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Psychologists’ research shows that long-lasting relationships are more critical than many people think and offers insights on how to improve them.

The purpose of this study was to explore challenges, coping strategies, and positive aspects of being an Asian American lesbian or bisexual woman.

Early teen aggression may contribute to faster biological aging and higher health risks by age 30, highlighting how adolescent relationship conflicts can have long-term physical consequences, according to APA research.

Laurie Kramer, PhD, and Megan Gilligan, PhD, talk about how our siblings influence our lives from childhood through adulthood, how parents can help foster close relationships among their children, and what people can do in adulthood to maintain and improve relationships with their own siblings.

Tim Cavell, PhD, and Lauren Quetsch, PhD, talk about what “good enough parenting” means and why nurturing the parent-child relationship is parents’ most important job.

This study investigated whether greater problems in couples’ relationships predicted more negative perceptions of partners’ parenting during family interactions and whether more negative perceptions of partners’ parenting were associated with less connected family interactions and less coordinated family environments in the home.

This special section on faith and family life presents 5 studies that each offer novel insights into the complex web of linkages between a family member's religious and/or spiritual functioning and parental or family factors that may influence it.

This study investigated how parent–child relationships function in relation to financial and general stressors in the prediction of child school readiness (e.g., academic performance, psychosocial development, and socioemotional skills).

This study examined child and family variables that may affect family involvement and parent–teacher relationships for families of children with autism spectrum disorder.

This article applies a developmental stress-buffering model to examine how aspects of family relationships — such as support, conflict, obligations, and parenting behaviors — evolve over time.

This study explores whether family structure, changes in family structure, parent–child relationship quality, and religious attendance (overall and with parents) influence trajectories of psychological well-being independently and in conjunction with one another among youth.

The rapid expansion of research on LGBT family issues has increased knowledge of lesbian motherhood, as well as gay male and transgender families, and the children of LGBT families. Though, more research will be needed for bisexual families.

This study examined whether grandparent involvement varied in two-parent biological, lone-parent, and step- families and whether this had a different contribution to the emotional and behavioral adjustment of adolescents across different family structures.

This study explored whether there are common family characteristics (family climate, interparental conflict, parenting) in the prediction of sibling and peer victimization.

This longitudinal study compared outcomes for children, parents, couples, and the overall family system among adoptive families with lesbian or gay vs. heterosexual parents when children were preschool-age and approximately 5 years later, when children were in middle childhood.

Richard Slatcher, PhD, talks about why the support we receive from our partners, family, and friends is so important, how we develop these deep ties to each other, and the key ingredients of good and supportive relationships.

This article describes the current legal context surrounding custody determinations involving 1 lesbian or gay parent and 1 heterosexual parent, and those in which a former same-sex couple has sought a custody determination of children they have coparented.

One of the major results of this study was that even when family functioning and income were both statistically controlled, parental marital status still accounted for a large amount of variance in African American adolescent boys' self-esteem.

APA opposes any discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity/expression in matters of adoption, child custody and visitation, foster care, reproductive health services, and schooling.

This study evaluated associations of military service members’ PTSD symptoms with parenting indices in service members and their partners, with additional exploratory analyses of how intrapersonal and interpersonal distress might play a role in such associations.

This article provides an introduction to this special issue on couples, families, and HIV and a review of research on couple and family interventions for prevention of HIV.

Special issue of APA's Journal of Family Psychology, Vol. 23, No. 3, June 2009. The articles focus on the psychosocial adaptation of immigrant families, parenting practices and their implications for child outcomes, and the importance of parent–adolescent relationships for adolescent mental health.

Editorial by Barbara H. Fiese, discussing the revised mission statement of APA's Journal of Family Psychology to capture contemporary scholarship in family psychology and to advance systems perspectives in the journal, as well as describing updates to the journal direction.

Therapists can assist patients to identify relationships worth salvaging or help heal the pain of detachment.

John Gottman, PhD, and Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD, talk about why it’s so important to pay attention to your partner’s 'bids for connection.'