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Objective

This study investigated the interdependence between children with atopic dermatitis (AD) and their parent caregivers, focusing on perceived stress, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and perceived parent-child relationships.

Background

AD is a chronic skin condition affecting approximately 20% of children globally, significantly impacting both affected children and their parent caregivers. Understanding the dynamics between these groups is crucial for effective management strategies.

Method

The study recruited 186 dyads of parent caregivers and children aged 6-12 with AD in Hong Kong. Data were collected on perceived stress levels, HRQoL, and the quality of parent-child relationships.

Results

Significant actor effects indicated that perceived stress was associated with lower individual HRQoL and poorer relational perceptions in both parents and children. Partner effects revealed that higher parental stress was linked to lower child-reported HRQoL, and higher child stress was associated with poorer parent-reported relationship quality. Strong correlations were observed between parent and child HRQoL and between both parties' views of the relationship.

Conclusion and Implications

These findings underscore the reciprocal influence between children with AD and their parent caregivers, highlighting the need for a family-centered approach in managing AD. Integrating clinical interventions with rigorous research can contribute to improving outcomes and enhancing the well-being of families facing the challenges associated with AD.

Objective

The purpose of this study was to explore how Family Offices (FOs) function as relational and strategic structures designed by business families to preserve their wealth, values, and cohesion across generations.

Background

Unlike traditional financial institutions, FOs place the family—not just the assets—at the center of their purpose. As business families transition away from direct business management, the FO emerges as an organizational structure to support legacy planning, intergenerational dialogue, and relational continuity.

Method

Through a systematic bibliometric review of 46 academic articles published between 1980 and 2024, four thematic domains in the FO literature were identified: organization and succession, investment strategies, entrepreneurship and philanthropy, and governance mechanisms.

Results

Although investment remains a main theme, there is growing scholarly recognition of the FO's role in promoting family unity, educating younger generations, and transmitting values that strengthen identity and purpose. FOs may help families to manage complex emotional, generational, and financial dynamics. They serve not only as wealth management tools, but also as facilitators for intergenerational mentoring, philanthropic engagement, and conflict prevention.

Conclusions and Implications

Anchored in theories of socioemotional wealth and family systems, this research shows how FOs can align financial decisions with relational well-being and long-term cohesion. It contributes a family-centered perspective to the emerging field of FO studies and offers practical insights for family educators, therapists, and advisors seeking to foster family resilience and continuity in an increasingly complex socioeconomic context.

Objective

From the grandparental perspective, this research aimed to identify intergenerational coparenting relationship patterns using multiple dimensions drawn from the dual lenses of solidarity and conflict and to examine associations with grandparents' psychological well-being.

Background

Intergenerational coparenting has become prevalent in Chinese families. Existing studies have provided nuanced typologies in multigenerational caregiving in Western contexts. The patterns of intergenerational coparenting in China require further investigation.

Method

Latent class analysis was conducted using nationally representative data from the China Family Panel Studies, including 1,511 grandparents (mean age = 65.91 years) with grandchildren, comprising 777 males and 734 females.

Results

Four distinct relationship patterns were found: tight-knit (50.89%), reciprocal (10.72%), unidirectional supportive but distant (18.2%), and reciprocal but distant (22.19%). Grandparents' health, education levels, and the gender of adult children were related to relationship patterns. Grandparents in a reciprocal relationship type reported the highest life satisfaction, whereas those with a unidirectional supportive but distant relationship type experienced the most severe depressive symptoms.

Conclusion

Intergenerational coparenting relationship patterns demonstrate characteristics of solidarity, with little evidence of conflict.

Implications

These findings provide a theoretical basis for building harmonious families among coparenting family members and implementing family policies in China. The regularity of grandparents' daily interactions with their adult children is a critical factor in enhancing their psychological well-being.

Objective

To explore the impact of Type 1 diabetes (T1D) on couples' health, wellbeing and relationship, and their needs.

