Intergenerational Transmission within the Family: A Special Issue

Intergenerational Transmission within the Family a Special Issue

In this special issue, we wanted to gather a diverse range of psychological points of view concerning the question of intergenerational transmission within the family. It was on this topic that we asked for contributions from systemic family therapists and developmentalists. It is such an important topic from both a research and a clinical perspective that our colleagues were full of enthusiasm...

Special Issue: Family Planning

CONTENTS Family planning as a critical component of sustainable global development Babatunde Osotimehin 1 Meeting demand for family planning within a generation: prospects and implications at country level Trends in contraceptive use and distribution of births with demographic risk factors in Ethiopia: a sub-national analysis Potential confounding in the association between short birth interval...

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Family psychology and family law: introduction to the special issue.

As part of a multilevel systemic approach, the authors appearing in this journal suggest implications for social policy and legislation extrapolated from the individual, family, legal, and larger sociocultural systems discussed. The field of family psychology can play a significant leadership role in advocating policies and legislation relevant to the emerging family types and legal dilemmas ba...

Family factors in the intergenerational transmission of offending.

BACKGROUND Convicted parents tend to have convicted children, but there have been few previous studies of transmission between three generations, especially including both records and interviews for hundreds of people. METHOD In the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD), 411 south London males have been followed up from age 8 to age 48. These males (generation 2, G2) are compared w...