From the creators of the award-winning website Black and Married With Kids.com comes a ground-breaking documentary set to challenge negative stereotypes surrounding marriage and parenting in the black community. Couples and experts discuss topics such as the image and portrayal of black marriages and families, the effect the Obamas will have on marriage in the […]
Breaking up can be a devastating emotional ordeal for teens because they have no prior experience upon which to draw. This video presents your students with a variety of stories from real teens. These candid, sometimes heartbreaking interviews will provide members of your class with the opportunity to examine their own feelings about breaking up. […]
Introducing Mat Boggs and Jason Miller, two sterling examples of bachelordom and quite possibly the most unexpected source for a guide to lifelong love and marriage. They certainly don’t speak from their own relationship experience (that would be a disaster!). Rather, like apprentices seeking out the masters, these two bumbling, stumbling bachelors have sought out […]
Conversation starters are tools to strengthen your relationship. This collection includes conversation starters for 50 discussions on 1) Communication, 2) Feelings, 3) Anger and Conflict, 4) Relationship Assessment and 5) Affirmation. Learn to talk openly and honestly about the important things in life and your relationship – build a better marriage in the process! (Author […]
If you aren’t getting what you want from your marriage, it may have little to do with what’s happening now. Often, we are driven by our “familiars,” the feelings-good or bad-that we’ve grown accustomed to. The outcomes may be toxic, but unless we recognize that we are playing out old dramas, we may be helpless […]
Practical insight and hands-on exercises in a workbook format to help the user deal with conflict and anger in a way that strengthens your relationship. Includes 11 lessons, each with a written exercise. This is an excellent resource for individual couples as well as couple groups. (Author abstract)
There is method to great family communication. When it happens it appears to be natural and unplanned – beautiful moments that SEEM to come and go as they please. But they don’t. You help to create these moments, and by using proven principles and strategies to teach, learn, and interact within a family, these precious […]
African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families is a historically and culturally centered text designed for relationship, marriage and family educators and therapists who work with African American singles and couples. Complete with numerous exercises, the book helps singles and couples increase their self-awareness, partner awareness and respect, and appreciation for difference. It also helps foster […]
Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. This collection begins by defining child and family policy and discussing the history of this growing specialization within the social […]
Jaded by his parents divorce and the countless marriages unraveling around him, Mathew Boggs was a young man who’d lost all belief in lifelong love. Roped into chauffeuring his grandma and dying grandfather on weekly adventures, he realized that, sixty-three years later, they were still madly in love. “Now, that’s the marriage I want!” he […]