Adolescents, Work, and Family

Mortimer

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 6
• Based on an eight-year study, this book examines how the work experiences of adolescents, both at home and in the paid workforce, affect their lives a... Lees meer

Multiracial Couples

Paul C Rosenblatt, Terri Karis, Richard R Powell

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 1
• The problems of mixed race families in a racist society are fully explored in this qualitative, narrative study. Interviews with 21 biracial couples o... Lees meer

No More Kin

Anne R Roschelle

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 8
• Many scholars and political analysts assume that thriving kin and non-kin social support networks continue to characterize minority family life. Polic... Lees meer

Multiracial Couples

Terri a Karis, Terri Karis, Richard R Powell

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 1
• The problems of mixed race families in a racist society are fully explored in this qualitative, narrative study. Interviews with 21 biracial couples o... Lees meer

Romancing the Honeymoon

Kris Bulcroft, Linda E Smeins, Richard Bulcroft

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 16
• Revealing that the honeymoon is more a product of a socially constructed view of romantic love than of the relationship of the individuals concerned, ... Lees meer

Romancing the Honeymoon

Kris Bulcroft, Linda E Smeins, Richard Bulcroft

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 16
• Revealing that the honeymoon is more a product of a socially constructed view of romantic love than of the relationship of the individuals concerned, ... Lees meer

Families & Time

Kerry J Daly

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 7
• The concept of time is central to the study of families and is used in different ways. Synthesizing different concepts into a broad theory of how fami... Lees meer

Families and Communes

William Lawrence Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 18
• This book focuses specifically on the role of the family in communal life. Communal groups are one type of nontraditional families, some communes are ... Lees meer

Families Making Sense of Death

Janice W Nadeau

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 10
• Through interviews and analysis, the author explores the healing process within the family context, and looks at the dynamics at work in families in w... Lees meer

Problem Solving in Families

Samuel Vuchinich

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 13
• Synthesizing the diverse body of perspectives and approaches to family problem solving covered in research and clinical work, Samuel Vuchinich assesse... Lees meer

Black Families in Corporate America

Susan D Toliver

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 11
• What progress have African-Americans made in corporate America? This book examines the evidence of studies on 200 black corporate managers and their f... Lees meer

Families & Time

Kerry J Daly

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 7
• What is family time? What value do we place on it? How many families today have time to be families? How do families view, use and seek to control tim... Lees meer

Understanding Latino Families

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 2
• A fresh approach to the study of Latino families is offered in this volume which focuses on the strengths of Latino//Hispanic groups, the structural p... Lees meer

The Changing Transition to Adulthood

Goldscheider, Calvin Goldscheider

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 17
• This book examines the reasons why children ultimately leave home to live on their own and how the pattern has changed throughout the 20th century. Th... Lees meer

Reshaping Fatherhood

Anna Dienhart

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 12
• This qualitative study of 18 shared parenting couples explores men′s and women′s resourcefulness as they create together alternatives to traditional p... Lees meer

The Changing Transition to Adulthood

Goldscheider, Calvin Goldscheider

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 17
• This book examines the reasons why children ultimately leave home to live on their own and how the pattern has changed throughout the 20th century. Th... Lees meer

Contemporary Parenting

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 9
• This edited volume addresses one of the central issues of family studies - parenting. Terry Arendell uses the social constructionist and the feminist ... Lees meer

Understanding Differences Between Divorced and Intact Families

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 5
• This book begins by presenting a model of the impact parental divorce has on child development. Contributors emphasize the ways in which differences i... Lees meer

Families and Communes

William Lawrence Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 18
• Communal Families focuses on the role definition of the family within the commune. Historic communal groups such as Shakers, Oneida, Amana, and the Mo... Lees meer

No More Kin

Anne R Roschelle

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 8
• Many scholars and political analysts assume that thriving kin and non-kin social support networks continue to characterize minority family life. Polic... Lees meer

Understanding Latino Families

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 2
• A fresh approach to the study of Latino families is offered in this volume which focuses on the strengths of Latino//Hispanic groups, the structural p... Lees meer

African American Children

Shirley A Hill

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding Families | nr. 14
• In the context of growing diversity, Shirley A. Hill examines the work parents do in raising their children. Based on interviews and survey data, Afri... Lees meer