Sociology: Family & Relationships

This title was first published in 2001. All people and regions of the world are deeply affected by world events, no matter how closely they embrace...

This volume offers rare insight into an enduring case of anorexia nervosa in a female patient and details the approaches to treatment taken by psyc...

This book comprehensively compares the development of population control policies in China and India, their implementations, and the population cha...

Widening the Family Circle: New Research on Family Communication, Second Edition continues to address historically under-studied family relationshi...

Much better than boring charts and old articles, The Return of Polyandry made my students see kinship as a key concept for anthropology today and i...

He Never Came Home is a collection of 22 personal essays written by girls and women who have been separated from their fathers by way of divorce, a...

A brief, impactful book that provides a contemporary analysis of how economics and social class affects the concept of family todayThis book focuse...

This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage.In international campaigns against child marriage, there is a puzzle of agenc...

Recovering Origins is a healing program offered to adult children of divorced parents who now, with a certain distance from the practical difficult...

Winner of the 2019 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Single-Authored Monograph Interweaving the narratives of multiple family members, including ...

Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea provides an in-depth look at the lives of families in Korea that include immigrants. Ten original ...

Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea provides an in-depth look at the lives of families in Korea that include immigrants. Ten original ...

Family Resource Management addresses the management of resources from a family systems perspective and focuses on not just the individual that make...

Now more than ever, race has become a morphing relational dynamic that has less to do with the demographic census box we check and more with how we...

Within the social, political, and economic contexts existing in modern-day India, family is neither a simple remnant of tradition nor a domain mere...

Chekhovs iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria in this bold new adaptation.Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War.Lolo, Nne Chukw...

Explore Your Multifaceted Mindan Invitation to Personal Healing and Spiritual Awakening Inside each of us, there are many distinct selves. Though...

Why do we experience recurring struggles in our relationships? And why do traumatic eventssuch as a physical injury, emotional threat, loss of a lo...

Multifactorial perspectives, whether sociological, cultural, anthropological, historical, biological or psychological, serve as the basis for a con...

Demographic changes, immigration, economic upheavals, and changing societal mores are creating new and altered structures, processes, and relations...

In the past decade, a number of state, local, and tribal jurisdictions have begun to take significant steps to overhaul their juvenile justice syst...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2015-2030 strive for a world that is just, equitable, and inclusive, in which everyone receive...

Children with disabilities and complex medical and educational needs present a special challenge for policy makers and practitioners. These childre...

The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law in 2010, has several provisions that could greatly improve the beha...

Communities provide the context in which programs, principles, and policies are implemented. Their needs dictate the kinds of programs that communi...

In November 2017, the The Forum on Promoting Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health, in collaboration with the Roundtable on the Pr...

Pediatric subspecialists are critical to ensuring quality care and pursuing research to improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for children. ...

Commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors in the United States are frequently overlooked, misunderstood, and unaddressed domesti...

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