• Ch. 1. Birth
• Ch. 2. Circumcision and baptism
• Ch. 3. Additional birth rituals
• Ch. 4. Maternal nursing and wet nurses : feeding and caring for infants
• Ch. 5. Parents and children : competing values.

This book presents a synthetic history of the family--the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities--in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history. Elisheva Baumgarten draws on a rich trove of primary sources to give a full portrait of medieval Jewish family life during the period of childhood from birth to the beginning of formal education at age seven. Illustrating the importance of understanding Jewish practice in the context of Christian society and recognizing the shared foundations in both societies, Baumgarten's examination of Jewish and Christian practices and attitudes is explicitly comparative. Her analysis is also wideranging, covering nearly every aspect of home life and childrearing, including pregnancy, midwifery, birth and initiation rituals, nursing, sterility, infanticide, remarriage, attitudes toward mothers and fathers, gender hierarchies, divorce, widowhood, early education, and the place of children in the home, synagogue, and community. A richly detailed and deeply researched contribution to our understanding of the relationship between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors, Mothers and Children provides a key analysis of the history of Jewish families in medieval Ashkenaz.
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• Introduction: Families in the sociological imagination Part I: Questioning the modern family
• 1. The idea of the modern Family
• 2. Beyond the modern family. Re-visioning family change Part II. Changing families across the life course
• 3. Changing childhoods
• 4. Early adulthood and family formation
• 5. Working and parenting in the middle years
• 6. New grandparents. Older people in the family Conclusion: Resilient families? Continuity and change in Irish family life Appendices Index
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Family rhythms is the first textbook of its kind with an explicit focus on Ireland and Irish families. Uniquely, the book draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and changed over time. With chapters on childhood, adolescence, parenting and grandparenthood, the book shows the resilience of families in different social and historical contexts. Each chapter includes a discussion of the challenges that face families and how social research can inform policy makers' responses. Family rhythms is a comprehensive, user-friendly textbook that offers a variety of strategies for engaging readers, including direct encounters with qualitative data through the use of classroom oriented discussion panels. Synopses of landmark Irish studies are included throughout, bringing the insights from these key studies together in a single textbook for the first time. -- .
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• Cover; Contents; Epilogue Revolutionary Visions of Blood Ties and Adoptive Ties; Appendix A Transcriptions of Selected Adoption Contracts; Appendix B Information on the Adoptive Parents and Adoptees.

In Paris during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the practice of adopting children was strongly discouraged by cultural, religious, and legal authorities on the grounds that it disrupted family blood lines. In fact, historians have assumed that adoption had generally not been practiced in France or in the rest of Europe since late antiquity. Challenging this view, Kristin Gager brings to light evidence showing how married couples and single men and women from the artisan neighborhoods in early modern Paris did manage to adopt children as their legal heirs. In so doing, she offers a.

• Cover; Contents; Epilogue Revolutionary Visions of Blood Ties and Adoptive Ties; Appendix A Transcriptions of Selected Adoption Contracts; Appendix B Information on the Adoptive Parents and Adoptees.

In Paris during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the practice of adopting children was strongly discouraged by cultural, religious, and legal authorities on the grounds that it disrupted family blood lines. In fact, historians have assumed that adoption had generally not been practiced in France or in the rest of Europe since late antiquity. Challenging this view, Kristin Gager brings to light evidence showing how married couples and single men and women from the artisan neighborhoods in early modern Paris did manage to adopt children as their legal heirs. In so doing, she offers a.

• Chapter 1: Family Quality of Life, Personal Well-Being, and Risk Behavior in Early Adolescents in Hong Kong: Related Phenomena and Research Gaps.-
• Chapter 2: A Longitudinal Study of the Personal Well-Being and Family Quality of Life among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong.-
• Chapter 3: Positive Youth Development in Junior Secondary School Students: Do gender and time matter?.-
• Chapter 4: Parental Behavioral Control, Parental Psychological Control and Parent-Child Relational Qualities: Relationships to Chinese Adolescent Risk Behavior.-
• Chapter 5: Perceived Family Quality of Life, School Competence, and Academic Adjustment amongst Early Adolescents in Hong Kong.-
• Chapter 6: Subjective Well-being of Early Adolescents in Hong Kong.-
• Chapter 7: Development of Delinquent Behavior in Early Adolescents in Hong Kong.-
• Chapter 8: Substance Abuse in Junior Secondary School Students in Hong Kong.-
• Chapter 9: A Longitudinal Study on Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicidal Behaviors among Chinese Adolescents.-
• Chapter 10: Compensated Dating and Juvenile Prostitution in Early Adolescents in Hong Kong.-
• Chapter 11: Intention to Gamble Amongst Junior Secondary School Students In Hong Kong: Changes and Predictors.-
• Chapter 12: Promotion of Positive Youth Development and Family Quality of Life in Chinese Adolescents.
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This book documents the findings of a 3-year longitudinal study on the quality of family life, personal well-being and risk behavior in Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong. It presents the profiles of quality of family life (family functioning, parental behavioral control, parental psychological control and parent-child relational qualities); personal well-being (positive youth development and life satisfaction measures) and adolescent risk behavior (substance abuse, delinquency, self-harm and suicidal behavior and behavioral intentions to engage in risk behavior) in different adolescent populations across time. It also examines theoretical issues concerning the interrelationships between family quality of life, psychological well-being and risk behavior in adolescents. Practically speaking, the findings can help youth workers appreciate the importance of family quality of life and positive youth development in shaping the personal well-being and risk behavior in Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong.
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• The social and economic environment of the study
• Family and power
• Work and the midlife and older women
• Women, health and the repressed discourse
• Coping with widowhood.

