Widening the Family Circle: New Research on Family Communication, Second Edition continues to address historically under-studied family relationships, such as those involving grandparents, in-laws, cousins, stepfamilies, and adoptive parents. In this engaging text, editors Kory Floyd and Mark T. Morman bring together a diverse collection of empirical studies, theoretic essays, and critical reviews of literature on communication to constitute a stronger, more complete understanding of communication within the family.

No Longer Understudied, but Still Misunderstood: Expanding Communication Research on Stepfamily Relationships

No Longer Understudied, but Still Misunderstood: Expanding Communication Research on Stepfamily Relationships

No longer understudied, but still misunderstood: Expanding communication research on stepfamily relationships
PaulSchrodt and Dawn O.Braithwaite

This is the first time to be a family. This is the first time that he [stepfather] had his stuff there and my mom had her stuff there.… There is no desensitizing to that point. I wasn't ready for that shock and you just arrive there, plus in a different town, in a different school, and you are start[ing] school yourself. So, it was a very big letdown and to be a family … all of this at once.

Young adult stepchild, Braithwaite Olson, Golish, Soukup, & Turman (2001)

I adore Jim. I despised Bill. Greta was great. Laura I did ...

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