Here are six common characteristics of healthy families or social systems: 1. Respecting healthy emotional and physical boundaries. Children and other family members have privacy, and all members ...

Family Relations publishes applied articles that are original, innovative and interdisciplinary and that focus on diverse families and family issues. Audiences include family life educators in ...

Marie Withers Osmond, Charles M. Grigg, Correlates of Poverty: The Interaction of Individual and Family Characteristics, Social Forces, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Jun., 1978 ...

These characteristics consist of union status, household income (relative to the national mean), number of children, level of respect received by the family within the community, gender roles ...