@article{7efaa0b7862148bab2d685094867daba,
title = "Social Justice and the Future of Healthy Families: Sociocultural Changes and Challenges",
abstract = "Given the pace of social changes, meanings of “family” and what makes a family healthy are changing. How can these changing meanings and understandings contribute to social justice for all families? First, I acknowledge how my personal history has intersected with research I do on youth and families. I define social justice with respect to healthy families, and then consider how contemporary scholarship helps define, redefine, and refine what is meant by “family.” Examples are presented from research on cultural influences on parenting; parenting in same-sex couple or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) families; and coming out in adolescence as LGBTQ. These examples illustrate how the notion of family is defined, redefined, and refined to provide new vantage points on the complexities, possibilities, and potential for social justice among contemporary families, especially those that are marginalized.",
keywords = "Families, LGBTQ, health, parenting, social justice",
author = "Russell, {Stephen T.}",
note = "Funding Information: Family Relations 68 (July 2019): 358–370 DOI:10.1111/fare.12358 Carolina–Chapel Hill where I was a postdoctoral scholar. With these data I began some of the first studies of adolescent sexual orientation and health, using national representative data (Russell, Franz, & Driscoll, 2001; Russell & Joyner, 2001; Russell, Seif, & Truong, 2001; Russell, Truong, & Driscoll, 2002), as well as research on cultural differences in parenting practices and parent–adolescent relationships (Crockett, Brown, Russell, & Shen, 2007; Crockett, Randall, Shen, Russell, & Driscoll, 2005; Driscoll, Russell, & Crockett, 2008). Several years later, I received an early-career training grant from the William T. Grant Foundation that encouraged me to train in qualitative methods and approaches that would advance my training as a sociologist and demographer, which extended my scholarship in studies of adolescent sexual orientation as well as of cultural differences in parent–adolescent relationships. From 2004 to 2015, I lived in Southern Arizona near the Mexican border during the 49th Arizona Legislature and the infamous anti-immigration legislation (SB 1070) of 2010 and was conducting community-based research with young people on the intersections of immigration, racial justice, sexuality, health, and rights (see Fields, Snapp, Russell, Licona, & Tilley, 2014; Licona & Russell, 2013). Funding Information: An earlier version of this article was prepared for the Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series “The Future of Healthy Families” at Iowa State University College of Human Sciences. The author acknowledges support from the Priscilla Pond Flawn Endowment at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as from grant P2CHD042849, Population Research Center, awarded to the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The content is solely the responsibility of the author and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Mental Health. Funding Information: An earlier version of this article was prepared for the Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series ?The Future of Healthy Families? at Iowa State University College of Human Sciences. The author acknowledges support from the Priscilla Pond Flawn Endowment at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as from grant P2CHD042849, Population Research Center, awarded to the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The content is solely the responsibility of the author and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Mental Health. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 National Council on Family Relations",
year = "2019",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1111/fare.12358",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "68",
pages = "358--370",
journal = "Family Relations",
issn = "0197-6664",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "3",
}