Family Relationships category: 37031 books
The Tender Land
A Family Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2003
An extraordinary memoir of a family haunted by tragedy: “I’ve read very few contemporary novels that can rival Finneran’s nonfiction.” —Jonathan Franzen
A superb portrait of family life, this “absorbing and thoughtful” memoir is a love story unlike any other (Library Journal). The Finnerans—Irish...
Work and Family Commitments of Low-Income and Impoverished Women
Guilt Is for Mothers with Good Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Conflict between work and family life is an all too familiar experience for many Americans. The difficult choices facing women who combine paid work with childcare are the subject of a deluge of books and articles in addition to an ongoing public debate about how women and men should balance their...
by Ann Campanella
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Motherhood: Lost and Found takes the reader on a journey where Alzheimer’s disease and infertility intersect. At age 33, award-winning author and poet Ann Campanella returns to her home state of North Carolina ready to build a horse farm and start a family. Ann’s foundation is shaken when she...
How We Live Now
Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A close-up examination and exploration, How We Live Now challenges our old concepts of what it means to be a family and have a home, opening the door to the many diverse and thriving experiments of living in twenty-first century America.
Across America and around the world, in cities and suburbs...
Social Work Practice with Children and Families
A Family Health Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Effectively engage clients in working for personal change
Social Work Practice with Children and Families presents the framework for family health social work and its applications in various practice environments. This vital textbook provides a unique blend of academic deliberations and practical...
The Box of Daughter
Healing the Authentic Self
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Winner of the New England Book Festival and Reader's Favorite Awards, The Box of Daughter is the compelling true story of the author's struggle to recover from emotional abuse and family bullying, and her quest to raise her self-esteem and create a more authentic life.
This captivating memoir...
by Anderson Burke
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
In 1959, 31-year old Betty Burke gave birth to her third child. The fears she had had since a young girl were realized: Her newborn, Edward Morgan Burke had Down syndrome. Medical wisdom at the time dictated children such as Eddie be placed immediately in State of Florida institutional care:
From...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
This professionally-formatted free-flowing ebook compilation reproduces official documents about child abuse and missing children. Contents include: Portable Guide To Investigating Child Abuse - Law Enforcement Response to Child Abuse * Recognizing When a Child's Injury or Illness Is Caused by Abuse...
Reclaiming Home
The Family’s Guide for Life, Love and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Are you watching as your family spins out of control? Are you pulled in so many directions that you aren’t doing anything well? We live in an era when children often know more about their electronic devices than their own family history, parents invest more time in the carpool line than at the dinner...
A Family of Grace
100 Devotionals from Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
I think the most accurate description of the book would be by a well-known evangelical pastor who reviewed the manuscript of A FAMILY OF GRACE and then wrote the Foreword to the book: "God makes it very clear that He wants believing parents to take seriously the crucial needs to formally teach God's...
Rethinking Possible
A Memoir of Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Becky Galli was born into a family that valued the power of having a plan. With a pastor father and a stay-at-home mother, her 1960s southern upbringing was bucolic—even enviable. But when her brother, only seventeen, died in a waterskiing accident, the slow unraveling of her perfect family began.
Though...
The Batterer as Parent
Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Moving beyond the narrow clinical perspective sometimes applied to viewing the emotional and developmental risks to battered children, The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics, Second Edition offers a view that takes into account the complex ways in which...
Dodging Dandelions
A Memoir of Love, Loss and Acceptance
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
'Dodging Dandelions' is a memoir from first-time author Ron Richards. The story is a feelings-filled male perspective on a family’s ability to remain positive despite, at times, seemingly insurmountable challenges that revolve around cancer and the struggles that come with trying to manage a child...
Your Extended Family
A Military Spouse’s Biblical Guide to Surviving Within and Without Your Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Family. They can be one of our biggest blessings and one of our biggest stressors. Family members that don’t understand the military system can complicate your life, and sometimes the best-intentioned relative can undercut everything you are trying to build with your husband. ...