Recent trends in federal policies for social and economic programs have increased the demand for timely, accurate estimates of income and poverty for states, counties, and even smaller areas.
In response to a mandate from Congress in conjunction with the Protection of Children from Sexual Predators Act of 1998, the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine established a committee of experts to explore options to protect children from pornography and other inappropriate Internet content.
Recent trends in federal policies for social and economic programs have increased the demand for timely, accurate estimates of income and poverty for states, counties, and even smaller areas.
The deficiencies that many children experience from birth to school agein health care, nutrition, emotional support, and intellectual stimulation, for exampleplay a major role in academic achievement gaps that persist for years, as well as in behavior and other problems.
High-quality early care and education for children from birth to kindergarten entry is critical to positive child development and has the potential to generate economic returns, which benefit not only children and their families but society at large.
On January 25, 1996, the Committee on Youth Development of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families convened a workshop to examine the implications of research on social settings for the design and evaluation of programs that serve youth.
As many as 20 to 25 percent of American adultsor one in every four peoplehave been victimized by, witnesses of, or perpetrators of family violence in their lifetimes.
Bringing together academic and practitioner points of view, this edited collection shows how violence enters into ordinary, routine practices of childhood and children's experiences.
Based on repeat interviews from a range of generational perspectives, this book explores the nature of contemporary British Chinese households and childhoods, examining the extent to which parents identify themselves as being Chinese and how decisions to uphold or move away from 'traditional' Chinese values impacts on their child-rearing methods.
Siempre tropiezas con la misma piedra en las relaciones de pareja, en el manejo del dinero, con ese miedo que te controla, con esa adicción, con el vacío existencial que te sobrepasa.
Drawing on international case studies, the contributors extrapolate a systematization of the ways in which siblingship is conceived on the basis of shared parentage, shared childhoods, and reciprocal care.
Based on an extensive interview study with lesbian, transgender and queer BDSM practitioners, this book sheds new light on sexuality and current theoretical debates in gender and queer studies.
El tema de la infancia y la juventud se mantiene vigente en los contextos institucionales y de la academia, en los que a diario evidenciamos una infancia contemporánea de carácter precoz, compleja e inacabada, y un conjunto de jóvenes portadores de una identidad descentrada que el mundo adulto no comprende.
This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world.
Thisinterdisciplinary edited collection will challenge the idea of the staticfamily that can be 'broken', and instead think of family as always 'on themove', both conceptually and in practice.
This book explores the many varied ways in which family and intimate lives are realized through mobility: from leaving home, courtship, relationship breakdown, moving house, commuting, family holidays through to children's mobilities, documenting how mobility creates, sustains and dissolves family and intimate relations.
Making an important addition to the highly Britain-dominated field of imperial studies, this book shows that, like numerous other evangelicals operating throughout the colonized world at this time, Danish missionaries invested remarkable resources in the education of different categories children in both India and Denmark.
This book sets out an integrated systems model which utilizes a public health approach and 'whole of society' philosophy for preventing and responding to child sexual abuse.
While many worry about population overload, this book highlights the dramatic fall in fertility rates globally exploring questions such as why are parents having fewer babies?
In this ';darkly humorous' (Harper's Bazaar) memoir-in-essays, actress and singer-songwriter Lola Kirke untangles an extraordinary upbringing in a family of eccentric, messy artists and explains how a big city girl went a little bit country.
Lysa TerKeurst, autora de best sellers del New York Times, te muestra qué hacer con tu escepticismo y desconfianza para que puedas sanar de las traiciones del pasado y avanzar con fuerza y resiliencia.
This volume offers rare insight into an enduring case of anorexia nervosa in a female patient and details the approaches to treatment taken by psychotherapists throughout the 64 year period 1938-2002.
This volume offers rare insight into an enduring case of anorexia nervosa in a female patient and details the approaches to treatment taken by psychotherapists throughout the 64 year period 1938-2002.
Intersectional in approach, this volume of Advances in Gender Research offers an overview of the ways in which environments - broadly defined to include social, natural and built territories, domains and habitats - are gendered.
This book provides deep insight into intimacy and distance in the complex, globalised world through the newly coined concept of couples living apart together transnationally (LATT).
Die vollständig überarbeite Neuauflage des Lehrbuchklassikers knüpft an das bewährte Konzept der Erstauflage an und umfasst alle wesentlichen Themenfelder und Inhaltsbereiche für ein erfolgreiches Sportstudium.
