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Family Life, Family Law, and Family Justice: Tying the Knot combines history, social science, and legal analysis to char......more
This book analyzes children’s agency as interactional achievement in formal and informal contexts of education and illum......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more
In the four years before the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe versus Wade decision, women seeking abortions had to subject theme......more
This open access book examines how families and other social institutions interact to shape outcomes over the life cours......more
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion i......more
This open access edited volume investigates children and youth’s deep entanglement in today’s major global, national, an......more
Esmée Sinéad Hanna and Brendan Gough examine men’s experiences of fertility and lifestyle practices, exploring personal ......more
Drawing on interviews with donors, their kin and fertility counsellors, the authors discuss what donation stories can te......more
An enlightening insight into the family dynamics surrounding contact with the justice system, Police, Courts, and Incarc......more
The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare an......more
"Repair, heal, and restore your relationship with evidence-based therapy skills, techniques, and activities from a respe......more
A must-read collection of acclaimed writers, thinkers and activists, Aftermath: Life in Post-Roe America offers an indis......more
This book explores disrupted youth cohesion in France within the context of multiple ongoing global economic, migratory,......more
Named one of Mother Jones’ BOOKS WE NEEDED IN 2022 An in-depth look at the legacy of Roe v. Wade, and on-the-ground repo......more
An in-depth look at the legacy of Roe v. Wade, and on-the-ground reporting from the front lines of the battle to protect......more
"This moving book is both an act of defiance -- a way to construct a home outside of borders -- and a timely manifesto o......more
A Passion for More an intimate and trailblazing look at the reasons women in monogamous relationships and marriages take......more
There is an exponential rise in female infidelity.... ....according to bestselling gender expert Susan Shapiro Barash in......more
INTRODUCTION Marriage can be defined in a myriad fashion but to be precise, it is a concept with an ever-changing nature......more
What if we could do better than the family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be f......more
This research sought to find out the commonalities and variations in lenyalo marriage culture and practices in past and ......more
This book examines how class shapes interactions between professionals, parents, and young people in the youth justice s......more
Combining global perspectives and knowledge of different disciplines, Being a Child in a Global World is a truly ground-......more
Third Sector Organizations in Sex Work and Prostitution is about sex work and prostitution third sector organizations (T......more
This book is the first Australian study, based on extensive fieldwork, of the personal backgrounds and processes by whic......more
This book examines how emerging forms of citizenship are shaped by young people in digital spaces as way of making sense......more
In every Western democracy today, inheritances have a very profound influence on people’s lives. This motivates renewed ......more
A lone parent is defined as a parent who raises a child or children, and does not have a spouse or a live-in partner. Lo......more
At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with h......more
Sister Paula was educated and trained as a licensed social worker and then came to California to work for Holy Family Ad......more
The scientific and technological innovations that will take place over the next decade will transform our society in pro......more
This edited volume examines how opportunities to realise children’s rights and the experience of childhood itself have b......more
Providing fresh insight at a crucial moment of global disruption, Children, Youth and Time reflects on the complex conce......more
This book presents a dialogue between scholars on different aspects of reproductive technologies. If we continue to work......more
This Book "The Ladies Book of Useful Information" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so tha......more
In this extraordinary book, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Erickson uncovers the long-hidden story of an immigra......more
Minority populations are often regarded as being ’hard to reach’ and evading state expectations of health protection. Th......more
Recent literature has identified modern "parenting" as an expert-led practice-one which begins with pre-pregnancy decisi......more
This book advocates the application of holistic and humanistic approaches in elderly care and services to achieve the go......more
There are some secrets that are safe to share. Then there are those secrets that you know deep inside your soul, you’d b......more
Based on interviews conducted with parents of trans and gender diverse children in the UK, this book presents an account......more
This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special comple......more
United States Supreme Court decision on Thomas E. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, e......more
No matter what influences a woman to end a pregnancy, the physical, psychological, and spiritual side effects are real a......more
Introduction Marriage is one of the vigorously researched topics for last many decades. It is important because it is di......more
