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Stages of occupational regulation : analysis of case studies

Tác giả: Morris M Kleiner

Introduction and overview; An Initial stage of regulation: Interior designers; The rise, fall and regulation of mortgage brokers; Occupstional regulation of child cara services.

Studying minority adolescents

Tác giả: McLoyd, Vonnie C.

In the burgeoning research literature on adolescents, the relative paucity of work examining ethnic variations in developmental processes is a glaring gap, particularly because approximately one third of American young people now come from an ethnic minority background. A primary factor in this ...

Marriage and cohabitation

Tác giả: Neil H. Timm

Situating their argument in the context of the Western world’s 500-year history of marriage, the authors reveal what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a contemporary society where the end of adolescence is no longer signaled by entry into the marital home. While some people still ...

New families, no families? : the transformation of the American home

Tác giả: Frances K Goldscheider, Linda J Waite

Is the American family a thing of the past? Almost anyone can tell a story that illustrates how dramatically things have changed in the past decades. Nonmarriage, childlessness and divorce are commonplace. Most children leave their parents' home and live for increasing periods before marriage as ...

The way we never were : American families and the nostalgia trap

Tác giả: Stephanie Coontz

This book examines two centuries of American family life and shatters a series of myths and half truths that burden modern families. Placing current family dilemmas in the context of far reaching economic, political, and demographic changes, Coontz sheds new light on such contemporary concerns as ...