Family Relationships category: 37031 books
The Parent App
Understanding Families in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. More families report that technology makes life with children more challenging, not less, as parents today struggle with questions previous generations never...
Insult to Injury
Rethinking our Responses to Intimate Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Locking up men who beat their partners sounds like a tremendous improvement over the days when men could hit women with impunity and women fearing for their lives could expect no help from authorities. But does our system of requiring the arrest, prosecution, and incarceration of abusers lessen domestic...
by Suzanne Stabile
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
How do we understand the motivations and dynamics of the different personality types we see in our intimate partners, our friends, or in our professional lives? This six-session study guide is a content-rich companion to Suzanne Stabile’s The Path Between Us, exploring the nine Enneagram types and...
From Child Abuse to Foster Care
Child Welfare Services Pathways and Placements
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
More than two million child abuse reports are filed annually on behalf of children in the United States. Each of the reported children becomes a concern, at least temporarily, of the professional who files the report, and each family is assessed by additional professionals. A substantial number of...
Mending Broken Branches
When God Reclaims Your Dysfunctional Family Tree
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
How to invite God to step in and break the cycle of dysfunction
Elizabeth Oates is no stranger to a dysfunctional family. She may look like the quintessential soccer mom now, but her childhood was full of uncertainty, abandonment, and many very dark days. Without a positive role model, an emotionally...
You Owe It to Yourself
Divorce and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Author Art Cooper takes on a topic that has been debated since the beginning of manrelationships. Cooper takes a fresh look at the divorce and its effects on the family, trying to eliminate the items that cause stress and continuing problems even after the final divorce decree is issued. He offers...
Working Relationally with Girls
Complex Lives/Complex Identities
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Discover how girls develop a sense of self as they struggle to make sense of complex
and complicated times
Working Relationally with Girls: Complex Lives, Complex Identities examines the experience of being a girl in today’s society and the difficulties social work practitioners face in developing...
by Gordon Northrup
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Here are practical ideas and help for dealing with problems of sexuality in residential treatment settings. On a day-to-day level, difficulties can arise from the need for child care workers to maintain caring and personal relationships with children in the face of the children’s and their own sexuality....
Getting Ready for Your Baby
How to welcome the new addition to your family
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Change is only 50 minutes away! Find out everything you need to know about bringing a new baby home with this straightforward guide.Getting ready to go to the hospital; buying cribs, clothes and nappies; stocking up on groceries… Being pregnant can be a stressful time for a couple. So why not take...
Meals From Magdalena
A Family Affair Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Food has always been an important part of our family and our history, which is probably why it shows up so much in my writing. The characters in my A Family Affair books have cooked several of my family recipes and I thought it fitting to publish them as a cookbook from their hometown, Magdalena,...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Table Of Contents: Custody of Children After Divorce Child Custody Cases Child Custody Evaluation Getting Ready for Child Custody Trials Thoughts on Father's Rights in Child Custody Battles Mother's Rights and Child Custody Divorce Mediation for Child Custody Types of Child Custody Arrangements Child...
journey in shades
poetry in light and dark
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
In this first collection English poet Mary Pargeter re-visits her childhood, loss of innocence, states of love, heartbreak and death, and reflects, with admirable frankness, on those universal rites of passage common to us all The first poems present an idyllic childhood running free in the exquisite...
by Will Knecht
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Have you been a victim of infidelity? Have you ever wondered why people cheat?
A Treatise on Infidelity is a short story that takes the reader on a journey to explain what causes infidelity and cheating in relationships. Moreover, this story is serves to uplift those who have been...
From Particles and Disputations: Writings for Jeff
A Book of Hours
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
"From Particles and Disputations" is a collection of playful, romantic, candid and personal creative writings that I wrote for my partner Jeff. From our meeting in 1982 until his death from AIDS in 1994 I marked each birthday, anniversary, holiday, and other special or difficult occasion we shared with...