Youth-led organizing, a burgeoning movement that empowers young people while simultaneously enabling them to make substantive contributions to their communities, is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, activists, and the media.
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.
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.
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 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.
Traumatic Divorce and Separation integrates the conflicting mental health perspectives concerning trauma theory and the study of divorce, in what the author has termed "e;traumatic divorce"e; -- that is, divorce complicated by the high-risk factors of domestic violence, mental illness, and/or substance abuse.
Traumatic Divorce and Separation integrates the conflicting mental health perspectives concerning trauma theory and the study of divorce, in what the author has termed "e;traumatic divorce"e; -- that is, divorce complicated by the high-risk factors of domestic violence, mental illness, and/or substance abuse.
Homeward Bound shows that as family structure becomes more complex, so too does elder care, and existing institutions and legal approaches are not prepared to handle those complexities.
Homeward Bound shows that as family structure becomes more complex, so too does elder care, and existing institutions and legal approaches are not prepared to handle those complexities.
This book examines requests for action in everyday contexts by analyzing natural video-recorded data of everyday interaction in British English and Polish families.
Much has been made of the complex social arrangements that girls and women navigate, but little scholarly or popular attention has focused on what friendship means to men.
A new examination of how and why American religious parents seek to pass on religion to their childrenThe most important influence shaping the religious and spiritual lives of children, youth, and teenagers is their parents.
A new examination of how and why American religious parents seek to pass on religion to their childrenThe most important influence shaping the religious and spiritual lives of children, youth, and teenagers is their parents.
The expectation for fathers to be more involved with parenting their children and pitching in at home are higher than ever, yet broad social, political, and economic changes have made it more difficult for low-income men to be fathers.
The expectation for fathers to be more involved with parenting their children and pitching in at home are higher than ever, yet broad social, political, and economic changes have made it more difficult for low-income men to be fathers.
The popular RT series Teens in the Wild showed David Coleman doing what he does best: taking families who were locked in conflict and turning things around.
A Sunday Telegraph and Times Higher Education 'Book of the Week', Deborah Cohen's Family Secrets is a gripping book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why.
In the 1970s, Basil Bernstein's work on children's sociolinguistic codes and his formulation of the contexts in which they are transmitted were the most influential in the field.
A moving, cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives-and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve themThe work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis.
Discover the New Dimensions of LoveIn a world where a swipe could lead to your soulmate, how does one navigate the labyrinth of modern romance effectively?
A poignant account of everyday polygamy and what its regulation reveals about who is viewed as an "e;Other"e;In the past thirty years, polygamy has become a flashpoint of conflict as Western governments attempt to regulate certain cultural and religious practices that challenge seemingly central principles of family and justice.
This handbook provides an overview of developments in the youth mobility and migration research field, with specific emphasis on movement for education, work and training purposes, encompassing exchanges sponsored by institutions, governments and international agencies, and free movement.
Social workers need to work with fathers across many service systems, but lack guidance on how to do so, and most engagement, assessment, and intervention work for family-serving systems is mother- and child-focused.
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews from across Colombia-including former child guerillas, former hostages of the guerilla organization, mothers of child soldiers, and humanitarian aid workers- this volume explores the experiences of children involved with the Colombian guerilla group the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc).
This book presents an original contribution to the study of care and care work by addressing pressing issues in the field from a Latin American and intersectional perspective.
