Introduction

1 The Role of Brothers and Sisters in Changing Times

Ann Buchanan and Anna Rotkirch

Part 1 Continuity and Change in Sibling Relations

2 Brothers and Sisters Across the Life Course: Eleven Factors Shaping Relationship Quality in Adult Siblings

Antti O. Tanskanen and Mirkka Danielsbacka

3 Brothers and Sisters: A Social and Demographic Perspective

John Haskey

4 Brothers and Sisters: Themes in Myths, Legends and Histories from Europe and the

New World

Ann Buchanan

5 Siblings in Māori Myth, Culture and Present-Day Society

Judith Davey and Chris Cunningham

6 Brothers and Sisters, Husbands and Wives: Love, Power, and Being an In-law

Suad Joseph

Part 2 Sibling Relationships in Adolescence

7 Sibling Relationships in Adolescence Across Cultures: Predictors, Transitions, and Support

Avidan Milevsky

8 Sibling Support: The Reports of Israeli Adolescents in Residential Care

Shalhevet Attar-Schwartz

9 One Father, Many Mothers: Sibling Relationships in Polygamous Families

Alean Al-Krenawi

10 Sibling Relationships Across Families Created Through Assisted Reproduction

Vasanti Jadva

11 Brothers and Sisters in China: No Longer the One-Child Family

Bin Chen and Jo-Pei Tan

Part 3 Relationships in Adult Life

12 Adult Sibling Relationships in the United States: Mostly Close, Occasionally Contentious, our study in terms of what tion, lings, the clinical work. som. xperiences with respect to adult clients bringin and Caring for Aging Parents

Michael Woolley and Geoffrey Greif

13 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Siblings

Dawn M. Szymanski and Angela N. Hilton

14 Sibling Support in Transnational Families: The Impact of Migration and Mobility on Sibling Relationships of Support over Time and Distance

Loretta Baldassar and Rosa Brandhorst

15 Social Support When a Sibling has a Disability

John Kramer, Ariella Meltzer & Kate Strohm

Kirsten Pontalti

17 Brothers Who Kill: Murders of Sisters for the Sake of Family Honour in Pakistan

Sadiq Bhanbhro

Part 4