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Book SynopsisThis book presents the untold stories of Gypsy and Traveller girls living in Scotland. Drawing on accounts of the girls’ lives and offering space for their voices to be heard, the author addresses contemporary and traditional stereotypes and racialised misconceptions of Gypsies and Travellers. Marcus explores how the stubborn persistence of these negative views appears to contribute to policies and practices of neglect, inertia or intervention that often aim to ‘civilise’ and further assimilate these communities into the mainstream settled population. It is against this backdrop that the book exposes the girls’ racialised and gendered experiences, which impact on their struggles as young people to realise their potential and future prospects. Their narratives reveal the strengths of a distinct community, and the complexity of their silence and agency within the patriarchal structures that pervade the private spaces of home and the public spaces of education. This study also invites the reader to reflect on how the experiences of Gypsy and Traveller girls compares with young women from other social backgrounds, and questions if there is more that binds us than divides us as women in the modern world. Gypsy and Traveller Girls will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, education, gender studies and social policy. Table of Contents1.The Outsiders Within: Stereotypes, Definitions and Boundaries.- 2. Power and Silence: The Social Construction of Gypsies and Travellers.- 3. Gypsies and Travellers in Education: Hidden, Deviant or Excluded.- 4. Gypsies, Travellers and Intersectionality.- 5. ‘I am not big, fat or just Gypsy’: The Racialised and Gendered Experiences of Gypsy and Traveller Girls in School.- 6. ‘Honour Thy Father and Mother’: Love, Freedom and Control at Home.- 7. Power in Agency: Ambitions, Aspirations and Success.- 8. Conclusion: The Power of Inequality.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book draws on a broad study on violence against men, from both male and female partners in Norway, to contribute to the research on intimate partner violence. It identifies similarities in men's experiences and backgrounds, including in their perceptions of their own victimisation. Marianne Inez Lien and Jørgen Lorentzen argue that the traditional gender power model should be modified and supplemented, and propose that we consider violence in terms of psychological supremacy, rather than in terms of femininity and masculinity. Men's Experiences of Violence in Intimate Relationships will appeal to students and scholars across a range of areas including criminology, sociology and family violence, and gender studies.Table of Contents1. Violence Against Men in Intimate Relationships.- 2. Method and Analysis.- 3. Prevalence Studies from the Nordic Countries.- 4. Men's Experience of Intimate Partner Violence.- 5. Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence. - 6. Men Who Are Subjected to Sexual Abuse. - 7. Experience with Support Agencies. - 8. The Need to Develop Established Theory of Partner Violence Further.

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the recent ‘adolescent turn’ in contemporary Latin American cinema, challenging many of the underlying assumptions about the nature of youth and distinguishing adolescence as a distinct and vital area of study. Its contributors examine the narrative and political potential of teenage protagonists in a range of recent films from the region, acknowledging the distinct emotional registers that are at play throughout adolescence and releasing teenage subjectivities from restrictive critical and theoretical emphases on theories of childhood. As the first academic study to examine the figure of the adolescent in contemporary Latin American film, New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema thus presents a timely and innovative analysis of issues of sexuality and gender, political and domestic violence and social class, and will be of significant interest to students and researchers in Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies, World Cinema and Childhood Studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Visualizing Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Gender, Class and Politics (Geoffrey Maguire and Rachel Randall)Part One: Gender and Sexuality 