Sociology: family and relationships

With about 70,000 domestic and international adoptions each year in the United States and Canada, adoption remains a major means of building families in both countries.

Soziale Innovationen gelten als Antwort auf komplexe Probleme.

This innovative edited collection brings together leading international academics to explore the use of various non-prescription and prescription substances for the purpose of perceived body image enhancement.

This book gathers international and interdisciplinary work on youth studies from the Global South, exploring issues such as continuity and change in youth transitions from education to work; contemporary debates on the impact of mobility, marginalization and violence on young lives; how digital technologies shape youth experiences; and how different institutions, cultures and structures generate a diversity of experiences of what it means to be young.

Women in the thraldom of man has led sometimes, in one form or another, to the most horrible abuses.

This book explores LGBQTNB people''s relationships with animals, examining a complex menagerie of human-animal relationships.

Don Miguel Ruiz ist ein renommierter spiritueller Lehrer und ein internationaler Bestsellerautor.

This book offers a practical, methodological guide to conducting arts-based research with children by drawing on five years of the authors' experience carrying out arts-based research with children in Australia and the UK.

This book has been replaced by Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4146-1.

From teen pregnancy and single parenting to athletics and HIV/AIDS, myths about African American families abound.

In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South.

This important text offers data-rich guidelines for conducting culturally relevant and clinically effective intervention with Asian American families.

Because of their ever-changing personalities, their high energy, and their emerging ability to think critically, younger adolescents present a special faith formation challenge to the congregations who love them.

Was wäre, wenn unsere schlimmsten Erfahrungen uns nicht mehr kontrollieren würden?

This volume brings together an international team of authors to investigate a wide range of issues concerning the fundamental role of media technologies in shaping contemporary emotional life.

First published in 1973, The Symmetrical Family combines evidence about the family of the past with information from a sociological survey in the London region and uses both as the basis for a speculative discussion about the future.

From best-selling relationship expert comes a common-sense guide to help you and your partner increase your emotional intelligence, teaching you practical ways to express your feelings and strengthen your relationship.

Babies are not simply born they are made through cultural and social practices.

Neoliberal logics of government shaping childhood today produce market-based frameworks for understanding childhood risks.

Full of research backed advice, examples, and reflection questions throughout, this book is for fathers seeking to build their parenting identity while effectively supporting their child from conception to adulthood.

This edited collection explores family relations in two types of  'migrant families' in Europe: mixed families and transnational families.

Are children today growing up too soon?

Focusing on moral, social and legal responsibilities as opposed to rights or obligations, this volume explores the concept of responsibility in family life, law and practice.

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The strengths of families from culture to culture, when compared to each other, are remarkably similar and give us common ground around the world upon which to unite and develop mutual understanding.

This timely book moves beyond struggling, suffering and loss to argue that forced migration often provides opportunities for men to pursue new relationships and re-organise their intimate lives.

This book teaches parents how to conduct play therapy with their own young children.

Bringing together disability theorists and medical sociologists for the first time in this cutting-edge collection, contributors examine chronic illness and disability, disability theory, doctor-patient encounters, lifeworld issues and the new genetics.

This book explores the educational experiences of young male Somali students in British schools.

Social problems are endemic to all societies.

Stories and storytelling are one of the primary ways that families and family members make sense of both everyday and difficult events, create a sense of individual and group identity, remember, connect generations, and establish guidelines for family behavior.

The year 2000 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of A Little Commonwealth by Bancroft Prize-winning scholar John Demos.

Revitalizing Victimization Theory: Revisions, Applications, and New Directions revises some of the major perspectives in victimization theory, applies theoretical perspectives to the victimization of vulnerable populations, and carves out new theoretical territory that is clearly needed but has yet to be developed.

„Das ist ja alles ganz schön und gut, was wir hier lernen, aber in der Praxis weht ein ganz an- rer Wind!

This exciting new book advances current practice-based and theoretical knowledge around how youth defines and engages with consumerism to provoke a larger conversation within science and environmental education.

Too many juvenile delinquents persist in their offending into adulthood.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (known commonly as the NDIS) was introduced as a radical new way of funding disability services in Australia.

Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, The Handbook of Narrative Analysis is the first comprehensive collection of sociolinguistic scholarship on narrative analysis to be published.

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