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  • Like Mother, Like Daughter?

    How Career Women Influence their Daughters' Ambition

    by Jill Armstrong ...
    Women are encouraged to believe that they can occupy top jobs in society by the example of other women thriving in their careers. Who better to be a role model for career success than your mother? Paradoxically, this book shows that having a mother as a role model, even for graduates of top universities, does not predict daughters progressing in their own careers.It finds that mothers with careers ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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  • First Steps in Parenting the Child who Hurts

    Tiddlers and Toddlers Second Edition

    by Caroline Archer ...
    `This excellent book looks at the attachment and development of very young children in the fostering and adoption situation. It deals sensitively and practically with the young child's "hurts" to help adopters and foster carers understand and cope with the many traumas they may experience in integrating a young child into their family. Caroline Archer is a real adoptive parent speaking from ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Babies without Borders

    Adoption and Migration across the Americas

    by Karen Dubinsky ...
    International adoptions are both high-profile and controversial, with the celebrity adoptions and critically acclaimed movies such as Casa de los babys of recent years increasing media coverage and influencing public opinion. Neither celebrating nor condemning cross-cultural adoption, Karen Dubinsky considers the political symbolism of children in her examination of adoption and migration ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Sibling Issues in Therapy

    Research and Practice with Children, Adolescents and Adults

    by Avidan Milevsky ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Incorporating the latest research and clinical work in family dynamics, this book examines multiple angles of integrating sibling issues, which underlie issues at the core of many clinical difficulties presented by adult clients, in therapy to improve adulthood emotional and psychological well-being. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Rights of the Child in a Changing World

    25 Years after The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

    Edited by Olga Cvejić Jančić ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book deals with the implementation of the rights of the child as enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 21 countries from Europe, Asia, Australia, and the USA. It gives an overview of the legal status of children regarding their most salient rights, such as the implementation of the best interest principle, the right of the child to know about of his/her origin, the right ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Secrets, Lies and Children’s Fiction

    by K. Mallan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth. They also learn that some lies are necessary in order to survive in a world that paradoxically values truth-telling, but practises deception. This book examines this paradox by considering how deception is often a necessary means of survival for individuals, families, governments, and animals. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools

    Edited by Annette Lareau, Kimberly Goyette ...
    A series of policy shifts over the past decade promises to change how Americans decide where to send their children to school. In theory, the boom in standardized test scores and charter schools will allow parents to evaluate their assigned neighborhood school, or move in search of a better option. But what kind of data do parents actually use while choosing schools? Are there differences among ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission

    Education and Emotions in South India and Denmark

    by K. Vallgårda ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Making an important addition to the highly Britain-dominated field of imperial studies, this book shows that, like numerous other evangelicals operating throughout the colonized world at this time, Danish missionaries invested remarkable resources in the education of different categories children in both India and Denmark. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Ultimate Guide for Gay Dads

    Everything You Need to Know About LGBTQ Parenting But Are (Mostly) Afraid to Ask

    by Eric Rosswood ...
    If You are Thinking of Becoming a Gay Dad, or if You are Already a Gay Dad ─ This Book is for You!Are you ready to have kids? More and more gay men are turning to adoption and surrogacy to start their own families. An estimated two million American LBGTQ people would like to adopt and an estimated 65,000 adopted children are living with a gay parent. In 2016, The Chicago Tribune reported that 10 ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Handbook of Family Theories

    A Content-Based Approach

    Edited by Mark A. Fine, Frank D. Fincham ...
    Organized by content areas rather than by theory, this comprehensive, accessible handbook helps readers gain greater insight into how key theories have impacted today’s family research. Most competing books, organized by theory, do not provide a strong sense of the links between theory and research. Using the 2000 and 2010 decade-in-review issues of the Journal of Marriage and Family as a resource ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • Intimacies and Cultural Change

    Perspectives on Contemporary Mexico

    by Daniel Nehring, Rosario Esteinou ...
    Exploring cultural transformations of intimacy in contemporary Mexico, Intimacies and Cultural Change examines the ways in which globalization and rapid cultural change have transformed the cultural meanings of couple relationships, sexuality, and personal life in Mexican society. Through a range of contemporary case studies, the book sheds light on the ways in which people draw on these cultural ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Family Continuity and Change

    Contemporary European Perspectives

    Edited by Vida Česnuitytė, Detlev Lück, Eric D. Widmer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume provides readers with recent sociological approaches to family understanding, theorising and practices within the context of continuities and change, both across generations and during individual life courses. The contributors uniquely investigate the friction between persisting family needs and changing circumstances, between holding on to traditional family norms and adapting to fast ... Read more

    $98.09 USD