policy and practice in legal, research, and clinical environments /
edited by Jan Pryor
Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley,
c2008
xxv, 611 p. :
ill. ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
The demography of stepfamilies in the United States / Jay Teachman and Lucky Tedrow -- Stereotypes of stepfamilies and stepfamily members / Stephen Claxton-Oldfield -- Stepfamilies in France since the 1990s / Jean-François Mignot -- The social context of emerging stepfamilies in Japan / Shinji Nozawa -- Stepfathers in cultural context : Mexican American families in the United States / Scott Coltrane, Erika Gutierrez, and Ross D. Parke -- Stepfathers in families / Jeremy Robertson -- Resident mothers in stepfamilies / Marjorie Smith -- Sibling relationships in blended families / Melinda E. Baham, Amy A. Weimer, Sanford L. Braver, and William V. Fabricius -- Resident parent-child relationships in stepfamilies / Claire Cartwright -- A longitudinal examination of marital processes leading to instability in remarriages and stepfamilies / Brad van Eeden-Moorefield and Kay Pasley -- Children's appraisals of relationships in stepfamilies and first families / Katherine H. Shelton, Sasha L. Walters, and Gordon T. Harold -- The distribution of household tasks in first-marriage families and stepfamilies across Europe / Laurent Snoeckx, Britt Dehertogh, and Dimitri Mortelmans -- Communication in stepfamilies / Tamara D. Afifi -- Kinship in stepfamilies / Graham Allan, Sheila Hawker, and Graham Crow -- Children's relationships with nonresident parents / Jan Pryor -- The diversity of stepmothers / Marilyn Coleman, Jessica Troilo, and Tyler Jamison -- Intergenerational relationships in stepfamilies / Lawrence Ganong -- A clinician's view of "stepfamily architecture" / Patricia L. Papernow -- Research on interventions for stepfamily couples / Sarah W. Whitton, Jan M. Nicholson and Howard J. Markman -- The prevention and treatment of children's adjustment problems in stepfamilies / Jan M. Nicholson, Matthew R Sanders, W. Kim Halford, Maddy Phillips, and Sarah W. Whitton -- Legal structures and re-formed families / Bill Atkin -- How relevant are U.S. family and probate laws to stepfamilies? / Sarah E.C. Malia -- Where to from here? Stepfamilies and the future / Jan Pryor