Alternative Family category: 388 books

Even under the best of circumstances, marriage in a blended family is challenging. From parenting to ex-spouses to past hurts, couples face many obstacles. In Blending Families, eighteen successful stepfamilies will show you how they've learned to overcome their everyday challenges. Whether you ve...

Through words, pictures, photographs, certificates and other 'little treasures', a Life Story Book provides a detailed account of the child's early history and a chronology of their life. Fully updated, this clear and concise book shows a unique family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book...

This is a true story. It is an account of the journey of three generations, from the dark days of the Second World War, to the freedom of peace time. Into the family history is woven the bravery of the soldier and the dilemma of the conscientious objector. The story then travels to North Wales, to...

Author Pat Turner Mitchell narrates the story of her parents and their history in A Mountain to Climb. A sequel to Mitchells first book, Lifted to the Shoulders of a Mountain, this second installment begins with the story of her fathers family and his early life. It then transitions to her...

Rose Carrington's Patriarchy in Love legitimises the benefits of a male-led relationship--i.e. a traditional relationship. Learn the necessity and prevalence of hierarchy, and how the implementation of one into your marriage can reduce conflict, increase your passion for each other, and create a stable...

Hades' Angels: An Inside View of Women Who Love Lifers and Death Row Inmates is the story of twenty-six women who each experienced a transformative journey through their relationships with prison lifers and death row inmates. These women did not know these men prior to his incarceration. This work applies...

“We have earned a certain place in each other’s lives, and in the best of times we can rest on what we have made together.” Lesbian Ex-Lovers: The Really Long-Term Relationships examines the need for the development of better understanding and more critical analysis of lesbian ex-lover...

Vilified by the media for her outspoken non-monogamous lifestyle, Louisa Leontiades is, unbeknownst to the outside world, being defeated by mundanity. Four years of caring for toddlers and living in tracksuits has left her anxious, exhausted, and virtually celibate. Her partner, Morten, falls in love...

Even under the best of circumstances, marriage in a blended family is challenging. From parenting to ex-spouses to past hurts, couples face many obstacles. In Blending Families, eighteen successful stepfamilies will show you how they've learned to overcome their everyday challenges. Whether you ve...

The imam calls upon contemporary literature in the fields of marriage and counseling as well as his own insights from years of experience as an imam and counselor for the Muslim community. Imam Yaki offers a unique method of presenting the material. His presentation style and topic content keeps the...

According to statistics, children who grow up without a father figure are more likely to abuse drugs, take part in criminal behavior, live in poverty, and struggle with emotional issues. When Brandon J. Wright was fifteen. his father died. Angry and alone. he could have easily become another...

Karen Lynch was an unlikely person to become one of the first female cops in San Francisco. Raised by a counter-culture tribe in summer of love Haight-Ashbury, she was taught to despise "The Man." But when the San Francisco Police Department was forced by court order to hire women, she found herself...

"Don't You Know Who I Am Yet?" is about a young man searching desperately for the acceptance and attention that his family could never provide. As a confused teenager, he eventually became addicted to the heightened atmosphere of Reality TV and was featured on countless shows by using issues...

In everyday life--in relationships, in various institutions, in texts--cultural premises influence and sometimes limit individuals’thoughts, actions, and ideas. Cultural Resistance: Challenging Beliefs About Men, Women, and Therapy analyzes cultural constraints and encourages therapists, individuals,...