behavior of adolescents may arise from the degree of communication between parent and child. Parent-child communication may … function as a mediator between family background and subsequent poor health behavior, potentially reconciling previous mixed … construct an index of parent-child communication quality by comparing responses to statements about the children’s well …

This paper examines the relationship between consanguinity and frequency of communication between spouses using a … nationally representative sample of young married respondents in Egypt. Using a variety of estimation techniques, the results … suggest that being related to one's spouse does not influence inter-spousal communication. However, we find evidence of some …