Sociology: family and relationships

From the ground breaking legal decisions on gay marriage to the promotion of marriage for low-income families, the "e;sacred institution"e; of marriage has turned into a public battleground.

Taking Charge is the first empirically tested program of its kind, designed specifically to improve academic achievement and self-sufficiency for adolescent and teenage mothers, who face increased risk of dropping out and experiencing poverty.

In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Bombay.

This book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival.

This book is the product of a multi-year initiative, sponsored by the Division of Family Psychology (43) of the American Psychological Association, the Family Institute at Northwestern University, Oxford University Press, and Northwestern University, to bring together the leading researchers in family psychology in five major areas of great social and health relevance -- good marriage, depression, divorce and remarriage, partner violence, and families and physical health.

The recent controversy over Joe Kennedy's annulment gave only a glimpse of American Catholicism's open secret: that contrary to official Catholic doctrine, American churches grant annulments wholesale, freely declaring marriages nonexistent so that one or both partners can remarry in the church.

In business, politics, marriage, indeed in any significant relationship, trust is the essential precondition upon which all real success depends.

Surgery and pharmaceuticals are not the only effective procedures we have to improve our health.

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We've come a long way since the classic book The Organization Man first introduced the "e;ideal"e; 2-person career--a full-time male breadwinner and a stay-at-home wife.

Families and Work: New Directions in the Twenty-First Century provides an innovative framework for understanding the interface between family care and employment.

Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided our nation since its earliest history.

The history of the British working classes has until recently been written with a focus on the workplace or on such male organizations as clubs, unions, or national political parties.

Although the history of the family was long ignored by serious scholars, research has flourished in recent decades, and this new field of study has told us much more than we knew even thirty years ago.

This brilliant study shows the pivotal role the Quakers played in the origins and development of America's family ideology.

A detailed story of how social science contributed to gay rights gains in the courts.

A detailed story of how social science contributed to gay rights gains in the courts.

From civil war to Japanese occupation and communist revolution to market transition, China has undergone and continues to experience enormous economic, political, and social change.

From civil war to Japanese occupation and communist revolution to market transition, China has undergone and continues to experience enormous economic, political, and social change.

Each year more than 2 million Americans divorced, and most of them use a lawyer.

In January 1862, Charles Godwin courted Harriet Russell, ultimately unsuccessfully, with the following lines: "e;Like cadences of inexpressibly sweet music, your kind words came to me: causing every nerve to vibrate as though electrified by some far off strain of heavenly harmony.

The breakdown of the family has moved in recent years to the forefront of national consciousness.

There is a crisis today in the American family, and this crisis has been particularly severe in the African American community.

In Conjugal Union, Robert F.

Changes in biological processes, relationships, and community interactions influence the emergence of sexuality in all young people.

There are two marriages in every marital union, his and hers.

This book offers an in-depth study of the female experience in one Mormon polygynous community, the Apostolic United Brethren.

From Dan Quayle's attack on TV's Murphy Brown for giving birth out of wedlock, to the referendum recently passed in Colorado that forbid local communities from enacting non-discrimination laws for sexual orientation, the public furor over issues of same-sex marriages, gay rights, pornography, and single-parent families has erupted with a passion not seen since the 1960s.

How has the Jewish family changed over the course of the twentieth century?

Americans today live with conflicting ideas about day care.

The twentieth century was, by any reckoning, the age of the child in America.

The press called Martin's actions a "e;crime spree.

Having a child, it has been said, is the greatest risk one can take.

At a time when blacks are returning to the South in record numbers, this book offers proof that the stereotypical Southern town--replete with poverty, prejudice, and hopelessness for blacks--still persists despite the civil rights revolution.

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Contemporary marriage involves complex notions of both connection and freedom.

While perhaps best known for his Lives, Plutarch also wrote philosophical dialogues that constitute a major intellectual legacy from the first century A.

The story of how women's lives, loves, and dreams have been re-shaped since 1950, the year of Walt Disney's Cinderella and a time when teenage girls dreamed of marriage, Mr Right, and happy endings.

The story of how women's lives, loves, and dreams have been re-shaped since 1950, the year of Walt Disney's Cinderella and a time when teenage girls dreamed of marriage, Mr Right, and happy endings.

Fathers are often neglected in histories of family life in Britain.

All human beings are born and all human beings die.

All human beings are born and all human beings die.

As a result of widespread mistreatment and overt discrimination, women in the developing world often lack autonomy.

Fathers in the fifties tend to be portrayed as wise and genial pipe-smokers or distant, emotionless patriarchs.

Developments in the law, scholarship, and research since 2006 form a substantial part of the second edition of this book which sets the governance of personal relationships in the context of the exercise of social and personal power.

What is human well-being?

What is human well-being?

Every year millions of families are affected by the imprisonment of a family member.