Product Description: Friendships are undeniably important to an individual’s health, longevity and wellbeing, but they can be equally important for the health and happiness of a couple. Just as a friend can provide a mirror to the self, another couple can provide a reflecting team that supports or impedes a relationship’s growth...read more

Product Description: Group Work with Populations at Risk, Second Edition is a fundamental resource for social workers and those in related health professions. Accessible and practical as well as theoretically sound, it is an essential reference for students and practitioners with little specific training in group work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Diversity in Single-Parent Families: Working from Strength is designed to fill gaps in current literature. The book presents strength-based service delivery options for single-parent families, which have been under-represented in literature and research...read more

Looks at the factors that contribute to the academic success of young African American women, discussing how their backgrounds and family relationships have led to success. (view table of contents)

Featuring the testimony of academically successful young black men from a range of circumstances, a study shows how African-American males can attain academic success despite high odds and what parents, teachers, and school administrators can do to help. UP. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The breakdown of the family has moved in recent years to the forefront of national consciousness. All manner of social ills, from poor academic performance to teenage drug use and gang crime, have been attributed to high divorce rates and the collapse of the traditional two-parent family...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the feelings and experiences of the families involved, identifies common patterns that mark families at risk, and suggests changes in custody and divorce laws to help solve the growing problem of parents kidnapping their children.

Product Description: An up-to-the-minute report on how today's dads are meeting the challenges of single parenthood, offering an enlightening look at the joys, frustrations, and successes of fathers who are raising their children alone.

Uses the results of a survey of more than five hundred mothers living apart from their children to examine the reasons for the custody decision, the women's relationships with their children, and differences between noncustodial mothers and fathers