Introduction: What is an Affinograph?- Why Affinographs?-Constructing Affinographs.- Critical Issues in Protecting Children and Servicing Families.- Patterns of Divorce and Remarriage.- An Affinograph Method of Assessing Same Gender Couples.- Affiars and Ephemeral Relations with Lasting Consequences.- Focused Affinographs in Family Therapy.- Affinology: The Affinograph Method for Genealogy.- Future of the Affinograph.