Fortunate Families

Author : Mary Ellen Lopata
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781412011891

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Fortunate Families by Mary Ellen Lopata Pdf

Fortunate Families addresses the experience of Catholic parents who love their gay sons and lesbian daughters. The book had its genesis in a descriptive survey of over 200 such parents. It integrates results from the survey, church documents and stories so readers can access what they need most. Some readers will search for accurate information about Catholic teaching, others may connect with the lived experience of other Catholic parents. Still others will find examples of ministerial advocacy and support within the Catholic Church. Fortunate Families has all this and more. Conventional wisdom emphasizes the stories of parents who react to the news that their child is gay in verbally or physically abusive ways. These stories are told so often they take on an aura of normalcy. But there are other stories - of parents who struggle against the pressures of society and church to find and believe in the goodness of their gay child. It is critically important for parents to hear the stories of others who walked the same road before them-who have come through the experience closer to their gay or lesbian child, and who are willing to work to make the church more welcoming. Equally important is the opportunity for pastoral ministers to hear the voices of these parents and understand the need for outreach and pastoral care for gay and lesbian Catholics and their families. Fortunate Families will help prepare pastoral ministers help families come out of their isolation, work through their confusion and pain, and celebrate how fortunate they actually are.

Author : Steidl Jack, Jason
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781587689680

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LGBTQ Catholic Ministry by Steidl Jack, Jason Pdf

The author has spoken with countless Catholics who are passionate about LGBTQ ministry but feel stymied by a lack of resources. Fr. Martin’s book, Building a Bridge, is a helpful conversation starter, but what does community and pastoral care look like in the real world? How do ministers navigate the complexities of church teaching and institutions? Sometimes, the history of these relationships is hard to recount. The church’s mistreatment of LGBTQ Catholics is heartbreaking. Nevertheless, this painful history opens up to hope for the future. LGBTQ Catholics and their allies are tenacious. Decades of ministry provide a vision for what is possible in communities committed to justice and mercy. This book will amplify their stories to inspire LGBTQ people and allies today.

Author : James E. Meade
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415526500

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The Just Economy by James E. Meade Pdf

First published in 1979, this fourth part of Principles of Political Economyapplies the tools of economic analysis to the distribution of income and property. Professor Meade considers the problems of making interpersonal comparisons of welfare and of distinguishing between the efficiency and distributional aspects of changes in social welfare. He analyses the possible criteria for redistribution as between rich and poor members of the same generation, as between present and future generations, and – in the context of demographic policies – as between the born and the unborn. Special attention is given to the social factors (such as assortative mating, differential fertility, and laws and customs relating to the inheritance of property) in explaining the persistence of economic inequalities, and to the various forms of economic policy which may be devised for the reduction of such inequalities. An extensive mathematical model of the dynamics of social welfare in a second-best economy is appended.

Author : Vanessa May
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509518463

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Families by Vanessa May Pdf

In this accessible and engagingly written book, Vanessa May invites readers into the rich world of thought, research and study of the highly diverse phenomenon of families and family life. The book explores what is and has been understood by ‘family’ in different sociocultural contexts and how family life intersects with social spheres such as the state, the labour market and the economy. Alongside broad social developments such as (post)colonialism and austerity and their connections with changing family patterns, the book engages interdisciplinary work on time, embodiment and materiality in order to offer a multidimensional perspective on the day-to-day lives of families. Drawing from research in the Global North and the Global South, the text carefully considers how people approach the study of families and thus offers insight into the shape of mainstream family studies today. The book offers a timely intervention into current debates within family studies and suggests avenues of investigation that deserve further attention, and will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars alike.

Author : Alex Liazos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317259701

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Families by Alex Liazos Pdf

Unlike other family textbooks that mostly emphasize conflicts and problems, this book also features the joys and pleasures of family living and its mutually nourishing qualities. Its perspective reflects polls, surveys, and student essays indicating that most people value their families. Families everywhere provide love, support, and sustenance to their members, but they do so in many different arrangements.Understanding the wide variety of families historically and across cultures gives the student a better basis for understanding how families change and a better grasp of more controversial changes such as the gradual acceptance by Westerners of same-sex marriage and child-rearing by single people. Liazos offers two poignant chapters not found in other texts. Family Living (Chapter Six) focuses on the social value of caregiving and family meals. Kin and Community (Chapter Seven) focuses on relationships among kin and the larger community.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : PURD:32754067971097

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Education Savings Act for Public and Private Schools by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : PURD:32754071550630

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Education Savings and School Excellence Act of 2000 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Pdf

Author : Stephanie Coontz,Maya Parson,Gabrielle Raley
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : 0415915732

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American Families by Stephanie Coontz,Maya Parson,Gabrielle Raley Pdf

This collection by leading scholars discusses race, gender and class stressing their effects on American families.

