A candid and thoughtful conversation about families and family life. This text combines the personal touch and scholarly expertise of an outstanding teacher to explore the ways that family members and intimate partners interact, and how families adapt to stresses, changes and everyday challenges. We are all a product of our families of origin. How […]
What makes a good marriage? The mystery of why some marriages succeed while others fail is something couples have been trying to sort out for decades. Now, New York Times “”Well”” columnist Tara Parker-Pope has put marriage under the microscope, consulting with the world’s top experts on love, sex, and companionship to explore the vast […]
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 […]
In healthy relationships, partners can be themselves. They can spend time apart, feel connected but not controlled, and voice their opinions without fear of reprisal or ridicule. Many young people who are starting to date, or even those who are in established relationships, don’t always have an understanding of what constitutes a healthy relationship. This […]
Combining traditional Jewish wisdom with the most up-to-date scientific research on long-lasting relationships, Beyond the Chuppah is a hands-on guide for enriching Jewish and interfaith relationships. Based on the proven Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP), the book shows couples how to recognize the special issues that are unique to Jewish and interfaith relationships and […]
From the editors of the best-selling book The Care and Keeping of You comes an insightful, age-appropriate guide to boys, the number one topic of conversation for girls 8 to 12. Here’s straight talk on what to do when everyone’s wondering “”who likes who?”” The book explores being friends, going out, getting dumped, being yourself, […]
Empty Nesting will teach you the skills you need to rekindle your relationship after the kids are gone. The cofounders of Marriage Alive International and the developers of the acclaimed Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) have joined together to create this much-needed guidebook to help empty nest couples prepare for the next stage in […]