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"Fragile families"-unmarried parents who struggle emotionally and financially-are one of the primary targets of the Healthy Marriage Initiative, a federal policy that has funded marriage education programs in nearly every state. These programs, which encourage marriage by teaching relationship skills, are predicated on the hope that married couples can provide a more emotionally and financially stable home for their children. Healthy marriage policy promotes a pro-marriage culture in which two-parent married families are considered the healthiest. It also assumes that marriage can be a socioeconomic survival mechanism for low-income families, and an engine of upward mobility. Through interviews with couples and her own observations and participation in marriage education courses, Jennifer M. Randles challenges these assumptions and critically examines the effects of such classes on participants. She takes the reader inside healthy marriage classrooms to reveal how their curricula are reflections of broader issues of culture, gender, governance, and social inequality. In analyzing the implementation of healthy marriage policy, Randles questions whether it should target individual behavior or the social and economic context of that behavior. The most valuable approach, she concludes, will not be grounded in notions of middle-class marriage culture. Instead, it will reflect the fundamental premise that love and commitment thrive most within the context of social and economic opportunity.

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Contemporary trends such as increased one-parent families, high divorce rates, second marriages and homosexual partnerships have all contributed to variations in the traditional family structure. But to what degree has the function of the family changed and how have these changes affected family roles in cultures throughout the world? This book attempts to answer these questions through a psychological study of families in thirty nations, carefully selected to present a diverse cultural mix. The study utilises both cross-cultural and indigenous perspectives to analyse variables including family networks, family roles, emotional bonds, personality traits, self-construal, and 'family portraits' in which the authors address common core themes of the family as they apply to their native countries. From the introductory history of the study of the family to the concluding indigenous psychological analysis of the family, this book is a source for students and researchers in psychology, sociology and anthropology.

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Families and Work provides an analysis of the interface between family care and employment. It examines the full range of employees' family care responsibilities and evaluates a variety of workplace programmes.

Work and family --- -316.356.2 <73> --- #SBIB:011.AANKOOP --- #SBIB:316.356.2H1500 --- #SBIB:011.IO --- Families and work --- Family and work --- Families --- Dual-career families --- Work-life balance --- Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Gezin en arbeid: algemeen --- 316.356.2 <73> Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- -Work and family

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What can we learn from looking at married partners who live apart? In Commuter Spouses: New Families in a Changing World, Danielle Lindemann explores how couples cope when they live apart to meet the demands of their dual professional careers. Based on the personal stories of almost one-hundred commuter spouses, Lindemann shows how these atypical relationships embody (and sometimes disrupt!) gendered constructions of marriage in the United States. These narratives of couples who physically separate to maintain their professional lives reveal the ways in which traditional dynamics within a marriage are highlighted even as they are turned on their heads. Commuter Spouses follows the journeys of these couples as they adapt to change and shed light on the durability of some cultural ideals, all while working to maintain intimacy in a non-normative relationship.Lindemann suggests that everything we know about marriage, and relationships in general, promotes the idea that couples are focusing more and more on their individual and personal betterment and less on their marriage. Commuter spouses, she argues, might be expected to exemplify in an extreme manner that kind of self-prioritization. Yet, as this book details, commuter spouses actually maintain a strong commitment to their marriage. These partners illustrate the stickiness of traditional marriage ideals while simultaneously subverting expectations.

Commuter marriage --- Work and family --- Long-distance relationships --- 316.356.2 <73> --- LDRs (Long-distance relationships) --- Interpersonal relations --- Commuter couples --- Commuting couples --- Couples, Commuting --- Long-distance marriage --- Two-city couples --- Marriage --- 316.356.2 <73> Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA

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Learn the fundamental distinctions with this thoughtful study of Christ-ordained marriage!

This unique volume reconciles a Biblical interpretation of marriage with the reality of domestic violence. Designed to raise awareness of abuse issues within the born-again community, Family Abuse and the Bible: The Scriptural Perspective works to promote the genuine sanctity of marriage and headship of the husband by examining the ways this God-given position can be subverted by Satan. It combines close Biblical exegesis with psychological insight into the effects of verbal, sexual, physical, a

Families --- Family violence --- Biblical teaching. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- 241.64*4 --- 316.356.2*5 --- 343.615-055.2 --- 343.615-055.2 Vrouwenmishandeling --- Vrouwenmishandeling --- 316.356.2*5 Gezinsproblemen --- Gezinsproblemen --- 241.64*4 Theologische ethiek: partnerkeuze en huwelijk --- Theologische ethiek: partnerkeuze en huwelijk --- Biblical teaching --- Christianity