Legal Counseling and the Marriage Decision: The Impact of Same ‐Sex Marriage on Family Law Practice
ConclusionThe practice of family lawyers has been responsive to rapid legal and cultural shifts for LGBT individuals and their families, resulting in the emergence of new foci of legal counseling surrounding the marriage decision.
ImplicationsFamily lawyers might consider a more concerted effort to offer legal counseling about the marriage decision, particularly for older LGBT clients, those living in negative sociopolitical environments, and different‐sex couples. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Amanda K. Baumle Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Sexual Identity and Relationship Quality in Australia and the United Kingdom
ConclusionOur results provide robust evidence to combat deep‐rooted and erroneous social perceptions of same‐sex relationships being conflictual, unhappy, and dysfunctional.
ImplicationsOur findings support policies that seek to legalize same‐sex marriage and parenting rights. They also highlight the need to give further attention to bisexual individuals as a distinct group because their outcomes are comparatively poor. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Francisco Perales, Janeen Baxter Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Resident Fathers' Positive Engagement, Family Poverty, and Change in Child Behavior Problems
ConclusionFathers' positive engagement may serve as a protective factor for children's social–emotional development.
ImplicationsEmphasizing fathers' positive engagement in prevention and intervention programs designed to lower children's risk for behavior problems may have potential value. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jin ‐kyung Lee, Sarah J. Schoppe‐Sullivan Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Resilience in Families in Transition: What Happens When a Parent Is Transgender?
ConclusionThrough good practices and protective processes within the family, the transition of a parent's gender can be accepted by children.
ImplicationsThese findings have implications for families with a transgender parent as well as for anyone working with children and their transgender parents. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Myrte Dierckx, Dimitri Mortelmans, Joz Motmans, Guy T'Sjoen Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Responding to Infertility: Lessons from a Growing Body of Research and Suggested Guidelines for Practice
Infertility is a common yet often misunderstood experience. Infertility is an important topic for family scientists because of its effects on families, its relevance to research in related areas such as fertility trends and reproductive health, and its implications for practitioners who work with individuals and couples experiencing infertility. In this review, we focus on common misperceptions in knowledge and treatment of infertility and highlight insights from recent research that includes men, couples, and people with infertility who are not in treatment. The meaning of parenthood, childlessness, awareness of a fertili...
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Karina M. Shreffler, Arthur L. Greil, Julia McQuillan Tags: Special Editorial Source Type: research
Translational Family Science and Forgiveness: A Healthy Symbiotic Relationship?
This article explores how translational family science might be instantiated by considering research on forgiveness in close relationships. Relevant historical context is provided to traverse ground in multiple disciplines in an attempt to avoid repetition of past errors. The translational science continuum (T1 to T4) is considered and specific examples of each type of translation are outlined. A set of explicitly stated implications are offered in the course of the analysis. These implications speak to lessons that can be learned for translational family science from the examination of forgiveness in a relationship contex...
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Frank D. Fincham Tags: Special Editorial Source Type: research
Attitudes Toward Parental Disclosures to Children and Adolescents by Divorced and Married Parents
ConclusionThere is consensus on evaluations of the appropriateness of specific parental disclosures. Negative disclosures are perceived as potentially harmful to offspring regardless of parents' marital status. Some topics are seen as more acceptable to disclose to adolescents than to younger children, and evaluations of specific disclosures differ for fathers and mothers.
ImplicationsA better understanding of how people evaluate parental disclosures may be useful to family therapists, parent educators, and others who work with families. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Youngjin Kang, Lawrence Ganong, Ashton Chapman, Marilyn Coleman, Kwangman Ko Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Collaborative Translation of Knowledge to Protect Infants During Sleep: A Synergy of Discovery and Practice
The impact of discoveries from scientific research is manifested in its timely application to real‐world conditions, with a goal of improving life. This is the desired research‐to‐practice transition for new knowledge, yet it is not always achieved. Where knowledge is simply transferred in its discovered form, there can be unintended consequences and harmful delays in achieving desired changes if there is not also a cultural and contextual fit with targeted populations. This has been the case, for example, in the failure of the “don't bedshare” message in protecting African American infants, a message derived ...
