About this journal

Family Transitions

(Formerly the Journal of Divorce & Remarriage) is an interdisciplinary, international journal focused on the study of changes in and the complexity of family structure, how children and adults adjust to these changes, and the clinical skills, legal resources, and policy factors that can help families in the aftermath of family transitions. Family Transitions is aresource for all professionals who study and help families, including family researchers (of any tradition or discipline) and applied professionals (e.g., counselors, social workers, family therapists, and lawyers involved in family law). The Journal addresses an inclusive array of family structures and transitions, including, but not limited to, adoption and foster families, LGBTQIA+ families, cohabiting families, first-marriage families, separated and/or divorced families, single parent families, remarriage and stepfamilies, transnational and multicultural families, multigenerational families, and multiresidence families.

In maintaining its continued status as an authoritative interdisciplinary resource on relationship dissolution, divorce, single parenting, stepfamilies, cohabitation, and remarriage, all manuscripts that have previously fallen within the scope of the Journal when it was Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, will still be welcome at Family Transitions. However, consistent with the expanded mission reflected in the name change, the Journal is particularly interested in publishing articles that address the experiences, processes, and outcomes of families that have experienced multiple family transitions during their life course.

The Journal will consider submissions that include original empirical contributions that feature rigorous methodological techniques. All forms of empirical work will be considered (i.e., quantitative, qualitative, mixed method), as long as the work features appropriate and rigorous design. The Journal will also consider novel systematic, scoping, or narrative reviews on areas touching on family transitions. Brief reports or commentaries that engage in critical discussions of emerging and important topics related to family transitions will also be considered. Please see the instructions to authors webpage for requirements of specific manuscript types.

All manuscripts submitted to Family Transitions will undergo an initial internal screening by at least one of the Co-Editors or the Associate Editor. If the manuscript passes initial review, it will then undergo an anonymized review by at least two external reviewers who have expertise in the areas addressed by the manuscript. Finally, the Co-Editor (i.e., Action Editor) will make an editorial decision (typically major revision, minor revision, reject, or, in rare cases, accept without revisions).

Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106 .

EDITORS
Anthony J. Ferraro, PhD
Kansas State University
USA

Mark A. Fine, PhD
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
USA

ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Luke T. Russell
Illinois State University
USA

EDITOR EMERITUS
Craig A. Everett, PhD
Arizona Institute of Family Therapy
USA

EDITORIAL BOARD
Tamara Afifi - University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Katherine Allen - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Bahaur Amini - Private Practice, USA
Amy J.L. Baker - Director of Research at Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection, USA
Daniela Barni - University of Bergamo, Italy
Jonathon J. Beckmeyer - Illinois State University, USA
William Bernet - Vanderbilt University, USA
Anna Bertoni - Catholic University of Milan, Italy
Sampson Lee Blair - The State University of New York, USA
Andrew Brimhall - East Carolina University, USA
Scott Browning - Chestnut Hill College, USA
Hongjian Cao - Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, China
Francis Fincham - Florida State University, USA
Larry Ganong - University of Missouri, USA
Benjamin D. Garber - Private Practice, USA
Chelsea Garneau-Rosner - University of Missouri, USA
Joleen L. Greenwood - Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA
Karen Guzzo - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Jennifer Hardesty - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Ladan Hashemi - University of London, United Kingdom
Katherine Hertlein - University of Nevada, USA
Raffaella Iafrate - Catholic University of Milan, Italy
Anthony G. James - Miami University, USA
Todd Jensen - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Carol Johnston - Kansas State University, USA
Kwangman Ko - Eastern Tennessee State University, USA
Mary R. Langenbrunner - East Tennessee State University, USA
Melinda Stafford Markham - Kansas State University, USA
Karey L. O’Hara - Arizona State University, USA
Patricia L. Papernow - Director of the Institute for Stepfamily Education, USA
So Young Park - University of Missouri, USA
Daniel Perlman - University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Raymond E. Petren - Pennsylvania State University Scranton, USA
Daniel Puhlman - University of Maine, USA
Caroline Sanner - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Paul Schrodt - Texas Christian University, USA
Bruce Smyth - Australian National University, Australia
Fiona Tasker - Birbeck University of London, United Kingdom
Brad van Eeden-Moorefield - Monclair State University, USA
Qingbin Wang - University of Vermont, USA
Tiffany Wang - University of Montevallo, USA
Richard Warshak - Independent Practice, USA
Deadric T. Williams - University of Tennessee, USA
John Zeleznikow - Victoria University, Canada

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