Sociology: family and relationships

This book provides an expert view of research on parenting and child development in new family forms.

A pioneering study of Victorian and Edwardian fatherhood, investigating what being, and having, a father meant to working-class people.

A pioneering study of Victorian and Edwardian fatherhood, investigating what being, and having, a father meant to working-class people.

Study of conjugal relationships between Indian women and British men in colonial India.

Study of conjugal relationships between Indian women and British men in colonial India.

''Manuals'' for new parents illustrating many models of babyhood, shaped by different values and cultures.

This book defends the conjugal view of marriage.

This book defends the conjugal view of marriage.

This study creates a holistic research base by looking at the demographics of the ageing population and reviewing existing studies.

Der Kipppunkt ist erreicht: Ein Appell von wütenden Müttern, u.

Over one-third of the Indian population is made up of young people aged between 15 and 34 years.

This multidisciplinary book addresses the nature and meaning of relationships and identity in assisted conception families.

This book examines the effects of external factors on the social influences of those involved in close, interpersonal relationships.

This multidisciplinary book addresses the nature and meaning of relationships and identity in assisted conception families.

This book examines the effects of external factors on the social influences of those involved in close, interpersonal relationships.

Adopted Women and Biological Fathers offers a critical and deconstructive challenge to the dominant notions of adoptive identity.

Adopted Women and Biological Fathers offers a critical and deconstructive challenge to the dominant notions of adoptive identity.

Nurture and Neglect: Childhood in Sixteenth-Century Northern England addresses a number of anomalies in the existing historiography surrounding the experience of children in urban and rural communities in sixteenth-century northern England.

Nurture and Neglect: Childhood in Sixteenth-Century Northern England addresses a number of anomalies in the existing historiography surrounding the experience of children in urban and rural communities in sixteenth-century northern England.

How do men think about fathering?

How do men think about fathering?

In Getting Married, Carrie Yodanis and Sean Lauer examine the social rules and expectations that shape our most personal relationships.

It has appeared to many commentators that the most fundamental change in what it is meant to be working-class in twentieth-century Britain came not as a result of war or of want, but of prosperity.

It has appeared to many commentators that the most fundamental change in what it is meant to be working-class in twentieth-century Britain came not as a result of war or of want, but of prosperity.

High rates of intermarriage, especially with Whites, have been viewed as an indicator that Asian Americans are successfully "e;assimilating,"e; signaling acceptance by the White majority and their own desire to become part of the White mainstream.

High rates of intermarriage, especially with Whites, have been viewed as an indicator that Asian Americans are successfully "e;assimilating,"e; signaling acceptance by the White majority and their own desire to become part of the White mainstream.

While marriage has lost its popularity in many developed countries and is no longer an obligatory path to family formation, it has gained momentum among binational couples as states reinforce their control over human migration.

While marriage has lost its popularity in many developed countries and is no longer an obligatory path to family formation, it has gained momentum among binational couples as states reinforce their control over human migration.

Legal aid for family cases in private law, mainly divorce and separation, where the state is not directly involved as it is in public law cases where there are issues of domestic violence or neglect or abuse of children, came to an abrupt end together with help for welfare and immigration cases on April 1 2013 when the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) came into effect.

Legal aid for family cases in private law, mainly divorce and separation, where the state is not directly involved as it is in public law cases where there are issues of domestic violence or neglect or abuse of children, came to an abrupt end together with help for welfare and immigration cases on April 1 2013 when the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) came into effect.

This book examines, in a culturally and contextually sensitive way, the particularity of what it means to be young in post-Mao China undergoing rapid and dramatic transformation by comparing childhood and youth experiences over three generations.

This book examines, in a culturally and contextually sensitive way, the particularity of what it means to be young in post-Mao China undergoing rapid and dramatic transformation by comparing childhood and youth experiences over three generations.

Each family has its secrets, ones that shape family communication and relationships in a way generally unknown to the outsider and often the family itself.

Each family has its secrets, ones that shape family communication and relationships in a way generally unknown to the outsider and often the family itself.

Contrary to what is suggested in media and popular discourses, Europe is neither a monolithic entity nor simply a collection of nation states.

Contrary to what is suggested in media and popular discourses, Europe is neither a monolithic entity nor simply a collection of nation states.

Multiculturalism in Western countries continues to grow, but responsiveness to it with culturally sensitive research, policy and practice has been slower to develop.

Multiculturalism in Western countries continues to grow, but responsiveness to it with culturally sensitive research, policy and practice has been slower to develop.

This volume explores mixed race/mixed ethnic identities in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

This volume explores mixed race/mixed ethnic identities in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Smartphone Cultures explores emerging questions about the ways in which this mobile technology and its apps have been produced, represented, regulated and incorporated into everyday social practices.

Smartphone Cultures explores emerging questions about the ways in which this mobile technology and its apps have been produced, represented, regulated and incorporated into everyday social practices.

Sharing the care of children in families is increasingly becoming the norm in modern-day society as more mothers enter paid work and government campaigns endeavour to increase the number of men working in childcare.

Sharing the care of children in families is increasingly becoming the norm in modern-day society as more mothers enter paid work and government campaigns endeavour to increase the number of men working in childcare.

Recent books have drawn attention to an unfinished gender revolution and the reversal of gender progress.

Recent books have drawn attention to an unfinished gender revolution and the reversal of gender progress.

Derived from the author's own survey called the Long Island Long-Term Marriage Survey, this text examines couples married 50 years or more.

Derived from the author's own survey called the Long Island Long-Term Marriage Survey, this text examines couples married 50 years or more.

A follow-up to the wildly successful What My Mother and I Don't Talk About, this ';moving and deeply relatable' (Qian Julie Wang, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Country) collection of essays from sixteen notable writers breaks the silence on the complexand sometimes contentiousrelationships we have with our fathers.

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