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Attachment and loss -- Biology -- Care -- Child development -- Child hood/children -- Comparative approaches -- Conflict theories -- Coupled om : marriage/partnership/cohabitation -- Demography -- Division of lab our -- Domestic violence and abuse -- Families of choice -- Family as d iscourse -- Family change and continuity -- Family effects -- Family fo rms -- Family law -- Family life cycle and life course -- Family polici es -- Family practices -- Family systems -- Fatherhood/fathers/fatherin g -- Feminisms -- Functionalism -- Grandparents -- Home -- Household -- Individualization -- Intimacy -- Kinship -- Motherhood/mothers/motheri ng -- Negotiation -- New right -- Parenthood/parents/parenting -- Perso nal -- Phenomenological approaches -- Post-coupledom : separation/divor ce/widowhood -- Power -- Problem families -- Public and private -- Rati onalities -- Role theory -- Siblings -- Social division -- Socializatio n -- Transnational families.