The field of family studies has recently benefited from an injection of innovative research from other areas of sociology as well as from other disciplines, particularly demography and psychology. Changing Families: Relationships in Context is the first family textbook, whether Canadian or American, to integrate this new body of knowledge—which also includes additional theoretical perspectives—in such a comprehensive manner.

Changing Families: Relationships in Context (2nd Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Ambert, Anne-Marie

Sociology

Pearson Education Canada

This family sociology book provides conventional sociological perspectives, but also includes exciting new research from sociology as well as other social and behavioral sciences. Family sociology has benefited from recent innovative research in a variety of related fields. Families in the New Millennium is the first family book to integrate some of this new body of knowledge with the standard subject matter. Readers will be exposed to a wider range of theoretical perspectives and methods, and a fuller picture of family life in all its richness and diversity. While emphasizing the broad themes of social inequalities, gender roles, the functional community, and public policy, Families in the New Millennium puts more focus on the nuclear family and intergenerational dynamics than on intimate adult relationships. For anyone interested in sociology, especially family studies.

Families in the New Millennium

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pearson

Note: To purchase the eText, please search for ISBN 10: ISBN 10: 0321968581 ISBN 13: 9780321968586\nChanging Families: Relationships in Context is the first family textbook in North America to integrate innovative research from sociology, demography, and psychology in a comprehensive manner. It includes both a wider range of theoretical perspectives and a larger spectrum of contexts and topics than most family textbooks.\nThis third Canadian edition reflects more recent changes in the contexts within which Canadian families live, covering topics such as low fertility rates, immigrant and transnational families in Canada, aging populations around the globe, the major shifts of economic power in recent years, and more.

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Pearson Canada

Parents, Children, and Adolescents: Interactive Relationships and Development in Context (Haworth Marriage & the Family)

Parents, Children, and Adolescents presents an integrative perspective of the parent-child relationship within several contexts. You can expand your empirical and theoretical knowledge of the parent-child relationship and child development through the book’s unusually holistic, theoretical perspective that integrates three main frameworks: interactional theories on parents, children, and development; contextual (ecological) models; and behavior genetics.This insightful book’s empirical scope is broader than that of most books in that it considers the parent-child relationship throughout the life course as well as within a great variety of contexts, including interactions with sibling and peers, at school, in their neighborhoods, and with professionals. You’ll gain immeasurable knowledge about: 
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<li>parents’child-rearing styles and how they are affected by environmental variables </li>
<li>the interaction between parents and children, and between their personalities </li>
<li>behavior genetics as one of the explanatory frameworks for the role of genetics and environment </li>
<li>negative child outcomes--emotional problems, conduct disorders, and delinquency </li>
<li>poverty and other stressors affecting parents and children </li>
<li>problematic-abusive, emotionally disturbed, alcoholic parents </li>
<li>siblings and peers as contexts for the parent-child dyad </li>
<li>the effect of the school system on the family, with a focus on minority families </li>
<li>family structure--divorce, remarriage, and families headed by never-married mothers </li>
<li>adolescent mothers and their own mothers </li>
<li>the psychogenetic limitations on parental influence and cultural roadblocks to parental moral authorityComplete with an Instructor’s Manual, Parents, Children, and Adolescents is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate classes in family studies and human development, sociology of the family, interdisciplinary developmental psychology, and social work classes that need a thorough perspective on the parent-child relationship. Professionals and scholars in these fields seeking an interdisciplinary framework as well as research suggestions and incisive critiques of traditional perspectives will also find this innovative book a valuable addition to their reading lists.</li>
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Parents, Children, and Adolescents (Haworth Marriage & the Family)

Mental Health

Routledge

The Web of Poverty: Psychosocial Perspectives

The most interdisciplinary, integrated text on poverty, The Web of Poverty: Psychosocial Perspectives gives you a full understanding of poverty and its consequences, equipping you to affect social change. This unique book examines the social and personal causes of poverty, focusing on the consequences of poverty at the neighborhood and school levels and on families, children, and youth. Ethnic and racial minorities are considered throughout the text, and a chapter is devoted to the interface of poverty, segregation, and discrimination. The Web of Poverty helps you clearly see the effects of poverty by considering the cultural and social contexts of victims’lives. In doing so, it fills a gap in the literature caused by books that overlook personal issues and data related to individual experiences. Chapters address contentious and sensitive issues within a critical psychosocial perspective that informs concepts such as the subculture of poverty, social pathologies, and the “overclass.” Many of the topics and perspectives you'll explore in its pages are rarely considered together in one volume. Specifically, you'll read about: the plight of impoverished mothers and their children a comparison of the poverty of disadvantaged African Americans and poor white Americans health disadvantages of the poor the effects of poverty on school systems and the quality of education students receive the factors of age, race, and ethnicity that can lead to poverty a refutation of the notion of genetic inferiority of the poorPoverty is often the cause of other social ills such as delinquency, which can destroy the social fabric of neighborhoods and limit opportunities to escape impoverished situations. The Web of Poverty will help you accurately see poverty as part of this “big picture.” It contains material from the fields of sociology, developmental psychology, family studies, economics, delinquency, ethnic studies, health, and behavior genetics. This amalgamation gives you a thorough psychosocial perspective.

