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We're Here to Help: When Guardianship Goes Wrong by Diane Dimond 9781684581672
RRP: £28.00£20.96The human stories behind the headlines exposing the truth about the guardianship system. The state-run guardianship system, called conservatorship in some states, is largely unregulated, ill-understood, and increasingly populated by financially... -
Stepfamilies across Europe and Overseas, 1550–1900 by Lyndan Warner 9781032603308
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book emphasizes diverse perspectives on the new and expanding history of stepfamilies in Europe and some of its overseas territories from 1550 to 1900.The chapters examine the life stages within stepfamilies from the half-orphans and illegitimate... -
Aging in America by Deborah Carr 9780520301290
RRP: £25.00£19.18The aging of America will reshape how we live and will transform nearly every aspect of contemporary society. Renowned life course sociologist Deborah Carr provides a lively, nuanced, and timely portrait of aging in the United States. The US population... -
Rehoming of Adopted Children: Addressing Unregulated Custody Transfers by Nicolette Hunter 9781634848701
RRP: £78.99£63.04Parents have the legal responsibility to protect and care for their children. However, recent media reports have illuminated a practice involving unregulated custody transfers of adopted children. Commonly referred to as "rehoming," this... -
Families Under Stress: An Assessment of Data, Theory, and Research on Marriage and Divorce in the Military by Benjamin R Karney 9780833041456
£31.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833041456Author Benjamin R KarneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 381g -
Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology by Angela Willey 9780822361404
RRP: £90.00£76.75In Undoing Monogamy Angela Willey offers a radically interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of monogamy in U.S. science and culture, propelled by queer feminist desires for new modes of conceptualization and new forms of belonging. She approaches... -
Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs by Madonna Harrington Meyer 9780814729472
RRP: £27.99£23.66Winner of the 2014 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award presented by the Gerontological Society of America Young working mothers are not the only ones who are struggling to balance family life and careers. Many middle-aged American women face... -
Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs by Madonna Harrington Meyer 9780814729236
RRP: £71.00£60.09Winner of the 2014 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award presented by the Gerontological Society of America Young working mothers are not the only ones who are struggling to balance family life and careers. Many middle-aged American women face... -
Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship by Melanie A. Medeiros 9780813588230
RRP: £34.00£29.33Using an intersectional approach, Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil explores rural, working-class, black Brazilian women's perceptions and experiences of courtship, marriage and divorce. In this book, women's narratives of marriage... -
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work by Parin Dossa 9780813588070
RRP: £37.00£31.82Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of... -
Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China by Leslie K. Wang 9780804799010
RRP: £99.00£84.29It's no secret that tens of thousands of Chinese children have been adopted by American parents and that Western aid organizations have invested in helping orphans in China-but why have Chinese authorities allowed this exchange, and what does it reveal... -
Social Class and Changing Families in an Unequal America by Marcia J. Carlson 9780804770880
RRP: £99.00£84.29American families are far more diverse and complex today than they were 50 years ago. As ideas about marriage, divorce, and remarriage have changed, so too have our understandings about cohabitation, childbearing, parenting, and the transition to... -
Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 by Yunxiang Yan 9780804733090
£7.88 - £101.01For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years' fieldwork that has resulted in this book-a... -
Immigrant Children: Change, Adaptation, and Cultural Transformation by Susan S. Chuang 9780739184455
RRP: £46.00£42.05Over 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... -
Family-Friendly Policies and Practices in Academe by Erin K. Anderson 9780739194393
RRP: £83.00£77.09This volume discusses why faculty and administrators of academe should care about implementing family-friendly policies and practices, as well as how they can advocate for policy changes. In section one, the book's focus is on empirical studies that... -
Family Rhythms: The Changing Textures of Family Life in Ireland by Jane Gray 9780719091513
RRP: £80.00£69.50Family rhythms is the first textbook of its kind with an explicit focus on Ireland and Irish families. Uniquely, the book draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to... -
Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships by Sharon Sassler 9780520286979
RRP: £80.00£61.21"We have fun and we enjoy each other's company, so why shouldn't we just move in together?"-Lauren, from Cohabitation Nation Living together is a typical romantic rite of passage in the United States today. In fact, census data shows a 37... -
Families in America by Susan L. Brown 9780520285897
RRP: £25.00£19.18In this accessible, engaging, and up-to-date course book, Susan L. Brown employs ethnographic vignettes and demographic data to introduce students to twenty-first century perspectives on contemporary families. Appropriate as a primary or secondary text... -
Community Programs to Promote Youth Development by Committee on Community-Level Programs for Youth 9780309105903
RRP: £45.00£39.89After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the lives of adolescents. But what do we know about the role of such programs for... -
Forgotten Families: Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy by Jody Heymann 9780195335248
£19.99In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Bombay. In the face of rapid globalization, these changes affect us all, and we can no longer confine ourselves to addressing working and social... -
Psychopathology and the Family by Jennifer L. Hudson 9780080444499
RRP: £91.00£80.57Understanding the factors that place an individual at greater risk of developing psychopathology has important implications for both treatment and prevention of psychological disorders. Of critical relevance in this regard is the exploration of the... -
Children for Families or Families for Children: The Demography of Adoption Behavior in the U.S. by Mary Ann Davis 9789048189717
