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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...
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...
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...
Down Our Way
Wiley 2007; US$ 192.00This book will describe in detail what it is like to be a parent in four different communities in England. The research data that are the basis for this description are interpreted in relation to a number of key factors, include: family social class, ethnic group, length of time on the neighbourhood and the presence of extended family locally. The... more...
Parenting after Partnering
Hart Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 46.80Suitable for academics and family lawyers, this volume brings together research from the USA, Central, North Western and Southern Europe, and Australia on the nature and importance of children's relationships with parents after parental separation, and on the range of professional interventions which support them through these difficult times. more...
Hands of My Father
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 24.00By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg?s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents?and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. ?Does sound have rhythm?? my father asked. ?Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does it come and go like the wind?? Such... more...









