Sociology: Family & Relationships

A revelatory investigation of human and animal adolescence from the New York Times bestselling authors of Zoobiquity. Teenagers: behind the banter...

In a field dominated by deficiency and deviance models for minority families, Resiliency in African American Families breaks that mold by focusing ...

Our Black Sons Matter is a powerful collection of original essays, letters, and poems that addresses both the deep joys and the very real challenge...

This nonjudgmental, inclusive, and far-reaching text focuses on the diverse patterns of family structure prevalent in our society today. Family Div...

This recent volume is an important resource for instructors, researchers, and clinicians interested in the development of children who have been ad...

The editors have chosen substantial extracts to illustrate the major themes and ideas in Beveridge’s writing over a period of more than four decade...

BECOME A MASTER AT NEGOTIATION AND COMMUNICATIONNever go into an important conversation feeling unheard, unprepared, or uninformed again—apply the ...

The volume takes a close look at the forms and functions of family and kinship in cultural narratives in the United States. It analyzes social and ...

Grounded in pioneering research, this authoritative text examines the parenting strategies that help children and adolescents develop into producti...

In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the United St...

The "juggling act" of work and family that has characterized life in the past couple of decades has become a significant focus of those interested ...

This supplementary volume to Beveridge’s important work Voluntary Action sets out some of the important material on which the Report is based, and ...

Experience the birth of the first support group for sexual minorities with developmental disabilities! Reflecting an unprecedented development in ...

Get the inside story on a single gay man's struggle to adopt! Fatherhood for Gay Men: An Emotional and Practical Guide to Becoming a Gay Dad is the...

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to prod...

Breastfeeding is a globally recognized imperative for the preservation of infant health, and governments around the world have introduced breastfee...

Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America—the impact of immigration policies and prac...

Undoubtedly Romantic love has come to saturate our culture and is often considered to be a, or even the, major existential goal of our lives, capab...

The first generation of children born under China's one-child family policy is now reaching adulthood. What are these children like? What are their...

Caring for a parent whose health is in decline turns the world upside down. The emotional fallout can be devastating, but it doesn't have to be tha...

The stereotypical nuclear family is in the minority of households, yet remains a powerful ideology. This classic of socialist feminism charts how t...

Is the American family a thing of the past? Almost anyone can tell a story that illustrates how dramatically things have changed in the past decade...

This is a study of love, specifically of men’s and women’s emotional roles vis-à-vis one another in Northeast Brazil; of how people form conjugal r...