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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.
Created Through Law and Language: Communicative Complexities of Adoptive Families
Created Through Law and Language: Communicative Complexities of Adoptive Families
Adoption remained shrouded in silence throughout much of the 20th century before transforming into a highly open, discursive process in the 21st century. According to adoption scholar David Brodzinsky (2007), “The stereotype of the infertile couple adopting a same-race, newborn baby and having little or no information about, or contact with, the child's birth family is rapidly giving way to a much more complex and diverse form of family life” (p. xiii). The adoption process involves taking a child “into one's family through legal means and raising as one's own child” (http://thefreedictionary.com, 2012).
Openness, flexibility, and visibility characterize contemporary adoption. Openness, of varying degrees, ...
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