Family Life

Author : Akhil Sharma
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571314621

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Family Life by Akhil Sharma Pdf

Ajay, eight years old, spends his afternoons playing cricket in the streets of Delhi with his brother Birju, four years older. They are about to leave for shiny new life in America. Ajay anticipates, breathlessly, a world of jet-packs and chewing-gum. This promised land of impossible riches and dazzling new technology is also a land that views Ajay with suspicion and hostility; one where he must rely on his big brother to tackle classroom bullies. Birju, confident, popular, is the repository of the family's hopes, and he spends every waking minute studying for the exams that will mean entry to the Bronx High School of Science, and reflected glory for them all. When a terrible accident makes a mockery of that dream, the family splinters. The boys' mother restlessly seeks the help of pundits from the temple, while their father retreats into silent despair - and the bottle. Now Ajay must find the strength of character to navigate this brave new American world, and the sorrows at home, on his own terms. By turns blackly funny, touching, raw and devastating, Family Life is a vivid and wrenching portrait of sibling relationships and the impact of tragedy on one family from a boy's eye view.

Author : Kelly J. Welch
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1334 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781544371054

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Family Life Now by Kelly J. Welch Pdf

Family Life Now is a candid, thoughtful examination of marriages, families, and intimate relationships that follows the Family Life Education framework. Written in a student-friendly, conversational style, the text encourages readers to draw upon their own backgrounds and experiences to understand theories and concepts vital to the family sciences. Author Kelly J. Welch incorporates scholarship from the social and behavioral sciences to cover topics that are important to students today, such as LGBTQ+ individuals and relationships, cohabitating, and financial compatibility with a partner. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package.

Author : Mavis Fuller,Christopher Graham,Barbara Jenkins,Clare Eastland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Family life education
ISBN : 1405086696

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Health and Family Life Education by Mavis Fuller,Christopher Graham,Barbara Jenkins,Clare Eastland Pdf

Author : Saint John Chrysostom
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781456636531

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On Marriage and Family Life by Saint John Chrysostom Pdf

Inspired by the epistles of St Paul, St John Chrysostom has many important and practical things to say to Christian couples and families.

Author : Stephen F. Duncan,H. Wallace Goddard
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781483384566

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Family Life Education by Stephen F. Duncan,H. Wallace Goddard Pdf

Drawing on the best scholarship and their own years of professional experience, Stephen F. Duncan and H. Wallace Goddard provide a practical, how-to guide to developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining effective family life education programs. This thoroughly updated Third Edition of Family Life Education: Principles and Practices for Effective Outreach begins by discussing the foundations of family life education and encourages readers to develop their own outreach philosophies. Readers then learn principles and methods for reaching out to the public and how to form and use community collaborations and -principles of social marketing to promote programs.

Author : Annette Lareau
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520271425

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Unequal Childhoods by Annette Lareau Pdf

This book is a powerful portrayal of class inequalities in the United States. It contains insightful analysis of the processes through which inequality is reproduced, and it frankly engages with methodological and analytic dilemmas usually glossed over in academic texts.

Author : Clare Mackintosh
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Cotswold Hills (England)
ISBN : 0751575577

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A Cotswold Family Life by Clare Mackintosh Pdf

A humorous, warm memoir of family life in the countryside from bestselling author, Clare Mackintosh. 'Insightful, funny, absorbing' Prue Leith 'Original yet totally recognisable' Katie Fforde 'Sheer bliss!' Jill Mansell 'Heartfelt and poignant' Sunday Express I have always loved the Cotswolds. I think I loved them even before I found them, in that half-formed ideal one has of where to put down roots. Somewhere peaceful, green, where the road meanders between drystone walls and from town to town, and a strip of blue bursts from brook to river and back again. For 8 years, Clare Mackintosh wrote for Cotswold Life about the ups and downs of life with a young family in the countryside. In this memoir she brings together all of those stories - and more - for the first time. From keeping chickens to getting the WI drunk, longing for an Aga to dealing with nits, Clare opens the door to family life with warmth and humour and heart.

Author : Swami Rama
Publisher : Himalayan Institute Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0893891339

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Love and Family Life by Swami Rama Pdf

Guides the reader to understand the interplay between loving relationships and the path to spirituality.

Author : Elisabeth Luard
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408831076

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Family Life by Elisabeth Luard Pdf

An extraordinary and moving memoir of an unconventional, unforgettable family.

Author : Carol A. Darling,Dawn Cassidy,Sharon M. Ballard
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-29
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781478649489

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Family Life Education by Carol A. Darling,Dawn Cassidy,Sharon M. Ballard Pdf

Contemporary family life educators operate within a wide range of settings and with increasingly varied populations and families. In the fourth edition of Family Life Education, Carol Darling and Dawn Cassidy are pleased to have Sharon Ballard join in the process of exposing readers to the diverse landscape of the field while laying a comprehensive, research-based, and practical foundation for current and future family life educators. The authors, who are CFLE Certified, consider the Certified Family Life Educator credential requirements of the National Council on Family Relations throughout the text. Their broad overview of the field includes a brief history and discussion of family life education as an established profession. New to this edition is the inclusion of several models that provide insight into the discipline and practice. There is expanded information about working with diverse audiences and the skills needed to be a culturally competent family life educator. The addition of the personal experiences and reflections of 17 family life educators working in a variety of settings provides a meaningful context to the continuing evolution and importance of family life education in society. The authors incorporate theory, research, and practice while also providing guidelines for planning, implementing, and evaluating family life education programs. Content on sexuality education, relationship and marriage education, and parenting education highlights some of the more prevalent trends and visible forms of family life education. Comments from 35 international colleagues representing 27 countries and 6 continents facilitate understanding the role of family life education in various international settings. The provision of interactive classroom exercises focuses on building awareness, appreciation of diversity, and global trends. Discussion questions and activities encourage readers to examine issues and apply what they have learned.

