Children of untreated alcoholics score lower on measures of family cohesion, intellectual-cultural orientation, active-recreational orientation, and independence.

This ranking takes into account factors such as income per capita, housing, educational opportunities, food supply and family cohesion.

Perhaps, she suggested, they exerted as much of a psychological as a practical effect - for example, by encouraging family cohesion or stifling extreme sibling rivalry.

As a result, family cohesion has suffered and traditions, especially those pertaining to the traditional economy, are not as well preserved.

Studies have shown that in terms of family cohesion, we found that the closer adolescents felt to their parents, the more they reported feeling connected to their ethnic group.

Mike Woodward, the Freeport Police Chief, subscribes to the theory that family cohesion is the key.

But am I inappropriately putting personal political convictions ahead of family cohesion and loyalty?

They are issues of morals: infidelity and honesty, abortion, family cohesion and homosexual legitimacy.

This increased calling is believed to facilitate the learning of the family-based calls and assist in maintaining family cohesion.

"Commodities once promoted as instruments of family cohesion," he writes, have become "mediums of self-expression and personal transformation."