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{"title":"Strengthening military families: Evaluating the impact of relationship counseling on UK naval families","authors":"Gabriela Misca,&nbsp;Janet Walker","doi":"10.1111/fcre.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While it is often assumed that counseling interventions can be helpful in resolving relationship difficulties, there is limited research which provides evidence of this being the case in respect of military families, who are facing additional, unique stressors due to the military lifestyle, which can significantly strain couple relationships and family functioning. This study presents the first empirical evaluation of relationship counseling within the context of UK Naval families, addressing a significant gap in the literature on military family dynamics and wellbeing. Employing a pre-test/post-test mixed methods design, the research draws on data from 187 Royal Navy and Royal Marines personnel and their families who accessed counseling delivered by a civilian provider through a programme funded by a leading UK naval charity. Quantitative findings, derived from validated individual and family outcome measures, indicate statistically significant improvements in mental well-being, resilient coping, family functioning, and couple communication. Qualitative data further illuminate the complex relationship challenges faced by military families, underscoring the nuanced role of counseling as a supportive intervention. The study highlights the need for targeted mental health support and effective triage systems when military families seek help for relationship difficulties. It also identifies the potential of counseling as a preventative measure to mitigate the relational strain of military life, with implications for family stability and military personnel retention. This research makes an original contribution to understanding the role of counseling interventions in enhancing the wellbeing of military families and informs future policy and practice in community support services for military-connected families.</p>","PeriodicalId":51627,"journal":{"name":"Family Court Review","volume":"63 4","pages":"619-639"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fcre.70018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145450079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Military culture awareness and competence in counseling: Insights from counselors, supervisors and UK navy and marine beneficiaries of counseling","authors":"Gabriela Misca,&nbsp;Janet Walker","doi":"10.1111/fcre.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Military cultural competency (MCC) is increasingly recognized as essential for building trust and delivering effective care to military-connected individuals. Unlike the US, in the UK context military families receive support from practitioners who do not have formal training in military cultural competence and military identity is not systematically captured or considered in service provision. This structural difference creates a unique opportunity to study how military families engage with civilian services in a system that does not routinely recognize or accommodate their military status. This paper discusses the findings on culture awareness and competence of UK civilian professionals offering counseling to military families, from multi-informant perspectives of military beneficiaries of counseling (<i>n</i> = 40), counselors (<i>n</i> = 64) and supervisors (<i>n</i> = 14), using a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative survey data using an adapted version of the <i>Military Cultural Competence Assessment Scale</i> (Nedegaard &amp; Zwilling, 2017), with structured qualitative evaluations. The findings highlight the importance of counselors having specific knowledge of the military population. This is the first study of this kind in the UK, thereby addressing important gaps in knowledge, policy, and practice regarding the effective provision of counseling to military families. The UK context provides a “natural experiment” for considering the importance of MCC in delivering therapeutic outcomes and as such, the study makes a significant contribution to international debates on culturally responsive care for military-connected populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51627,"journal":{"name":"Family Court Review","volume":"63 4","pages":"670-684"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fcre.70017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145450080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sixth roundtable on nonmarriage and the law: Introduction","authors":"Albertina Antognini,&nbsp;Naomi Cahn,&nbsp;Kaiponanea T. Matsumura,&nbsp;Aníbal Rosario-Lebrón,&nbsp;Gregg Strauss","doi":"10.1111/fcre.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.70028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51627,"journal":{"name":"Family Court Review","volume":"63 4","pages":"742-744"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145449897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A series of unfortunate events: The consequences of lacking a federal minimum age for criminal responsibility","authors":"Sneha Sajan","doi":"10.1111/fcre.70030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.70030","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The United States imprisons juvenile delinquents at a rate higher than any other country in the world. This is likely due to the lack of a federal standard for a minimum age to try children as adults. While states scramble to find the appropriate response, youth offenders are left as collateral in a vicious loop of recidivism. This Note explores the lack of a national standard in establishing criminal responsibility for trying children and proposes a hybrid solution of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Raise the Age legislation to promote rehabilitation and re-entry pathways for youth offenders.