from their family of birth, rendering the equation of adoption one of subtraction, not addition. This article examines the … biological model of adoption that insists on mimicking the nuclear family—erasing one set of parents and replacing them with … another set of parents; and explores the history of adoption “matching”—requiring the new adoptive family to look identical to …

Family policy gained considerable relevance which is reflected by the current public attention to family issues. In … regard to many recommendations of the KVI in 2001 improvements can be reported which family research profited from in a … limited. Particularly, the availability of longitudinal data to study social and family related processes on different levels …

This publication discusses intergenerational family relationships in the context of ageing societies. It evolved in the …