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- This article explores the contribution of Family Resilience to the development of family research, focusing on those interventions aimed at supporting efforts toward harmony and balance during normal transitions of the life circle, changes in time, crisis and prolonged challenges. Building on ten-year studies on individual and family resilience, this paper offers an overview on constructs, processes, and approaches to family interventions that strengthen competences, find grounds in the systemic perspective of the family life circle, and emphasize collaborative exchanges, resources and contexts. New perspectives and questions on the assessment of the construct in different context and populations are presented.

While the family remains a core social institution in every society, it is, nonetheless, an institution which continues to evolve. In many societies, divorce, separation, and remarriage have become a normative part of marriage and family life. These changes have, understandably, led to a great diversification of the behaviors, attitudes, and norms concerning marriage and family. In order to better comprehend these issues, this multidisciplinary volume of CPFR addresses topics including: marital instability, cohabitation and remarriage, step-parenting, divorce in later life, impact of divorce and separation on children, employment and the risk of divorce, marital dissolution and health, the role of extended kin in the process of divorce, the quality of relationships with former spouses, race/ethnicity and remarriage, economic factors and divorce/remarriage, and extra-marital affairs, among others.

Divorce, separation, and remarriage have become a normative part of family life. These changes have led to a diversification of the behaviors, attitudes, and norms concerning marriage and family. To better comprehend these issues, this volume addresses topics including: marital instability step-parenting and extra-marital affairs, among others.