</p>","PeriodicalId":51627,"journal":{"name":"Family Court Review","volume":"63 4","pages":"875-888"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145450061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The mediator's approach to children's participation in family mediation: A comparative study in Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine","authors":"Joanna Mucha,&nbsp;Anna Cybulko,&nbsp;Iryna Izarova,&nbsp;Anzhela Krychyna,&nbsp;Agnė Tvaronavičienė","doi":"10.1111/fcre.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study presents the results of research conducted among Lithuanian, Polish, and Ukrainian mediators on the issue of involving children in mediation in matters which concern them in order to hear their voice. The aim of the study was to establish the actual state of art, and therefore the scope, frequency and methods of involving children in mediation, as well as the expectations and preferences of mediators in this regard. The views of mediators regarding their role in mediation involving children were also sought. The results of the study prove that mediators agree on the need to hear a voice of children in family mediation. They also outline the practice of involving children in mediation, which is predominantly based on indirect methods. This study shows the great similarity between the studied groups, their characteristics, their perceptions of mediation and the role of a mediator and their opinions on how to secure the hearing of the child's opinion in mediation. This may prove the universal nature of the subject matter concerning conflict resolution, mediation and the protection of children's rights.</p>","PeriodicalId":51627,"journal":{"name":"Family Court Review","volume":"63 4","pages":"822-844"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145450060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Who cares? The legal (non)recognition of caregiving by single and childfree aunts in Taiwan","authors":"Chao-ju Chen","doi":"10.1111/fcre.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Aunts remain the “forgotten kin” in family and kinship care studies, which largely center on parenthood and coupledom. Existing literature tends to subsume them under the broad category of extended family members, devoting scant scholarly attention to aunthood as a distinct category or to the relationship between aunthood and the law. This article addresses that gap and contributes to singlehood studies by examining the legal treatment of aunt care in Taiwan, focusing on single and childfree aunts (“SACAs”) within a social-legal context where patrilineality and patrilocality persist despite the law's formal neutrality. It asks what the family might look like if aunts were placed at the center, mapping their legal status in comparison to other kin and showing that the law positions them as remote third parties to parenthood. Drawing on court decisions, the article analyzes SACAs' roles in supplemental and nonparent primary care, as well as their pathways toward legal parenthood. SACAs providing supplemental care are sometimes acknowledged as part of their siblings' extended family care support network, enhancing their siblings' post-divorce custody claims. Yet their caregiving rarely translates into legal entitlements; claims for dependent tax benefits are frequently denied due to narrow co-residence definitions and singlism. SACAs acting as nonparent primary caregivers may be appointed as legal guardians and recognized as surrogate mothers, particularly when parents are absent or when sibling ties would be strengthened, but the transition from aunthood to motherhood is often fraught with obstacles, as courts remain reluctant to recognize multi-parent families and sometimes exhibit singlism. The article calls for law and policy reforms to acknowledge SACAs' caregiving, broaden recognition of diverse family structures, and resist the privatization of dependency. An aunt-centered approach challenges the marriage paradigm and the parent dyad, advancing a vision of law that better reflects the diversity of caregiving and family formations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51627,"journal":{"name":"Family Court Review","volume":"63 4","pages":"745-765"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fcre.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145449830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strengthening military and veteran couple relationships: A rapid review of the effectiveness of relationship education for military couples","authors":"Jody Hughes,&nbsp;Luke B. Gahan,&nbsp;Jessica Smart,&nbsp;Lakshmi Neelakantan","doi":"10.1111/fcre.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This rapid review examined evidence on the effectiveness of couple relationship education (CRE) in strengthening military couple relationships. It sourced published evaluations of programs adapted for, or delivered to, current or ex-serving military personnel and their partners within Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the USA, between January 2010 and June 2024. Relationship outcomes examined include couple relationship satisfaction, quality, strength, stability, communication, interaction, connection, conflict resolution, and prevention of violence. Process evaluation measures were also compared. The quality and overall strength of the evidence (quality, direction and consistency) were reviewed, as were participant characteristics that moderate program effects. Twenty articles were included in the review, reporting on 15 studies of 10 programs. One study was from Australia, and the rest were from the USA. The review confirms the value of providing CRE for military and veteran couples experiencing relationship issues, and as a preventative strategy, to help them better manage the unique demands of military service life.