Family Relationships category: 37031 books
Love Him, Love His Kids
The Stepmother's Guide to Surviving and Thriving in a Blended Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2009
He loves her. She loves him. But his kids hate her. Or bait her. Or ignore her altogether.
She's the stepmother, and sometimes she feels as if she's never played a more thankless role. It doesn't have to be that way. With this book, the stepmother will find the advice she needs to win over...
by Sharifa Oppenheimer, Stephanie Gross
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
As we see a shift of old forms that were once the foundations of our daily lives, parents-who must prepare the next generation to meet the changing world-have more questions today than ever before. Although our cultural values and family structures may change, it is the atmosphere in the home that continues...
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff with Your Family
Simple Ways to Keep Daily Responsibilities and Household Chaos from Taking Over Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This indispensable guide to family in the #1 bestselling series reveals how to avoid letting the minor setbacks in your home life get you down. With his characteristic candor and piercing insight, author Richard Carlson demonstrates how to resolve such common domestic tensions as:
Children who...
Stepwives
Ten Steps to Help Ex-Wives and Step-Mothers End the Struggle and Put the Kids First
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Stepwives: (n) (1) ex-wife and current wife to the same man, mother and stepmother to the same children; (2) women destined to battle for the love and control of their families...until now!
Lynne and Louise were stepwives for ten years. While they managed a barely civil relationship, each was...
by Merle A. Fossum, Marilyn J. Mason
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1989
"This book will be helpful to all practitioners of psychological services and to all persons who wish to understand their dilemnas better." —Virginia M. Satir
Families that return for treatment time and again often have problems that seem unrelated—such as compulsive, addictive,...
Bittersweet
Lessons from My Mother's Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Matt McAllester lost his mother, Ann, long before she died, as mental illness snatched the once-elegant woman away and destroyed his childhood. In this beautifully written memoir, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist chronicles the journey he took to forgiveness, which brought him straight to the...
Unspoken Legacy
Addressing the Impact of Trauma and Addiction within the Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Acute trauma and addictive disorders are often a result of psychological injuries experienced as a child while typically producing long-term and harmful generational consequences on loved ones and other family members. Claudia Black presents a portrait of a broken family system, exploring how addiction...
by Rosie Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Experienced foster carer Rosie Lewis faces a battle to uncover the dark family secret that is tearing a family apart. Rosie is used to looking after children from difficult home situations, but she finds herself struggling when she agrees to take in Taylor and her younger brother, Reece, for a short...
by Rosie Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Experienced foster carer Rosie Lewis faces a battle to uncover the dark family secret that is tearing a family apart. Rosie is used to looking after children from difficult home situations, but she finds herself struggling when she agrees to take in Taylor and her younger brother, Reece, for a short...
Mum, Can You Lend Me Twenty Quid?
What drugs did to my family
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
i newspaper 'What We're Reading This Week' December 2017
'Elizabeth's courage in speaking out is moving, and her ability to move others is impressive. This is a story that needs to be told, and needs to be heard.' - Theresa May, Prime Minister
'Elizabeth [is] someone who had the courage...
Gender-Inclusive Treatment of Intimate Partner Abuse, Second Edition
Evidence-Based Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
This groundbreaking book on the gender-inclusive treatment of intimate partner abuse has been fully updated to reflect new and refined evidence-based approaches that have evolved since the first edition was published nearly ten years ago. It describes new treatment protocols that are strongly supported...
by David E. Gates
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
David meets Meg. They fall in love and, despite a turbulent relationship, have a child together fulfilling David's dream to be a father.
After they separate, David has to fight the mother and Family Courts to see his daughter and also battles against the incompetence and lies of the Child Support...
Caring for the Dying
The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Caring for the Dying describes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life. Created by Henry Fersko-Weiss, the end-of-life doula model is adapted from the work of birth doulas...
by Annie Acorn
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Hopeful that the back left tire on his truck will hold, Jack Branson begins the last leg of his long journey, desperate to reach his family’s farm and surprise them on Christmas Eve. Nature, though, has other plans for the returning serviceman this snow-filled Christmas....