Sociology: family and relationships

This pioneering work aims at understanding the impact of non-standard (evening, night, weekend) working time on family cohesion, meaning parent-child interaction, partnership quality and divorce or partnership dissolution.

Most neonates who now survive intensive care would have died 50 years ago, and "e;nature"e; would have decided the outcomes, making ethical discussions about initiating or withholding resuscitation irrelevant.

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All countries confront the problem of providing for dependent, neglected, and 1 abused children.

The thirty-five chapters in this book are edited versions of papers presented at the Advanced Research Workshop, State Intervention on Behalf of Children and Youth, which took place in Maratea, Italy, February 20-24, 1989.

There is a strong connection between culture and parenting.

This book focuses on families and their changes in Taiwan and China.

There is an increasing appreciation of the interconnections among all forms of violence.

Translated and updated from the seminal Spanish text on legal decisions affecting gender and sexuality in Latin America, this English edition is the only law text to focus specifically on the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and the transgender population in addition to women's rights more broadly.

This book explores the process of decision-making around having children in a sample of 115 men, women and couples for whom family formation was a recent past, current or imminent future issue.

Reunification is a primary goal of foster care systems and the most common permanency planning decision.

In Chinese societies where both "e;money"e; and "e;gender"e; confer power, can a woman's economic success relative to her husband's bring about a more equal division of household labor?

Currently, families are being subjected to increasing public attention.

Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time.

Set against the backdrop of social change and globalization, this book presents the contents and contours of adolescence in contemporary urban India.

This is a comprehensive volume on issues and concerns relating to child and adolescent mental health in Asia, which includes contributions from experts in child psychiatry from Asia and other parts of the world.

Kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of most humans in most societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated.

Two Sides of a Coin is the story of two women: Kadambari, a 10-year-old girl with a resilient spirit, and her widowed Aunt, Sarita, who adopts her.

'India Kolling' a dream project of 5 London-based young Indian filmmakers who returned to their countryNIndiaNfor their debut project.

Knowledge Survives,is a touching story of Rakesh Awasthi, a poor boy from Allahabad, who reluctantly agrees to appear for the IIT entrance exam to please his father.

This book presents an international research-based framework that has empowered parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to become critical decision makers to actively guide their child's learning and self-advocacy.

This book challenges readers to recognise the conditions that underpin popular approaches to children and young people's participation, as well as the key processes and institutions that have enabled its rise as a global force of social change in new times.

Two Sides of a Coin is the story of two women: Kadambari, a 10-year-old girl with a resilient spirit, and her widowed Aunt, Sarita, who adopts her.

In 'The arena of everyday life' nine authors look back and forward at developments in the sociology of consumers and households.

Over the past decades Europe has witnessed fundamental changes of its population dynamics and population structure.

Do adoptions provide children for families or families for children?

Pathways through the life course have changed considerably in recent decades.

This book presents an innovative demographic toolkit known as the ProFamy extended cohort-component method for the projection of household structures and living arrangements with empirical applications to the United States, the largest developed country, and China, the largest developing country.

This book investigates the experiences of older people who remain at home with care.

Recent decades have seen a growing emphasis, in a number of professional contexts, on acknowledging and acting on the views of children.

Grounded in pioneering research, this authoritative text examines the parenting strategies that help children and adolescents develop into productive, happy members of society.

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In Veilig opgroeien (oorspronkelijke titel Signs of Safety), wordt een nieuwe benadering in de bescherming van kinderen gepresenteerd.

Klara Thaler Stuefer ist die letzte Hausgeburtshebamme des Sarntals.

Dieser praxisnahe Ratgeber begleitet werdende Eltern auf ihrem Weg in ein neues Lebenskapitel.

¿Sientes con frecuencia temor ante la enfermedad y la muerte, ansiedad por el futuro, rabia e impotencia por las injusticias de que has sido objeto?

Este libro culmina la amplísima carrera de práctica clínica, formaciones de profesionales y másteres impartidos por Fina Sanz, creadora de la Terapia de Reencuentro.

«I he anat veient com han canviat les famílies en tan pocs anys: no parlen només en català o castellà, sinó en desenes de llengües diverses; són famílies en què les dones no accepten ser l'ombra de ningú; són famílies d'un pare o d'una mare sols, de dos homes o de dues dones que s'estimen; famílies que s'estimen després de recuperar-se del tràngol d'un desamor anterior; famílies que superen dificultats, famílies que les dificultats els superen; famílies amb fills propis, que n'adopten, que acullen infants,… tantes menes de famílies!

"El joc és intens i res no la distreu.

Que es el Circulo de seguridad?

Desde hace algún tiempo varios grupos políticos, sociales y económicos pretenden cambiar la prohibición de los vientres de alquiler establecida por ley en España.

Desde nuestra más tierna infancia, los diferentes agentes socializadores (familia, escuela, medios de comunicación, publicidad, cine y literatura, …) nos han transmitido un modelo de relación sentimental basado en edulcorados mitos románticos y encorsetados estereotipos de género.

Estás embarazada o quizá tienes ya un bebé entre tus brazos.

¿Por qué ellas siguen ganando menos?

Para Émile Zola (París, 1840-1902), el amor en el siglo XVII es "un gran señor empenachado […] que entra en los salones precedido por una música solemne"; en el XVIII, "un granuja desaliñado […] que desayuna con una rubia, cena con una morena y trata a las mujeres como diosas generosas"; y en el XIX, "un joven formal, correcto como notario, que tiene rentas del Estado…".

La fabula del bazar analiza las pautas e imagenes que la sociedad europea ha desarrollado a partir del consumo de masas y la logica de la integracion social y la reproduccion de las desigualdades.

Las meditaciones reunidas en este libro han nacido del deseo de jóvenes parejas de novios y esposos de ser ayudados a profundizar en su vocación al matrimonio y a la familia.