This article explores the pivotal role of family involvement in the United States juvenile justice system, delving into its multifaceted impact on juvenile offending, justice proceedings, and the evolving landscape of family-centered approaches. Beginning with an overview of the juvenile justice system, the introduction emphasizes the necessity of understanding and addressing family dynamics in shaping
The Family Courts, integral components of the United States’ criminal justice system, play a distinctive role in addressing legal matters related to families. This article presents a comprehensive exploration of Family Courts, delving into their historical evolution, organizational structure, and jurisdictional framework. The discussion elucidates the interconnectedness of Family Courts with other legal entities and
Recognizing the difficulties that an increasing number of workers face when they combine job with family responsibilities, many lawmakers and activists fought for and won the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993. Moving beyond prior legislation that allowed maternity leave, the FMLA mandates that employers provide up to 12 weeks
Intimate talk with family and friends can be examined as a product, process, or resource. It is a product of a relationship that has become intimate over time. This is the focus of studies involving social penetration (Altman & Taylor 1973) or social exchange theories (Thibaut & Kelley 1959), which find that as one person
Family background and careers are robust constructs, each of which subsumes a complex network of conditions and behaviors. They are interconnected; that is, the definition of one construct in isolation is somewhat limited because it depends on the other construct for complete meaning. The workings of a career are embedded within the workings of the
The nuclear family is one type of conjugal, or marriage-based, family, consisting of a husband, wife, and their children who reside together. Characteristics of the nuclear family that set it apart from some other family types is that it contains only two generations and that it contains a married couple. A single-parent family is considered
Although efforts toward a cross-cultural definition of family are beset by difficulty and disagreement, in anthropological writings, different congregations of kin and affines (i.e., people related through marriage) have been labeled as specific forms of family, changing as new theories of kinship, marriage, or gender have been developed. It has been shown that great social
Extended families, more so than nuclear families, are characterized by great variation in type and form. The term extended family is usually applied to family systems where the ideal is for multiple generations to live together, so that a man and his wife live with the families of their married sons (or daughters in a
Family violence and its many forms is certainly not a new phenomenon. It has existed since the beginning of time and very likely will continue until the end of time. Throughout history women and children have been subjected to horrific acts of cruelty and violence at the hands of male-dominated social systems. Siblings were not
The concept of the life course refers to the social processes shaping individuals’ journey through life, in particular their interaction with major institutions associated with the family, work, education, and leisure. The life course perspective distinguishes between trajectories on the one side and transitions on the other. The former refer to the sequence of roles