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wendy Middlemiss, Stephanie Cowan, Cory Kildare, Kaylee Seddio Tags: Special Editorial Source Type: research
Training Translational Scholars within Family Science Programs
This article addresses issues related to the training of translational scholars in family science (FS) graduate programs. The article advances the view that (a) FS students need more direct socialization on how to message about and market the brand of their programs and (b) the FS brand should be organized around the centrality of translational expertise as one of the core goals of the training mission of FS programs. The article goes on to suggest that the training of translational scholars in FS programs should be organized around two interrelated initiatives. The first involves introducing coursework that balances the f...
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ronald M. Sabatelli Tags: Special Editorial Source Type: research
Building Strong Family –School Partnerships: Transitioning from Basic Findings to Possible Practices
In the present article, we describe the translational process undergirding a particular aspect of family science: families working in partnership with schools to achieve mutual goals for children's optimal functioning. In doing so, we illustrate a translational cycle that began with identifying problems of practice and led to the development of a family–school intervention (i.e., conjoint behavioral consultation) in a way that embraced families as partners in goal‐setting and problem‐solving. We discuss the evolution of the intervention from development to efficacy trials and practice guidelines. Key decision points ...
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan M. Sheridan, Lorey A. Wheeler Tags: Review Source Type: research
Does Involved Fathering Produce a Larger Total Workload for Fathers Than for Mothers? Evidence from Norway
ConclusionDespite equal total workloads and reduced specialization, mothers still do less paid work and more family work than fathers in couples where both work full‐time in Norway. This is partly related to the gender‐segregated labor market. In full‐time and part‐time couples with school‐aged children, fathers' longer working hours are not fully offset by more family work for mothers.
ImplicationsWork–family reconciliation policies promoting mothers' employment and fathers' family work may have the potential to reduce gender imbalances in parent's total workloads and moderate gendered specialization patterns....
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ragni Hege Kitter ød, Marit Rønsen Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Promoting Resilience with the ¡Unidos Se Puede! Program: An Example of Translational Research for Latino Families
ConclusionThe feasibility and acceptance of ¡Unidos Se Puede! implemented with Latino parents and youth offers evidence of usefulness of CBPR to address the complexity of translational research with immigrant populations.
ImplicationsThere is an urgent need for T3 translational research that develops novel prevention approaches to help immigrant parents raise healthy and thriving children. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ronald B. Cox Tags: Review Source Type: research
Fathers' Parenting Stress After the Arrival of a New Child
ConclusionFather identities seem to play an important role in shaping fathering experiences and fathers' parenting stress.
ImplicationsFathers should be encouraged and supported in developing more salient father identities and fathering commitments by significant others, family practitioners, and public policies. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chris Knoester, Richard J. Petts Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Benefits of and Barriers to Romantic Relationships Among Mothers in Ireland
ConclusionsMothers believe that there are several rewards to forming and being in a relationship, but they face many impediments that may prevent them from forming long‐term relationships.
ImplicationsPractitioners may find it useful to focus on tempering mothers' expectations of relationship benefits and on reducing mothers' personal costs when forming and maintaining relationships. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kristin Hadfield, Elizabeth Nixon Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Prospective Parents' Knowledge About Parenting and Their Anticipated Child ‐Rearing Decisions
ConclusionThis study replicated prior research on breast‐feeding intentions and extended the viability of the theory of planned behavior to understand prospective parents' intentions for other child‐rearing practices.
ImplicationsPractitioners should consider discussing the norms surrounding child‐rearing behaviors during health‐ and development‐focused courses in secondary or postsecondary school and with expecting couples. (Source: Family Relations)
Source: Family Relations - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Darcey N. Powell, Katherine Karraker Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
