Marriage & Family

Pediatric subspecialists are critical to ensuring quality care and pursuing research to improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for children. However, there are substantial disincentives to pursuing a career as a pediatric subspecialist, which are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798729503735Author Katherine TarrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Now in its second edition, Parenting Culture Studies seeks to understand how parenting is taken as a particular mode of childrearing that reflects broader social trends. Ten years after the initial volume's groundbreaking publication, the authors once...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789393794994Author Friedrich Engels (Frederick Engels)Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 209g

Combining work and family remains a major challenge for married women in contemporary Japan, and it's not uncommon for them to quit working when starting a family. Single mothers, by contrast, almost always work, regardless of the age of their children...

What does motherhood mean today? Drawing on interviews with new mothers and intergenerational chains of women in the same family, this exciting and timely book documents the transition to motherhood over generations and time. Exploring, amongst other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798729496617Author Caprice McAdoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388396462Author University of LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 156g

There was a time when the phrase "American family" conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.5 kids living comfortable lives in a middle-class suburb. Today, that image has been shattered, due in part to...

The Career Mystique shows that most Americans-men and women-continue to embrace the myth that hard work, long hours, and continuous employment pay off, even though it is out of date and out of place in twenty-first-century America. Phyllis Moen and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781508645382Author Ben NeiburgerFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

The Career Mystique shows that most Americans-men and women-continue to embrace the myth that hard work, long hours, and continuous employment pay off, even though it is out of date and out of place in twenty-first-century America. Phyllis Moen and...

The Navajo are one of the most studied people in the world, yet their social organization is one of the least well understood. In this volume Gary Witherspoon, a fluent speaker of the Navajo language who lived among the Navajo for eight years, offers a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039183674Author Michael E Freeman SaulsberreFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389614442Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781974314317Author Hasmik RakijianFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Drawing on the latest social science research and clinical expertise, Families as They Really Are gets to the heart of what families are, how they work, and why they matter. These original essays by an interdisciplinary community of experts who study and...

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Experiencing poverty during childhood can lead to lasting harmful effects that compromise not only children?s health and welfare but can also hinder future opportunities for economic mobility, which may be passed on to future generations. This cycle of...

How do couples build intimacy in an era that valorizes independence and self-responsibility? How can a man be a good husband when full-time jobs are scarce? How can unmarried women find fulfillment and recognition outside of normative relationships? How...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532735059Author Dean RenfroFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945446313Author Reverend Lynn Gladstone PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Babypie PublishingPublisher Babypie PublishingWeight(grams) 662g

Kids snatched from their bedrooms, shot at in school, fatter than ever, prone to risk-taking and cruelty...is childhood today as bad as the news accounts would have us believe? Is this generation headed for disaster? Kids These Days: Facts and Fictions...

In recent years, two significant trends have had a substantial impact on Canadian families. First, Canadian families have been dramatically altered by high rates of separation and divorce, declining fertility, greater popularity of alternative family...

Drawing from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, the essays in Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images are oriented around the idea that images of childhood can be understood within three dimensions: time, space, and discipline. Time refers to both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939282316Author Deborah a KahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Miniver PressPublisher Miniver PressWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656363040Author Antje ReichertFormat PaperbackImprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 86g

While death, eschatology and exotic indigenous deathways have long held a privileged position in the ethnographic and popular literature on Borneo, ancestors have remained a strangely neglected topic. This volume fills this lacuna by presenting a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798539803674Author Glynis BrydenFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356143593Author Andrew LangFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 345g

Reproduction is the most emotionally complicated human activity. It transforms lives but it also creates fears and anxieties about women whose childbearing doesn't conform to the norm. Baby Trouble in the Last Best West explores the ways that women's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890427863Author Michael J R SchindlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Aviva PublishingPublisher Aviva PublishingWeight(grams) 263g

Daddy, We Need You Now! focuses on the Black family and the patterns of socialization within it. It validates the role of 'responsible' fathers and provides empirical evidence that responsible fathers will make a positive difference in the lives of Black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781791611231Author Lenton Aikins EsqFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583480298Author Riane Tennenhaus EislerFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 440g

India has an intricate cultural history that extends over thousands of years. Over the past century, however, increasing modernization, along with its associated demographic shifts, has led to substantial changes in its family structures and norms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798538555239Author David CooterFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725262188Author Gary E BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 77g

This book focuses on issues of family, work, and gender, with a focus on gender inequality. Women are disadvantaged in both paid and domestic work, due in large part to being primarily responsible for duties within the domestic sphere. The COVID-19...

Tenacity in Children examines how multiple generations of parents and caregivers raised children to become successful adults. Until relatively recent times in human history, there were no schools or organized institutions, nor were there parenting books...