Sociology: Family & Relationships

Recent decades have witnessed major changes in gender roles and family patterns, as well as a falling birth rate in Ireland and the rest of Europe....

The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, mar...

This classic Family Therapy text continues to provide a new and more comprehensive way to think about human development and the life cycle, reflect...

In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the South Korean government looked to ethnic Korean (Chosnjok) ...

Californias Santa Clara Valley was once home to a vigorous wine industry. The Garden of the World is the tale of a pioneer winemaking family headed...

Food is at the center of national debates about how Americans live and the future of the planet. Not everyone agrees about how to reform our relati...

Material relations tells the story of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century middle-class families by exploring the domestic spaces they inhabited...

Across the Americas and Europe, the family has changed and marriage is in retreat. To answer the question of what's driving these changes and how t...

Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. Mo...

Born in the Year of the Fire Tiger, Ann Wee moved to Singapore in 1950 to marry into a Singaporean Chinese family, entering into a new world of cul...

Does your family make you smarter? James R. Flynn presents an exciting new method for estimating the effects of family on a range of cognitive abil...

The 19th century brought a decisive shift towards a modern form of childhood one protected from the hazards and responsibilities of adulthood. F...

In the age of #MeToo and a radical re-envisioning of cultural attitudes, Nancy McCabe sets out to re-examine and gain new understanding of her ill-...

This book focuses on the nexus between marriage and migration in the wake of the recent attention given to foreign brides and mail-order bri...

Positive parent-child interactions play an important role in fostering the development of pre-schoolers'''' knowledge and understandings of their w...

Many people view forgiveness is a pivotal process in avoiding unnecessary conflict and our ability to maintain valued relationships. The chapters i...

This book presents abundant emergent research works of American, European and Latin American countries, and examine the results of the research, wh...

The Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) evaluation was launched in 2003 to test the effectiveness of a skills-based relationship education program de...

Massachusetts Rules of Domestic Relations Procedure including amendments effective December 1st 2009. It was originally published by the Massachuse...

While acknowledging the ways in which persecution inevitably affects a community, this book deviates from most Jewish studies to survey the ways...

In 2015 the Supreme Court made history by ruling that the constitution protects the right of same-sex couples to get married. The third edition of ...

This book reviews research on the topic of mindsets among families in various cultures, as well as the role of the border worker . Migration proce...

The late twentieth century has seen a fantastic expansion of personal, sexual, and domestic liberties in the United States. In Not Just Roommates, ...

Parents have the legal responsibility to protect and care for their children. However, recent media reports have illuminated a practice involving u...

This book deals with personal, social and cultural time perceptions and their impact on love and romantic relationships. By focusing on time orient...

This volume brings together contributors from 18 countries to provide international perspectives on the politics of parental leave policies in diff...

Historically seen as figures of pity and foreboding poverty stricken receivers of charity, tragic figures dressed in black and even sometimes sexu...

What were the laws on marriage in Ireland, and did church and state differ in their interpretation? How did men and women meet and arrange to marry...