The experience of childhood cancer challenges normative views of development for young families. At the same time it reveals unique family resiliencies that arise from creative and innovative ways of responding to the impacts of the disease. The hypothesis underlying the research proposal presented in this book holds that a couples relational response to the threat of cancer in their child may lead to greater closeness. This closeness, in turn, allows couples to mount a powerful resistance to the tyranny of cancer and its concomitant demands (chemotherapy, hospitalization, frequent invasive...