£96.79Do adoptions provide children for families or families for children? This book analyzes the complex interactions between adopters and adoptees using historical and current data. Who are the preferred parents and children, both domestically and... -
Crime and Partnerships: Study Paper No. 19 by Michael Svarer 9788790199111
RRP: £9.75£7.84The main focuses of this analysis are the significance of conditions of life for the tendency of individuals towards criminality, and the consequences of the punishment that society imposes on criminals. Society punishes criminals in two ways: directly... -
Mothering from the Field: The Impact of Motherhood on Site-Based Research by Bahiyyah M. Muhammad 9781978800571
RRP: £134.00£114.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978800571Author Bahiyyah M. MuhammadFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press -
The nature and pattern of family-friendly employment policies in Britain by Shirley Dex 9781861344335
RRP: £19.99£15.76There is need for a more detailed understanding of employers' motivations for offering flexible working and the outcomes of different policies and practices for both employers and employees. This report draws on data from a large-scale national survey... -
The Dilemma of Coalition Instability in Consensual Nonmonogamy: Three Against Two Against One by James K. Beggan 9781793619372
RRP: £90.00£83.12Different forms of consensual nonmonogamy, such as polyamory and swinging, have achieved greater prominence in daily conversation and representation in mass media. Although advocates recognize that the presence of additional people creates difficulties,... -
The Social Organization of Work by Randy Hodson 9781111300951
£66.33THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF WORK, Fifth Edition, follows a simple structure and uses clear writing to present the material you need in an easily accessible format. This text discusses the most current and hotly debated issues, from the technology... -
Children's Rights: Global Perspectives, Challenges and Issues of the 21st Century by Samuel M. Lange 9781536155655
RRP: £72.99£57.63The opening chapter argues that an alternative praxis, one that honours constructivist and post humanist theoretical approaches to teaching and learning, is a rights-based praxis. This approach takes as its foundational assumption the contention that... -
What Mum Taught Us: Valuable Lessons and Outstanding Hospitality, Including Precious Mesopotamian Recipes by Theodora Issa 9781536145861
RRP: £106.99£85.31This book would not have been possible without the existence of that brilliant, vivid, bright, superb, wonderful, luminous, radiant, and very beautiful person whom the authors simply refer to as aMum', or in their Aramaic (Syriac) language, UEUE UE... -
A Child's Day: A Comprehensive Analysis of Change in Children's Time Use in the UK by Killian Mullan 9781529201697
RRP: £79.99£60.86We routinely judge how well children are doing in their lives by how they spend their time, yet we know remarkably little about it. This rigorous review of four decades of data provides the clearest insights yet into the way children use their time... -
Liberalism, Childhood and Justice: Ethical Issues in Upbringing by Tim Fowler 9781529201642
RRP: £24.99£19.39Integrates research in political philosophy with current sociological debate to offer a unique analysis which will deepen understanding of what constitutes children's wellbeing, the duties of parents to promote children's wellbeing, and the obligations... -
Nanny Families: Practices of Care by Nannies, Au Pairs, Parents and Children in Sweden by Sara Elden 9781529201536
RRP: £24.99£19.39Paying privately for childcare is a growing phenomenon worldwide, a trend mirrored in Sweden despite the prevalence there of publicly funded daycare. This book combines theories of family practices, care and childhood studies with the personal... -
Methods of Research on Human Development and Families by Theodore N. Greenstein 9781506386065
RRP: £103.00£90.01Methods of Research on Human Development and Families is an introduction to quantitative and qualitative research methods that teaches readers how to be intelligent and critical consumers of research on families. This new book has been adapted from the... -
The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution by Ann Travers 9781479885794
RRP: £80.00£68.37Winner, 2019 PROSE Award for Anthropology, Criminology and Sociology, presented by the Association of American Publishers A groundbreaking look at the lives of transgender children and their families Some "boys" will only wear dresses; some "girls"... -
Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer Sexualities by Mimi Schippers 9781479801596
RRP: £80.00£68.37A man and woman are in an open relationship. They have agreed that having sexual partners outside of their relationship is permissible. One night, when her partner is in another city, the woman has sex with the man's best friend. What does this mean... -
Multiracial Parents: Mixed Families, Generational Change, and the Future of Race by Miri Song 9781479840540
RRP: £80.00£68.37The views and experiences of multiracial people as parents The world's multiracial population is considered to be one of the fastest growing of all ethnic groups. In the United States alone, it is estimated that over 20% of the population will be... -
The Playdate: Parents, Children, and the New Expectations of Play by Tamara R. Mose 9781479866298
RRP: £23.99£20.41A playdate is an organized meeting where parents come together with their children at a public or private location to interact socially or "play." Children no longer simply "go out and play," rather, play is arranged, scheduled, and... -
Just Like Family: How Companion Animals Joined the Household by Andrea Laurent-Simpson 9781479828852
RRP: £80.00£68.77The rise and increasingly important role of companion animals in our families From homemade meals for our dogs to high-end feline veterinary care, pets are a growing multi-billion-dollar industry in the United States. In Just Like Family, Andrea... -
The World Is Our Classroom: Extreme Parenting and the Rise of Worldschooling by Jennie Germann Molz 9781479891689
RRP: £80.00£68.37How travelling the world allows new ways to educate children and perform family life on the move A growing number of families are selling their houses, quitting their jobs, and taking their children out of traditional school settings to educate them... -
Why Who Cleans Counts: What Housework Tells Us about American Family Life by Shannon Davis 9781447336747
RRP: £69.99£53.42Every household has to perform housework, and researchers know a lot about what predicts who does which chores, drawing frequently from theoretical explanations that highlight the importance of power dynamics. This book moves beyond the existing...