With almost one child in four currently living with a single parent, one-parent families have become a significant and growing presence in America today. Naomi Miller, Ph.D., a clinician and expert in family relations, looks at a new and emerging group of single parents, namely, those who, not unlike couples, came to their decision for single parenthood intentionally. In contrast to teenage mothers, these men and women are, for the most part, older, educated, professionally successful, and financially secure. By offering relevant demographic, research, and sociocultural data, as well as a series of intensely personal and revealing interviews, Single Parents by Choice investigates what led these people to make such a decision. These new family constellations involve the following four separate groups: single biological mothers; single adoptive mothers or fathers (including those who have adopted older children as well as infants); divorced parents (i.e., the active parent who has decided not to remarry); and gay and lesbian parents (a relatively "new" category of alternative parenting). Listening to the poignant stories of those who have chosen single parenthood, we learn about their family backgrounds and how these played a significant role in shaping the hopes and aspirations for creating their own families. We hear about their ambitions, social lives, and love relationships, and what ultimately led them to decide to take on the responsibilities of parenthood outside the bonds of marriage. They talk about their experiences as parents and what impact their single status as parents and what impact their single status has had on their children, as well what kinds of responses they have received from family, friends, and society at large. Some important questions are raised, namely, what are the psychological implications for the children, and how do they compare to children of two-parent families? In reviewing similar trends in Sweden, England, and Israel, the author asks to what extent can we expect these new family forms to be viewed as normative alternatives to the two-parent family. Single Parents by Choice offers significant new insights into the struggles, frustrations, and joys of raising a child independently and will be of enormous interest to all those involved in or considering this option, as well as psychologists, sociologists, social workers, marriage and family counselors, those in women's studies programs, and gay and lesbian rights advocates.

Single Parents By Choice

Politics & Social Sciences

Miller, Naomi

Social Sciences

Da Capo Press

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults (Children's Literature and Culture)

Teen & Young Adult

Routledge

This is a collection of original essays about how Shakespeare and how his plays are increasingly being used as a means of furthering literacy, language arts, creative and dramatic learning for children in and out of the classroom. It is divided into three sections comprising essays by well-known children's book authors, literary scholars, and teachers, respectively, who approach the subject from a wide range of perspectives.

In the small town of Abbott Creek, mystery is as much a part of daily life as The Sweet Shop's sugar cookies. Katie Chupp spends her days at The Sweet Shop, taking care of customers and baking delicious treats . . . not exactly a profession where one expects to be thrown into the midst of mysteries and mayhem. But when the bakery is broken into, someone has to find the thief . . . besides finding another place to do the baking and get the orders to the customers. Is this a random theft, or is the thief trying to ruin the town's Independence Day celebration? Book 1 of the Amish Sweet Shop Mystery series

Blueberry Cupcake Mystery (1)

Literature & Fiction

S&G Publishing

In the small town of Abbott Creek, mystery is as much a part of daily life as The Sweet Shop's Sugar Cookies. Katie Chupp spends her days at The Sweet Shop, taking care of customers and baking delicious treats . . . not exactly a profession where one expects to be thrown into the midst of mysteries and mayhem. But when the bakery is broken into, someone has to find the thief . . . besides finding another place to do the baking and get the orders to the customers. Is this a random theft, or is the thief trying to ruin the town's Independence Day celebration? Book 1 of the Sweet Shop Mysteries series Watch for book 2 - Christmas Cookie Mystery - COMING SOON!

Blueberry Cupcake Mystery (Amish Sweet Shop Mystery)

Studies the development of the use of caves in landscape gardens from ancient times to the modern world in the context of changes in attitudes toward nature

Heavenly Caves: Reflections on the Garden Grotto

Arts & Photography

Architecture

George Braziller

This is the only single work devoted exclusively to the history of the garden grotto - the caves in landscape gardens that were artificially enhanced by waterfalls and ornamental delights to imitate, control and even surpass the effects of nature. Praised by writers from Pliny to Pope, the grotto has a rich and varied tradition: it originated as a motif in the classical world, where it was a ubiquitous feature imbued with mythological and oracular symbolism. Its popularity was renewed in the Renaissance gardens of the humanists, while its expressive effects achieved new heights with theatrical displays in the baroque nympheae of France and Italy, fanciful mazes in picturesque English landscapes, and melodramatic extravaganzas in the gardens of Wagnerian Germany. This miniature world was filled with fancy and mystery. Underground, the grotto was a source of nature's secrets, as well as those of the muses and nymphs. But it was also a sanctuary for men that inspired inner reflections as well as poetical communions with nature. Above all, the grotto was a museum in which men expressed their artistic understanding of nature and the cosmos.

Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1587-1653) wrote the first sonnet sequence in English by a woman, one of the first plays by a woman, and the first published work of fiction by an Englishwoman. Yet, despite her status as a member of the distinguished Sidney family, Wroth met with disgrace at court for her authorship of a prose romance, which was adjudged an inappropriate endeavor for a woman and was forcibly withdrawn from publication. Only recently has recognition of Wroth's historical and literary importance been signaled by the publication of the first modern edition of her romance, The Countess of Mountgomeries Urania. Naomi Miller offers an illuminating study of this significant early modern woman writer. Using multiple critical/theoretical perspectives, including French feminism, new historicism, and cultural materialism, she examines gender in Wroth's time. Moving beyond the emphasis on victimization that shaped many previous studies, she considers the range of strategies devised by women writers of the period to establish voices for themselves. Where previous critics have viewed Wroth primarily in relation to her male literary predecessors in the Sidney family, Miller explores Wroth's engagement with a variety of discourses, reading her in relation to a broad range of English and continental authors, both male and female, from Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare to Aemilia Lanier, Elizabeth Cary, and Marguerite de Navarre. She also contextualizes Wroth's writing in relation to a variety of nonliterary texts of the period, both political and domestic. Thanks to Miller's sensitive readings, Wroth's writings provide a lens through which to view gender relations in the early modern period.

Changing The Subject: Mary Wroth and Figurations of Gender in Early Modern England (Studies In English Renaissance)

British & Irish

University Press of Kentucky

Book by MacDougall, Elisabeth B., Miller, Naomi

Fons Sapientiae: Garden Fountains in Illustrated Books, 16th and 18th Centuries

MacDougall, Elisabeth B.

Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service

In the small town of Abbott Creek, mysteries are as much a part of daily life as Katie Chupp's Christmas cookies. It's the most wonderful time of the year. With a winter chill settling in and Christmas right around the corner, no one would expect a mystery, but a mystery does indeed appear... Katie Chupp is spending her days catering to the holiday rush, but she soon finds herself in the midst of a secret project that attracts more attention than she wants. And when one local family finds a very unexpected surprise at their door, this is one mystery that may never be solved... even by Katie. Book 2 of the Sweet Shop Mysteries series And watch for book 3 - Lemon Tart Mystery - COMING NEXT YEAR!

Christmas Cookie Mystery (Amish Sweet Shop Mystery)

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Single Parents By Choice

Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults (Children's Literature and Culture)

Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults (Children's Literature and Culture)

Blueberry Cupcake Mystery (1)

Blueberry Cupcake Mystery (Amish Sweet Shop Mystery)

Heavenly Caves: Reflections on the Garden Grotto

Heavenly Caves: Reflections on the Garden Grotto

Changing The Subject: Mary Wroth and Figurations of Gender in Early Modern England (Studies In English Renaissance)

Fons Sapientiae: Garden Fountains in Illustrated Books, 16th and 18th Centuries

Christmas Cookie Mystery (Amish Sweet Shop Mystery)