The Family Focus section of this issue, "Best of Report," highlights some of the best articles published in NCFR Report in the past five years.

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• Stress is Bad for Couples, Right? — by Benjamin Karney, Ph.D. Professor of Social Psychology, UCLA
• The Gray Divorce Revolution — by Susan L. Brown and I-Fen Lin, Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University
• Obesity and the Family Context — by Angela Wiley, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Applied Family Studies and Extension Specialist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Teaching Grant-Writing to Undergraduate Students in Family and Community Services — by Sharon M. Ballard, associate professor of Child Development & Family Relations, and Bryce Jorgensen, assistant professor of Child Development & Family Relations, East Carolina University
• Going Global: A Cross-National View of Couples and Housework — by Judith Treas, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
• The Many Faces of Parental Estrangement — by Joshua Coleman, Ph.D., Co-Chair of the Council on Contemporary Families
• A Mini-Narrative About My Praxis as a Muslim Feminist — by Manijeh Daneshpour, Ph.D., associate professor and director of the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota
• Responding to Disaster: Family Therapists in Fieldwork — by Tai J. Mendenhall, Ph.D., LMFT, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• A Family Perspective on Incarceration and Criminal Justice Involvement — by Joyce A. Arditti, Ph.D., Department of Human Development, Virginia Tech
• Children and Media: Social Change and Its Consequences for Families — by Sandra Hofferth and Ui Jeong Moon, University of Maryland, Maryland Population Research Center
• Family Formation and Raising Children Among Same-Sex Couples — by Gary Gates, Williams Distinguished Scholar, Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law
• The Accordion Family — by Katherine Newman, Ph.D., James B. Knapp Dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University
• China's One-Child Policy: Impressions of a Fulbrighter — by Karen Seccombe, MSW, Ph.D., School of Community Health, Portland State University
• Advice to the Therapists Working With Military Families — by Angela J. Huebner, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Human Development, Virginia Tech
• Who Gets Custody of Grandma After the Divorce? — by Marilyn Coleman, Ph.D. and Lawrence Ganong, Ph.D., University of Missouri
• Strengthening Families: Making the Connection to Early Childhood Policy — by Dena K. Wise, Ph.D., professor and family economics specialist, University of Tennessee Extension; Denise J. Brandon, Ph.D., CFLE, professor emeritus and former parenting and family relations specialist, University of Tennessee Extension; and Alex Tucker, graduate student, Child and Family Studies, University of Tennessee
• Religion, Spirituality, and Families — by Frank D. Fincham, Eminent Scholar and director, Florida State University Family Institute
• Family Homelessness, Housing Insecurity, and Health: Understanding and Acting on What We Know — by Laura E. Gültekin, M.S., FNP-BC, RN, graduate student, University of Michigan School of Nursing, and Barbara L. Brush