2. Visual Displeasure: Adolescence and the Erotics of the Queer Male Gaze in Marco Berger’s Ausente (Geoffrey Maguire) 3. (Re)Pairing Adolescent Masculinities: The Neo-Fraternal Social Contract and the Penal State in Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho and Beira-Mar (Ramiro Armas) 4.Sensorial Youths: Gender, Eroticism, and Agency in Lucrecia Martel’s Rey muerto (Inela Selimović) Part Two: Gender and Class 5. “Eu não sou o meu pai!”: Deception, Intimacy and Adolescence in (the) Casa grande (Rachel Randall) 6. Young, Male and Middle Class: Representations of Masculinity in Mexican Film (Georgia Seminet) 7. Beyond Pink or Blue: Portrayals of Adolescence in Latin American Animated Film (Milton Fernando González-Rodríguez) Part Three: Gender and Politics 8. Growing Pains: Young People and Violence in Peru’s Fiction Cinema (Sarah Barrow) 9. Tragic Adolescence in Michel Franco’s Heli and Amat Escalante’s Después de Lucía (Sophie Dufays) 10. From Girlhood to Adulthood: Colombian Adolescence in María, llena eres de gracia and La sirga (Carolina Rocha)

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Book SynopsisThis handbook brings together the international research focussing on prisoners’ families and the impact of imprisonment on them. Under-researched and under-theorised in the realm of scholarship on imprisonment, this handbook encompasses a broad range of original, interdisciplinary and cross-national research. This volume includes the experiences of those from countries often unrepresented in the prisoner’s families’ literature such as Russia, Australia, Israel and Canada. This broad coverage allows readers to consider how prisoners’ families are affected by imprisonment in countries embracing very different penal philosophies; ranging from the hyper-incarceration being experienced in the USA to the less punitive, more welfare-orientated practices under Scandinavian ‘exceptionalism’. Chapters are contributed by scholars from numerous and diverse disciplines ranging from law, nursing, criminology, psychology, human geography, and education studies. Furthermore, contributions span various methodological and epistemological approaches with important contributions from NGOs working in this area at a national and supranational level. The Palgrave Handbook of Prison and the Family makes a significant contribution to knowledge about who prisoners’ families are and what this status means in practice. It also recognises the autonomy and value of prisoners’ families as a research subject in their own right.Table of Contents1. Introduction Marie A. Hutton and Dominique Moran Section One Contemporary Issues: Understanding Prisoners’ Families 2. Prisoners’ Families Research : Developments, Debates and Directions Caroline Lanskey, Lucy Markson, Karen Souza and Friedrich Lösel 3. Inmate Social Ties, Recidivism, and Continuing Questions About Prison Visitation Joshua C. Cochran 4. Developments and Next Steps in Theorizing the Secondary Prisonization of Families Megan Comfort 5. Who are Prisoners’ Family Members?: Towards an Holistic and Intersectional Framework Johnna Christian 6. A holistic approach to prisoners’ families – from arrest to release Rachel Condry and Peter Scharff Smith 7. Opportunities and challenges for work on behalf of families affected by imprisonment; the experience of Families Outside Nancy Loucks Section Two Different perspectives: Widening the lens 8. Experiences of Male Partners of Women Prisoners in Israel Tomer Einat 9. The Traumatic Bereavement of Children Experiencing the Loss of a Loved One to Death Row Sandra Joy, Elizabeth Beck and Ashley Hurley 10. Relatives of Registered Sex Offenders: Considering the Costs of Providing Family Support David Patrick Connor 11. Partners of Incarcerated Men: Questioning Caring Stereotypes Karen Souza, Caroline Lanskey, Lucy Markson and Friedrich Lösel Section Three Engaging with the prison 12. A Comparison of the position of Grandmother Carers for children with parents in prison in the United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago, Romania and Uganda Ben Raikes, Romeo Asiminei, Alexandra Cuza, Karene Nathaniel-Decaires, Eric Ochen, George Pascaru and Gloria Seruwagi 13. Families’ experiences in a prison visitors’ centre Rebecca Foster 14. Prison Visitation as Accessible Engagement: Encounters, Bystanders, Performance and Inattention Dominique Moran and Tom