Family members as hybrid owner-managers in family-owned newspaper companies: handling multiple institutional logics

Family members as gamete donors and surrogates.

1. Use of family members as donors or surrogates is generally ethically acceptable. 2. Brothers may donate sperm to brothers and sisters may donate eggs to sisters. 3. Intergenerational gamete donation and surrogacy are especially challenging. 4. Consanguineous gamete donations from first-degree relatives are unacceptable. 5. Counseling is encouraged for all parties including partners of donors...

Family fun--family tragedy: ATV-related deaths involving family members.

Diversity in Family Structure—Diversity in Communication between Family Members?

This study aims at investigating the parent-adolescent communication of Finnish families from a multiinformant perspective. Thirteenand fourteen-year-old adolescents (n = 171) and their parents were asked to complete a questionnaire examining positive and problematic communication between the two parties. Information about their family structure was collected. The results indicated an interrela...

Osteopoikilosis: Pain as a Presenting Symptom in Three Family Members

Osteopoikilosis is a rare asymptomatic sclerosing bony dysplasia of benign origin. It is usually found incidentally on radiological examinations. Familial occurrence indicates a genetic milieu with autosomal dominant pattern. Here, we present a case report of a young woman suffering from pelvic pain due to osteopoikilosis (OPK). The same disorder was later found in her son and daughter.

Family members as monitors in a state mental hospital.

In 1983 the cooperative efforts of the Western Massachusetts Alliance for Mentally Ill Citizens and the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health led to the development of a program in which family members of patients at Northampton State Hospital monitor conditions at the hospital. The authors describe the process that generated the program, the training and duties of the family monitors, the ...