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Parenting Representations
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 109.00The study of parents from their own perspective not just as socializing agents of their children has been long neglected. This book summarizes and presents the new and surging literature on parenting representations namely parents' views, emotions and internal world regarding their parenting. more...
Parenting From the Inside Out
Penguin Group US 2003; US$ 14.95How many parents have found themselves thinking: I can't believe I just said to my child the very thing my parents used to say to me! Am I just destined to repeat the mistakes of my parents? In Parenting from the Inside Out , child psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., explore the extent to which our... more...
Parenthood in America
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 185.00This is the work of America's real authorities, the heavy hitters in psychology, health, sociology, anthropology, and family history. It aims to fill the gap between how-to books and specialized texts aimed at scholars. more...
Family and Peers
Greenwood Publishing Group 2000; US$ 125.00Why is it that relationships with family members predict the quality of children's relationships outside the family? This volume discusses, from a variety of critical perspectives, several mechanisms that may account for continuities across family and peer relationships. more...
Population Dynamics
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 144.99Fills the gap between the classical supply-side theory of Malthus and the modern demand-side theory of economic demography by investigating the dynamic macroeconomic implications of various static microeconomic-family economic decisions. The author applies a mathematical apparatus to the problem. more...
Adoption
ABC-CLIO 2007; US$ 55.00The ancient practice of adoption has changed significantly through history. In colonial America, parents adopted out their unwanted childrenÑthose who were Òrude, stubborn, and unrulyÓÑto other families. Today, Americans go abroad looking for children to adopt, and have adopted more than a quarter million internationally.||Adoption: A Reference Handbook,... more...
Parenting Beliefs, Behaviors, and Parent-Child Relations
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 44.95The purpose of this book, is to present a rather simple argument. Parents' thoughts about childrearing and the ways in which they interact with children to achieve particular parenting or developmental goals, are culturally determined. Within any culture, children are shaped by the physical and social settings within which they live, culturally regulated... more...
Opting Out?
University of California Press 2007; US$ 24.95Noting a phenomenon that might seem to recall a previous era, The New York Times Magazine recently portrayed women who leave their careers in order to become full-time mothers as ?opting out.? But, are high-achieving professional women really choosing to abandon their careers in order to return home? This provocative study is the first to tackle this... more...
Promoting Positive Parenting
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2007; US$ 29.95Video-feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting (VIPP) is a brief and focused parenting intervention program that has been successful in a variety of clinical and non-clinical groups and cultures. This book covers the successful implementations of this program and presents the outcome of this effort. more...
Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2006; US$ 39.99Economic deprivation while growing up has been linked to poor physical health, reduced intellectual ability, and academic achievement. This volume explores issues related to fragile families, covering legal and theoretical perspectives, causes and consequences of offspring wellbeing, and the aspect of father's importance to the "fragile families." more...









