Sociology: Family & Relationships

This book is about the experience of individuals who have been abused or who have abused others, but it also traces the way an abusive experience c...

This book explores the transnational aspects of divorce experiences. Transnational Divorce uncovers the stories of four main groups of transnationa...

This title was first published in 2001. Increasingly, young women throughout Europe educate themselves for a life-long labour market career. So, wh...

Bridging the gap between studies orientated around parenthood and those on the globalization of childhood, Parenting After the Century of the Child...

How do people communicate their romantic feelings? Gift giving is one way. Giving and receiving of gifts is a characteristic of intimate relationsh...

Defending the nuclear family and extolling family values have long been central features of politics in capitalist societies, in spite of radical l...

Suspect Families is the first book to investigate the social, political, and ethical implications of parental testing for family reunification in i...

Written by leading experts in the field, this timely collection highlights current strategies and thinking in relation to prevention of sexual viol...

This reference work collates academic discourses and practices around family, gender, and violence in social work.  A huge body of discourse is av...

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