Applying critical kinship perspectives to the study of multilingual families, this book
foregrounds family formation processes, gender, and sexuality in examinations of language …

Background: When a parent has chronic pain, family communication can become strained.
Clinicians are encouraged to identify and support families struggling with open …

Abstract Background and Objectives Family ties and role relationships through their effects
on exchanges of resources and social support are critical health contexts for older African …

Diverse, twenty-first-century families formed through and affected by adoption, reproductive
technologies, same-sex marriage, and transnational migration have entailed a renewed …

The gendered division of household labor has long been of interest to family scholars. For
heterosexual couples, labor is often unequally divided, with women normatively taking on …

The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study is to chronicle the shared
experiences of working-class/middle-class African American men who have gone through a …

Families are important sources of social support, yet this support is not available to
everyone. Support availability partly depends on the relationships that bind family members …

Kin networks have been linked to a myriad of health outcomes, yet more research is needed
to identify the underlying mechanisms and how they operate in sub-Saharan Africa. Here …