</p>","PeriodicalId":51627,"journal":{"name":"Family Court Review","volume":"63 4","pages":"640-669"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145450056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Agreements to waive paternity","authors":"Shahar Lifshitz","doi":"10.1111/fcre.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the legal and ethical status of agreements to waive paternity in cases of unintended pregnancies and contrasts them with legal regimes governing anonymous and known sperm donations. Although these scenarios often result in the same functional outcome—severance of the biological father's legal relationship with the child—they are treated inconsistently by legal systems. The article critiques prevailing approaches grounded in contract, the best interests of the child (BIRC), and the right to parenthood, and demonstrates their analytical and policy limitations. As an alternative, the article proposes a novel framework based on a social-institutional conception of parenthood. This framework emphasizes the ethics of parenting and the need to distinguish legally between “parents” and “donors” as separate institutional roles. It supports prohibiting paternity waivers while justifying sperm donation—under carefully regulated conditions—as a legitimate social institution. The article offers policy guidelines for regulating sperm donations, particularly those involving known donors, and calls for coherent legal categories aligned with ethical and institutional principles of parenting.</p>","PeriodicalId":51627,"journal":{"name":"Family Court Review","volume":"63 4","pages":"766-787"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/fcre.70027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145449870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Benchmarking age-gates","authors":"Katharine Silbaugh","doi":"10.1111/fcre.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how legal actors—particularly legislators, judges, and attorneys—invoke chronological age to justify the application of legal rules to adolescents. In doing so, they often rely on comparisons to existing “age-gates,” treating these thresholds (such as ages 18 or 21) as self-justifying reference points. Age 18, marking the legal transition from childhood to adulthood, and age 21, the former age of majority and current sales age for certain controlled substances, serve as especially powerful rhetorical anchors in age-based legal reasoning. These anchor points shape how legal actors advocate for or against particular age thresholds, often substituting analogy for substantive justification. This article argues that the rhetorical force of anchor age-gates is difficult to avoid, and therefore age-gates in one area are likely to influence decisions about other age-gates in other areas. Legal actors should recognize the influence of benchmarking arguments and cannot avoid responsibility for the risk that their advocacy in one context will be misused in another. At the same time, legal actors should resist treating age-gates as inherently dispositive. Instead, decision-makers should supplement age-based comparisons with principled reasoning grounded in the purposes and effects of the legal rule at issue. The article concludes by exploring the status-transforming quality of legal marriage and its implications for determining the appropriate age of legal consent to marry.</p>","PeriodicalId":51627,"journal":{"name":"Family Court Review","volume":"63 4","pages":"788-807"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145449869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making it work: Custodial caregiver experiences with third-party supervised visitation","authors":"Jeanelle S. Sears,&nbsp;Jordan Wilfong,&nbsp;Paige Olah","doi":"10.1111/fcre.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Supervised parenting, commonly referred to as supervised visitation, is a growing service with limited research examining its impact on families. Compared with research on non-custodial parents, less is known about how custodial caregivers navigate this service to support their children both before and after supervised time with non-custodial parents. This is of particular importance given common histories of high conflict and often violence among those participating in these services. This qualitative study involved conducting individual semi-structured interviews with caregivers to understand their perspectives on the impact of supervised parenting time for both them and the children in their custody. The findings reveal the complexity of third-party supervised parenting arrangements, which require significant effort for custodial caregivers to manage. Custodians initially faced apprehensions and struggled to maintain stability and normalcy for their children amidst intrusive schedules and systemic frustrations. While some participants achieved peace of mind, others faced ongoing challenges due to inconsistent practices and communication from the service providers. Overall, the essence of participant experiences was one of simply <i>making it work</i>, driven by a steadfast commitment to their children's stability and normality. Implications include the need to establish research-supported best practices and guidelines that further acknowledge and incorporate family and community diversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":51627,"journal":{"name":"Family Court Review","volume":"63 4","pages":"808-821"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145449871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}