Chicken Soup for the Soul: Empty Nesters provides support during an emotional but exciting time for parents -- sending their children off to college, new homes, or careers.
In Search of a Family: A Story of an International Adoption takes the reader inside a personal journey through the unknowns of an international adoption.
Man's perception, and how to accept aging, has not changed dramatically since the beginning of time or over the last 220 years as man's life expectancy has increased.
A prolific writer, famous pacifist, respected teacher, and literary mentor to many, William Stafford is one of the great American poets of the 20th century.
In Changing Course, Claudia Black extends a helping hand to individuals working their way through the painful experience of being raised with addiction.
With her reassuring and informative approach, Claudia Black expertly identifies common issues faced by children who grew up in alcoholic families--shame, neglect, unreasonable role expectations, and physical abuse.
Based on Deborah Doucette's personal experience raising a grandchild, this book examines the myriad factors involved in kinship care, specifically when grandparents begin to raise their grandchildren.
2002 Lambda Literary Award Winner Twenty-three Latino parents speak about their relationships with their lesbian and gay children, with frankness, humor, and love.
A legendary playwright mines the depth of the human heartThe Shadow of the Hummingbird tells the story of an ailing man in his eighties and the afternoon spent with his ten-year-old grandson.
Like many daughters of elderly parents, Pat MacEnulty finds herself in a maze of health care negotiations and discoveries when her mother can no longer care for herself.
I am an animal trainer, I study wild behavior of animals from a pedagogical point of view; I was very surprised to watch how some human mothers need to shake their children in the streets, shouting.
Memoirs of a Grumpa is an engaging and well-written collection of personal stories and anecdotes that speaks of a grandfathers funny, touching, and sometimes surprising experiences with his wife, family, grandkids, and friends.
Grandparents raising their grandchildren are a new demographic emerging at a staggering rate because the parents are either unwilling or incapable of raising their own children.
When eight-year-old Leah's parents get divorced, her mother, Cessie, flees her conventional life as a suburban housewife in search of a glamorous big city career in journalism.
'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' - GuardianIn this stunning anthology of ninety nine modern and classic poems, Carol Ann Duffy delves into the powerful and unique bond between parent and child.
Um ramo da família Medeiros que começou em Portugal no século XIV, passou pelos Açores, chegou a Jacuí no final do século XVIII, fixou-se em Passos e outras cidades do Sul de Minas Gerais e se espalhou pelo Brasil.
If you and someone you love are going to be apart for a day, a week, a month or a year, you think about each other and you wonder what the other one is doing.
