Marriage & Family

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999982249Author Alis RoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Lonely Mind BooksPublisher Lonely Mind Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540380791Author C Margaret HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The second edition of Andrea Doucet's Do Men Mother? builds upon the award winning first edition to further illuminate fathers' candid reflections on caring and the intricate social worlds that men and women inhabit as they 'love and let go' of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953788054Author Courtney BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Beyond the Book Media LLCPublisher Beyond the Book Media LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Mothers of children with Attention Deficit Disorder must inevitably make decisions regarding their children's diagnosis within a context of competing discourses about the nature of the disorder and the legitimacy of its treatment. They also make these...

Spaces and Politics of Motherhood offers a fresh perspective on maternity based on original qualitative research from the United Kingdom and the United States. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, an analysis of parenting websites and policy...

Over time and space, sociology has given varying importance to the study of the house. The house is often a locus of special attention when a couple is formed, and the investments made in a neolocal residence constitute a complex social fact. There is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805247319Author K M BasawarajappaFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Independent AuthorPublisher Independent AuthorWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725262171Author Gary E BellFormat HardbackPage Count 58Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646046683Author Amber ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218152031Author Nancy HoustonFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Clear Wind PublishingPublisher Clear Wind PublishingWeight(grams) 86g

Through a series of focus group interviews and an analysis of the media and popular culture, Mothers Work examines the institution of motherhood and the arenas in which mothering occurs. Michelle Napierski-Prancl explores shared and divergent...

Using a mixed-method approach, Unintended Consequences of Human Actions documents a wide range of unintended and unanticipated consequences of human actions. The major message is the urgent need to review a range of possible outcomes of human actions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781719196536Author Megan SwansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861513373Author Frances WilliamFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 30mm

Until recently, domestic violence, as it has been referred to, was a problem to be dealt with inside the family. In this ground-breaking work, Hattery's unique approach provides a detailed theoretical discussion of race, class, and gender-effects on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935271130Author Sophia RuahFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Ideas Into Books WestviewPublisher Ideas Into Books WestviewWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398401976Author Barbara DuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512800777Author James H S BossardFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

This book explores a deeply personal aspect of globalization: the adoption of Asian children by white Americans. It is based on dozens of interviews with adoptive mothers and adoption social workers, nearly two hundred letters and essays written by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781537120782Author Nehemy Ndirangu Kihara Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

This book documents and explains the remarkable decline in the American marriage rate that began about 1970. This decline has occurred in spite of the fact that married people are better off than unmarried people in many ways. Many other attempts to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789352019717Author Aakash MehrotraFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Jufic BooksPublisher Jufic BooksWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580051293Author Miriam B. PeskowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Avalon Publishing GroupPublisher Avalon Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782030254875Author Shazia PerweenFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint CerebratePublisher CerebrateWeight(grams) 249g

Over the past several decades, the demographic populations of many countries such as Canada as well as the United States have greatly transformed. Most striking is the influx of recent immigrant families into North America. As children lead the way for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781983712357Author Charlotte Perkins GilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519170170Author Travis Wayne GoodsellFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The Best Kept Secret studies the often-overlooked group of single, African American custodial fathers. While the media focuses on the increase of single mothers and the decline in marriage in the black community, Roberta Coles paints a nuanced picture of...

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Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork at Fairfax County, Virginia, and Daechi-dong, Seoul, Korea, Korean Kirogi Families explores the dynamics of emplaced transnational families through analyses of the categories of social capital, sense of place,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950124015Author Julian Esteban Torres LopezFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint NasionaPublisher NasionaWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523926848Author Violet a NewbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785320002Author Jane BridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint DIB BooksPublisher DIB BooksWeight(grams) 127g

Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures analyzes novels and films that demonstrate how marriage affects Francophone African and Caribbean women in their respective societies. It argues that marriage serves as a catalyst for...

What are the social and cultural features that have the most impact on the interpretation of the legal standard, "best interest of the child"? One method for answering this question is through a comparison of two societies, Sweden and the...

The family remains the most contested institution in American society. How Families Matter:Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work explores the ways adults make sense of their family lives in the midst of the complicated debates...

This book explores a deeply personal aspect of globalization: the adoption of Asian children by white Americans. It is based on dozens of interviews with adoptive mothers and adoption social workers, nearly two hundred letters and essays written by...

Identical Twins explores the unique status of twinship and how it can affect personal and familial relationships with siblings, romantic partners, and friends. Drawing from the rich qualitative data from over one hundred interviews, Joleen Loucks...