We were fortunate to have started our research careers about the same time as the study of
stepfamilies was “discovered” as a valid topic for social and behavioral scientists. We also …

Objective The purpose of this review is to examine research evidence about effective
childrearing of stepchildren by coparents in stepfamilies (ie, childrearing that contributes to …

Court‐ordered shared physical and legal custody has led to greater numbers of couples that
must coparent following divorce. We conducted a grounded theory study to examine …

Objective The purposes of this review are (a) to summarize holistically and synthesize
research evidence about “what works” regarding effective stepfamily childrearing (ie …

Despite the known positive child outcomes associated with father involvement, how fathers
are involved in the health and healthcare of their children is largely unexplored. This …

This study produces a grounded theory of the process of communication with former
partners for 30 men and women who share physical and legal custody of their children …

Objective To determine which aspects of divorced parents' ongoing relationships with their
former spouses were associated with children's and youth's postdivorce well‐being …

Using data from 392 divorced mothers and fathers, living in the United States, with a child
between 10 and 18 years old, we first identified three types of postdivorce coparenting …

Instruments that assess parenting behavior after divorce have largely focused on the
domains of general support of and conflict in co-parenting. This paper introduces and …

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS; 2007) approximately one in ten couple
families contain resident step-children. In Wave 3 of the Household, Income and Labour …