Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. What Do We Know about Bilingual Families? -- Chapter 2. The Growing and Evolving Family -- Chapter 3. The Sibling Relationship -- Chapter 4. Age Difference, Family Size and Language Orders -- Chapter 5. Gender and Language -- Chapter 6. Birth Order: A Child's Position in the Family -- Chapter 7. Individual Differences: Same Languages, Different Language Histories -- Chapter 8. Bilingualism and Twins, Adoption, Single Parents and Step-Families -- Chapter 9. Five Themes on Family Language Patterns -- Family Profiles -- Appendix 1. Summary of Strategies -- Appendix 2. The Online Survey -- Glossary -- Websites and Chat Forums -- Recommended Books for Bilingual Families -- References -- Index