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 ...