"Becoming a family": developmental processes represented in blended family discourse

By Dawn O. Braithwaite, L. Olson, Tamara D. Golish, Charles Soukup, Paul D. Turman. 2001

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Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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‘Feeling Caught’ in Stepfamilies: Managing Boundary Turbulence through Appropriate Communication Privacy Rules (2003, background): “In more turbulent stepfamilies, perceived boundaries may divide family members along bloodlines or generations (Braithwaite et al., 2001).”
The ex-files: Trajectories, turning points, and adjustment in the development of post-dissolutional relationships (2008, methodology): “In order to capture post-dissolutional trajectories and turning points, we employed the RIT, used originally by Huston, Surra, Fitzgerald, and Cate (1981) and applied validly to studies of relational progression (e.g., Baxter & Bullis, 1986; Braithwaite et al., 2001; Graham, 1997).”
“You're My Parent but You're Not”: Dialectical Tensions in Stepchildren's Perceptions About Communicating with the Nonresidential Parent (2006, background): “Stepfamily researchers have suggested that stepfamily members often retain traditional family expectations, scripts, and models, and that such a carry-over effect can function as an obstacle to well-being for stepfamily members (eg, Braithwaite, Olson, Golish, Soukup, & Turman, 2001 ; Ganong & Cole”
The Chilling Effect in Families and the Pressure to Conceal Secrets (2005, background): “Because young adults often communicate with new stepparents very differently than they do their parents (see Braithwaite et al., 2001; Ganong & Coleman, 1994; Golish, 2003), stepparents were not included in the study unless they had been a part of the family as the child grew up and were considered…”