Feminism provides a worldview with innovative possibilities for scholarship and activism on
behalf of families and intimate relationships. As a flexible framework capable of engaging …

Objective The purpose of this study was to examine research evidence about effective
childrearing in stepfamilies (ie, parenting practices that contribute to children's physical …

Objective This article discusses how kinship is construed and enacted in diverse forms of the
family that are now part of the culturally pluralistic family system of Western societies …

Scholars have long recognized that the boundaries of family membership and definitions of
family relationships are socially constructed. The social construction of family membership …

Objective This study examines the support from stepparents to adult children and considers
the role of the composition of the parent network, that is, the presence or absence of the …

This review takes a transdisciplinary approach to work–family (WF) research, offering new
perspectives on different family forms in the context of employment. It focuses on lone …

Stepfamilies are one of the most common familial structures in the United States. The
present research sought to examine the experiences of stepparents, specifically …

This experimental study examines attitudes toward stepmothers in the Italian context and
predicts that negative attitudes towards heterosexual and lesbian stepmothers–compared to …

Feminist family scholars have long called for greater transparency of the partial perspectives
embedded within family science. In this paper, I employ feminist reflexive autoethnography …

Mothers are the protagonists in a widespread narrative that emphasizes motherhood as
prolonged and exclusive attention to children, accompanied by references to natural …