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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Adolescent Siblings in Stepfamilies: Family Functioning and Adolescent Adjustment.
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Hetherington, E. Mavis; Henderson, Sandra H.; O'Connor, Thomas G.; Insabella, Glendessa M.; Taylor, Lorraine; Anderson, Edward R.; Skaggs, Monica J.; Jodl, Kathleen M.; Bridges, Margaret; Kim, Jungmeen E.; Mitchell, Anne S.; Chan, Raymond W. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1999
Examined family relationships and adjustment of two adolescent siblings in non-stepfamilies and in stabilized simple and complex stepfamilies. Found that complex stepfamilies were more different from non-stepfamilies than simple stepfamilies in which all children were fully biologically related siblings from mothers' previous marriage. Adolescents…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Biological Parents, Emotional Adjustment, Family Environment
Coping with Marital Transitions: A Family Systems Perspective.
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Hetherington, E. Mavis – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1992
Summarizes research on single-parent households and families whose mothers have remarried. This research concentrates on the effect of marital transitions on family functioning and children's adjustment. Introduces a longitudinal study that examined transformations in marital, parent-child, and sibling relationships following the remarriage of a…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, Age Differences, Behavior Problems
Summary and Discussion.
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Hetherington, E. Mavis – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1992
Summarizes and discusses results of the longitudinal study that comprises this monograph issue. Results concern: (1) marital, parent-child, and sibling relationships in families with single and remarried mothers; (2) the relationship between parenting style and adolescent adjustment; and (3) the relationship between marital transitions and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies