مندرجات | Adapting to family life in our times -- How we study families -- Theories about family life -- Families as units of change and transition -- Genetics, personality, gender, and power -- Fixed family relationships : generations in family life -- Chosen relationships and the roots of mature love -- The core of family life : family paradigms, themes, and ideologies --Rules and rule sequences -- Communicating in families -- Regulating distance -- Building and maintaining family rituals -- Coping with turbulence, gains, and losses |