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Emphasizing the role of residential choice and its relationship to satisfaction, eleven essays consider sociological, psychological, and geographical aspects of where people live. Self-help building projects, symbolic values, social interactions between neighbors, the effect of neighborhood reputati

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Exceeding $2 trillion annually, health care spending in the United States is growing significantly faster than the national economy. If left unchecked, this health spending crisis will threaten Americans' ability to pay for other essential services.

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Rental housing is increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States. Government policies and programs continue to grapple with problematic issues, however, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, concentrated poverty, substandard housing stock, and the unmet needs of the disabled, the elderly, and the homeless.

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In recent years, people's experience of welfare has undergone dramatic transformation, with the responsibility for managing risk being shifted from state institutions to non-governmental agencies and individuals. In this transformation moral and ethical questions about collective responsibility for social and economic risks abound.

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This concise and accessible new text examines the correlations between runaway children and teenage prostitution in the United States from a criminological, sociological, and psychological perspective.

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This concise and accessible new text examines the correlations between runaway children and teenage prostitution in the United States from a criminological, sociological, and psychological perspective.

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The Bush administration's new proposal to broaden support for "faith-based" social programs has heated up a simmering debate. What are the congregations' proper roles in lifting up the poor What should their relationship with government be This text explores these questions.

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Addresses questions such as: Are congregations effective vehicles for providing broad-based social programs, or are they best at supporting their own members How many local congregations have formal programs to assist needy families This book represents an evenhanded benchmark of information for the coming-debate.

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The standoff and ultimate tragedy in Waco, Texas, highlights the potential volatility and uncertainty of crisis negotiations and demonstrates the challenges law enforcement officials face as they attempt to resolve these situations.

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New in Paperback. While everyone agrees that Social Security is a vital and necessary government program, there have been widely divergent plans for reforming it.

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Families need child care more in the 1990s than ever before. The concept of a child care professionalism which reflects respect, partnership, and caring, is sustained throughout this practical manual.

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Families need child care more in the 1990s than ever before. The concept of a child care professionalism which reflects respect, partnership, and caring, is sustained throughout this practical manual.

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Now in its third edition, this widely acclaimed resource provides an honest and detailed guide for adoptees and their birthparents. Drawing from personal experience as well as from extensive research, author Jayne Askin presents creative ways to overcome obstacles and attack problems that occur during the search process.

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This is a comparative analysis of the micro and macro characteristics of self-help organizations of people with disabilities (SHOPs) in seven selected countries and territories in Asia, namely China Mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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A review of local and national studies to provide a complete analysis of senior centres. It stresses the need for increased research into various areas, and looks at a number of issues which relate to the ageing population and particularly to social services for the elderly.

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The goals of this section are to provide a broad descriptive analysis of the history, growth, and current issues facing the shared housing movement, to consider both the urban and rural environments as contexts for shared housing programs, and to offer an overview of shared housing research.

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Covers emotional fallout when children who have been separated from their parents by foster care or adoption are also torn away from their siblings. This title addresses the importance of nurturing sibling bonds and mental health strategies to support those relationships, and legal rights of siblings to be together, and issues in adoptions.

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Single Parents offers an overview of this growing phenomenon, the problems faced by single-parent families, and their impact on society.