• Introduction : raising children where work has disappeared / Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Thomas S. Weisner, and Edward D. Lowe
• Pathways through low-wage work / Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Edward D. Lowe, Thomas S. Weisner, JoAnn Hsueh, Noemí Enchautegui-de-Jesús, Anna Gassman-Pines, Erin B. Godfrey, Eboni C. Howard, Rashmita S. Mistry, and Amanda L. Roy
• Do pathways through low-wage work matter for children's development / Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Edward D. Lowe, Johannes M. Bos, Thomas S. Weisner, Valentina Nikulina, and JoAnn Hsueh
• Job quality among low-income mothers : experiences and associations with children's development / Noemí Enchautegui-de-Jesús, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, and Vonnie C. McLoyd
• Mothers at work in a 24-7 economy : exploring implications for family and child well-being / JoAnn Hsueh
• Discrimination in the low-wage workplace : the unspoken barrier to employment / Amanda L. Roy, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, and Sandra Nay
• "I want what everybody wants" : goals, values, and work in the lives of New Hope families / Thomas S. Weisner, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Edward D. Lowe, and Faye Carter
• What earnings and income buy : the "basics" plus "a little extra" : implications for family and child well-being /Rashmita S. Mistry and Edward D. Lowe
• Can money buy you love? : dynamic employment characteristics, the New Hope project, and entry into marriage / Anna Gassman-Pines, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, and Sandra Nay
• Child care and low-wage employment / Edward D. Lowe and Thomas S. Weisner
• The informal social support, well-being, and employment pathways of low-income mothers / Eboni C. Howard
• Do formal work support services work? : experiences of the New Hope project and the Wisconsin Works programs / Erin B. Godfrey and Hirokazu Yoshikawa
• Summary and policy implications : improving the world of work for low-income parents and their children / Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Anna Gassman-Pines, Thomas S. Weisner, and Edward D. Lowe.

• 1. American Mothers, American Troubles
• 2. Power in Numbers
• 3. Why Join?
• 4. Do Mommy War Attitudes Prevent Organizing?
• 5. Workplace Flexibility Options
• 6. Are We in a Movement Now? Can We Get There?
• 7. Mothers Need Leadership Too
• Appendix: Interview Research Methodology Notes Index.
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In Mothers Unite!, a bold and hopeful new rallying cry for changing the relationship between home and the workplace, Jocelyn Elise Crowley envisions a genuine, universal world of workplace flexibility that helps mothers who stay at home, those who work part time, and those who work full time balance their commitments to their jobs and their families. Achieving this goal, she argues, will require a broad-based movement that harnesses the energy of existing organizations of mothers that already support workplace flexibility in their own ways. Crowley examines the efforts of five diverse national mothers' organizations: Mocha Moms, which aims to assist mothers of color; Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS), which stresses the promotion of Christian values; Mothers & More, which emphasizes support for those moving in and out of the paid workforce; MomsRising, which focuses on online political advocacy; and the National Association of Mothers' Centers (NAMC), which highlights community-based networking. After providing an engaging and detailed account of the history, membership profiles, strategies, and successes of each of these organizations, Crowley suggests actions that will allow greater workplace flexibility to become a viable reality and points to many opportunities to promote intergroup mobilization and unite mothers once and for all.
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• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction: Learning and Legislating Love
• 2. Rationalizing Romance: Reconciling the Modern Marriage Dilemma through Skilled Love
• 3. Teaching Upward Mobility: Skilled Love and the Marriage Gap
• 4. Intimate Inequalities and Curtailed Commitments: The Marriage Gap in a Middle-Class Marriage Culture
• 5. The Missing "M Word": Promoting Committed Co-Parenting
• 6. Men, Money, and Marriageability: Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Through Marital Masculinity
• 7. "It's Not Just Us": Relationship Skills and Poverty's Perpetual Problems
• 8. Conclusion: Family Inequality and the Limits of Skills Notes References Index.
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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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