The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection of the key concepts, trends, and processes relating to the study of families and family patterns throughout the world.

Table of Contents

• Volume I: Family Studies A–C
• Editors
• Contributors
• Lexicon
• Timeline
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• A
• ABC‐X Model of Family Stress and Coping
• Abortion, Laws, in the United States
• Abortion, Rates, in the United States
• Abortion, US Attitudes to
• Abstinence Programs in the United States
• Activities of Daily Living
• Adjustment to Divorce (Children)
• Adjustment to Divorce (Spouses)
• Adolescence
• Adoption, GLBT
• Adoption, History
• Adoption, Laws, in the United States
• Affinal Relatives
• Africa, Aging and Families in
• Africa, Families in
• African American Families
• Age at First Marriage
• Age, Period, and Cohort Effects
• Aging of the World's Population
• AIDS, Impact on Families (Africa)
• Alimony Issues in the United States
• Alternative Schools in the United States
• Alzheimer's Disease and Families
• Amish Families
• Antipoverty Programs (US)
• Arab American Families
• Arranged Marriage
• Asian American Families
• Assisted Reproductive Technology
• Assortative Mating
• Attachment Styles
• Attachment Theory
• Australia, Families in
• Authoritarian Parenting
• Authoritative Parenting in the United States
• B
• Baby Boom
• Baha'i Faith and Families
• Bangladesh, Families in
• Bicultural Families
• Bigamy
• Binuclear Families
• Biosocial Perspectives on Families
• Blended Families
• Brazil, Families in
• Breadwinner Role
• Breastfeeding in the United States
• Bride Capture
• Bride Price
• Bundling
• C
• Cambodia, Families in
• Canada, Families in
• Caregiving Experience
• Caregiving, Child
• Catholicism and Families
• Celibacy
• Cenogamy
• Censuses of Population
• Child Abduction in the United States
• Child Abuse in the United States
• Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal
• Child Brides
• Child Care in the United States
• Child Custody
• Child Custody: US Historical and Legal Contexts
• Child Development
• Child Malnutrition (Chronic)
• Child Maltreatment (Journal)
• Child Mortality Rates
• Child Neglect/Abandonment
• Child Sexual Abuse
• Child Support
• Childbirth
• Childhood Socialization
• Childhood, History of
• Childhood, Sociology of
• Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research
• Childlessness, Involuntary
• Childlessness, Voluntary
• Children in Families
• Children's Literature and Family Diversity
• Children's Rights
• Christianity and Families
• Chronic Illness and Families
• Circumplex Model of Marital and Family Systems
• Civil Unions
• Cognitive Development Theory
• Cohabitation, Nonmarital
• Cohesion, Marital
• Collateral Family
• Common‐Law Marriage
• Communication, Dyadic/Marital
• Communication, Family
• Communities/Neighbors and Families in the United States
• Community, Work & Family (Journal)
• Commuter Marriages
• Companionate Marriage
• Complementary Needs Theory
• Conception
• Concerted Cultivation
• Conflict Resolution
• Conflict Tactics Scale
• Conflict Theory
• Consanguinity
• Contraception in the United States
• Convenience Marriage in the United States
• Co‐Parenting
• Coping Strategies
• Co‐Provider Marriages
• Co‐Sleeping
• Cost of Raising Children
• Council on Contemporary Families
• Coupledom
• Couples' Counseling
• Courtship
• Covenant Marriage
• Crime and Families
• Croatia, Families in
• Cross‐Cousin Marriage
• Cross‐Cultural Families
• Cuba, Families in
• Cult of Domesticity
• Custody Disputes
• Volume II: Family Studies D–H
• D
• Date and Acquaintance Rape
• Dating
• Day Care
• Death and Families
• Decision‐Making in Families
• Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
• Definition of Family
• Deinstitutionalization of Marriage
• Delayed Childbearing
• Demographic Transition
• Denmark, Families in
• Descent Rules
• Disabilities and Families
• Divorce Divide in the United States
• Divorce Law
• Divorce Mediation in the United States
• Divorce Rates, Measurement of
• Divorce Revolution
• Divorce Statistics
• Domestic Partnerships in the United States
• Donaldson Adoption Institute
• Donors and Donor Siblings
• Dual‐Earner Couples in the United States
• E
• Early Childhood
• Eastern Asia, Families in
• Eastern European Immigrants
• Ecological Approach
• Economic Distress in the United States
• Egypt, Families in
• Elder Abuse in the United States
• Elder Care in the United States
• Elopement
• Emerging Adulthood
• Emerging Adulthood (Journal)
• Emotional Labor
• Empty Nest
• Endogamy in the United States
• Engagement
• Equity Theory
• Ethnically and Racially Mixed Families in the United States
• Ethnicity and Family Life in the United States
• Europe, Families in
• Evangelical Marriages
• Exchange Theory
• Exogamy
• Extended Family
• F
• Familicide
