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Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Springer Publishing Company 2000; US$ 60.00This manual is a 14-session workshop designed to help grandparents who are raising their grandchildren alone. Group leaders can revise and expand upon the themes presented here to fit the needs of their particular work groups. Some of the main issues that are explored are: useful tips for grandparents on how to communicate effectively with their grandchildren... more...
Contemporary Motherhood
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 114.95In this timely book, Lyn Craig employs large-scale quantitative time-use data to provide a unique and comprehensive account of how parenthood affects daily life within households. Suggesting an explanation for why fertility rates are dramatically dropping, this book makes a significant contribution to the debate on contemporary motherhood. more...
Fathers and Sons in Athens
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 49.95As history's first democracy, classical Athens invited political discourse. The Athenians, however could not completely separate the politicals from the private sphere; indeed father-son conflict, from patricide to murdering one's son, was a major public as well as a private theme. In a fascinating historical reappraisal, the author explores the consequences,... more...
Mothers and Sons
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 41.95For all with an interest in family issues, gender issues, or a new perspective on mothering, this book is a must read. more...
Fathers and Daughters
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 65.95Fathers and Daughters explores the complex nature of this subject using the voices and experiences of both fathers and daughters. Sue Sharpe provides an examination of the important processes operating within the relationship such as those affecting gender roles, achievement, teenage sexuality, women's relationships with men and ageing. It is an... more...
Daughtering and Mothering
Taylor and Francis 1993; US$ 40.95Challenging accepted psychoanalytic views, this book focusses on daughtering as an active process to explore previously unexamined aspects of this central and fundamental relationship. more...
Playing With Time
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 59.95With a background of a reported decline in literacy standards, the author investigates the relationship between gender and literacy, revealing how families, and women in particular, feel pressurized to be responsible for their children's literacy. more...
Conceptualizing and Measuring Father Involvement
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 90.00After decades of focusing on the mother's role in parenting, family studies researchers have turned their attention to the role of the father in parenting and family development. The results shed new light on childhood development and question conventional wisdom by showing that beyond providing the more traditional economic support of the family,... more...
Communication Among Grandmothers, Mothers, and Adult Daughters
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 126.00This volume examines communication processes within the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship, emphasizing an intergenerational perspective. Using observations of and extensive interviews with six sets of middle-income, Caucasian female family members, this book offers a heuristic account of intergenerational mother-daughter relational communication.... more...
The Psychology of Parental Control
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 41.95What is parental control? Is it positive or negative for children? What makes parents controlling with their children, even when they value supporting children's autonomy? Are there alternatives to control and how might we apply them in important domains of children's lives, such as school and sports? This book addresses these and other questions about... more...