Disney 15. Acorn House Revisited: ‘Think Family, Up and Down and Side to Side’ Ben Raikes and Kelly Lockwood Section Four Recognising the rights of Prisoners’ Families 16. The Rights of Children with an Imprisoned Parent in the Republic of Ireland Aisling Parkes and Fiona Donson 17. Hearing Children’s Voices in Studies of Familial Incarceration: Experiences from a Canadian Study Else Marie Knudsen 18. The Rights of Children of Imprisoned Parents Helen Codd 19. A Labour of Love: The Experiences of Parents of Prisoners and their role as Human Rights Protectors Marie A. Hutton Section Five Beyond Imprisonment 20. Reflecting on the Value(s) of Family Interventions for People subject to Punishment in the Community Becky Clarke, Rachel Kinsella and Craig Fletcher 21. Mothering under Community Criminal Justice Supervision in the United States D.R. Gina Sissoko and Lorie Goshin 22. Intergeneration Transmission of Criminal Behaviour Sytske Besemer and Laura Bui 23. Intergenerational Social Exclusion in prisoners’ families Kirsten Besemer and Susan Dennison 24. School Experiences of Children of Prisoners: Strengthening Support in Schools in England and Wales Julia Morgan and Caroline Leeson

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Book SynopsisThis insightful volume explores the experiences of ethnic migrants returning to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Israel. Return migrants who were exposed to the western culture and society undergo personal transformations that significantly impact their views on values such as gender, individualism, democracy, tradition, and individual autonomy. To evaluate how well these individuals are able to reintegrate back into their native countries, the authors conducted a thorough comparative study between returnees in the three research sites through in-depth interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and analyses of government policies. Among the topics discussed: Family as a strategic middle ground between the individual and society The social psychology of coping and adaptation Public, outer historical, and macro forces that shape returnees’ experiences Comparisons and contrasts between two primarily Chinese societies, along with one racially and culturally different Western society Cost-and-benefit analyses of decision-making in migration Return Migrants in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Israel is a compelling new perspective on the migrant experience drawn from in-depth research on returnees across three countries and a variety of circumstances.Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction – Cost-and-Benefit Analysis: Decision-Making in Migration 1.1 Globalization, Public Policy and Assimilation of Return Migration 1.2 Public Policy Implications of International Migration for Global Governance 1.3 Migrant Transnationalism and Family-based Migration 1.4 Globalized Economic Space, Transnationalism and Translocality 1.5 Some Theoretical and Methodological Considerations 1.6 On a National Level and Public Policy 1.7 Migrant’s Coping Strategies as Responses to Policies 1.8 Ritual Process, Community Development and De-alienation in Chinese Diasporic Communities 1.9 Chinese Ritual Performance as De-alienation 1.10 Ethnic Chinese Community Development as De-alienation 1.11 Return Migration, Social Action and Public Policy 1.12 Analytic Procedure and Aims of Study Chapter 2 The Hong Kong Study 2.1 Research Methods and Demographic Characteristics of Returnee Respondents in Hong Kong 2.2 Vignettes of Four Returnees 2.3 Factors Associated with Return Migration 2.4 Plight and Blight of the Mobile Migrants: Hidden Injuries of Global Mobility 2.5 Adjustment to Local Environment 2.6 Migrant Coping Strategies as Responses to Immigration Policies: Migrant’s Cost-and-Benefit Analysis 2.7 Suggestions to Other Returnees: Looking Beyond the Horizons of Costs and Benefits 2.8 What Will the Future Hold? 2.9 Some Reflections 2.10 Policy Recommendations to the Hong Kong Government Chapter 3 The Singapore Study 3.1 Research Methods and Demographic Characteristics of Returnee Respondents in Singapore 3.2 Evolution of Government Policies and Programs: Cost-and-Benefit Calculation in Historical Perspective 3.3 Government Programs and Initiatives Targeted at Overseas Singaporeans: The Long Arm of Global Capital Accumulation 3.4 The Balance Sheet of Migrating 3.5 