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Families in Transition: Parenting Gender Diverse Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults is a compilation of clinically oriented articles, research, and case material authored by mental health and medical experts, both nationally and internationally known, as well as first-person narratives written by parents and families, exploring the complexities faced by parents and caretakers attending to the needs of their children in a largely hostile world....
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Rad Families: A Celebration honors the messy, the painful, the playful, the beautiful, and the myriad ways we create families. This is not an anthology of experts, or how-to articles on perfect parenting; it often doesn't even try to provide answers. Instead, the writers strive to be honest and vulnerable in sharing their stories and experiences, their failures and their regrets.
Gathering parents and writers from diverse communities, it explores...
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Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam chronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnam's recent past – the transition to a market economy, referred to as Doi Moi in Vietnamese and generally translated as the "renovation". Two decades have passed since the wide-ranging institutional transformations that took place reconfigured the ways families produce and reproduce. The downsizing of the socialist welfare system...
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The Thompson Family The Thompson family originally hails from Scotland. The earliest known ancestor is Thomas Thompson, who was born in 1545 in Glasgow. Matthew Thompson (1692-1753) emigrated from County Donegal, Ireland to Philadelphia, in 1732. He then moved to Virginia in 1741. The Thompsons were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians.
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Six years into the papacy of Pope Francis, Catholics are still figuring out how to respond to his image of the church as a field hospital -a church that goes into the streets rather than remaining locked up behind closed doors. Marriage and family are primary sites of the field hospital, called to meet people's need for healing and accompaniment with compassion and love. The authors of this collection -all lay, a mix of single and married, traditional...
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Every family has a rainbow sheep! These are some of their stories. The premiere publication in Qommunicate Media's LGBTQ+ True Stories Anthology Series features stories and poems by children of gay dads and lesbian moms, transgender fathers and children, queer aunts and uncles, and others about life in their families - all "straight" from the rainbow sheeps' mouths.
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Those who are afflicted as well as those, who are adversely, affected by mental illness often live lives of "quiet desperation" without recourse to appropriate assistance. Most caregivers confronted with these illnesses in the work of ministry have had no training or accurate information about mental illnesses, so frequently they do nothing, resulting in further harm and damage. Others may operate out of a theological system that does not adequately...
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From visiting Santa's home in Lapland to spotting penguins in Patagonia or touring temples in Laos, this book makes family travel easier. Our team of parent-authors provides ideas and advice for every aspect of travelling with junior adventurers, giving parents the tools and the confidence to plan the trip of a lifetime in more than 80 countries around the world. • Hundreds of fun travel ideas for children of all ages • Information and advice...
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American families are far more diverse and complex today than they were 50 years ago. As ideas about marriage, divorce, and remarriage have changed, so too have our understandings about cohabitation, childbearing, parenting, and the transition to adulthood. Americans of all socioeconomic backgrounds have witnessed changes in the nature of family life, but as this book reveals, these changes play out in very different ways for the wealthy or well off...
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From time to time in the field of healthcare, an exciting new development emerges to challenge and potentially transform thinking and behaviour. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and its framework is undoubtedly one of these transformative resources and is increasingly widely used in the field of childhood disability.
This accessible handbook introduces the ICF to professionals working with children with...
15) Connecting Families?: Information & Communication Technologies, Generations, and the Life Course
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Are Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) connecting families? And what does this mean in terms of family routines, relationships, norms, work, intimacy and privacy? This edited collection takes a life course and generational perspective covering theory, including posthumanism and strong structuration theory, and methodology, including digital and cross-disciplinary methods. It presents a series of case studies on topics such as intergenerational...
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The College Affordability Academy: A Blueprint for Counseling Families is for anyone involved in the college recruitment and enrollment process. The book provides information that high school and college administrators can use to advise prospective and current students and their families with unbiased information about enrolling in and paying for college. The book may be used as a stand-alone volume or to accompany the College Affordability Academy...
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History and Families 1820-1995 (From the Acknowledgement) "The historical society presents this book to the citizens Perry County of yesterday, today and tomorrow as a symbol of Perry County's spirit that is repeatedly evidenced in the family histories found on its pages."
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This book provides recent ideas, insights, facts, evidence, frameworks, and perspectives on how and why entrepreneurial families are successful over generations. The book focuses on how families successfully implement entrepreneurship across generations. That success, it argues, requires entrepreneurship at the level of the family, not only in the businesses the family owns and manages. Written by noted academics and consultants who are authorities...
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It is said that families are the most basic units of society. By following a family, much can be learned about the culture and traditions prevalent at the time. We're going to do the same observations all throughout the pages of this educational book. If its Roman history your child is interested in, then this makes an excellent sourcebook!
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When stroke comes into your life, it often comes without warning, or at least without recognizable warning. Its impact is often devastating. Even the most resourceful families will often find themselves at sea when it comes to knowing what to do. They will need to make major decisions while under considerable stressand often in the absence of information. This, of course, is never a winning combination. When my big one came, it wasnt entirely unexpectedId...