The exclusion of a child from an inheritance is a complex phenomenon with emotional, social, and legal implications. While previous research has focused on the testator’s motivations for disinheritance, little is known about the experiences of disinherited adult children. This study examines how they navigate the emotional impact, family conflicts, and legal disputes surrounding disinheritance in the Netherlands. Using qualitative interviews combined with a social network approach, it offers new empirical insights into the social and legal dimensions of disinheritance. The findings contribute to academic discussions on family dynamics and inheritance law while providing knowledge for legal practitioners and policymakers.

Social Cohesion: Towards a New Fabric of Society SOCION addresses a pressing challenge of our time: fragmentation in societies. Social cohesion is ‘society’s fabric’ that is key to sustainable societies and citizens’ wellbeing. It is increasingly undermined by erosion of and polarization between communities, factions and groups. In this project, psychologists, social historians, demographers, philosophers, and sociologists work together, in collaboration with civic organizations, to generate and integrate insights as to how connections between individuals, groups, and institutions contribute to new pathways to and forms of social cohesion.

Dynamics of social networks and of individual attributes of the actors constituting the network often are interdependent: friends may influence each others? health behavior, performance of organizations may be influenced by organizations with whom they collaborate. Given the availability of longitudinal data on networks and individual attributes, a statistical model to investigate their co-evolution is the stochastic actor-oriented model. The research will greatly extend its applicability by elaborating the model for continuous dependent attribute variables, using models based on stochastic differential equations. The new model will lift the limitation of the current definition that restricts it to ordinal discrete variables.

Many Mothers and Young People in vulnerable situations get into trouble because they are not connected to social networks. In this project mentioned the Citizen Organizations Institutional Networks (B.O.I.N)s. We investigate how reciprocity, shared leadership can lead to accepted help and support and trust among the Mothers and Young People. In addition, the influence of this on feeling well (fit-match) and leaving less often (drop-out). To help the care and welfare professionals, civil servants, teachers and the Mothers and Young People themselves with this, prototypes are being developed in this project and a handbook to monitor, evaluate their B.O.I.Ns

Adolescent? romantic relationships are embedded in the broader network of relationship with friends (peer context). Nevertheless, research on romantic relationships integrated with the study of peer relations is scarce. The goal of this project is to bridge this gap by investigating how peer relations shape romantic relationships, using a unique, innovative social network approach. This project investigates 1) the structure and development of adolescent? romantic relationships; 2) the role of peer status in shaping romantic relations; 3) the influence of peers on the initiation of romantic relations and sexual behaviors; 4) the way peer relations affect (dis)continuation of romantic relations.