Author : Katherine S. Newman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807007457

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The Accordion Family by Katherine S. Newman Pdf

Why are adults in their twenties and thirties stuck in their parents’ homes in the world’s wealthiest countries? There’s no question that globalization has drastically changed the cultural landscape across the world. The cost of living is rising, and high unemployment rates have created an untenable economic climate that has severely compromised the path to adulthood for young people in their twenties and thirties. And there’s no end in sight. Families are hunkering down, expanding the reach of their households to envelop economically vulnerable young adults. Acclaimed sociologist Katherine Newman explores the trend toward a rising number of “accordion families” composed of adult children who will be living off their parents’ retirement savings with little means of their own when the older generation is gone. While the trend crosses the developed world, the cultural and political responses to accordion families differ dramatically. In Japan, there is a sense of horror and fear associated with “parasite singles,” whereas in Italy, the “cult of mammismo,” or mamma’s boys, is common and widely accepted, though the government is rallying against it. Meanwhile, in Spain, frustrated parents and millenials angrily blame politicians and big business for the growing number of youth forced to live at home. Newman’s investigation, conducted in six countries, transports the reader into the homes of accordion families and uncovers fascinating links between globalization and the failure-to-launch trend. Drawing from over three hundred interviews, Newman concludes that nations with weak welfare states have the highest frequency of accordion families while the trend is virtually unknown in the Nordic countries. The United States is caught in between. But globalization is reshaping the landscape of adulthood everywhere, and the consequences are far-reaching in our private lives. In this gripping and urgent book, Newman urges Americans not to simply dismiss the boomerang generation but, rather, to strategize how we can help the younger generation make its own place in the world.

Author : Charles J O′Leary
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781446264669

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Counselling Couples and Families by Charles J O′Leary Pdf

Reader′s comments: `Then along comes your book - lands on my desk like a gift, which I have barely put down since. It stopped me searching for external answers, helped me to dig into the knowledge, philosophy and way of working which already existed in me. I draw on it all the time for inspiration and a way of grounding me in the tentative moments of working towards a delicate connection with the families I encounter. I have a lot to be thankful to you for - I have now developed a way of working which seems helpful and which enables those around me to find a way forward, but perhaps most of all I finally feel comfortable and free to be the same counsellor I am with individuals - Hurrah!′ - Kim Barber, Counsellor Lecturers′ comments: ′A fascinating book which combines couple counselling with person-centred counselling. Will be recommended reading for social work students working with couple relationships′ ′Very readible. Useful for students of counselling beyomd the ′title′ focus of couples and families′ `The only book on couple and family counselling from the person-centred approach′ `This book is unique in its articulation of family therapy and the person-centred approach. It is also engaging in the way couples and the families come to life through Charlie O′Leary′s acute and sensitive observation. It is an essential text in any person-centred therapy library′- Dave Mearns, University of Strathclyde `Compelling reading... I liked this book. It is intelligent, thought-provoking, occasionally funny and a delight to read. I warmed to the author′s passion for the work of Carl Rogers.... All Relate counsellors will find something of value - even the strict psychodynamic practitioners′ - Relate News `The author deserves congratulations on his easy, readable style. This will ensure that the book will be read, rather than simply browsed by many′ - Sexual and Relationship Therapy `Provides a very good introduction for counsellors in working with families.′ - British Journal of Guidance & Counselling `In this highly readable text, the theory and practice of counselling couples and families are successfully integrated with principles from the Rogerian/person-centred approach. In this sense the book is unique: although a lot of counsellors in fact practice relational therapy from a person-centred perspective, until now, no basic text was available in this field′ - Alfons Vansteenwegen, INTAMS Review In this unique book, the theory and practice of counselling couples and families are integrated with principles from the person-centred approach. With numerous examples from actual sessions, the book clearly illustrates the key issues that couples and families face, and the ways in which the counsellor can help them to resolve these to their own satisfaction. Written primarily from the viewpoint of working with couples and families, issues specific to relational counselling are contrasted to those that arise when counselling individuals or non-related groups. The author then explores the process of relational counselling using the person-centred principles of empathy, congruence, unconditional positive regard and non-interference with the clients′ actualizing tendency.

