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Fatherless America : Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem (95 Edition)
by David Blankenhorn  Publisher Comments A compelling and controversial exploration of absentee fathers and their impact on the nation....
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Debating Points : Marriage and Family Issues (01 Edition)
by Henry L. Tischler Publisher Comments Each volume in the "Debating Points" series is designed to introduce the reader to some of the most highly contested issues in a field of study. Within each chapter, each issue is presented by two reputable sources in a concise fashion. The material is...
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Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment and Accountability
by David M. Fetterman Publisher Comments Empowerment evaluation - a method for using evaluation concepts, techniques and findings to foster improvement and self-determination - is the focus of this book. After an examination of the method as it has been adopted in academic and foundation...
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Leaving Welfare: Employment and Well-Being of Families that Left Welfare in the Post-Entitlement Era
by Gregory Acs and Pamela Loprest Book News Annotation Acs and Loprest, both affiliated with The Urban Institute, review research on the fate of welfare recipients who left the welfare rolls ("leavers") following the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996....
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The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage
by Ferdinand Mount Publisher Comments A "brilliantly written and convincingly researched argument that marriage and the family, far from being the handmaidens of oppression by a ruling class, are in fact the chief obstacles to the exercise of any authority, whether political or religious...
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Surviving the streets :girls living on their own
by Rachel Pfeffer Book News Annotation This study focuses on punk-identified girls living on their own in San Francisco. While unraveling the complex social constructions of gender, poverty, hair color, and the social production of space in an urban environment, the study argues that young...
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Evidence-based Social Work Skills Book (04 Edition)
by Barry Cournoyer Publisher Comments During the 21st Century, social workers will increasingly use evidence-based knowledge to plan, implement, and evaluate the quality of their own professional activities. This book explores the skills needed for evidence-based social work (EBSW). This...
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Marriage Beyond Black and White: An Interracial Family Portrait
by David Douglas Synopsis A powerful story about the marriage of a black man and a white woman, Marriage beyond Black and White offers a poignant and sometimes painful look at what it was like to be an interracial family in the United States from the early 1940s to the mid-1990s....
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Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream
by Ruth Sidel Publisher Comments Based on interviews with single mothers Sidel offers a corrective to the negative views of this population in the popular media....
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With No Direction Home - Homeless Youth on the Road and in the Streets (05 Edition)
by Marni Finkelstein Publisher Comments Do you know what it's really like to be a young homeless person? WITH NO DIRECTION HOME: HOMELESS YOUTH ON THE ROAD AND IN THE STREETS takes you into their world, their living conditions, and their street experiences. Plus, it takes a hard look at...
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Going Missing: Young People Absent from Care (Living Away from Home)
by Jim Wade Publisher Comments Going Missing presents important findings from the first major study of young people who go missing from residential and foster homes. By exploring the diverse reasons why young people go missing and what happens when they do, the authors highlight the...
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Starting Again: How To Learn From the Past for a Better Future (UK Edition)
by Sarah Litvinoff Publisher Comments A guide to rebuilding confidence and happiness and starting afresh after a failed relationship....
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Child Protection Work: Beyond the Rhetoric
by Helen Buckley Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-210) and indexes....
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Your Kids at Risk: How Teen Sex Threatens Our Sons and Daughters
by Meg Meeker Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking book, Meeker uncovers the serious epidemic of STD's among teens and the pattern of political correctness and marketing hype that has caused this tidal wave of disease....
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Ideology and Welfare
by Gary Taylor Publisher Comments This wide-ranging text introduces students to the diversity of theoretical perspectives on welfare, looking at how different schools of thought have evolved, how they have responded to changing conditions, how they have conflicted, or borrowed from, one...
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Aging, the Individual and Society (8TH 07 Edition)
by Susan M. Hillier Publisher Comments The first book to give readers the breadth and depth of scholarship they need to understand the politics of the world economy, "The Politics of International Economic Relations" has been fully updated to reflect the sweeping changes that continue to...
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Situated Fathering a Focus on Physical and Social Spaces
by William Marsiglio Publisher Comments Situated Fathering proposes a new theoretical framework for studying how various contingencies of physical space, in conjunction with social/symbolic issues, affect men's identities as fathers and their involvement with children. Written largely for...
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War Over the Family
by David Popenoe Publisher Comments One of the most surprising and controversial social debates of the past two decades has been about the meaning and importance of marriage and the family in contemporary American life. Referred to by some as a culture war over the family, the debate has...
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Common purpose :strengthening families and neighborhoods to rebuild America
by Lisbeth Schorr Publisher Comments In-depth stories of large-scale social programs that are successfully transforming troubled inner-city neighborhoods and communities -- and the reasons they are successful. In her previous book, Within Our Reach, now with over 85,000 copies in print...
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Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence
by Philip W Cook Publisher Comments When most people think of domestic violence, images of battered women or abused children come to mind. But there is another side to this issue that is not as familiar--abused men. This unique book is the first to comprehensively examine this important...
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