Social Sciences

The most interdisciplinary, integrated text on poverty, The Web of Poverty: Psychosocial Perspectives gives you a full understanding of poverty and its consequences, equipping you to affect social change. This unique book examines the social and personal causes of poverty, focusing on the consequences of poverty at the neighborhood and school levels and on families, children, and youth. Ethnic and racial minorities are considered throughout the text, and a chapter is devoted to the interface of poverty, segregation, and discrimination. The Web of Poverty helps you clearly see the effects of poverty by considering the cultural and social contexts of victims’lives. In doing so, it fills a gap in the literature caused by books that overlook personal issues and data related to individual experiences. Chapters address contentious and sensitive issues within a critical psychosocial perspective that informs concepts such as the subculture of poverty, social pathologies, and the “overclass.” Many of the topics and perspectives you'll explore in its pages are rarely considered together in one volume. Specifically, you'll read about: 
<ul>
<li>the plight of impoverished mothers and their children </li>
<li>a comparison of the poverty of disadvantaged African Americans and poor white Americans </li>
<li>health disadvantages of the poor </li>
<li>the effects of poverty on school systems and the quality of education students receive </li>
<li>the factors of age, race, and ethnicity that can lead to poverty </li>
<li>a refutation of the notion of genetic inferiority of the poorPoverty is often the cause of other social ills such as delinquency, which can destroy the social fabric of neighborhoods and limit opportunities to escape impoverished situations. The Web of Poverty will help you accurately see poverty as part of this “big picture.” It contains material from the fields of sociology, developmental psychology, family studies, economics, delinquency, ethnic studies, health, and behavior genetics. This amalgamation gives you a thorough psychosocial perspective.</li>
</ul>

Trepper, Terry S.

The Effect of Children on Parents

Recognize the hidden costs and rewards of childrearing!The Effect of Children on Parents, Second Edition, thoughtfully explores the interactions by which parents and children change, develop, and sometimes affect each other negatively. Everyone knows that parents influence their children, but few people consider the ways in which children affect their parents. The love, satisfaction, and fulfillment children offer can change parents’lives. So can the stress, worry, and financial drain. The Effect of Children on Parents, Second Edition, honestly confronts these long-neglected issues of family dynamics. Taking a unique interdisciplinary approach, this book describes in great detail, with jargon-free language the various aspects of children's effects on their parents. This second edition contains an abundance of fresh information, including nine entirely new chapters that deal with such complex topics as the effects on parents of children with emotional, behavioral, and delinquency problems. The Effect of Children on Parents, Second Edition, asks and answers essential questions on the parent-child dynamic, including: 
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<li>what role does genetic inheritance play in children's responses to their parents? </li>
<li>how do peers influence children and through them, their parents? </li>
<li>what happens to parents when children are difficult or have emotional problems? </li>
<li>what special considerations apply to minority or adoptive parents? </li>
<li>how do adult childrem affect their aging parents? </li>
<li>how does society support or undermine parents? </li>
<li>what roadblocks prevent parents from being as effective as they would like to be?</li>
</ul>The Effect of Children on Parents, Second Edition, takes a brave look at this often ignored area of family dynamics, giving a richer, more complex, and ultimately more healing view of how humans interact in families. Professors, students, and experts in the fields of child development, family studies, and sociology of childhood and family will find this book a sophisticated tool in their desire to better understand and help families and children.

Teen & Young Adult

Book by Trepper, Terry S, Ambert, Anne Marie

The Effect of Children on Parents (Haworth Marriage & the Family)

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Changing Families: Relationships in Context (2nd Edition)

Families in the New Millennium

Changing Families: Relationships in Context Plus MySearchLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (3rd Edition)

Parents, Children, and Adolescents (Haworth Marriage & the Family)

The Web of Poverty: Psychosocial Perspectives

The Web of Poverty: Psychosocial Perspectives

The Effect of Children on Parents

The Effect of Children on Parents

Parents, Children, and Adolescents: Interactive Relationships and Development in Context (Haworth Marriage & the Family)

The Effect of Children on Parents (Haworth Marriage & the Family)