Sociology: Family & Relationships

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...

A new edition of the bestselling memoir Shame, including additional content from the author updating her story to the present day. When she was fou...

This book would not have been possible without the existence of that brilliant, vivid, bright, superb, wonderful, luminous, radiant, and very beaut...

Marriage has become an increasingly important topic in academic and policy research. A burgeoning literature suggests that marriage has a wide rang...

Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and...

An intensely dramatic true story, Forsaking All Others recounts the fascinating case of an interracial couple who attempted, in defiance of society...

Using archival material and many unpublished sources, this work traces the origins of Oxford and Cambridge University colleges as places of learnin...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the cultural variations, developmental issues and impact on health of friendship...

Families and parents have the most central and enduring influence on children''''s lives. Parenthood is not instinctive, but is rather an evolution...