This edited book empirically discusses stratification in contemporary Japanese society. It is unique for its examination......more
This book speaks to the meanings and values that inhere in close relations, focusing on ’family’ and ’kinship’ but also ......more
This book focuses on issues of family, work, and gender, with a focus on gender inequality. Women are disadvantaged in b......more
Have you ever considered that love is empty without promises and that your understanding of what these promises are hold......more
Developing the new framework of ’life-mix’, which considers the mixed patterns of caring and working in different period......more
Volume 6: Families at the Intersection of Mental Health and Dis-ability offers scholars and practitioners an opportunity......more
This book offers a nuanced way to conceptualise South Asian Muslim families’ experiences of disability within the UK. Th......more
Strengthen your marriage for a lifetime with these fun, easy-to-use communication tools How does good marriage communica......more
Strengthen your marriage for a lifetime with these fun, easy-to-use communication tools How does good marriage communica......more
Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, there was a dramatic reversal of women’s rights, and the state revived many premo......more
INTRODUCTION ’Five women in India die every hour during childbirth: World Health Organization (WHO). Nearly 45,000 mothe......more
With reproductive freedom under unprecedented attack, Choice Words, edited by poet Annie Finch, takes back the cultural ......more
Including a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Opening Up is a chronicle of the struggles and triumphs of families suffe......more
In 1971, as part of their work with their feminist reproductive collective, Lorraine Rothman and Carol Downer invented m......more
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to ......more
This book boldly states and deeply analyzes a commonplace observation about us all: our mothers play a powerful role in ......more
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to ......more
This book boldly states and deeply analyzes a commonplace observation about us all: our mothers play a powerful role in ......more
This book examines literary and cinematic representations of the European settlers of Algeria known as the pieds-noirs f......more
1.1 Introduction 1.2 Marriage in India 1.3 Single Employee and Dual Employee Married Couples 1.4 Mental Health 1.5 Marit......more
BACKGROUND We often would possibly hear everybody say that we have to adjust the situation; therefore; Adjustment is ess......more
INTRODUCTION ’Five women in India die every hour during childbirth: World Health Organization (WHO). Nearly 45,000 mothe......more
The second of two volumes filling a gap in the literature in understanding and responding to this grand challenge, this ......more
"Losing Sleep analyzes the messages parents receive about infant sleep, including how race, class, and gender shape our ......more
"Losing Sleep analyzes the messages parents receive about infant sleep, including how race, class, and gender shape our ......more
Tibet is known for its broad range of marriage practices, particularly polyandry, where two or more brothers share one w......more
The first volume of Youth Exclusion and Empowerment in the Contemporary Global Order focuses particularly on contexts of......more
This volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol......more
How parenting became a verb, from Dr. Spock and June Cleaver to baby whispering and free-range kids. When did "parenting......more
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INTRODUCTION What Is Marriage? The human society, ever since, has witnessed the diffusion and evolution of multiple inst......more
BURNOUT: Since the beginning of civilization human beings have been trying their best to achieve the goal of happiness, ......more
THE PROBLEM UNDER INVESTIGATION: About six and half decades have passed when India got independence, but the women are l......more
This book examines the experiences of migrant peasant workers in China who care for parents diagnosed with cancer and ex......more
This book documents, verifies and brings to life the issues and debates that are created around the aging society. It ca......more
Both nationally and internationally, the south Indian state of Kerala has been an object of study for its matrilineal ki......more
In Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys Patterson provides an analysis of the social structure of medieval Ireland, focusing......more
This collection examines how greed should be understood and appraised. Roundly condemned by virtually all religions, gre......more
This book is a quantitative study of families in China that focuses specifically on the family burden coefficient. The a......more
India has two key social formations, the castes and the tribes. Both groups can be studied from the perspective of socie......more
"Antebellum America saw a great upsurge in abortion, driven in part by the rise of the pharmaceutical industry. Unsurpri......more
"Antebellum America saw a great upsurge in abortion, driven in part by the rise of the pharmaceutical industry. Unsurpri......more
The family is humanity’s oldest and most basic social institution, but today it is fragile, fractured, and fraught in ma......more
The family is humanity’s oldest and most basic social institution, but today it is fragile, fractured, and fraught in ma......more
Young people are very often the driving forces of political participation that aims to change societies and political sy......more
This book takes a global perspective to address the concept of belonging in youth studies, interrogating its emergence a......more