Kategoria BISAC: Family & Relationships >> General

"Most authors write of their early mothering years long after their kids have traded diapers for designer jeans and a bottle of milk for a Diet Coke. But Keri wrote this book with preschoolers playing -- or sleeping or fighting or laughing or whining -- in the background. The result is a realistic book. She knows what a young mom...

The New Peoplemaking is completely revised and enlarged by six new chapters that elaborate on the whole of life.

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This study explores whether maternal employment leads to emotional maladjustment of children and disruption of traditional marriage patterns.

Impossible people may be possible after all. Filled with case histories, dialogue, self-inventories, and practical suggestions for building loving and lasting relationships, this book offers a step-by-step strategy for getting along with difficult people.

In The Complex Infrastructure Known as the Female Mind, Relient K expounds on their experiences observing the opposite sex. Detailing some of the "girl types" they've encountered--like the Homecoming Queen, The Athlete, and The Overachiever--they share personal stories and biblical advice for girls of any type to become women of God.

The band's fun attitude is present throughout the book in quizzes, lists, personal stories, and more

Current debates about the future of the family are often based on serious misconceptions about its past. Arguing that there is no biologically mandated or universally functional family form, Stephanie Coontz traces the complexity and variety of family arrangements in American history, from Native American kin groups to the emergence of the dominant middle-class family ideal in the 1890s.

Surveying and synthesizing a vast range of previous scholarship, as well as engaging more particular studies of family life from...

This compendium provides an orientation to basic issues of child and family policy. It includes an overview of the recent history of child and family policy in the United States; an exploration of several political economic conditions underlying changes in these policies; a historical survey of policies toward dependent children; and case studies of selected local, state, and federal policies. The case study approach helps to discern patterns in successful and unsuccessful policies, clarify assumptions and values that underlie them, and develop evaluation criteria. Policy formation is the...

The profession of social work has, since its inception, stressed the importance of the family system in practice and policy development. Even though the family has always been central to effective social work practice, the framing of the family system from a holistic health perspective is new to the field. This collection develops a family health perspective that will facilitate effective social work practice and policy development.

Family health is an emerging practice orientation within the field of social work. A family health orientation practice utilizes a holistic approach that...