Reasons for Return —- Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Recouping a Socio-economic-financial Stake 3.6 Preparation for Return 3.7 Returnees’ Problems and Dilemmas 3.8 Returnees’ Personal and Collective Strategies for Coping as Responses to Government Policies 3.9 Will They Stay or Leave? Migration Decision-making within a Cost-and-Benefit Framework 3.10 Some reflections 3.11 Policy Recommendations to the Singaporean Government Chapter 4 The Israel Study 4.1 Human Capital and Economic Growth in Israel: Successes and Dilemmas 4.2 Brain Drain and Cost-accounting of Human Capital Accumulation 4.3 What Causes the Israeli Brain Drain and Loss of Human Capital? 4.4 Factors Influencing Israelis’ Decision to Return 4.5 Brain Drain from Non-academic Sector: Two Stories 4.6 Development of Migration Policies—Costs and Benefits of Human Capital Growth 4.7 Dilemmas and Challenges of Current Migration Policies: Costs and Benefits of Global Innovative Knowledge Transfer 4.8 Evaluation of Migration Policies: Legitimatizing the “Unholy” Alliance of Brain Strain, Brain Gain and Brain Drain in the Migration Drama 4.9 Some Reflections Chapter 5 Conclusion 5.1 Comparing Public Policies on Return Migration 5.2 Toward a Universal Policy on Return Migrants and their Re-integration 5.3 In Reflection: Thinking Back and Forth, Back and Forth

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Book SynopsisThis brief examines the U.S. foster care system and seeks to explain why the foster care system functions as it does and how it can be improved to serve the best interest of children. It defines and evaluates key challenges that undermine child safety and well-being in the current foster care system. Chapters highlight the competing values and priorities of the system as well as the pros and cons for the use of foster care. In addition, chapters assess whether the performance objectives in which states are evaluated by the federal government are sufficient to achieve positive health and well-being outcomes for children who experience foster care. Finally, it offers recommendations for improving the system and maximizing positive outcomes. Topics featured in this brief include: Legal aspects of removal and placement of children in foster care. The effectiveness of prior efforts to reform foster care. The regulation and quality of foster homes. Support for youth aging out of the foster care system. Racial and ethnic disparities in the foster care system. Foster Care and the Best Interests of the Child is a must-have resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, and sociology. Table of ContentsChapter 1. An Introduction to Foster Care.- Chapter 2. Current Use of the “Best Interests of the Child” Standard in Foster Care Policy and Practice.- Chapter 3. Foster Care as a Problem and a Solution.- Chapter 4. Reforming the Foster Care System: Legislative and Judicial Efforts.- Chapter 5. Reorienting the Foster Care System toward Children’s Best Interests.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook showcases innovative approaches to the interdisciplinary field of childhood and youth studies, examining how young people in a wide range of contemporary and historical contexts around the globe live their young lives as subjects, objects, and agents. The diverse contributions examine how children and youth are simultaneously constructed: as individual subjects through social processes and culturally-specific discourses; as objects of policy intervention and other adult power plays; and also as active agents who act on their world and make meaning even amidst conditions of social, political, and economic marginalization. In addition, the book is centrally engaged with questions about how researchers take into consideration children’s and young people’s own conceptions of themselves and how we conceptualize child and youth potentials for agency at different ages and stages of growing up. Each chapter discusses substantive research but also engages in self-reflection about methodology, positionality, and/or disciplinarity, thus making the volume especially useful for teaching. This book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including childhood studies, youth studies, girls’ studies, development studies, research methods, sociology, anthropology, education, history, geography, public policy, cultural studies, gender and women’s studies and global studies. Table of Contents1. Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents: An Introduction; Deborah Levison, Mary Jo Maynes, and Frances Vavrus.- Section 1: Construction of Children and Youth as Subjects.- 2. "So How's Your Childhood Going?": A Historian of Childhood Confronts Her Own Archive; Elena Jackson Albarrán.- 3. Encountering Emotions in the Archive of Childhood and Youth; Emily C. Bruce.- 4. Visualizing the Space of Childhood and Youth.- 5. Turning Off the Recorder: Caring Relationships in Research with Youth; Judith Josephat Merinyo and Laura Wangsness Willemsen.- 6. Productive Tensions in Interdisciplinary and Mixed-methods Research on Youths' Livelihoods; Joan DeJaeghere.- Section 2: Critiquing Objectification of Children and Youth.- 7. The Daughters of Bengal: A History of the Girl Victim under ‘Western Eyes’; Samia Khatun.- 8. Search for the Child in Colonial Uganda's Educational Archives; Elisabeth E. Lefebvre. 9. Black Sites of Speculation: A Case for Theorizing Black Childhood as a Subject in Black Adult Narratives; Tammy C. Owens.- 10. Archives, Adoption Records, and Owning Historical Memory; Kelly Condit-Shrestha.- 11. Global Girl Policy and the Girl Effect: Gendered Origins and Silences; Karen Brown.- Section 3: Recognizing Children and Youth as Agents.- 12. Is It Okay to Critique Youth Activists?: Notes on the Power and Danger of Complexity; Jessica K. Taft.- 13. Re/writing Gendered Scripts: A Longitudinal Research Partnership Reshaping Gender and Education Policy and Praxis in Zanzibar, Tanzania; Emily Markovich Morris.- 14. Generational Power in Research with Children: Reflections on Risk and ‘Voice’; Anna Bolgrien, Deborah Levison, and Frances Vavrus.- 15. Youth Circulations: Tracing the Real and Imagined Circulations of Global Youth; Lauren Heidbrink and Michele Statz.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, psychological, family sociological and demographical insights. It describes how, despite the long evolution of broken families, only the last decade has seen a radical shift in custody arrangements for children in divorced families and the gender revolution in parenting which is taking place. The chapters have a national or cross-national perspective and address topics like prevalence and types of shared physical custody, legal frames regulating custody arrangements, stability and changes in arrangements across the life course of children, socio‐economic, psychological, social well-being of various family members involved in different custody arrangements. With the book being an interdisciplinary collaboration, it is interesting read for social scientists in demography, sociology, psychology, law and policy makers with an interest family studies and custody arrangements.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Advances in research on Shared Physical Custodyby interdisciplinary approaches.- Part I: Interdisciplinary overviews.- Chapter 2. Alternating homes – a new family form - The family sociology perspective.- Chapter 3. Psychological Perspectives on Joint Physical Custody.- Chapter 4. A European Model for Harmonizing the Law on Parental Responsibilities.- PART II: Parents and JPC.- Chapter 5. Are “Part-Time Parents” Healthier Parents? Correlates of Shared Physical Custody in Switzerland.- Chapter 6. Linkages Between Children's Living Arrangements After Divorce and the Quality of the Father-Child Relationship; Father involvement as important underlying mechanism.- Chapter 7. Who cares? An event history analysis of co-parenthood dynamics in Belgium.- PART III: Children and JPC.- Chapter 8. The SOHI: Operationalizing a new model for studying teenagers’ sense of home in post-divorce families.- Chapter 9. The Socioeconomic Gradient of Shared Physical Custody in two Welfare States: comparison between Spain and Sweden.- Chapter 10. Shared parenting after divorce and child outcomes.- PART IV: Dynamic view on JPC.- Chapter 11. The Different Ways of Implementing Shared Physical Custody in the French Context.- Chapter 12. Coparenting interventions and shared physical custody: Insights and challenges.- PATR V: Legal frameworks of Child Support.- Chapter 13. Shared Physical Custody After Parental Separation: Evidence from Germany.- Chapter 14. Shared physical custody and child maintenance arrange-ments: A comparative analysis of 13 countries using a model family approach.

