Sociology: Family & Relationships

Americans today harbor no strong or consistent collective memory of the First World War. Ask why the country fought or what they accomplished, and ...

Over the last 50 or 60 years, there has appeared a directional shift in the medical and social culture of the United States. We see it in the news ...

Over the past six decades, there have been dramatic changes in the dynamics of family life in the United States. Today, about seven out of 10 babie...

** Includes foreword from Susie Green, CEO of charity Mermaids ** Mama, something went wrong in your tummy. And it made me come out as a boy instea...

A book to inspire closeness and connection, helping people not only to find love but to make it last. Few things promise us greater happiness than...

Situating their argument in the context of the Western world's five-hundred-year history of marriage, the authors of this work reveal what factors ...

In 1980, Christine J. Walley's world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In th...

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Find your best voice to inspire your child to reach their aspirations. With no single or right formula to teach, reassure, or help a child, no p...

The concept of self-esteem is a fixture in the psychological and moral landscape of American society. This is especially true in the arena of child...

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Sharon Hays landmark book, The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood, this collection will revisit Hays c...

Mothers and Sons: Centering Mother Knowledge makes a case for the need to de-gender the framing and study of parental legacy. The actualization of ...

This text provides for the first time in book form an exploration of the communicative aspects of the darker side of family life, ranging from, f...