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  • Marriage at the Crossroads

    Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty-First-Century Families

    Edited by Marsha Garrison, Elizabeth S. Scott ...
    The institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried cohabitation and nonmarital births have skyrocketed while marriage rates are at record lows. These trends mask a new, idealized vision of marriage as a marker of success as well as a growing class divide in childbearing behavior: the children of better educated, wealthier individuals continue to be ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Violence Against Women

    Current Theory and Practice in Domestic Abuse, Sexual Violence and Exploitation

    by Aisha Gill, Lorraine Radford, Christine Barter, Elizabeth Gilchrist, Marianne Hester, Alison Phipps, Nel Whiting, Melanie McCarry, Marsha Scott, Evan Stark, Kirstein Rummery ...
    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Violence against women is a pervasive problem in society and responding appropriately to those who experience it and those who perpetrate it is a constant challenge for social work, health and related professions today.This volume seeks to address issues surrounding violence against women at all levels, from its root causes to the specific needs arising in victims of gendered abuse from a ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • De-signing Design

    Cartographies of Theory and Practice

    by Scott McQuire, Mark Jackson, Marsha Berry, Maria O'Connor, Laurene Vaughan, Yoko Akama, William Cartwright, Linda Daley, Karen Burns, Stephen Loo, Lisa Dethridge, Chris L. Smith, Neil Leach, Hugh J. Silverman ...
    Series series TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
    De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice throws new light on the terrain between theory and practice in transdisciplinary discourses of design and art. The editors, Elizabeth Grierson, Harriet Edquist, and Hélène Frichot, bring together diverse approaches to design theory, practice, and philosophy from leading scholars in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Themes ... Read more

    $9.00 USD

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    The break-up of a relationship is one of the hardest things you can go through. And during the confusion that accompanies it, you're supposed to make sensible decisions about the fair division of money, and possibly the future of your children.Breaking Up gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the family law system so you'll know your legal rights. It will arm you with information on:how to choose ... Read more

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  • The Family Court Murders

    Now a Major ABC-TV Series

    by Debi Marshall ...
    4 murders. 5 bombings. And until 2015, no one charged. The definitive story of the Family Court Murders and the book that set off the investigation into and charging of Leonard Warwick, who in September 2020, was sentenced to life in prison.An initiative of the Whitlam Government, the so-called ‘helping court’ opened its doors in January 1976. But despite the high idealism of the court’s creators, ... Read more

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  • Bought and Sold

    by Megan Stephens ...
    A heart-stopping story of lies, brutality and fear. British girl Megan Stephens tells the true story of how an idyllic Mediterranean holiday turned into an unimaginable nightmare when she was tricked into becoming a victim of human trafficking and held captive for six years by deception, threats and violence.While on holiday with her mother at a popular Mediterranean coastal resort, Megan fell in ... Read more

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  • Paid For – My Journey through Prostitution

    Surviving a Life of Prostitution and Drug Addiction on Dublin's Streets

    by Rachel Moran ...
    When you are 15 years old and destitute, too unskilled to work and too young to claim unemployment benefit, your body is all you have left to sell.'THE BEST WORK BY ANYONE ON PROSTUTION EVER.' Catherine A. MacKinnonRachel Moran came from a troubled family background. Taken into state care at 14, she became homeless and got involved in prostitution aged 15, ending up isolated, drug-addicted, ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marriage Markets

    How Inequality is Remaking the American Family

    by June Carbone, Naomi Cahn ...
    There was a time when the phrase "American family" conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.5 kids living comfortable lives in a middle-class suburb. Today, that image has been shattered, due in part to skyrocketing divorce rates, single parenthood, and increased out-of-wedlock births. But whether it is conservatives bewailing the wages of moral decline ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • South of Forgiveness

    A True Story of Rape and Responsibility

    by Elva Thordis, Stranger Tom ...
    One ordinary spring morning in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thordis Elva kisses her son and partner goodbye before boarding a plane to do a remarkable thing: fly seven thousand miles to South Africa to confront the man who raped her when she was just sixteen. Meanwhile, in Sydney, Australia, Tom Stranger nervously embarks on an equally life-changing journey to meet Thordis, wondering whether he is worthy ... Read more

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  • Sophia's Story

    A story of the unspeakable horror of child abuse

    by Susan McKay ...
    In 1995, Sophia McColgan's father was sentenced to prison for the serial rape and abuse of his children over many years. He had first raped Sophia when she was only six. It had taken immense courage on the part of Sophia and her family to bring the murky, hidden world of family child abuse to the public gaze. Then, in 1998, Susan McKay published Sophia's Story, one of the most acclaimed Irish ... Read more

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  • Bought and Sold (Part 2 of 3)

    by Megan Stephens ...
    A heart-stopping story of lies, brutality and fear. British girl Megan Stephens tells the true story of how an idyllic Mediterranean holiday turned into an unimaginable nightmare when she was tricked into becoming a victim of human trafficking and held captive for six years by deception, threats and violence.While on holiday with her mother at a popular Mediterranean coastal resort, Megan fell in ... Read more

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  • The Present and Future of European Family Law

    by Jens M. Scherpe ...
    The Present and Future of European Family Law explores the essence of European family law - and what its future may be. It compares and analyzes existing laws and court decisions, identifies trends in legislation and jurisprudence, and also forecasts (and in some cases proposes) future developments. It establishes that while there is, at present, no comprehensive European family law, elements of ... Read more

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