Author : Jan Pryor
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 2001-10-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780631215769
At time when separation and divorce are increasingly common, this book supplies much-needed insights into why some children survive change in families better than others.
Author : Julie Nelson
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 2006-11-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1575427427
All families change over time. Sometimes a baby is born, or a grown-up gets married. And sometimes a child gets a new foster parent or a new adopted mom or dad. Children need to know that when this happens, it’s not their fault. They need to understand that they can remember and value their birth family and love their new family, too. Straightforward words and full-color illustrations offer hope and support for children facing or experiencing change. Includes resources and information for birth parents, foster parents, social workers, counselors, and teachers.
Author : David Fassler
Publisher :
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Brothers and sisters
ISBN : 9780914525080
Provides advice on coping with such family changes as separation, divorce, remarriage, new family members, and new schools.
Author : An-Magritt Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134471904
This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood. The book is centred around three major changes: parental employment, family composition and ideology. The authors demonstrate how children's families are transformed in accordance with societal changes in demographic and economic terms, and as a result of the choices parents make in response to these changes. Despite claims that society is becoming increasingly child-centred, this book argues that children still have little influence over the major changes in their lives. This book breaks new ground by researching family change from the child's point of view. Through combinations from childhood experts in Scandinavia, the UK and America, the book shows the importance of studying children's lives in families in order to understand how far children are active agents in contemporary society. Students of childhood studies, sociology, social work and education will find this book essential reading. It will also be of interest to practitioners in the social, child and youth services.
Author : Marcia Carlson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804770891
This book offers an up-to-the-moment assessment of the condition of the American family in an era of growing inequality.
Author : Stephanie Coontz
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 2008-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0786725567
Stephanie Coontz, the author of The Way We Never Were, now turns her attention to the mythology that surrounds today’s family—the demonizing of “untraditional” family forms and marriage and parenting issues. She argues that while it’s not crazy to miss the more hopeful economic trends of the 1950s and 1960s, few would want to go back to the gender roles and race relations of those years. Mothers are going to remain in the workforce, family diversity is here to stay, and the nuclear family can no longer handle all the responsibilities of elder care and childrearing.Coontz gives a balanced account of how these changes affect families, both positively and negatively, but she rejects the notion that the new diversity is a sentence of doom. Every family has distinctive resources and special vulnerabilities, and there are ways to help each one build on its strengths and minimize its weaknesses.The book provides a meticulously researched, balanced account showing why a historically informed perspective on family life can be as much help to people in sorting through family issues as going into therapy—and much more help than listening to today’s political debates.
Author : Marilyn Coleman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 1999-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135683921
This volume explores attitudes and beliefs concerning intergenerational family responsibilities with special focus on families affected by divorce and/or remarriage. For developmentalists, family studies specialists, sociologists, and policy makers.
Author : Anthony Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1134518390
Adoption: Changing Families, Changing Times draws together contributions from all those with an interest in adoption: adopted people; birth parents and adoptive parents; practitioners and managers in the statutory and voluntary sectors; academics and policy makers. Chapters on research and policy are interspersed with those from people with first-hand experience of being adopted, becoming an adoptive parent or giving a child up for adoption. Together, they provide unique insights into a subject that although regularly in the media is often surrounded by prejudice and misconception. Topics covered include: * children and young people in care * trying to adopt * waiting for adoption * life after adoption * the politics of adoption. This accessible text offers a comprehensive view of adoption policy, practice and services and analyses why adoption has become so controversial. It provides professional and general reader alike with a fully rounded picture of adoption and exposes some of the myths surrounding it.
Author : Mr Craig Lind
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 1409496147
Focusing on moral, social and legal responsibilities as opposed to rights or obligations, this volume explores the concept of responsibility in family life, law and practice. Divided into four parts, the study considers the nature of family responsibility; constructions of children's responsibilities; shifting conceptions of family responsibilities; and family, responsibility and the law. The collection brings together leading experts from the disciplines of sociology, socio-legal studies and law to discuss responsibilities prior to birth, responsibilities for children, as well as responsibilities of children and of the state towards family members. The volume informs and challenges the developing conceptualization of responsibilities which arise in interdependent, intimate and caring relationships and their legal regulation. It will be of great interest to researchers and practitioners working in this complex field.
Author : Jane E. Lewis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,57 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : 9781845425234
The book explores the implications of changes to the welfare state for children in a range of countries. Children, Changing Families and Welfare States: examines the implications of social policies for children; sets the discussion in the broader context of both family change and welfare state change, exploring the nature of the policy debate that has allowed the welfare of the child to come to the fore; tackles policies to do with both the care and financial support of children; looks at the household level and how children fare when both adult men and women must seek to combine paid and unpaid work, and what support is offered by welfare states; and endeavours to provide a comparative perspective on these issues.
