Sociology: family and relationships

This textbook provides an integrated and organized foundation for students seeking a brief but comprehensive introduction to the field of relationship science.

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.

Diverse Spaces of Childhood and Youth focuses on the diverse spaces and discourses of children and youth globally.

This book explores the transnational aspects of divorce experiences.

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

Part of "e;ASPA Classics"e; series, this book compiles various contributions to the theory and practice of performance measurement that have been published in various journals affiliated with the American Society for Public Administration.

This guidebook is designed to increase readers' social resilience and assertiveness in response to minority stress.

A unique insight into men''s experiences of caring, masculinity and the nature of work as they enter fatherhood.

Why your political views are more self-serving than you thinkWhen it comes to politics, we often perceive our own beliefs as fair and socially beneficial, while seeing opposing views as merely self-serving.

This interdisciplinary volume includes essays and workshop summaries for the 2006 Attending to Early Modern Women_and Men symposium.

Intimate and honest essays on motherhood, marriage, love, and acceptanceBrown White Black is a portrait of Nishta J.

Abdulillah Polat untersucht Prozesse der Identitätsfindung und der Suche nach Anerkennung von Jugendlichen in Flüchtlingsfamilien.

In an era when half of marriages end in divorce, cohabitation has become more commonplace and those who do get married are doing so at an older age.

Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past.

This book addresses how best to meet everyday challenges.

Originating from discussions about the reasons for, and regional variations behind, the remarkable rise in cohabitation that started in the 1970s - a rise that continues to this day - this book explores the main stimuli behind cohabitation.

Are lone mothers 'going it alone' in late modernity?

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

An inside look at the unique challenges of the lesbian experienceLesbian Families' Challenges and Means of Resiliency: Implications for Feminist Family Therapy is a unique collection of interdisciplinary feminist examinations of the resiliency of lesbian couples and families.

Miriam Buse rekonstruiert mit der “Dokumentarischen Methode“ in ihrer als qualitativer Längsschnitt angelegten Studie elterliche Orientierungen zur Zusammenarbeit mit pädagogischen Fach- und Lehrkräften und fokussiert dabei die Beziehung zwischen Eltern und pädagogischen Akteuren in Kita und Grundschule im Kontext der Transitionsbewältigung.

This volume focuses on using visual research methods with children and young people.

For years, it's been "e;common knowledge"e; that once a woman hits thirty, her chances of finding a husband diminish to the point of despair.

This book provides cutting edge information on safe motherhood in a global context.

This book offers a strengths-based, family-focused approach to improving the educational performance and  school experience of struggling Black and Latino students.

This book investigates the relationship between social capital and loneliness of older adults living in urban China during the COVID-19 outbreak period.

No culture is ever completely successful or satisfied with its synthesis of romantic love, companionship, and sexual desire.

This book examines the popular publications of the Victorian period, illuminating the intricacies of courtship and marriage from the differing perspectives of the working, middle, and upper classes.

Are all immigrants from the same home country best understood as a homogeneous group of foreign-born?

This book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism.

In every Western democracy today, inheritances have a very profound influence on people's lives.

This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society.

Examining the mimetic theory of Rene Girard, this book investigates the development of society as a result of an original crime (a murder) that shaped the way the earliest humans organized the social structures we live with today - an analysis that reveals the dangerous structure of the most basic social relationships.

Originally published in 1987, Malcolm Hill examines the different ways in which parents share responsibility for looking after their pre-school children with other people, whether members of their social networks, formal groups or paid carers.

In Boundaries for Leaders, clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr.

Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the first book-length project to focus specifically on the ways that patriarchal decline and post-feminist ideology are portrayed in popular American horror films of the twenty-first century.

Intercountry adoption has undergone a radical decline since 2004 when it reached a peak of approximately 45,000 children adopted globally.

Der Übergang in das Erwachsenenalter ist für die individuelle Biografie von h- ausragender Bedeutung, da in dieser Zeit eine Reihe wichtiger Entscheidungen getroffen werden, die sich nachhaltig auf den weiteren Lebenslauf auswirken.

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 fundamentally changed the nation's social welfare system, replacing a federal entitlement program for low-income families, called Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), with state-administered block grants, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.

Provides a much-needed update on the latest theory and research on love supplied by leading scientific experts.

Drawing on participant observations, in-depth interviews, and content analysis of online materials, Lai investigates the role of individual choice, relationships, and institutions in unmarried Chinese women's decisions to terminate their pregnancies.

Exposing Men examines how ideals of masculinity have long skewed our societal--and scientific--understanding of one of the pillars of male identity: reproductive health.

This edited volume develops critical discussions of prominent methodological approaches in participatory youth research.

This book provides an in-depth account of a qualitative study on the familial arrangements and domestic settings shaping interracial gay partnerships in the South African context, and it offers both empirical and theoretical insights on the topic.

This book considers the changing nature of intimacy in contemporary China, providing a unique case study of romantic subjectivities in young people in the world's fastest growing economy.

The New Politics of Youth Crime argues that the centrality of 'law and order' to the New Labour project has generated a youth justice strategy which threatens to deepen the problems it purports to solve.

AIDS is not solely a medical issue but also has profound implications for social and family relationships.

In the Japanese language the word 'ie' denotes both the materiality of homes and family relations within.

By the author of "e;Cohabitees"e;, this book traces the boundaries of legal marriage since the Industrial Revolution, from informal marriage practices to modern cohabitation.