Family Identity

The audience for this book is researchers and students in family studies, developmental psychology, social psychology, and clinical psychology. The primary family themes are gender, generations, and lineage; faith, hope, and justice; gifts, duties, and debts; affection, responsibility, and generativity; values, secrets, and objectives; and transmissions and transitions. The family relationship builds these themes in terms of organizations structure, motives, and objectives. It assumes different forms and attire according to culture and the passage of time, but there are seeds that pass constantly through family relationships and make up its identity. This book brings all these themes into focus to help readers understand how they construct family identity.