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“kathy barbell”

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  • Family Foster Care in the Next Century

    by Kathy Barbell, Lois Wright ...
    Family foster care is supposed to provide temporary protection and nurturing for children experiencing maltreatment. Although it has long been a critical service for millions of children in the United States, the increased attention given to this service in the last two decades has focused more on its inability to achieve its intended outcomes than on its successes. However, as social and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • 'Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America

    How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America

    by Naomi Schaefer Riley ...
    In the last decade, 45% of all marriages in the U.S. were between people of different faiths. The rapidly growing number of mixed-faith families has become a source of hope, encouraging openness and tolerance among religious communities that historically have been insular and suspicious of other faiths. Yet as Naomi Schaefer Riley demonstrates in 'Til Faith Do Us Part, what is good for society as ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Attachment Reconsidered

    Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory

    Edited by N. Quinn, J. Mageo ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Since the 1950s, the study of early attachment and separation has been dominated by a school of psychology that is Euro-American in its theoretical assumptions. Based on ethnographic studies in a range of locales, this book goes beyond prior efforts to critique attachment theory, providing a cross-cultural basis for understanding human development. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Social Influence on Close Relationships

    Beyond the Dyad

    Edited by Christopher R. Agnew ...
    Series series Advances in Personal Relationships
    How do we choose a partner to initiate a relationship with, and what makes us stay in a given relationship over time? These questions are most often pursued by scholars with an emphasis on the internal thoughts, feelings, and motivations of individual decision-makers. Conversely, this volume highlights the importance of considering external influences on individual decision-making in close ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

    by Debbie Olson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and philosophically - offers a unique opportunity to illuminate and interrogate the child presence within the cinematic complexity of Hitchcock's films. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Unfinished Business

    Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy

    by Ruth Milkman, Eileen Appelbaum ...
    Unfinished Business documents the history and impact of California's paid family leave program, the first of its kind in the United States, which began in 2004. Drawing on original data from fieldwork and surveys of employers, workers, and the larger California adult population, Ruth Milkman and Eileen Appelbaum analyze in detail the effect of the state's landmark paid family leave on employers ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Economic Lifecycle, Gender and Intergenerational Support

    National Transfer Accounts for Italy

    by Marina Zannella ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines economic transfers across generations and genders from a European perspective. It addresses key challenges that contemporary societies face in regards to ageing, welfare sustainability, and intergenerational and gender equity. Coverage also offers important insights into an often invisible side of the economy, namely the contribution of women who because of the gender contract ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Gay Men’s Working Lives, Retirement and Old Age

    by Peter Robinson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the working lives, retirement plans, and old age experiences of three generations of gay men born 1924–86. It draws on data collected from interviews with 82 men in Australia, England, New Zealand, and USA. The first half of the book concentrates on the men’s working lives, while the second half of the book explores the interviewees’ concerns about old age and retirement. The ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • 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

    $132.99 USD

  • First-in-Family Students, University Experience and Family Life

    Motivations, Transitions and Participation

    by Sarah O'Shea, Josephine May, Cathy Stone, Janine Delahunty ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the university experiences of first-in-family university students, and how these students’ decisions to return to education impact upon their family members and significant others. While it is well known that parental educational background has a substantial impact on the educational levels of family and dependents, it is unclear how attending university as a first-in-family ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Wife or Worker?

    Asian Women and Migration

    Edited by Nicola Piper, Mina Roces ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This volume challenges the dominant discourse that perceives Asian women as either "mail-order" brides or overseas workers. Providing the first sustained critique of the artificial analytical division between brides and workers, the book demonstrates women's transition from brides to workers and from workers to brides. Focusing on how women workers use marriage as a strategy to gain citizenship ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Changing gender roles and attitudes to family formation in Ireland

    by Margret Fine-Davis ...
    Series series Irish Society
    Recent decades have witnessed major changes in gender roles and family patterns, as well as a falling birth rate in Ireland and the rest of Europe. While the traditional family is now being replaced in many cases by new family forms, we do not know the reasons why people are making the choices they are and whether or not these choices are leading to greater well-being. While demographic research ... Read more

    $93.59 USD