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Homeward Bound: Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss by Amy Ziettlow 9780190261092
RRP: £35.99£27.40Homeward Bound shows that as family structure becomes more complex, so too does elder care, and existing institutions and legal approaches are not prepared to handle those complexities. As 79 million American Baby Boomers approach old age, their diverse... -
Chinese Marriages in Transition: From Patriarchy to New Familism by Xiaoling Shu 9781978804678
RRP: £124.00£107.04Outdated models of Chinese gender roles, marriage, and family transitions portray these changes as streamlined and unidirectional, from traditional to modern, public to private, collective to individual. Chinese Marriages in Transition documents the... -
Chinese Marriages in Transition: From Patriarchy to New Familism by Xiaoling Shu 9781978804661
RRP: £24.99£21.67Outdated models of Chinese gender roles, marriage, and family transitions portray these changes as streamlined and unidirectional, from traditional to modern, public to private, collective to individual. Chinese Marriages in Transition documents the... -
Changes in Work and Family Life in Japan Under COVID-19 by Shigeki Matsuda 9789819958498
RRP: £34.99£33.73This book describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the way of work, the division of household labor, and family formation in Japan. One of the characteristics of Japanese employment practices is a stable employer–employment relationship and... -
Marriage and Divorce in America: Issues, Trends, and Controversies by Jaimee L. Hartenstein 9781440868368
£88.63This wide-ranging resource will help readers understand the history and current state of marriage and divorce in the United States, including their many cultural, economic, political, legal, and religious facets. Coverage includes information and... -
Families in Later Life: Emerging Themes & Challenges by Liliana Sousa 9781606923283
RRP: £97.99£65.49This book aims to help provide an understanding of the relationship between the elderly generation and the multigenerational families they belong to through an analysis of family and individual development in later life and a study of the structural and... -
Amber Alerts: Best Practices & Program Technology by Amber C. K. Young 9781624170454
RRP: £84.99£55.93Amber Alerts (also referred to as AMBER plans) were created to disseminate information about child abductions in a timely manner. Research has found that most abducted children murdered by their kidnappers are killed within three hours of the abduction... -
Family Relations: 21st Century Issues & Challenges by Jennifer K. Quinn 9781604560923
RRP: £132.99£107.41This new book presents the latest analyses on family relations which is a cross-disciplinary field involving psychology, sociology, philosophy, education, and comparative cultural issues. The 21st century has brought the family unit under tremendous... -
The Best Kept Secret: Single Black Fathers by Roberta L. Coles 9780742564268
£37.83The 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... -
Handbook of Marriage and the Family by Suzanne K. Steinmetz 9781461571537
RRP: £89.99£36.21The lucid, straightforward Preface of this Handbook by the two editors and the comprehenSIve perspec tives offered in the Introduction by one ofthem leave little for a Foreword to add. It is therefore limIted to two relevant but not intrinsically... -
Single Parents and Child Support Systems: An International Comparison by Kay Cook 9781800882393
£101.61Taking a novel approach to child support policy analysis, Single Parents and Child Support Systems locates the transfer of payments between separated parents within a wider social policy ecosystem and compares the political, institutional and... -
We're Here to Help: When Guardianship Goes Wrong by Diane Dimond 9781684581672
RRP: £28.00£21.49The 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£19.59The 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£64.14Parents 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
£30.80Apologies 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: £83.00£72.11In 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: £24.99£21.67Winner 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: £65.00£56.09Winner 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: £29.99£26.50Using 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: £32.00£28.21Transnational 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: £91.00£78.92It'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: £91.00£78.92American 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... -
Family-Friendly Policies and Practices in Academe by Erin K. Anderson 9780739194393
RRP: £88.00£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£70.71Family 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£62.29"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£19.59In 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
£50.87After-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
RRP: £19.99£19.91In 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£81.95Understanding 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
£93.06Do 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£8.06The 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: £124.00£107.04Apologies 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 Social Organization of Work by Randy Hodson 9781111300951
£67.48THE 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... -
What Mum Taught Us: Valuable Lessons and Outstanding Hospitality, Including Precious Mesopotamian Recipes by Theodora Issa 9781536145861
RRP: £106.99£86.77This 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 Tim Fowler (University of Bristol) 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: £109.00£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...