Making the Most of the Opportunity of Your Lifetime...Fatherhood will give you some of the greatest challenges -- and the greatest opportunities -- you will ever lace. Along with the pleasure your ch
Offers a Christian perspective on taking care of elderly parents, lists rights and responsibilities, and covers retirement, financial decisions, illness, and spiritual life
A handbook for the growing number of women who have chosen single motherhood offers a helpful analysis of available options, from artificial insemination to adoption, and examines the special problems
Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys T. Patterson provides an analysis of the social structure of medieval Ireland, focusing on the pre-Norman period. By combining difficult, often fragmentary primary sou
This volume presents a variety of unique perspectives on mothering as a socially constructed relationship, assessing many of the political, legal and cultural debates surrounding the issue.
How did propertied families in late medieval and early modern Florence maintain their power and affluence while equally important clans elsewhere were fatally undermined by the growth of commerce and
Couples often spend more time preparing for the one-day event of their wedding than they do for the actual marriage, which is a life-long event. Michael Cavanagh asserts that simply dating and courtin
Divorced women over the age of forty share their inspiring stories of reclaiming control of their lives, developing self-esteem, and finding confidence and how they have mapped new paths for their fut
In this volume Georges Duby - member of the Academie Francaise and one of the preeminent medieval scholars of our time - addresses the theme of love and marriage in the Middle Ages.These essays enrich
The turbulent decade of the 1980s began with financial calamity in several sectors of the United States economy, from automaking to agriculture. The rural Midwest experienced its worst economic declin
This ambitious study sets out to discover what marriage meant in the daily lives of the nobles of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries. Through entertaining anecdotes, family dramas, and strikin
Reprint of the B. Blackwell original of 1988 which was included in the series Family, Sexuality, and Social Relations in Past Times . Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This was a time when footbinding spread, and Confucian scholars began to insist that it was better for a widow to starve than to r
A book used for the "Home and Family Studies" course at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. LDS friendly, it offers checklists, analyses, inventories, ledgers, tips, charts, steps, techniques, Q&As, and m
This book details years of research involving questionnaires and observations of married couples in pursuit of the determinants of both marital happiness and divorce. It will be of interest to family
For decades the term "Boston marriage" was used to describe single women who lived together and shared their lives. The presumption then was that these partnerships were nonsexual. In recent years, ho