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Book SynopsisGlobally, women are having half as many children as they had just fifty years ago. Why have birth rates fallen, and how will low fertility affect our shared future? In Decline and Prosper!, demographic expert Vegard Skirbekk offers readers an accessible, comprehensive and evidence-based overview of human reproduction. Readers learn about the evolution of childbearing across different populations and how fertility is related to (changes in) our reproductive capacity, contraception, education, religion, partnering, policies, economics, assisted reproduction, and catastrophes. Readers will explore the future of family size and its impact on human welfare, women’s empowerment and the environment. Skirbekk argues that low fertility is on the whole a good thing, while recognizing the challenges of population aging and “coincidental” childlessness. A balanced, integrative examination of one of the most important issues of our time, Decline and Prosper! drives home the fact that we must ultimately adapt to a world with fewer children. The book will be invaluable to anyone who is interested in the far-reaching effects of global fertility, including researchers and students of demography, social statistics, medical sociologists, family and childhood studies, human geographers, sociology of culture, social and public policy.Trade Review“This book assembles many findings, facts, insights, and opinions related to fertility … . The book is easy to read … .” (Nico Keilman, Journal of Peace Research, March 1, 2023)“Dr. Skirbekk’s prescriptions could help ameliorate some problems young men are experiencing throughout the developed world.” (Jessica Grose, The New York Times, nytimes.com, February 15, 2023)“Vegard Skirbekk’s Decline and Prosper! Changing Global Birth Rates and the Advantages of Fewer Children is a welcome reality check. … ‘… the breadth of this book is, in fact, its great strength.’ And with this, I wholeheartedly agree. Decline and Prosper! is a concise and engaging overview of what we know about low fertility, how we got there, and why it will almost surely persist. And, ultimately, that things will be fine.” (Joshua Wilde, Population and Development Review, September 14, 2022)“It is a valuable resource, presenting much research on fertility around the world. … I recommend it to anyone interested in human fertility and demography.” (Frank Götmark, overpopulation-project.com, September 6, 2022)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Measuring Fertility.- How Many Children Can Humans Have Biologically?.- Fertility from the Dawn of Humanity through the 19th Century.- The Demographic Transition: Fewer Deaths and Fewer Births, Eventually.-Contemporary Global Fertility.The New Have-Nots: Childlessness in the 21st Century.- More Education, Fewer Children.- An Era of Choice: Childbearing Has Become More Planned.- Fertility Preferences: How Many Children Do People Want?.- Delaying Parenthood, For Better and For Worse.- Finding a Mate: Contemporary Partnership and Conception.- Money Matters: The Economics of Fertility.- Fertility in the Aftermath of Disaster.- New Times, Old Beliefs: Religion and Contemporary Fertility.- Contemporary Fertility from an Evolutionary Perspective: Are the Fittest Still Surviving?.- How Low Will It Go? Projecting Future Fertility.- Fertility, Population Growth and Population Composition.- Fertility Policies: Past, Present, and Future Directions.- Low – But Not Too Low – Fertility is a Good Thing.

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Book SynopsisThis sourcebook is an unparalleled resource in the field of family science. It provides a comprehensive overview of both traditional and contemporary theories and methodologies to promote a greater understanding of increasingly complex family realities. It focuses on broad developments in research design and conceptualization, while also offering a historical perspective on developments in family science over time, particularly emerging theories from the past several decades. Each chapter summarizes and evaluates a major theory or methodological approach in the field, delving into its main principles; its debates and challenges; how it has evolved over time; its practical uses in policy, education, or further research; and links to other theories and methodologies. In highlighting recent research of note, chapters emphasize the potential for innovative future applications.Key areas of coverage include:· Risk and resilience, family stress, feminist, critical race, and social exchange theories.· Ambiguous loss, intersectionality, Queer, and family development theory.· Life course framework.· Biosocial theory and biomarker methods.· Symbolic interactionism.· Ethnography.· Mixed methods, participatory action research, and evaluation.Table of ContentsStretching Theory and Theorizing in Contemporary Family Research.- Methodological Approaches and Methods in Contemporary Family Research.- Meta-Theories.- History.- Risk and Resilience Theories.- Family Stress Theories.- Symbolic Interactionism.- Ethnographic Approaches.- Family Development Theory.- Family Systems Theory.- Ecological Theories.- Social Exchange.- Life Course Framework.- Grounded Theory.- Longitudinal Research.- Dyadic and Family Level Modeling.- Feminist Theories.- Critical Race Theories.- Intersectionality Theory.- Queer, Quare, and Transgender.- Phenomenological Approaches.- Participatory Action Research.- Family Communication.- Developmental and Attachment.- Family Policy.- Biosocial Theory .- Biomarker Methods .- Mixed Methods.- Evaluation Approaches.- Translation and Prevention.- Transdisciplinary Family Science.- Editors’ Final Word.

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