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  • Parenting across the Life Span

    Biosocial Dimensions

    by Jeanne Altmann ...
    Series series Foundations of Human Behavior
    Research on parenting through the life course has developed around two separate approaches. Evolutionary biology provides fresh perspectives from life history theory using behavioral ecology and parental investment theory. At the same time, the social and behavioral sciences integrates research from long-term studies of individual development and from the collection of life histories.This path ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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  • The Politics of the Family

    by R.D. Laing ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In his 1968 CBC Massey Lectures R. D. Laing discusses how and why we value society's notions of family over our own. Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D. Laing demonstrates that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family. A psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Laing worked at the Tavistock Institute of Human ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Confessions of an Ex-Bachelor

    How To Sift Through All the Game Players to Find Mr. Right

    by William July II ...
    The popular relationship guru blows the whistle on perpetual bachelors, with wise words for women seeking nuptial-minded men.A male radio host once chided William July for being so open about the playboy mentality. “Man, stop giving away all of our secrets to the women,” the host said. But July, who has been happily married for six years, believes that this kind of secrecy and game playing is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Babies for the Nation

    The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970

    by Denyse Baillargeon ...
    Translated by W. Donald Wilson ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Described by some as a “necropolis for babies,” the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among the highest in the Western world. This “bleeding of the nation” gave birth to a vast movement for child welfare that paved the way for a medicalization of childbearing.In Babies for the Nation, basing ... Read more

    $42.49 USD

  • Families and Child Health

    Edited by Nancy S Landale, Alan Booth, Susan M McHale ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    In recent years, there has been an explosion of research on the early origins of adult health. A growing body of evidence documents that maternal health before conception, prenatal and perinatal exposures, and conditions in childhood play critical roles in health over the life course. Scientific understanding of the multiple and interacting influences on child health and their role in later health ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Remaking "Family" Communicatively

    Edited by Leslie A. Baxter ...
    Series Book 1 - Lifespan Communication
    Demographers have repeatedly confirmed that the nuclear family is on the decline. Yet when Americans are asked about their ideal family, the nuclear family emerges as the most valued kind of family. Members of families that do not match this cultural ideal face a discursive burden to legitimate their identity as a «family.»This volume gathers together communication scholars who are working on the ... Read more

    $49.59 USD

  • The Contemporary Family in France

    Partnership Trajectories and Domestic Organization

    Edited by Arnaud Régnier-Loilier ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a portrait of the family in France today, revealing many of the deep-seated, demographic changes that have affected French society in recent decades. It first focuses on conjugal and family trajectories, examining union formation, types of union, entry into parenthood, influence of religion, and separation. Next, the book explores domestic organization within the couple. It ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Son With Two Moms

    by Anthony Hynes ...
    Tony was taken in at the age of three by Mary Hynes and Janet Simons, after being separated from his mother, who suffered from schizophrenia. After that time, he was shuffled in and out of his grandmothers home before being placed in an orphanage, where he remained for one year. After a tumultuous court battle, he went home with the only two women brave enough to raise him. However, neither he nor ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Overcoming Conflicting Loyalties

    Intimate Partner Violence, Community Resources, and Faith

    by Irene Sevcik, Michael Rothery, Nancy Nason-Clark, Robert Pynn ...
    To date, little has been published about the place of spirituality in working with survivors of intimate partner violence. Overcoming Conflicting Loyalties examines the intersection of faith and culture in the lives of religious and ethno-cultural women in the context of the work of FaithLink, a unique community initiative that encourages religious leaders and secular service providers to work ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Patterns of Social Functioning in Families with Marital and Parent-Child Problems

    by Gerson David ...
    Series series Heritage
    The work reported in this book represents the first attempt to study a sample of client families with marital and parent-child problems using a systematic framework based on role-theory. The findings of the study are important and made more so by the consistency of the framework: the dimensions of family behaviour can be accurately studied because the techniques of observation used are constant. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Women’s Employment in Muslim Countries

    Patterns of Diversity

    by Niels Spierings ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a new and nuanced exploration of the position of women in Muslim countries, based on research involving more than 300,000 women in 28 Muslim countries. It addresses topical debates on the role of Islam, modernization, globalization, neocolonialism, educational inequalities, patriarchy, household hierarchies, and more. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Household Mobility in America

    Patterns, Processes, and Outcomes

    by Brian Joseph Gillespie ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the correlates and consequences of residential relocation. Drawing on multiple nationally representative data sets, the book explores historic patterns and current trends in household mobility; individuals’ mobility-related decisions; and the individual, family, and community outcomes associated with moving. These sections inform later ... Read more

    $80.09 USD