Sociology: Family & Relationships

Parents have the legal responsibility to protect and care for their children. However, recent media reports have illuminated a practice involving u...

This book deals with personal, social and cultural time perceptions and their impact on love and romantic relationships. By focusing on time orient...

This volume brings together contributors from 18 countries to provide international perspectives on the politics of parental leave policies in diff...

Historically seen as figures of pity and foreboding poverty stricken receivers of charity, tragic figures dressed in black and even sometimes sexu...

What were the laws on marriage in Ireland, and did church and state differ in their interpretation? How did men and women meet and arrange to marry...

This is a solid, worthwhile scholarly contribution that moves our knowledge of migration and intimate relationships further along. Gilbert Herdt, ...

What can we learn from looking at married partners who live apart? In Commuter Spouses, Danielle Lindemann explores how couples cope when they live...

The institution of marriage stands at a critical juncture. As gay marriage equality gains acceptance in law and public opinion, questions abound re...

Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, intro...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 FT / McKinsey BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDOne of the world''s most influential economists sets out the basis for a new s...

Couples and Relationships: Individual and Relational Challenges discuss the complex connection of individual factors (the personality of a partner)...

The object of this book, originally published in 1922 and addressed to all cultured men and women, was to set forth the primitive manifestations of...

Single-Parenting in the 21st Century: Perceptions, Issues and Implications explores and illuminates the landscape of single-parenting in the twenty...