Author: Carol Lynn Pearson
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Keywords: daughters, mothers, fable, daughter
Number of Pages: 34
Published: 2010-03-15
ISBN-10: 1423607619
ISBN-13: 9781423607618

This fable of two trees beautifully chronicles a daughter's journey to adulthood and the everchanging,complex, and powerfully loving relationship between a mother and daughter. A celebration of the love between mothers and daughters.

Author: Marion J. Levy
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: tempers, mother
Number of Pages: 253
Published: 1989-08-10
ISBN-10: 0520064224
ISBN-13: 9780520064225

This book boldly states and deeply analyzes a commonplace observation about us all: our mothers play a powerful role in making us the kind of people we are. By the age of three, four, or five, virtually all children have learned to walk, talk, eat, sleep, control bodily functions, interact with other people, be male, or be female--insofar as these things are learned--from their mothers (or a mother surrogate who is female). Every mother has known and knows this. Most social analysts, according to the author, both know it and ignore it. If our mothers are asymmetrically influential in shaping o

Author: Terry Arendell
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: social, dilemmas, economic, legal, divorce, mothers
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 1986-10
ISBN-10: 0520057082
ISBN-13: 9780520057081

Mothers and Divorce seeks to fill the gap in our knowledge about the consequences of divorce by examining one very important group-divorced women with children. Based on an extensive and thorough series of interviews, this work shatters many of our notions about how women fare after divorce.

Author: Terry Arendell
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: social, dilemmas, economic, legal, divorce, mothers
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1988-02-04
ISBN-10: 0520062159
ISBN-13: 9780520062153

Mothers and Divorce seeks to fill the gap in our knowledge about the consequences of divorce by examining one very important group-divorced women with children. Based on an extensive and thorough series of interviews, this work shatters many of our notions about how women fare after divorce.

Author: Lydia Scoon-Rogers
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: fathers, mothers, custodial, support, child
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 1995-06-01
ISBN-10: 078817827X
ISBN-13: 9780788178276

Presents results from a April 1992 survey. Provides information on the receipt of child support payments in 1991 by parents living with their own children whose other parents are absent following divorce or separation, and on the receipt of child support payments by never-married custodial parents. For the first time, data on custodial fathers were collected to supplement the CPS, reflecting the growing need for information about men living with their own children whose mothers are absent from the household. In 1992 there were about 11 million custodial parents, 10 million of whom were custodi

Author: Lynne W. Casper
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: arrangements, care, child, kids, minding
Number of Pages: 71
Published: 1994-07
ISBN-10: 0788108670
ISBN-13: 9780788108679

The child care statistics in this report are for the estimated 31 million children under the age of 15 who were living with their mothers who themselves were employed during Fall 1991. How these children were cared for while their mothers were at work, the complexity of these arrangements, and the changes in arrangements that have occurred within the past decade are some of the topics presented in this report. Over 40 charts and tables.

Author: Thomas M. McDevitt
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: developing, world, contraceptive, fertility, adolescent, trends
Number of Pages: 92
Published: 1996-08
ISBN-10: 0788147064
ISBN-13: 9780788147067

About 15 million babies are born to adolescent mothers each year, high-risk births from the perspective of both the mother & the child. Approximately 8 in every 10 of these babies are born in the developing countries of Asia, Africa, & Latin America, with about 13% of all children in these countries being born to teenage mothers. This report collects & summarizes information on the reproductive behavior of adolescent women in the major regions of the developing world. It identifies key trends & patterns that will assist policymakers, program directors, & specialists in making appropriate & eff