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Explores how women who give birth at home use religion to make sense of their births. This book investigates why women whose religious affiliations range from Old Order Amish to Reform Judaism defy the medical establishment, and sometimes the law to have their babies at home. It challenges both feminist and traditionalist accounts of childbearing.

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A guide for adolescent girls by a father and the author of 'Beer Blast' shares straightforward advice on how to navigate the dating scene, manage bullies, resist peer pressure, build on one's faith, form healthy friendships, and develop greater self-awareness.

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This study uses ten stories from the Avadnaataka, the collection of Buddhist narratives compiled from the second to fifth centuries CE, to examine the social landscape of early India. The author analyzes marital customs and the development of nuns hagiographies, while revealing regional variations of Buddhism in South Asia during this period.

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Building Relationships uses an apparatus approach to media analysis in order to determine whether the synchronic logic of online dating is compatible with the historically diachronic logic of marriage.

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This book presents the results of the first major study to examine people's attitudes to family formation and childbearing in Ireland. Based on a nationwide representative sample of 1,404 men and women in the childbearing age group, the study was carried out against a backdrop of changing gender role attitudes and behaviour as well as significant demographic change.

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The editor of this volume takes on the challenging task of presenting an encompassing view of childbirth in America from an anthropological perspective.

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Experts from across disciplines join forces here to focus attention on current American culture and the devastating effects it is having on its children.

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Child-rearing, as a basic function of society, provides an opportunity for comparative study of two very different societies in this work, a revision of Xiao's (sociology, Central Washington U.) doctoral thesis. Following an examination of the literature, Xiao defines her theoretical foundation she

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Provides a discussion on the role of orphanages, the primary institution for children without parents, and a stopgap measure for children needing care. This book reviews the practice of adoption, orphanage placement, and foster care since the colonial period. It provides crucial information and insight for high school and college students.

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This work will offer students and scholars in social work, child welfare, and public policy a complete overview of the systemic difficulties of the American family as well as compatible and practical programs designed to meet current family needs.

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Has the college experience of women been an influence on the number of children desired and the number and spacing of their children Do women come to college with their attitudes and values in this regard already formed This study of 15,000 women, freshmen and seniors in 45 American colleges and universities, both secular and nonsecular, attempts

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Questioning the myth of unconditional love between parents and children, this study examines the strength of the parental bond when children are born with physical defects.

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Provides a view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society based on kinship ties. This title demonstrates that kinship and gender identities in Greece are not unitary and fixed: kinship is organized in several highly specific forms, and gender identities are plural.