Sociology: Family & Relationships

This Open Access book presents an in-depth portrait of the use and impact of digital technologies by learners ages 5-18 years in their everyday liv...

Extraordinary changes in patterns of family lifeand family lawhave dramatically altered the boundaries of parenthood and opened up numerous questio...

When gay couples become parents, they face a host of questions and issues that their straight counterparts may never have to consider. How importan...

Judith Stacey, 2012 winner of the Simon and Gagnon Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the American Sociological Association. A leading expert ...

Extraordinary changes in patterns of family lifeand family lawhave dramatically altered the boundaries of parenthood and opened up numerous questio...

The meaning and significance of the institution of marriage has engendered angry and boisterous battles across the United States. While the efforts...

The phenomenon of transnational adoption is changing in the age of globalization and biotechnology. In Legitimating Life, Sonja van Wichelen boldly...

Vulnerability is not a fixed state; people and families can move in and out of experiencing vulnerability throughout their lives. All families are ...

Direct Work with Family Groups is full of great ideas to aid engagement, assessment and enable positive change through direct work with family grou...

Scene affiliations can be understood as socially produced and meaningful commonalities of action in style-specific practices. They are displayed, s...

According to some social critics, the digital age involves a retreat into the isolation of intelligent machines. Acclaimed scholar Stefana Broadben...

Parents as Partners in Education, Eighth Edition, is uniquely the most comprehensive book on the market covering the history of family/school colla...

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Why hasnt polygamous marriage died out in African cities, as experts once expected it would? Enduring Polygamy considers this question in one of Af...

Today, approximately 1.6 million American children live in what social scientists call grandfamilieshouseholds in which children are being raised b...

For decades, social scientists have assumed that fictive kinship is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the U...

Between 1942 and 1945 more than two million servicemen occupied the southern Pacific theater, the majority of whom were Americans in service with t...

With a rapidly aging population throughout the world, the issue of larger percentages of older adults has repercussions for both policy and the job...

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Women around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle on marital no...

Mixed feelings about motherhood - uncertainty over having a child, fears of pregnancy and childbirth, or negative thoughts about one's own children...

In this volume the articles are primarily on European history, but their subject matter indicates the remarkable variety, both of the marriage and ...

Do you know your real parents? is a question many adoptees are asked. In In Reunion, Sara Docan-Morgan probes the basic notions of family, adoption...

Surviving and escaping a toxic or abusive relationship can often only be part of the struggle. Long after, survivors often struggle to heal; your s...