Opening Family Secrets

Featuring contributions from diverse scholars and practitioners, this text explores how families manage secrecy, vulnerability, and stigma across a range of experiences. It addresses privacy, disclosure, and the dynamics that shape decisions about sharing or concealing challenging family truths. The authors reveal with stunning insight how agency, autonomy, and responsibility operate within family contexts. Opening Family Secrets foregrounds intersectionality, privilege, and the social conditions influencing family secrecy and disclosure.