Introduction; COHERENCE WITHIN FAMILIES: P Minuchin: Relationships within the family: a systems perspective on development; L A Stroufe & J Fleeson: The coherence of family relationships; M Radke-Yarrow, J Richters, & W E Wilson: Child development in a network of relationships; J Stevenson-Hinde: Individuals in relationships; MARITAL AND PARENT/CHILD RELATIONSHIPS: M A Easterbrooks & R N Emde: Marital and parent/child relationships: the role of affect in the family system; A Engfer: The interrelatedness of marriage and the mother/child relationship; H-J Meyer: Marital and mother/child relationships: developmental history, parent personality, and child difficultness; PARENT/FIRST-BORN/SECOND-BORN RELATIONSHIPS: K Kreppner: Changes in dyadic relationships within a family after the arrival of a second child; J Dunn: Connections between relationships: implications of research on mothers and siblings; J Barrett & R A Hinde: Triadic interactions: mother/first-born/secon-born; COHERENCE ACROSS GENERATIONS: J Belsky and E Pensky: Developmental history, personality, and family relationships: toward an emergent family system; A Caspi and G H Elder: Emergent family patterns: the intergenerational construction of problem behaviour and relationships; K Grossman, E Fremmer-Brombik, J Rudolph, & K E Grossman: Maternal attachment representations as related to patterns of infant/mother attachment and maternal care during the first year; FAMILIES IN DISTRESS: A Christensen & G Margolin: Conflict and alliance in distressed and non-distressed families; G R Patterson & T J Dishion: Multilevel family process models: traits, interactions, and relationships; E M Hetherington: Parents, children, and siblings: six years after divorce; M Rutter: Functions and consequences of relationships: some psychopathological considerations; R N Emde: The effect of relationships on relationships: a developmental approach to clinical intervention; R A Hinde & J Stevenson-Hinde: Epilogue.
