Family life educators Hamon (Messiah College) and Ingoldsby (Brigham Young U.) introduce 14 contributed chapters sampling traditional and modernizing couple formation and marriage practices worldwide. Suitable as a supplementary text for social science courses. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portla

Offers a collection of innovative ideas and resources for educators who wish to enhance the international content of their human development and family science curriculum. This book is suitable for educators training the next generation of family professionals.

Make your marriage and family programs more relevant by making them cross-culturally sensitive International Family Studies offers a collection of innovative ideas and resources for educators who wish to enhance the international content of their human development and family science curriculum. Contributors share their experiences of transforming department commitments, modifying existing and/or creating new courses, developing stimulating exercises and projects, capitalizing on existing faculty development programs to enhance educators' own international understanding, partnering with...

Cultural Diversity and Families: Expanding Perspectives breaks new ground by investigating how concepts of cultural diversity have shaped the study of families from theoretical and applied perspectives. Authors Bahira Sherif Trask and Raeann R. Hamon move the dialogue about culturally diverse families to a new level by topically discussing the issues affecting culturally diverse families rather than organizing the information by racial and or ethnic groups.