Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Predicting the future of marriages / Sybil Carrére and John M. Gottman -- Black couples, White couples: the early years of marriage / Terri L. Orbuch, Joseph Veroff, and Andrea G. Hunter -- Multiple risks and adjustment in young children growing up in different family settings: a British community study of stepparent, single mother, and nondivorced families / Kirby Deater-Deckard and Judy Dunn -- Family structure, parenting practices, and adolescent adjustment: an ecological examination / Shelli Avenevoli, Frances M. Sessa, and Laurence Steinberg -- Should we stay together for the sake of the children? / E. Mavis Hetherington -- Father absence and the welfare of children / Sara S. McLanahan -- Children of divorced parents as young adults / Paul R. Amato -- Young African American multigenerational families in poverty: the contexts, exchanges, and processes of their lives / P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale ... [et al.] -- Protective factors in the development of the preschool-age children of young mothers receiving welfare / Martha J. Zaslow ... [et al.] -- Contexts as predictors of changing maternal parenting practices in diverse family structures: a social interactional perspective of risk and resilience / David S. DeGarmo and Marion S. Forgatch -- From marriage to remarriage and beyond: findings from the developmental issues in StepFamilies Research Project / James H. Bray -- A social constructionist multi-method approach to understanding the stepparent role / Mark A. Fine, Marilyn Coleman, and Lawrence H. Ganong -- The dynamics of parental remarriage: adolescent, parent, and sibling influences / Edward R. Anderson ... [et al.] -- Psychological interventions for separated and divorced families / Robert E. Emery, Katherine M. Kitzmann, and Mary Waldron.