Parents, Children, and Communication: Frontiers of Theory and Research Book

	Foreword
	Introduction
1	Parent-Child Communication Within the Family System	3
2	The First Relationship: Infant-Parent Communication	23
3	Models and Perspectives of Parent-Child Communication	43
4	Communication in the Father-Child Dyad: The Intergenerational Transmission Process	63
5	An Intersubjective Methodology for Studying Children and Families	89
6	Interaction Between Fathers and Their Children in Traditional and Single-Father Families	103
7	"Doing" Mother-Daughter: Conversation Analysis and Relational Contexts	113
8	Invisible Parents and Children: Exploring African-American Parent-Child Communication	127
9	Communication in Lesbian and Gay Families: Building a Descriptive Base	147
10	Parent-Child Communication About Sex	173
11	Marking the Work-Family Boundary: Mother-Child Interaction and Home-Based Work	203
12	What Parents Don't Know: Topic Avoidance in Parent-Child Relationships	219
13	Studying Parent-Child Discipline from a Communication Perspective	249
14	Learning Conflict Patterns in the Family: Links Between Marital, Parental, and Sibling Relationships	273
15	Communication, Discipline, and Physical Abuse	299
	References	319
	Author Index	361
	Subject Index	375
	About the Contributors	379