This paper uses data from a study of 105 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)
people to examine conceptions of family in LGBT communities. Respondents were asked …

We review how recent family scholarship theorizes recent family change as either a process
of deinstitutionalization, in which family can no longer be understood in institutional terms, or …

Family scholars have offered a host of formal definitions of family with little consensus. One
reason scholars may have trouble reaching agreement is that rather than having a classical …

In family research, the topic of remarriage and stepfamilies has been of interest to scholars
since the landmark study by Jessie Bernard in 1956. In fact, the Journal of Marriage and …

Family is quite a dynamic and complex phenomenon, and it plays a central role in our
society (Weigel 2008; Schänzel et al. 2012). Some demographic and cultural changes have …

Abstract Most South Korean male adults smoke. Korean Protestant Christianity regarded
  smoking as 'sinful'and it was forbidden. However the Protestants in Korea today do …

Care leavers' family lives are not well-documented in Global South literature. The West has
seen an increase in studies focusing on the family concept. This article focuses on the …

Scholars theorize the effect of modernization on religious and familial institutions in a
parallel way. Some argue that both are irreversibly in decline—as secularization and …

Drawing from 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in one urban and one rural setting in
Swaziland, involving 13 case studies of adolescents living with HIV, in this article we explore …

Organizations are arenas where discourses are built and implicated. One of the discourses
used in the organizations is the “family” discourse which is realized as “we are a family” …