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Addresses how care-leavers adjust to life in the outside world. Using interviews with people who grew up in orphanages and group homes in Victoria between 1945 and 1983, this book explores how institutionalisation affected future education, employment opportunities, and relationships and health.

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The fatherless black family is a problem that increases in proportion each year as generations of black children grow up without an adult male in the home. This work presents a personal examination of black fatherhood. This tale of black men tells the stories of extraordinary men who strive to become something they have never known.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy about one's struggle to hold on to the past.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy about one's struggle to hold on to the past.

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Skills for resolving conflicts and reconciling strained relationships reveal the power of listening and speaking from the heart.

A publication of fine writing and debate, presenting interesting writing about topical subjects. Family politics goes behind the political rhetoric about families and explores the reality of life in small groups.

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A cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives--and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve them.

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Middletown Families was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Fifty years after publication of Robert and Helen Lloyd's classic studies, Middletown (1929) and Middletown in

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In Peaceful Families, Hammer chronicles and examines the efforts, stories, arguments, and strategies of individuals and organizations doing Muslim anti-domestic violence work in the U.S.

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Presenting a four-part model for immediately connecting words with peace and well-being in relationships, this text discusses the use of natural empathy to ease stressful situations and avoid dehumanizing communication patterns. It teaches users that it is possible to meet their needs and the needs of others in a compassionate manner.

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Activists argue about how to define marriage, judges and legislators decide who should benefit from it, and scholars consider how the state should protect those who are denied it. This title argues that marriage, like religion, should be separated from the state. It explains the assumptions hidden in widely held positions and common practices.

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...a good basic introduction...a valuable tool for students or those wishing to pursue an interest in this specialist area of work.' Social Work Today

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Family, State and Social Policy brings together the changing nature of the family; and the relationship between family and state, as it is expressed in social policy. The book explores and clarifies the significance both of family change for policy, and of policy for families.

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Sex is often the closest they can get.'

All the present controversies about the family are really discussions about monogamy. Monogamy is so much taken for granted as the foundation of the family and of family values that, as with anything that seems essential, we are very wary of being critical of it.

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'There is no one else like Cooper' Guardian

When Jilly Cooper, then a young Sunday Times journalist, was asked to write a book on marriage, she had been married to Leo Cooper for a mere seven years.

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Drawing from over 100 interviews, Identical Twins explores the unique status of twinship and how it can affect personal and familial relationships with siblings, romantic partners, and friends.

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Offers readers insights into the complexity of fatherhood. This title also offers a literary reader for the contemporary dad. It covers the spectrum of fatherhood experiences.