With the rise in family diversity over the past few decades, interest in nontraditional family life
has increased significantly among social science researchers (Lamb, 1999). Of particular …

Modern Families brings together research on parenting and child development in new family
forms including lesbian mother families, gay father families, families headed by single …

For the past 50 years, adults who were adopted during infancy have been research
participants for empirical studies with goals ranging from twin studies for heritability, to …

In this chapter, I review the literature on motivated identity construction, drawing together
insights and evidence from diverse theoretical perspectives, and I propose the foundations …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

The number of transracial adoptions in the United States, particularly international
adoptions, is increasing annually. Counseling psychology as a profession, however, is a …

This book examines how Russian-speaking adoptees in three US families actively shape
opportunities for language learning and identity construction in everyday interactions. It …

Contemporary legal and scholarly debates emphasize the importance of biological parents
for children's well-being. Scholarship in this vein often relies on stepparent families even …

Adopted persons face special challenges in the development of identity, as aspects of their
histories may be unknown, making it difficult to construct a coherent narrative linking past …

Presented is a theoretical model explaining how family communication about adoption
evolves over time. Based on data from a national longitudinal study of the effects of …