Sociology: Family & Relationships

Amidst the increasing global trend of cross-border marriage migration, this book offers timely theoretical and empirical insights into contemporary...

This title was first published in 2002: In recent years there has been a trend among young people across Europe towards remaining longer in their p...

Changing Relations of Welfare is concerned with the complexities of family relations and practices in the recent past and how these have been imagi...

Marriage and the Family: Mirror of a Diverse Global Society is a comprehensive text about marriage and the family in sociology, family science, and...

Numerous challenges exist in respect to integrating work and family institutions and there is remarkable cross-national variation in the ways that ...

This book provides an original insight into how families of origin of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) people are involved in negotiat...

Over the last few decades, families in many highly developed nations (such as Great Britain) have been held together by grandparents. Yet as single...

Children in immigrant families represent nearly one-fourth of all children living in the United States. As this population of children has increase...

Much scholarship of any region focuses on the perceived problems that hold back a population. Central Asia is no exception, as it is a region with ...

Published in 1948: Parents have many problems. Those dealt with in this are mainly the social and emotional difficulties arising in the development...

While the spatial turn within the social sciences has already nurtured a broad discussion of the relation between society and space, little attenti...

The central theme of this volume is the notion of irrational reproduction: the ways in which womens and couples reproductive choices and practices ...

Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural repro...

Drawing on rich interview material and adopting a life history approach, this book examines the agency of women living in insecure and uncertain co...

Have heterosexual relationships become more intimate and equal over the past forty years? Simply put, this is the central question underpinning th...

This book examines contemporary media stories about women who kill their children. By analyzing media texts, motherhood blogs, and journalistic int...

In this fully revised new edition, Father-Daughter Relationships: Contemporary Research and Issues summarises and analyses the most relevant resear...

When Tammy Wynette sang D-I-V-O-R-C-E, she famously said she spelled out the hurtin' words to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this i...

This edited collection sheds light on Nordic families strategies and methods for transferring significant cultural heritage to the next generation ...

Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World examines the dynamics of marriage, family and community life during the Great Migration ...

The family is currently a controversial topic both within the UK and Europe. While demographic trends seem to suggest that family structures and at...

Love is a little word with a universe of meanings and has engaged people's interest throughout human history. The need to give and receive love lie...

The book examines the topic of paternal authority as it developed over a long period of time. The focus is on the power of fathers as manifested wi...

This book explores the concept of the postmaternal as a response to changing cultural, political and economic conditions for motherhood and respond...

This title was first published in 2001. Employing a black feminist standpoint, Claudia Bernard offers an in-depth study of black mothers responses ...

The rising visibility of interracial couples calls for increased attention to the overlapping of culture and race, in safe spaces centered on small...

At a time of increasingly diverse and dynamic debates on the intersections of contemporary LGBTQ rights, trans* visibility, same-sex families, and ...

On June 26, 2015, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy declared same-sex marriage is so ordered across the United States. The day will no doubt be...

Once only a topic among women in the private sphere, motherhood and mothering have become important intellectual topics across academic disciplines...

First published in 1998, this insightful volume aims to explore how 90 Indian and African single mothers in 1993 London resolve the dual challenges...

Children Act 1989 introduced the most radical changes to child care law for a generation. Eekelaar and Dingwall provide a concise, practical guide ...

In making the argument for the remedy of inequality, contemporary political philosophers often emphasize the arbitrariness of disadvantage, stressi...

Little research has explored the everyday, simple and long-term experience of maternal holding, particularly after the first year of a childs life....

This book builds a fresh perspective on therapeutic narratives of intimate life. Focusing on the question of how popular psychology organises every...

In this comprehensive volume, authors from across the social sciences explore how housing wealth transfers have impacted the integration of familie...

This book represents a new direction in the study of religion and marriage by using a postmodern theoretical framework focusing on gendered discour...

This collection, drawn from twelve years of the influential journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality, offers a groundbreaking advance in thinking an...

Jessica Benjamin is one of the most important and influential psychoanalysts of the last 4 decades. She is one of the founders of relational psycho...

First published in 1999, this volume examines the meanings specific child protection cases involving the familial sexual abuse of adolescent girls ...

First published in 1999, the primary focus of this book is what goes on inside the black box of households, beginning with decision-making but bran...

First published in 1998, this insightful volume aims to explore how 90 Indian and African single mothers in 1993 London resolve the dual challenges...

This title was first published in 2000: This book is based on selected papers from a major international congress of the same name that was held at...

First published in 1999, this volume is a collection of essays focused on the theme of partnership with parents in social work practice with childr...

This title was first published in 2003. This text reports on two nationally representative surveys of men and women in Britain and Spain, the forme...

Contemporary European societies are multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, certainly in terms of the diversity which has stemmed from the immigration of ...

This title was first published in 2001. Employing a black feminist standpoint, Claudia Bernard offers an in-depth study of black mothers responses ...