Marriage & Family

Half of all pregnancies in the United States are either unplanned or unintended. Moreover, while fewer people are getting married, childbearing outside of wedlock is on the rise. These trends suggest that couples who have unplanned children are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807028308Author Barbara Katz RothmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578816357Author K C DreisbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint K.C. Dreisbach, LmftPublisher K.C. Dreisbach, LmftWeight(grams) 152g

Helen Franks charts the progress of couples from the break-up of marriage to the establishment of another permanent relationship, using interviews with people who have found the path easy and others who have found it difficult. Remarriage, the start of a...

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Exploring Twins presents an analysis of twinship considered as a specifically social phenomenon. Drawing upon a wide range of interdisciplinary, historical and cross-cultural data, Dr Stewart argues that in both traditional and modern societies, twinship...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791468296Author Paul C. RosenblattFormat HardbackPage Count 227Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530006239Author Jill SchepplerFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530006222Author Jill SchepplerFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

Family Communication: Teleclass Study GuideBook InformationISBN 9780757555121Author St Grovernors State UniversityFormat PaperbackPage Count 115Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Based on almost a decade of research in the Kathmandu Valley, Planning Families in Nepal offers a compelling account of Hindu Nepali women as they face conflicting global and local ideals regarding family planning. Promoting a two-child norm, global...

This collection is the result of a five-year-long collaboration of sociologists in Sweden, Spain and the United States. In-depth, extended interviews with couples explore their daily lives and provide insights into the impact of modernity, gender roles,...

From the ground breaking legal decisions on gay marriage to the promotion of marriage for low-income families, the "sacred institution" of marriage has turned into a public battleground. Who should be allowed to marry and is marriage a public...

By taking a look at the vast transformation in the movement against child sexual abuse that took place from the 1970s until now, Nancy Whittier obseres and explains the ways in which activists influence society. Whittier is the first to provide a...

As intimate lives become more public, and discussions of gender and sexuality more complex, there is a need to rethink how we engage with our own perceptions and identifications with respect to intimacy. This book explores whether our intimate desires...

A fresh perspective on the struggle to balance work and family life The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially,...

Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided the American nation since its earliest history. This volume explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in...

Recent social trends, including the increased employment of women, the dramatic growth in single-parent households, heightened attention to the aging of the population and to older families, and changing attitudes toward gender roles, guide the focus of...

ALLISON JAMES Globalization seems to be the word on everyone's lips, with politicians as much as academics extolling its benefits as well as its contradictions. For some, globali- tion means, in practice, that whether in Bangkok or Boston, in London or...

Companion vol.: Cross-cultural studies of personality, attitudes, and cognition.Book InformationISBN 9780333379332Author Christopher BagleyFormat HardbackPage Count 229Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 455g

This book explores the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race people in Britain. It reveals the diverse ways in which young people identify and experience their mixed status, the complex nature of such identities, and the rise of other...

Instead of seeing the family as a 'monolithic' entity, as though separate from its surroundings, this new approach draws attention to assemblages of various types that in different constellations and through different transactions relate people to each...

This book explores the intersections between class and sexuality in lesbians' and gay men's experiences of parenting and the everyday pathways navigated therein, from initial routes into parenting, to location preferences, schooling choice and community...

This collection critically examines twenty-first century representations of ageing, focusing on various media images and discourses as well as individuals' own experiences and self-presentations of ageing, drawing on innovative new empirical data.Book...

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the distinguishing features of Chinese families. This first full scale study seeks to understand Chinese families within the Chinese social context and draws comparisons with existing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013277030Author Marie DigoixFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Russian-American marriages reflect many of the same issues and problems of other inter-cultural marriages, but at the same time face some unique challenges. Since the publication of the first edition of Wedded Strangers in 1998, the number of these mixed...

Because men and women live in worlds that are organized around gender, their marriages reflect differing realities. Marriage in Men's Lives focuses on marriage as a system of rules, customs, and expectations, and shows that marriage changes men on basic...

Marriage is currently the number-one reason people migrate to the United States, and women constitute the majority of newcomers joining husbands who already reside here. But little is known about these marriage and migration streams beyond the highly...

Responding to demographic changes among physicians and six years of new experiences since the first edition, Dr. Myers has revamped his well received work. He includes new information on older physicians, gay and lesbian physicians, medical student...

The provision of health care services for children is central to improving the nation's health and remains a key feature of every government's policy. This concept has been recognised in the United Kingdom since nineteenth century visionaries prompted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992996000Author Selone AjewoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint 29Eleven PublishingPublisher 29Eleven Publishing

Drawing on a unique ethnographic inquiry, Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni explores the complexities of the relationship between socially and culturally constructed roles bestowed on Japanese women by a variety of state agents, including the market and the media,...

A timely examination of the plight of children and youths in developing nations. The chapters strike a balance between diagnostic analysis of the conditions of risk, with prescriptive ideas for approaching and intervening with marginalized children.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692262740Author Lise FunderburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Sixth Borough InkPublisher Sixth Borough InkWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013267970Author Michaela KreyenfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478712213Author Shirley DurhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 104g

This book critically analyzes and theorizes trust dynamics in children's lives and how they impact upon children's participation, citizenship and well-being, drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence that examines trust in various institutional and...

The book traces the origins of change in general education in the last years of the Soviet Union and afterwards in the Russian Federation. It describes what happened during perestroika and glasnost and the struggles for liberalization which were finally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806319537Author Jackie Smith ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing...