Controversy continues to surround parenting by lesbian and gay (LG) adults and outcomes for their children. As sexual minority parents increasingly adopt children, longitudinal research about child development, parenting, and family relationships is crucial for informing such debates. In the psychological literature, family systems theory contends that children's healthy development depends upo...

Increased emotional distress is linked to greater physiological reactions. During relationship conflict, these physiological reactions impact each partner’s physiological and physical well being. This emotional and physiological disturbance has been seen in direct relationship conflicts. Even though the aspect of the conflict that these disturbances are linked to creates physiological reaction,...

Holographic methods are utilized to examine deviations from classical elasticity in a cellular solid, polymethacrylamide closed cell foam. A square cross section bar is subjected to static torsional deformation. The warp deformation is observed to be less in a foam bar than in a homogeneous polymeric bar used as a control. The homogeneous bar obeys the predictions of classical elasticity. Behav...