Background

Family systems theory suggests that a chronic illness in one family member (e.g., a spouse with T1D), can affect other family members, including the partner. Evidence also suggests that partners of people with T1D (PWT1D) can experience health issues such as sleep disturbances and distress around hypoglycemia, which can influence PWT1D's self-management, glucose levels, and diabetes outcomes.

Methods

Underpinned by interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) methodology, seven couples living with T1D were recruited to participate in the study. Individual semistructured interviews with PWT1D (n = 7) and their partners (n = 7), followed by joint couple interviews (n = 7), were conducted virtually and analyzed using the IPA technique.

Results

Couples living with T1D experience relationship challenges related to four themes: acceptance and adjustment, partnership, spontaneity versus planning, and immediate and long-term fears. They also have unmet support needs resulting from insufficient support from health care professionals.

Conclusion

We recommend increased partner involvement in self-management education to improve the health, well-being, relationship, and needs of couples with T1D.

Implications

Future research should focus on developing interventions with couples with T1D and other chronic conditions to address their challenges and unmet needs.

Objective

This study examined how parents of adolescents make sense of their parenting in light of contemporary norms and the meanings they attribute to their coparental coordination.

Background

Contemporary parenting expectations emphasize meeting both the emotional and physical needs of children, and they are often guided by expert advice and media-driven recommendations. During adolescence, these norms may also conflict with the developmental need for autonomy, creating potential tensions in the parent–child relationship and in the coordination between coparents. Moreover, they may impact mothers and fathers differently due to prevailing gender roles, affecting how they coordinate and share responsibilities within the coparental relationship.

Method

Twelve individual interviews of parents of adolescents (six couples) were conducted and analyzed through reflexive thematic analysis within a socioconstructivist framework.

Results

Three main themes were produced: “endorsement of societal expectations about parental roles,” “the evolving parent–adolescent bonding,” and “gendered teamwork?” Whereas the first and second themes concern how parents make sense of their contemporary parenthood, the third has more to do with coordination within the couple.

Conclusion

Parents adopt intensive parenting norms while striving to respect adolescents' autonomy. Coordination within the coparental relationship tends to reflect complementary rather than equal roles, which can pose challenges, particularly for mothers. Despite these dynamics, both parents aspire to work as a cohesive team.

Implications.

This study sheds light on how macro-level factors, including prescriptive parenting and gender norms, shape coparenting practices during adolescence. It also offers insights for clinicians to better consider the distinct needs and expectations of each gender within the coparental relationship.

Objective

To develop a culturally aligned family life education (FLE) framework that fosters family resilience within the context of Saudi Arabian society.

Background

Despite extensive global research on family resilience, there remains a notable gap in the Saudi Arabian context, where studies have predominantly focused on medical and psychiatric perspectives.

Method

Using a comprehensive review of existing literature, this study examines family resilience within the context of FLE. Sources include theoretical and empirical studies on family resilience, the current state of FLE in Saudi Arabia, and patterns of intervention and help-seeking behaviors. The review informs FLE framework aimed at strengthening family resilience in the Saudi context.

Results

The results highlight key cultural and contextual factors essential for shaping effective FLE programs that support family resilience in Saudi Arabia.

Conclusion

This framework represents a novel synthesis of Islamic values and FLE approaches, offering a structured pathway to enhance the effectiveness and sustainability of family resilience programs in Saudi Arabia and across the broader Arab and Middle East and North Africa regions.

Implications

The implications of this study include guiding the development of culturally responsive FLE programs and informing policymakers and practitioners on effective strategies to enhance family resilience in Saudi Arabia.

Objective

This study examines the universality and specificity in associations between coparenting and child adjustment across four diverse countries on four continents: Brazil, Italy, Pakistan, and the United States.

Background

Coparenting, a cornerstone of family functioning, has a significant influence on the adjustment of both young children and adolescents, as substantiated in a large body of research. A cross-national perspective is currently lacking, however.

Methods

Data were compiled from four countries; respondents included 1,588 parents of young children (ages 0–9 years) and 507 parents of adolescent children (ages 10–18 years). Path analyses were conducted to examine the association between coparenting and child adjustment. Model comparisons were used to explore similarities and variations in the associations across countries.

