Marriage & Family

This book is a detailed examination of parental authority: what justifies and what are the proper limits of a parent's authority over her children? Dennis Arjo focuses on and criticizes attempts to answer these and related questions in the context of...

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...

Very high rates of family fragmentation in the United States are subtracting from what very large numbers of students are learning in school and forever holding them back in many other ways. This in turn is damaging the country economically by making us...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594481703Author Judith WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Riverhead BooksPublisher Riverhead BooksWeight(grams) 376g

Based on numerous interviews with people from both good and failed marriages, his own experience, and years of thinking about the subject, philosopher/marriage counsellor Richard Taylor has developed a set of compelling proposals for reforming marriage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441521040Author Marie Duncan-WagersFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781522820468Author Roshan CiprianiFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORKER AND KIRKUS 'Devorah Baum is a visionary writer. Her intellectual depth, her emotional precision and her searing insight can only be gathered under an old fashioned word: wisdom' Zadie SmithA shining...

The second edition of Race and Family maintains the book's distinctive feature-introducing students to key concepts through a structural lens-while featuring new material throughout. Race and Family focuses on structural factors impacting all families,...

Professor Mommy is designed as a guide for women who want to combine the life of the mind with the joys of motherhood. The book provides practical suggestions from the authors' experiences together with those of other women who have successfully combined...

White Parents, Black Children looks at the difficult issue of race in transracial adoptions-particularly the adoption by white parents of children from different racial and ethnic groups. Despite the long history of troubled and fragile race relations in...

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...

This book recognizes that intense public battles are being waged in the U.S. over the rights of LGB people to form legally and culturally recognized families. Their families are under a kind of sociopolitical scrutiny at this historical moment that...

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 9781498076463Author Herbert SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 562g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497831285Author Herbert SpencerFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 735g

This book investigates how customary practices in South Africa have led to negotiation and contestation over human rights, gender and generational power.Drawing on a range of original empirical studies, this book provides important new insights into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451643411Author Dr Christine B WhelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434929273Author Sandra ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams) 127g

In Through Our Eyes, William Hunter and some of the children he fostered share their experiences within these unique social welfare phenomena. The author took in children who suffered horrific abuse from their birth parents as well as during their...

This book draws upon ethnographic and qualitative research in the United States to demonstrate the means through which long-haul truck drivers navigate work and family tensions in ways that resonate across categories of race, class, gender and religion...

Pathways of Human Development uses theoretical perspectives from developmental, social, and behavioral sciences to examine the many ways that individuals, families, and communities intersect and interface. Focusing on the impact of change on human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013267963Author Michaela KreyenfeldFormat PaperbackPage 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 9781013277023Author Marie DigoixFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

In a new preface, Mark Strasser discusses recent developments in the legal battle over same-sex marriages in Hawaii. He anticipates the likely state and nationwide impact of the Hawaii Supreme Court's decision. Mark Strasser examines the issue of...

This is a moving and inspiring book, chock-full of the best insights of systems thinking applied with a sustained and passionate commitment to working with families in child welfare agencies.Book InformationISBN 9780393700664Author Richard KaganFormat...

Paternity and fatherhood: is there more than an etymological difference between these two apparently synonymous terms? What do we understand by 'paternity' and 'fatherhood'? These crucial questions lie at the heart of this collection of essays selected...

At the end of the twentieth century the United States, is left with a school system widely believed to be in decline. In Holy Sparks , Philip Wexler likens American schools to the broken vessels of the Old Testament, but sees in this decline sparks of...

In China's Left-Behind Wives, Huifen Shen tells the extraordinary story of an overlooked group of women who played an important role in one of the largest waves of migration in history. For roughly a century starting around 1850, large numbers of young...

In Black Families: A Systems Approach, Anthony James convenes the voices of social scholars to examine the multifaceted nature of black family life. Grounded in family systems theory, the book provides readers with a unique lens through which to better...

For centuries, Hindus in Nepal required a widow to surrender to burning on their husband's funeral pyre. Now illegal and rare, social remnants of the practice persist. By the time the funeral fire is extinguished, the woman as wife no longer exists. Her...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039183667Author Michael E Freeman SaulsberreFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 163g

Most observers agree that marriage in America has been changing. Some think it is in decline, that the growth of individualism has made it increasingly difficult to achieve satisfying and stable relationships. Others believe that changes, such as...

Continuing his ongoing social critique, Henry Giroux now looks at the way corporate culture is encroaching on the lives of children by exploring three myths prevalent in our society: that the triumph of democracy is related to the triumph of the market;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824889708Author Yean-Ju LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint University of Hawaii PressPublisher University of Hawaii PressWeight(grams) 152g

Connected lives: Families, households, health and care in contemporary South Africa, illustrates the changing constitution and the variability of households, fluid understandings of family, and the impact of these in the context of life changes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788773044193Author Signe KragFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Nord AcademicPublisher Nord Academic

Family remains the most powerful social idiom and one of the most powerful social structures throughout the Arab world. To engender love of nation among its citizens, national movements portray the nationas a family. To motivate loyalty, political...

The 47 articles in this collection follow the scope and sequence of family sociology and family relations courses, and provide a wide range of perspectives on families and intimate relationships. Focusing on families in the United States, the readings...