• Families in Later Life
• Families in Middle Life
• Familism
• Family as a Social Institution
• Family Boundaries
• Family Cohesion
• Family & Community Health (Journal)
• Family Counseling
• Family Crisis in the United States
• Family Decline Theory
• Family Demographic Patterns
• Family Development Theory
• Family Estrangement
• Family Finances
• Family Law in the United States
• Family Lineage
• Family of Orientation
• Family of Procreation
• Family Policies
• Family Process (Journal)
• Family Relations (Journal)
• Family Resilience
• Family Science
• Family Size
• Family Stability
• Family Structure
• Family Systems Theory
• Family Values in Global Perspective
• Family Violence
• Father Role, History of
• Fathering Styles in the United States
• Fathers as Caregivers
• Fecundity
• Female Circumcision
• Female Infanticide
• Female‐Headed Households in the United States
• Feminist Perspectives on Families
• Feminization of Love
• Feminization of Poverty
• Fertility Rates
• Fictive Kin
• Filial Responsibility
• Filicide
• Filter Theory
• Flexible Scheduling
• Food Security
• Foster Care
• Frequency of Sexual Relations in Marriage
• Friends with Benefits
• G
• Gambia, Families in
• Gay Men as Parents
• Gay Men's Relationships in the United States
• Gender
• Gender & Society (Journal)
• Gender and Aging
• Gender and Communication
• Gender and Health
• Gender and Household Labor
• Gender and Muslim Families
• Gender and Sexuality
• Gender Identity
• Gender Roles
• Gender Socialization
• Gender Stratification
• Gender Wage Gap
• Generation X
• Generational Bridge
• Genocide and Families
• Germany, Families in
• Ghana, Families in
• Global Gender Gap Report
• Globalization and Families
• Grandparent–Grandchild Relationships
• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
• Greatest Generation
• Grief
• Guardianship in the United States
• Guest Worker Families in Europe
• H
• Health and Families
• Health Disparities in Families in the United States
• Helicopter Parents
• Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
• Heterogamy, Race
• Heterogamy, Religious
• Heterosexism
• Higher Education
• Hinduism and Families
• HIV and Families
• Homelessness in the United States
• Homeschooling in the United States
• Homogamy
• Hong Kong, Families in
• Honor Killings
• Hooking Up in the United States
• Household Labor
• Hypergamy
• Hypogamy
• Volume III: Family Studies I–P
• I
• Iceland, Families in
• Immigrant Families in the United States
• Immigration in the United States
• Incarceration and Families in the United States
• Incest
• India, Families in
• Industrialization and Family Change
• Infant Mortality Rates
• Infertility
• Infidelity in the United States
• Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
• Intercountry Adoption to the United States
• Intergenerational Households
• Intergenerational Relationships
• Intermarriage in the United States
• International Journal of Aging and Human Development
• International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family
• International Violence against Women Act
• International Year of the Family
• Internet Dating
• Interracial Adoption
• Interracial Marriage
• Intersexed Individuals
• Intimacy
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Intimate Partner Violence Fatalities in the United States
• Intimate Partner Violence, US Criminal Justice Response to
• Iran, Families in
• Ireland, Families in
• Islam and Families
• Israel, Families in
• Italy, Families in
• J
• Japan, Families in
• Joint Family Structure
• Journal of Aging and Health
• Journal of Aging Studies
• Journal of Child and Family Studies
• Journal of Comparative Family Studies
• Journal of Family Communication
• Journal of Family Issues
• Journal of Family Nursing
• Journal of Family Psychology
• Journal of Family Social Work
• Journal of Family Studies
• Journal of Family Theory & Review
• Journal of GLBT Family Studies
• Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
• Journal of Marriage and Family
• Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health
• Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
• Judaism and Families
• Jumping the Broom
• K
• Kinsey Reports on Human Sexuality
• Kinship
• L
• Latino Families in the United States
• Lee's Styles of Loving
• Lesbian Parents
• Lesbian Relationships
• Liberia, Families in
• Life Course Perspective
• Life Expectancy
• Life Span Developmental Psychology
• Living Alone Together
• Long‐Distance Relationships
• Love
• M
• Mail Order Brides
• Malaysia, Families in
• Marital Adjustment
• Marital Conflict
• Marital Power
• Marital Quality
• Marital Rape
• Marital Satisfaction
• Marital Stability
• Marital Success
• Marriage and Relationship Education in the United States
• Marriage Counseling in the United States
• Marriage Equality in the United States
• Marriage & Family Review (Journal)
• Marriage Laws in the United States
• Marriage Market
• Marriage Movement
• Marriage Promotion Policy
• Marriage Rates
• Marx and Engels on the Family
• Mate Selection
• Maternal Employment
• Maternal Instinct
• Maternal Mortality
• Maternity Leave
• Mating Gradient
• Media Representations of Family in the United States
• Media Representations of Sexuality
• Menarche
• Menopause
• Men's Roles in Families
• Mexican American Families
• Mexico, Families in
• Middle Childhood
• Midwifery
• Migrant Worker Families
• Migration and Families
• Millennials
• Miscegenation
• Mobility, Residential
• Mobility, Social
• Modernization and Families
• Moldova, Families in
• Mongolia, Families in
• Monogamy
• Mormon Families
• Motherhood Mystique
• Motherhood Penalty in the United States
• Mothering Styles
• Mothering, Intensive, in the United States
• Multipartnered Fertility
• N
• National Center for Family & Marriage Research
• National Council on Family Relations (NCFR)
• Native American Families
• Nepal, Families in
• Nigeria, Families in
• Noncustodial Parents
• Nonmarital Births in the United States
• Nuclear Families
• O
• One‐Child Policy
• Only Children
• Open Marriage
• Orphans
• Othermothers
• P
• Parental Discipline
• Parental Employment in the United States
• Parental Leave
• Parental Roles
• Parent–Child Alienation
• Parenting Styles
• Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
• Paternity Leave
• Permissive Parents
• Pew Research Center
• Philippines, Families in
• Place of Residence Rules
• Poland, Families in
• Polyamory
• Polyandry
• Polygamy in Africa
• Polygyny
• Pool of Eligibles
• Population Pyramid
• Portugal, Families in
• Postpartum Depression
• Poverty in the United States
• Pregnancy
• Premarital Dating Relationships in Iran
• Primogeniture
• Principle of Least Interest
• Propinquity
• Puberty
• Volume IV: Family Studies Q–Z
• Q
• Queer Families
• R
• Race and Family Life
• Race and Sexuality
• Racial Socialization in the United States
• Racism and Families in the United States
• Rape
• Refugee Families
• Religion and Gender
• Remarriage
• Remarriage: Starting Over
• Reproduction
• Reproductive Rights
• Research on Aging (Journal)
• Retreat from Marriage
• Role Ambiguity
• Role Conflict, Role Overload, and Role Strain
• Role‐Sequencing
• Romantic Love
• Russia, Families in
• S
• Same‐Sex Marriage in the United States
• Sati
• Schools and Families
• Second Shift
• Second‐Parent Adoption in the United States
• Self‐Disclosure
• Separation, Marital
• Serial Monogamy
• Sex Education in the United States
• Sex Ratio
• Sex Trafficking
• Sexual Aggression
• Sexual Coercion
• Sexual Identity
• Sexual Orientation
• Sexual Scripts
• Sexuality
• Sexuality in Iran
• Sexually Bounded Primary Relationships (SBPRs)
• Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Sharia Law
• Shift Work in the United States
• Sibling Relationships
• Sibling Violence
• Singapore, Families in
• Single Fathers
• Single Mothers by Choice in Spain and the United States
• Single Parenthood
• Singlehood
• Social Class and Childrearing
• Social Construction
• Social Fathers
• South Africa, Families in
• South Korea, Families in
• Spain, Families in
• Sport, Leisure, and Family Life
• Standard North American Family
• Stay‐at‐Home Fathers
• Stay‐at‐Home Mothers
• Stepfamilies
• Stepgrandparenting
• Stepparenting
• Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love
• Street Children
• Structural Functional Theory
• Substance Abuse, Families, and Social Workers in the United States
• Suicide and Divorce
• Surrogacy
• Symbolic Interaction Theory
• T
• Taiwan, Families in
• Teen Dating Violence in the United States
• Teen Motherhood
• Teen Parenting in the United States
• Teen Pregnancy
• Teen Sexuality
• Tender Years Doctrine
• Thailand, Families in
• Theories of Aging
• Time Use
• Timor‐Leste, Families in
• Trailing Partners
• Transgender
• Transition to Adulthood
• Transition to Parenthood and Relationship Satisfaction
• Transnational Families
• Transnational Motherhood
• Turkey, Families in
• Two‐Person Career
• U
• Unemployment and Families
• UNICEF
• United Nations Perspectives on Families
• United States, Families in
• United States, Military Families in
• Unpaid Family Workers
• V
• Veneration of the Dead among the Igbo
• Vietnam, Families in
• Violence against Women Act
• Violence against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal
• Virginity
• W
• War and Families
• Wedding Industry
• Wedding Rituals
• Wheel Theory of Love
• Widowhood
• Wife Capture
• Williams Institute
• Women, Gender, and Families of Color (Journal)
• Women's Roles in Families
• Work and Families in the United States
• Work–Family Policies in the United States
• Working‐Class Families in the United States
• Y
• Youth
• Youth & Society (Journal)
• Z
• Zimbabwe, Families in