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After trying for years to emulate her boomer parents’ 40-year and still-going-strong marriage, Sophie realized that maybe the love she was looking for was down a road less traveled. In this bold, graphic memoir, she explores her sexuality, her values, and the versions of love our society accepts and practices.

Timely and thought-provoking, Nancy Reddy unpacks and debunks the bad ideas that have for too long defined what it means to be a "good" mom. When Nancy Reddy had her first child, she found herself suddenly confronted with the ideal of a perfect mother—a woman who was constantly available...

Vive una aventura intelectual, pertinente para el contexto nacional, junto a la obra del científico y pensador Humberto Maturana. Una invitación a reevaluar los modos de pensar y actuar que se han anquilosado en nuestra convivencia humana y nos impide escucharnos. Corrientemente usamos la...

From licensed educator and TikTok phenom Laura Danger, an insightful and practical guide that will teach you how to recognize unproductive dynamics at home, transform your relationships, find your community—and break free from a life of mediocrity. Ever had the feeling your spouse is totally...

The Recovery of Family Life defends marriage and family life while exposing the limits and blind spots in these powerful revolutionary ideologies. After suggesting a general framework within which to understand the ends and means of family policy, Scott Yenor explores what a liberal society should seek to accomplish in marriage and family policy.

Read by the author. What happened to us? Why is there no joy, no friendship in our marriage? Why don't we feel like a team anymore? If you've ever felt this way about your marriage, you're not alone. Marriage is hard. Every couple comes to a place of disappointment and distance at one point or...

Die Autorin Ellen Key (1849-1926) war eine schwedische Reformpädagogin und Schriftstellerin. Sie entwickelte einen ausgeprägten Freiheits- und Gerechtigkeitssinn. Im Jahr 1869 erschienen erste Artikel von ihr in einer damals sehr renommierten Frauenzeitschrift, obwohl Ellen Key erst 20 Jahre alt war. Ab 1875 unterwies sie an einer Art Volkshochschule junge Damen in Geschichte und Literatur. Ihr Engagement für Frauen- und Kinderrechte verstärkte sich. Sie sprach häufig vor Arbeiter- und Frauenvereinen. Sie wurde 1885 Vizepräsidentin einer Stiftung für intellektuell und künstlerisch arbeitende Frauen.

Low-wage workers make up the largest group of employed parents in the United States, yet scant attention has been given to their experiences as new mothers and fathers. Work Matters brings the unique stories of these diverse individuals to light. Drawing on years of research and more than fifteen hundred family interviews, Maureen Perry-Jenkins describes how new parents cope with the demands of infant care while holding down low-wage, full-time jobs, and she considers how managing all of these responsibilities have long-term implications for child development.

A memoir culminating in a manifesto, Holding the Baby sets out to understand why we still treat early parenthood as an individual slog rather than a shared cultural responsibility. Tracing her own journey to the nadir of sleeplessness via social retreat and murderous rage, Frizzell draws on the latest research to explore: What effect does parenting have on your career? How can we make childcare affordable and fit for purpose? If parenting is so hard, why does anyone ever do it more than once?

In Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction, Sarah M.S. Pearsall explores what plural marriages reveal about the inner workings of marriage and describes the controversies surrounding it. The book emphasizes the diversity of historical polygamist societies, from the Shi'ite Muslims and Wendat men who practiced short-term marriages to the Mixteca, Maori, Inca, Algonquin, and Marta indigenous people of North America and the Pacific Islands. Pearsall also explains the divides within Christianity that led to Joseph Smith's establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

En France, comme dans de nombreuses régions du monde, des adolescentes et des jeunes femmes sont encore contraintes d’accepter pour époux un homme qu’elles n’ont ni choisi, ni parfois même rencontré. Au nom de l’intérêt des parents. Leila avait 21 ans lorsque ses parents l'ont forcée à épouser un homme de quinze ans son aîné. Le mariage est arrangé au Maroc et enregistré légalement en France. Son mari, cet homme qu’elle n’aime pas, va la frapper et tenter de la soumettre. Avec un courage inouï, Leila se bat contre le poids de la tradition, pour conserver sa liberté et sa dignité.

A look at how commercialization has transformed youth sports from fun into a heavily commercialized and profitable venture. Examining the youth sports economy from many sides - the major corporations, the small entrepreneurs, the coaches, the parents, and, of course, the kids - Hyman probes the reasons for rapid changes in what gets bought and sold in this lucrative marketplace. He reveals the effects on kids and profiles the individuals and communities bucking this destructive trend of commercialization.

취업 출산 결혼을 포기했다고 해서 '삼포세대'라는 말이 생기고, 결혼하는 사람보다 이혼하는 사람들이 많아지는 세상에 '결혼해도 괜찮다?' 결혼 45년차 여성학자 박혜란은 결혼에 대해 무슨 이야기를 할까? 이제는 이적 엄마로 더 많이 알려진 베스트셀러 저자 박혜란은 특유의 유쾌한 글쓰기로 결혼을 비틀기 한다. "결혼이 진흙탕이라고? 그래! 진흙탕 맞아, 근데 너만 빠진 거 아니잖아. 너만 빠지면 불행하지만 모두가 함께 빠지면 진흙탕도 놀이터가 될 수 있어."

In the past half-century, women have revolutionised the way they work and live. But men’s lives have changed remarkably little. Why? Is it because men don’t want to change? Or is it because, every day in various ways, they are told they shouldn’t? In Men at Work, Annabel Crabb deploys political observation, workplace research and her characteristic humour and intelligence to argue that gender equity cannot be achieved until men are as free to leave the workplace (when their lives demand it) as women are to enter it.

M. J. Ryan reveals gratitude practices that create intimate relationships. Create the romantic relationship you desire by practicing gratitude! Gratitude starves relationship anxiety! With this gratitude book learn how to have a happier relationship with your partner. Get the answers to some of your most pressing relationship questions and use this as a guide to your own personal growth.

غادة كريم صاحبة كتاب "علامات الحب السبع" تقدم كتابها الجديد "كتالوج الحب" دليل شامل للعلاقات. ما الذي يجعل العلاقة تنجح؟ وما أسباب الفشل؟ أشياءٌ تبدو...

التربية متعة فيها تعب وكد، لكنه تعب لذيذ وكد محبب الى النفس، ولأن الزمان تغير فلم تعد تربيتنا التي تربينا عليها وحدها تصلح لهذا النشء الجديد بل صار لزاماً علينا أن...

Two days before Shea and Larami Serrano were to be married, four months into her pregnancy with twin boys, she went into labor. Stuck in a hospital room, fearing the worst, and dismantling a year’s worth of preparations in a matter of hours - the couple decides that the show must go on. Told from Shea’s and Larami’s dual perspectives, this memoir shows the powerful bond that can arise from adversity, a sense of humor, and mutual trust.