Aims and scope
Family Transitions (formerly the Journal of Divorce & Remarriage) is an interdisciplinary, international journal focused on the study of changes in and the complexity of family structure, how children and adults adjust to these changes, and the clinical skills, legal resources, and policy factors that can help families in the aftermath of family transitions. Family Transitions is a resource for all professionals who study and help families, including family researchers (of any tradition or discipline) and applied professionals (e.g., counselors, social workers, family therapists, and lawyers involved in family law). The Journal addresses an inclusive array of family structures and transitions, including, but not limited to, adoption and foster families, LGBTQIA+ families, cohabiting families, first-marriage families, separated and/or divorced families, single parent families, remarriage and stepfamilies, transnational and multicultural families, multigenerational families, and multiresidence families.

In maintaining its continued status as an authoritative interdisciplinary resource on relationship dissolution, divorce, single parenting, stepfamilies, cohabitation, and remarriage, all manuscripts that have previously fallen within the scope of the Journal when it was Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, will still be welcome at Family Transitions. However, consistent with the expanded mission reflected in the name change, the Journal is particularly interested in publishing articles that address the experiences, processes, and outcomes of families that have experienced multiple family transitions during their life course.

The Journal will consider submissions that include original empirical contributions that feature rigorous methodological techniques. All forms of empirical work will be considered (i.e., quantitative, qualitative, mixed method), as long as the work features appropriate and rigorous design. The Journal will also consider novel systematic, scoping, or narrative reviews on areas touching on family transitions. Brief reports or commentaries that engage in critical discussions of emerging and important topics related to family transitions will also be considered. Please see the instructions to authors webpage for requirements of specific manuscript types.

All manuscripts submitted to Family Transitions will undergo an initial internal screening by at least one of the Co-Editors or the Associate Editor. If the manuscript passes initial review, it will then undergo an anonymized review by at least two external reviewers who have expertise in the areas addressed by the manuscript. Finally, the Co-Editor (i.e., Action Editor) will make an editorial decision (typically major revision, minor revision, reject, or, in rare cases, accept without revisions).