Author : Stephen F. Duncan,H. Wallace Goddard
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412979085

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Family Life Education by Stephen F. Duncan,H. Wallace Goddard Pdf

Drawing on the best scholarship and their own years of professional experience, the authors of this thoroughly updated edition begin by discussing the foundations of family life education and encourage readers to develop their own outreach philosophies. The book then helps readers learn principles and methods for reaching out to the public and how to form and use community collaborations and use principles of social marketing to promote programs. The Second Edition contains five new chapters on education for personal well-being, marriage and relationship education, parenting education, sexuality education, and narratives of family life educators. The authors' practical, hands-on experience is used to demonstrate how readers can put principles from the latest and best scholarship into action and reinforced with the Interactive Explorations sections throughout.

Author : Robert Joseph Taylor,James S. Jackson,Linda M. Chatters
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0803952910

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Family Life in Black America by Robert Joseph Taylor,James S. Jackson,Linda M. Chatters Pdf

Most studies of Black families have had a `problem focus', offering a narrow view of important issues such as out-of-wedlock births, single-parent families and childhood poverty. Family Life in Black America moves away from this negative perspective and instead deals with a wide range of issues including sexuality, procreation, infancy, adulthood, adolescence, cohabitation, parenting, grandparenting and ageing. A fresh aspect of this book is the amount of diversity it reveals within black families and the forces that shape, limit and enhance them.

Author : Suzanne Slater
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781439106143

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Lesbian Family Life Cycle by Suzanne Slater Pdf

Until now, lesbian families have had little help in identifying the stages of their couple relationships or recognizing the often stressful periods of relational transition. In this first-of-its-kind book, psychotherapist Suzanne Slater describes the joys and stresses common to lesbian families and provides a five-stage model of the development of lesbian couple relationships, from formation through old age and death. Drawing on sixteen years of clinical experience and research, Slater shows that lesbian families with and without children have created their own richly diverse family patterns, extending both the parameters of coupled life and the very definition of what constitutes "family." She describes the tasks, challenges, and accomplishments particular to each stage of the family life cycle, and helps couples distinguish between normal developmental stresses and the unique difficulties of particular couples. She considers in detail lesbian couples' interaction with their original families, with the straight world, and with the lesbian communities of which they are a part. Through a range of examples and cases, Slater addresses how lesbian families are affected by their position in a homophobic culture and details the unique coping mechanisms that different lesbian couples have created. Most important, she emphasizes the sources of fulfillment common to many lesbian families. In addition to educating lesbian couples and those close to them, this book will prepare psychotherapists to design more effective and informed therapeutic strategies. Instead of relying on theory based on heterosexual experience, clinicians can now base their interventions on what is normal for lesbian family life. The Lesbian Family Life Cycle will be invaluable reading for lesbian family members, their friends and relatives, and clinicians in a variety of helping professions.

Author : Deborah Chambers,Pablo Gracia
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509541379

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A Sociology of Family Life by Deborah Chambers,Pablo Gracia Pdf

Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time, certain features of family life endure. This popular book, now in a fully updated second edition, presents a comprehensive assessment of recent research on 'family', parenting, childhood and interpersonal ties. A Sociology of Family Life queries assumptions about a disintegration of 'the family' by revealing a remarkable persistence of commitment and reciprocity across cultures, within new as well as traditional family forms. Yet, while new kinds of intimate relationships such as 'friends as family' and LGBTQ+ intimacies become commonplace, such personal relationships can still be difficult to negotiate in the face of wider structural norms. With a focus on factors such as class, gender, race, ethnicity and sexuality, this new edition highlights inequalities that influence and curb families and personal life transnationally. Alongside substantial new material on cultural and digital transformations, the book features extensive updates on issues ranging from demography, migration, ageing and government policies to reproductive technologies, employment and care. With a global focus, and blending theory with real-life examples, this insightful and engaging book will remain indispensable to students across the social sciences.

Author : Ruspini, Elisabetta
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447320555

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Diversity in family life by Ruspini, Elisabetta Pdf

As new forms of family and 'non-traditional' families grow in number, there is a need to understand these 'new' arrangements and models of parenthood. This ground-breaking book discusses, using a comparative and a sociological perspective, examples of the relationship between changing gender identities and processes of family formation in the Western experience. It aims to show that, in the 21st century, it is possible to form a family without sex, without children, without a shared home, without a partner, without a working husband, without a heterosexual orientation or without a biological' sexual body. 'Diversity in family life' will help readers discover and understand the characteristics, advantages and drawbacks of these new models of parenthood, and their political implications in terms of social movements, characteristics and demands.