The leading journal exclusively specializing in cross-cultural family studies.

The Journal of Comparative Family Studies was established in 1970 to publish high quality articles based on research in cross cultural family studies.  The journal promotes a better understanding of inter-ethnic family interaction that is essential for all multicultural societies.  It draws articles from social science researchers around the world and contains invaluable material for Sociologists, Anthropologists, Family counselors and Social Psychologists.

- Editor:  DGeorge Kurian

Titles of some special issues:

• Comparative perspectives on black family life (1998)
• Families' and children's inequalities (2003)
• The transmission of religious beliefs across generations: do grandparents matter? (2008)

The journal is published five times a year including special issues on selected themes. The Journal is available online to institutional subscribers. Yearly Subscriptions available for individuals or institutions, contact information below:

• The Arab family (1997)
• Ethnicity and gender in non-traditional family forms: studies of families pushing   normative boundaries (2000)
• Immigrant and ethnic minority families (2001)
• Theoretical and methodological issues in cross-cultural families (2002)
• Violence against women in the family (2003)
• Turbulent times and family life in the contemporary Middle East (2004)
• Farm family responses to changing agricultural conditions: The actors' point of view (2005)
• Intergenerative conflicts and health hazards in migrant families (2006)
• Informal unions in Mexico and the United States (2007)
• Homemaker or career woman: life course factors and racial influences among middle class Americans (2008)
• HIV and AIDS: are all women equally at risk? Afrikaans speaking married women's perceptions of self-risk (2008)