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Widening the Family Circle: New Research on Family Communication bridges the significant gap in family communication literature by providing a thorough examination of lesser-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.
Family-of-Origin Relationships
The first section of this book focuses on three relationships that exist within the family of origin but have received less attention from communication scholars than the relationships between spouses or between parents and young children. These include the relationships of mothers and their adult daughters, the relationship of adult sons with their nuclear family members, and the relationships between adult siblings. We grouped these chapters together because they share similar characteristics within the family dynamic. For one, they are often genetically bound (unlike some of the other relationships covered in this book), which can have the effect of binding people emotionally even during contentious or conflictual times in their relationships. These relationships also tend to be extraordinarily long standing. For example, ...
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