Sociology: family and relationships

This book provides insight into the unique challenges facing Indian and South Asian immigrants in the West-particularly in the United States.

This book explores how low fertility levels could fundamentally change a country's population and society.

This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how cultural, autobiographical and absent memories of orphanhood interact and interconnect or come into being in the re-telling of a life story and construction of an identity.

This timely collection engages with representations of women and ageing in literature and visual culture.

This important text offers data-rich guidelines for conducting culturally relevant and clinically effective intervention with Asian American families.

This book examines the emotional, micro-situated dynamics of status inclusion/exclusion that people produce while caring for others by focusing, in particular, on non-conventional families.

This book, uncovers the lived experiences of street-frequenting young people in Fiji.

This book explores childhood and schooling in late socialist societies by bringing into dialogue public narratives and personal memories that move beyond imaginaries of Cold War divisions between the East and West.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the universal issue of toilet training in children and explores issues that need to be considered by clinicians and other professionals.

This book examines economic transfers across generations and genders from a European perspective.

This book addresses the inter-linked lives and fortunes of children and women in the first two decades of the twentieth century in England.

This comprehensive book covers the research, theory, policy and practice context of unusual reproduction using third parties.

This is the first collection of critical essays that explores Oscar Wilde's interest in children's culture, whether in relation to his famous fairy stories, his life as a caring father to two small boys, his place as a defender of children's rights within the prison system, his fascination with youthful beauty, and his theological contemplation of what it means to be a child in the eyes of God.

This book explores the ways that families were formed and re-formed, and held together and fractured, in Britain from the sixteenth to twentieth century.

This edited collection explores family relations in two types of  'migrant families' in Europe: mixed families and transnational families.

This book presents an incisive and engaging account of love, intimacy and personal life in contemporary Western society.

This practical breakthrough introduces a robust framework for family and couples therapy specifically designed for working with difficult, entrenched, and court-mandated situations.

The second volume of this SpringerBrief presents a series of papers compiled from a conference addressing how after-school programs can promote positive youth development (PYD) hosted by Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development.

The first volume of this SpringerBrief presents a series of papers compiled from a conference about how after-school programs may be implemented to promote positive youth development (PYD) hosted by Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development.

The present book aims to examine how sexual selection works in the human species.

This book draws on a longitudinal study which highlights the beneficial impact of film in the primary curriculum.

This book offers a nuanced picture of mixed family life in the UK.

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This book explores care-leavers' access to their personal records.

This comprehensive reference views China's welfare system through a cultural-historical lens to integrate its complex story into the global study of welfare.

Adopting a longitudinal approach, this book examines the dynamics of union and family formation in France and its effects on various aspects of life, such as employment, intergenerational transfers, etc.

This book defends the thesis that Kant's normative ethics and his practical ethics of sex and marriage can be valuable resources for people engaged in the contemporary debate over same-sex marriage.

This book examines the complex impact of parenting stress and the effects of its transmission on young children's development and well-being (e.

This book challenges adult assumptions that young-people do not, cannot and should not think about death.

This brief presents a new approach to the study of bullying and prejudice in school settings, analyzing the particularities of these two forms of violence and relating them to the hierarchies that distinguish students based on academic performance and popularity.

This book reviews and critiques the growing literature on youth development under conditions of political violence and armed conflict.

This textbook uses cases in family law to illustrate both traditional philosophical problems in the law as well as problems that are unique to family law.

This book investigates marriage and divorce in the nineteenth-century European territories of the Russian Empire.

This research-to-practice volume grounds clinicians in a robust, culturally-informed framework for conducting effective therapy with Asian-American couples, families, and individuals.

This research-to-practice manual introduces Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM), a feedback-based approach to preventing impasses and relapses in couple and family therapy as well as within other psychotherapy approaches.

This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions.

This book provides a unique perspective on addressing issues of various forms of violence against children from scholars within their own country.

This book brings together a broad range of approaches and methodologies relevant to international comparative vocational education and training (VET).

This book provides an account of fatherhood and changing parental roles in Sweden and Poland.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the older-tourist market, and of the challenges and opportunities created by population ageing from a tourism marketing perspective, by combining a demand-side and a supply-side approach to older tourists.

This volume explores intergenerational practices and their impact on social sustainability, with an emphasis on developing programmatic efforts to address profound social challenges such as underperforming educational and work-related systems, failing support systems for dependent or vulnerable populations, and community renewal and regeneration efforts.

This edited collection shows that good parenthood is neither fixed nor stable.

This volume honors the lifetime achievement of distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920-2010) on the occasion of her 96th birthday.

This timely book moves beyond struggling, suffering and loss to argue that forced migration often provides opportunities for men to pursue new relationships and re-organise their intimate lives.

This important volume takes a life course approach in sharing empirical insights on the family experiences of African American males in socioeconomic and political contexts.

This book offers an ethnographic study of the lives of girls in the juvenile justice system.

This edited volume presents a detailed portrait of couples living with mixed HIV status, where one partner is HIV-positive and the other negative.

This clear-sighted reference offers a transformative new lens for understanding the role of family processes in creating - and stopping - child abuse and neglect.

This book reviews broad social changes affecting youth development and the inconsistency of the legal system in updating its approach to adolescents' rights.

This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive review and critique of the scientific evidence concerning the prevalence, nature and potential effects of food advertising and other forms of marketing on children.