Families and parents have the most central and enduring influence on children's lives. Parenthood is not instinctive, but is rather an evolutionary...

Sexuality can be defined as a process of integrating emotional, somatic, and intellectual and social aspects in ways that enhance one's own self. I...

This book looks at the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Initiative whose goals are to strengthen marriages and relationships in low-inco...

This book focuses on the nexus between "marriage" and "migration" in the wake of the recent attention given to "foreign brides" and "mail-order bri...

The Market in Babies: Stories of Australian Adoption tells the history of adoption in Australia from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to it...

Marriage has become an increasingly important topic in academic and policy research. A burgeoning literature suggests that marriage has a wide rang...

This book is an overview of issues associated with the marriage penalty. The first section explains how the marriage penalty (and the marriage bonu...

Massachusetts Rules of Domestic Relations Procedure including amendments effective December 1st 2009. It was originally published by the Massachuse...

In this collection of essays, performance pieces, poetry and prose from Sybylla Feminist Press, mother as noun, appendage and agenda is mined for m...

In the life of a person, there are probably no events, outside influences or genetic characteristics even approaching the significance of the broad...

A draft working definition of sexuality, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), lent some clarity to the fuzzy concept. The WHO draft de...

To date, little has been published about the place of spirituality in working with survivors of intimate partner violence. Overcoming Conflicting L...

Positive parent-child interactions play an important role in fostering the development of pre-schoolers' knowledge and understandings of their worl...

In the life of a person, there are probably no events, outside influences or genetic characteristics even approaching the significance of the broad...

Parental behavior and the experience of parenthood have been areas of study worldwide for the last hundred years (and in Croatia for about forty ye...

In this book, the authors present current research on the challenges, practices and cultural influences of parenting. Topics discussed in this comp...

We know that parents affect the behavior, health and well-being of their children, but the findings of parent-child effects vary in different count...

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in children born out of wedlock. Such a situation is of great concern because the poorest demographic gr...

Parents have the legal responsibility to protect and care for their children. However, recent media reports have illuminated a practice involving u...

Although reproduction including infertility, abortion, childbearing and motherhood is a significant human experience, its social meaning is shaped ...

Sexuality education is defined as a life-long process of acquiring information about individual's private life, sexual identity and relationships a...

Single-Parenting in the 21st Century: Perceptions, Issues and Implications explores and illuminates the landscape of single-parenting in the twenty...

This study illuminates the 2,500 year social history of sexual relations in Iran. Marriage, temporary marriage, prostitution, and homosexuality are...

In developed countries many families live in poverty and other vulnerable conditions, having low quality of life and suffering from social exclusio...