Sociology: Family & Relationships

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The concept of generations has become a widely discussed area, with recent events such a...

Between Care and Criminality examines social welfares encounter with migration and marriage in a period of intensified border control in Melbourne,...

Being a single mother wasn't always part of the plan. The fear of it kept me and my family in a situation that wasn't good for any of us. I never t...

In As Long as We Both Shall Love, Karen M. Dunak provides a nuanced history of the American wedding and its celebrants. Blending an analysis of fil...

On Friday nights many parents want to have a little fun togetherwithout the kids. But getting a sitterespecially a dependable onerarely seems troub...

In As Long as We Both Shall Love, Karen M. Dunak provides a nuanced history of the American wedding and its celebrants. Blending an analysis of fil...

Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, given by the Family Section of the American Sociological Association Finalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Awar...

An up-close look at the education arms race of after-school learning, academic competitions, and the perceived failure of even our best schools to ...

WINNER OF THE AUDIENCE CHOICE IRISH BOOK AWARD 2021Once you've got a few decades on the clock, life can seem sort of cross-roadsy. Once you're no l...

Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, ha...

A compelling examination of the social and legal experiences of lesbian, bisexual, and queer stepparent families Lesbian, bisexual, and queer famil...

Representing new approaches to the study of the family and historical demography, this collection of essays analyzes the relationships of demograph...

Explores the reach of the law into our most personal and private romantic lives The Architecture of Desire examines how the law influences our most...

This book grows out of a longstanding fascination with the uncanny status of the mother in literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, film, and photog...

During the past ten years, legal and political changes in the United States have dramatically altered the legalization process for millions of undo...

Winner of the 2024 Silver Medal for the Canada West Non-Fiction category, given by The Independent Publisher Book Award Winner of the ASA Section o...

Census decennial enumerations are utilized to achieve two useful estimates: (l) Annual series of estimates of births, birth rates, and fertility ra...