Results

Stronger coparenting relationships are associated with fewer child internalizing and externalizing problems in young and adolescent children, which was observed in three of the four countries studied. In Pakistan, however, no significant associations were found between coparenting and young children's internalizing problems or adolescents' externalizing problems. For adolescents, significant differences emerged, particularly between Pakistan and the other three countries, as well as between Brazil and Italy.

Conclusion

This study demonstrates and affirms the universal importance of coparenting in child adjustment, together with variations in the strength of this relationship, in various cultural contexts.

Implications

The work highlights cultural specificities and underscores the need for culturally sensitive approaches in coparenting research and practice.

Objective

To understand how different groups of parents rate their first Parent Café experience.

Background

Parent Cafés use self-reflection and peer-to-peer learning to help participants integrate the Strengthening Families Protective Factors. Given the lack of empirical research on the effectiveness of peer support for parents, we sought to use available quantitative data to lay the groundwork for further evaluation of Parent Cafés by exploring participant ratings' after their first Café experience.

Methods

All Parent Café participants are asked to complete an anonymous survey that includes fixed-choice questions about demographics and their Café experience. This study is a secondary analysis of English responses collected between March 2020 and December 2021 (n = 8,094).

Results

Multivariate linear regression indicated first-time attendees (n = 3,417) endorse Cafés significantly more if they are younger than 31 years old. At only a trend-level, African American or Latino/a parents rate Cafés more highly than White parents.

Conclusion

First time Café attendees who are young and of racial/ethnic minority groups rate Cafés higher than those who are older or White.

Implications

This is the first large-scale analysis of Parent Cafés and offers preliminary evidence of endorsement among young African American and Latino/a caregiver populations.

Objective

The goal was to determine if autonomy development plays a mediating role in the relationship between maternal–adolescent relationship quality and adolescent internalizing experiences.

Background

An extensive body of previous research has established that maternal–adolescent relationship quality and autonomy development both have a positive impact on mental health outcomes for adolescents, yet little is known about the way in which these factors may operate in sequence to influence one another.

Method

Using a structural equation modeling design with data from the Flourishing Families study, this study explored the mediating role of adolescent autonomous value-driven decision-making at Wave 5 in the relationship between maternal–adolescent relationship quality at Wave 4 and adolescent internalizing experiences at Wave 6.

Results

Our results indicated that higher levels of maternal–adolescent relationship quality at Wave 4 were significantly associated with lower levels of adolescent depression at Wave 6 via the mediating pathway of autonomous value-driven decision-making at Wave 5. No significant indirect effects were detected to adolescent anxiety.

Conclusion

Autonomy development plays an important role in mediating the association between adolescent–maternal relationship quality and adolescent internalizing experiences.

Implications

Clinicians and family life educators can support adolescent well-being through a focus on increasing autonomy-supportive parenting.

Objective

This study analyzed the impact of marriage matching patterns on individual health and the mechanisms underlying these effects.

Background

Numerous studies have examined the benefits of marriage matching from a single aspect but have rarely concentrated on the health domain. We argue that investigating the health effects of marriage matching is crucial and that assessing marriage matching from multiple dimensions is more rational and compelling.

Method

Based on the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we measured the health levels of respondents using self-reported health, chronic diseases, and BMI and assessed marriage matching based on the respondents' individual characteristics, family background, and socioeconomic status to establish an econometric model for empirical analysis.

Results

The health benefits of homogamous marriages are limited. In contrast, spouses occupying a “dominant” position in heterogamous marriages experience significantly poorer health outcomes, primarily due to negative health behaviors and lower marital satisfaction. These adverse health effects are especially pronounced among women and older individuals.

Conclusion

The findings demonstrate that patterns of marriage matching have a profound impact on individual health, underscoring the importance of multidimensional assessment and further research in this domain.

Implications

This study highlights the need for public health interventions to improve the health of “dominant” spouses in heterogamous marriages, especially women and the elderly.