ABSTRACT
Family communication has been the subject of academic inquiry for several years, yet, by scholarly standards, family communication is a relative newcomer (Segrin, 2006). Initially organized as an interest group in the National Communication Association (NCA) in 1989 (Whitchurch, 1993) and later a division in 1995 (Whitchurch & Dickson, 1999), at present, NCA is the only communication association that includes a family division.
