Goldberg earns top family sciences prize

A paper co-authored by Psychology Professor Abbie Goldberg has received the 2025 Wiley Prize in Family Sciences: The Alexis Walker Award.

The paper, “Cherished families, unspoken truths: Navigating hidden and challenging family experiences while growing up with LGBTQ parents,” was published in the Journal of Marriage and Family and was co-authored by Katherine R. Allen and Caroline Sanner, both of the Department of Human Development and Family Science at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).

The award is given as recognition of any distinguished contribution to path-breaking new research or innovative theory development in the family science discipline.

The 2025 Alexis Walker Award will be presented at the annual conference of the National Council on Family Relations in Baltimore later in November.