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Explores how single mothers pursuing college degrees must navigate a difficult course as they attempt to reconcile their identities as single mums, college students, and in many cases, employees. They also negotiate a balance between what they think a good mother should be, and what society is telling them, and how that affects their choices to go to college, and whether to stay in college.

The Prenatal Bombshell is for women who have received a poor or fatal prenatal diagnosis for their unborn child and have made the decision to either carry to term or terminate their pregnancies. The authors share emotional and practical information, as well as real accounts from women who have made these decisions and how they moved forward.

So many families are considered blended these days, and yet many parenting books don't consider the roles and responsibilities of step-parents and step-parenting. While this book looks at the common parenting issues, it pays special attention to the needs of a new marriage and the centrality of that relationship in making the family unit work.

This pocket book explains how adults can communicate with teenagers in a way that makes them likely to listen and react positively. It is packed with examples from day-to-day life, and has chapter summaries for easy reference. Topics include maintaining boundaries, avoiding conflict, and how to stop nagging and shouting.

This book considers the obstacles that prevent families from achieving true work-family balance. Clarifying what it means to be happy, and what it means to "have it all," Miriam Liss and Holly Schiffrin illustrate how to achieve true contentment, outlining ways men and women can get more enjoyment and happiness both at home and the office.

Parents, building on that foundation and acknowledging each person's contributions, interests, and aspirations, create an inclusive and resilient family.

Refeathering the Empty Nest shows how to manage that period of time when children are preparing to leave the family home, either temporarily or permanently, and how to move forward in a healthy, even rewarding way. Using real stories, the author shows how this time can be difficult but also rewarding, challenging, and exciting.

How a system designed to help children is instead helping to destroy them. Mr. Murphy charges that the child welfare bureaucracy is stuck in hundred-year-old realities and the politics of the 1960s and 1970s.

This Early Child Development (ECD) Guide responds to a growing demand from practitioners for advice and tools to facilitate the policy dialogue on the topic of ECD. It will help policy makers implement relevant choices on how to best invest in ECD in the context of their country's economy and national priorities.

A collection of essays that underlines the central place pregnancy and childbirth hold in American Women's writing. Covering three centuries of prose and poetry, it traces the evolution of American maternity literature, exploring the difficulties mothers faced as they transformed themselves.

The authors delve deeply inot the causes and dimensions of bullying and develop strategies that work to prevent child-to-child violence and treat its victims.

Covers a variety of issues such as choosing the right instrument, how to set practice guidelines, how parents can talk about music with their children, and ways to inspire children and enhance their creativity and confidence. This work includes a list of frequently asked questions, a handy guide to musical terms, and tables and charts.

A delightful, upbeat compendium of tips for parents.

Addresses the questions surrounding family forms and gendered parenting; the primacy that is accorded to close biological relations at the expense of other bonds; responsibilities in education and child welfare institutions; and, the translation to local settings of international legislation.

This easy-to-read guide helps an expectant mother prepare for her all-important day.

Decisive Parenting is unique; there is no other book like it. Never before has a book provided such a detailed roadmap for success in deterring problematic teenage behavior while increasing the occurence of positive behavior.

The acclaimed and provocative book about what girls have lost and gained in the 21st century: "A compelling, convincing case for more parental involvement in girls' lives" (Kirkus Reviews).

From the moment after conception to feeding your newborn baby, this title covers everything you need to know about the miracle of pregnancy. It explains what is happening week-by-week, to you and your baby during pregnancy. It provides information that describes your baby's remarkable development, week-by-week in the womb.