Author : Brian Young
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773596641

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Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec by Brian Young Pdf

History has often ignored the influence in modern Quebec of family dynasties, patriarchy, seigneurial land, and traditional institutions. Following the ascent of four generations from two families through eighteenth-century New France to the onset of the First World War, Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec compares the French Catholic Taschereaus and the Anglican and English-speaking McCords. Consulting private, institutional, and legal archives, Brian Young studies eight family patriarchs. Working as merchants or colonial administrators in the first generation, they became seigneurial proprietors, officeholders, and prelates. The heads of both families used marriage arrangements, land stewardship, and judgeships to position their heirs. Young shows how patriarchy was a central force in both domestic and public life, as well as the ways in which Taschereau and McCord family strategies extended into the marrow of Quebec society through moral authority, influence on national identities, and their positions within senior offices in religious, judicial, and university institutions. Through courthouses, cemeteries, belfries, and their own chapels and neoclassical estates, they created encompassing cultural landscapes. Later generations used museums, archives, historian collaborators, photography, and modern print to elevate family achievement to the status of heroic national narratives. Sagas of the monied and entrepreneurial, nationalist imperatives to protect a vulnerable people, and skepticism about the lasting power of great families and historical institutions have relegated the influence of the Taschereaus and McCords to obscurity. Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec resuscitates the central role these elite families played in English and French Quebec.

Author : Diana Hiatt-Michael
Publisher : IAP
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681239224

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Family Involvement in Faith-Based Schools by Diana Hiatt-Michael Pdf

An essential read for all school principals and persons engaged in educational policy. Parental interest in faith-based schooling for children has surged and the contents of this book reveal the reasons for this surge. This book provides insights to school choice, support for faith-based schooling, and opening doors for increased parent involvement in schools. Authors focus on promising practices that these schools utilize to engage parents in the daily life of school and the effects of such practices on the educational life of the school. Their work cover Catholic, Jewish, Christian and Muslim schools within the U. S. and internationally. In addition, chapters suggest ways to market schools and promote social justice in faith-based schools.

Author : Ch. Farris & Ruth Robertson
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781468923988

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Recovery for the Christian Family: Surviving Alcoholism by Ch. Farris & Ruth Robertson Pdf

Everybody is trying to help the addict or alcoholic get sober but very few people really know how to help the family through the experience. This book has the real world insight of a husband and wife team who are survivors of alcoholism who have worked with thousands of people over the last twenty years. You will learn about interventions and how they work and when to use them...not from a TV show full of drama, but from people that want to guide your family toward success. You will learn how to live with alcoholism while not losing your family to it. You will find a way of peace during the storm. You will gain confidence that God has a plan for your family that may not be clear to you quite yet.

Author : Steven A. Reich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440850813

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The World of Jim Crow America [2 volumes] by Steven A. Reich Pdf

This two-volume set is a thematically-arranged encyclopedia covering the social, political, and material culture of America during the Jim Crow Era. What was daily life really like for ordinary African American people in Jim Crow America, the hundred-year period of enforced legal segregation that began immediately after the Civil War and continued until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965? What did they eat, wear, believe, and think? How did they raise their children? How did they interact with government? What did they value? What did they do for fun? This Daily Life encyclopedia explores the lives of average people through the examination of social, cultural, and material history. Supported by the most current research, the multivolume set examines social history topics—including family, political, religious, and economic life—as it illuminates elements of a society's emotional life, interactions, opinions, views, beliefs, intimate relationships, and connections between individuals and the greater world. It is broken up into topical sections, each dealing with a different aspect of cultural life. Each section opens with an introductory essay, followed by A–Z entries on various aspects of that topic.

Author : Day Monroe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Consumption (Economics)
ISBN : UVA:X030354058

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Family Income and Expenditures by Day Monroe Pdf

The study of consumer purchases, planned in the latter part of 1935 and inaugurated early in 1936, was undertaken to provide data more comprehensive than any available before on the way American families earn and spend their incomes.