriages between cousins in Iran from 1940s to 1970s. Results suggest that modernization may be eroding social bases on consanguinity, whereas increased availability of cousins may lead…

Notes that every state has passed laws giving grandparents right to petition courts for privilege of visiting their grandchildren. Family specialists need to understand nature of grandparents' rights laws because these laws affect their duties. Asserts that research findings and expert witness testimonies of family specialists should be included…

Reviews images of male heroes. Presents categories of males as dominating-intimidating; intimidated, passive, passive-aggressive; unfaithful; computer-man; dysfunctional-addicted; or violent. Claims counselors should not try to strengthen same old families but should try to strengthen the family by changing it. (ABL)

Presents log-linear methods for ordinal data, known as association models, which take ordinality of variables into account and provide flexible and parsimonious modeling tool to study family behavior and interaction. Explains uniform association model and applies it to nationally representative data to examine how ordinal scale of marital…

Traces evolution of codependency construct. Examines codependency from perspective of researchers who have found little empirical support for constellation of characteristics used to define term and from perspective of feminist analysis. Analyzes assumptions about health and relationships embedded in concept of codependency and contends that…

Eighteen stereotypes that affect gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients are listed. Each stereotype is addressed in terms of the issues and questions raised for couple and family counseling. (Author)

Describes a project where the elderly recall past events representing the beginning of their families, their families when the parents were middle age, and their current families. Elderly adults' memories of their families' beginnings focused on episodes that illustrated the initial occurrence of family themes and values. Discusses findings in…

Data on measures of family interaction, role salience, and vocational identify from 107 female and 65 male students revealed significant links between family emotional closeness and structural flexibility and higher participation in and commitment to home and family roles. Levels of work-role salience and vocational identity were not significantly…

Discusses the primary reciprocal exchanges and transactions gay and lesbian youth and their families face as they confront the person-environmental risks involved in a society that assumes that all members are heterosexual. Focuses on issues related to "coming out" and recommends social work approaches for working with gay and lesbian adolescents…

Presents a discussion of the protagonists in three of Suzanne Fisher's novels. Considers how as the protagonists enter their teenage years, they find themselves thinking quite differently from their loving families. Discusses how two coming of age protagonists successfully craft new identities and learn to compromise with their communities as they…

Suggests "Woman Under the Influence" is an excellent film for teaching key concepts in family communication. Explains systems theory as it applies to transactions within the family. Extends the theory to the analysis of the spousal relationship in the film from the perspective of interactional communication, dramatically illustrating the…

This study reports early impacts on youth's outcomes from the Yonkers Project, a quasi-experimental study in which low-income Black and Latino families who resided in economically and racially segregated neighborhoods were selected via lottery to relocate to middle-class, primarily White neighborhoods. Youth 8-18 years old who moved (n=147) as…

The prevalence of non-marital cohabitation is steadily increasing in the United States. In evaluating the contribution of this new living arrangement to family formation, analysts have relied primarily on comparisons between individuals who cohabit and those who do not. We complement this line of inquiry by comparing the United States and 16…

Prior research has considered the influence of the middle generation on ties between grandparents and grandchildren but has not differentiated between gender of parent and kinship to grandparent (e.g., daughter vs. daughter-in-law and son vs. son-in-law). Eighty-six grandparents provided information about the qualities of their relationships with…

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among college age student's experiences in close friendship, emotional autonomy and reasons to live. This study was grounded in Attachment Theory and College Student Development. A sample of undergraduate students was drawn from one Southeastern U.S. university. A total of 441 participants…