Sociology: Family & Relationships

The contributors investigate the inter-relationships between migrant remittances and the family in Asia. They argue that, in the context of Asian t...

This collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-document...

An in-depth look at how Muslim American organizations address domestic violence within their communitiesIn Peaceful Families, Juliane Hammer chroni...

This volume brings together a wide range of case studies from across the globe, written by some of the leading scholars in the field, to explore th...

There are millions of children experiencing parental imprisonment all over the world. This book is about their problems, human rights and how they ...

This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of med...

Discover practical strategies to foster meaningful connections with parents and families. Parental engagement today changes the future of education...

Exploring a wide variety of case studies and developmental issues from a capability perspective, this book is an original contribution to both deve...

This collection offers first-hand accounts, research studies and in-depth theoretical explorations of disabled children's childhoods. The accounts ...

This book explores child vulnerability in various contexts from a cross-country, comparative perspective. It shows how vulnerability in childhood d...

Winner of the Christine M. Alder Book Prize in 2015 from the Australian and New Zealand Society of CriminologyHistorical abuse of children is a wor...

The toughness model proposed in this book incorporates psychological research and neuroscience to explain how a variety of toughening activities - ...

Happiness, rather than being a private and subjective experience, is shaped, interpreted and articulated via culturally specific ways of thinking, ...

Chapter 12 of this book is open access under a CC BY license. Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including sociology, anthro...

Men's biological clocks may not be ticking loudly, but what about the social clock? Are there benefits to being in-step with social norms for the t...

This book brings together thirteen timely essays from across the globe that consider a range of 'mediated youth cultures', covering topics such as ...

Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer scholarly investigations int...

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O'Hagan explores the phenomenon of filicide, a deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. Examining over 120 cases of filic...

This anthology deals with changes in values, norms, and attitudes in our society, which is increasingly characterized by cultural diversity. Embedd...

Making a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about reproduction and assisted reproductive technologi...

The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present d...

The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present d...

The pieces in this collection capture the feeling of being buffeted by great gusts of middle-aged longing. What began as one womans quarrel with Bu...

Make It happen!Take your daily organizing to the next level with this exuberant month-at-a-glance planner from celebrated artist Andrea Pippins. Th...

How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class familiesThe struggle to pay for college is a defi...

Speak Strong! Its a leadership skill, a success strategy and a moral imperative. Research shows 90% of us stay silent in situations that call for s...

Bringing together academic and practitioner points of view, this edited collection shows how violence enters into ordinary, routine practices of ch...

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In Undoing Monogamy Angela Willey offers a radically interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of monogamy in U.S. science and culture, propelle...

This book addresses the widespread use of digital personal media in daily life. With a sociological and historical perspective, it explores the med...

Marriages across ethnic borders are increasing in frequency, yet little is known of how discourses of 'normal' families, ethnicity, race, migration...

The futures of reproductive justice and LGBTQIA+ liberation are intimately connected. Both movements were born out of the desire to love and build ...

Through a series of focus group interviews and an analysis of the media and popular culture, Mothers Work examines the institution of motherhood an...

Drawing on international case studies, the contributors extrapolate a systematization of the ways in which siblingship is conceived on the basis of...

How parents approach the task of passing on religious faith and practice to their childrenHow do American parents pass their religion on to their c...