Product Description: From governments that enact population-limiting legislation or commit wholesale neonaticide, to families who purposely allow a weak, infirm, or unfavorably gendered infant to perish rather than expend limited resources, neonaticide, infanticide, and filicide, are practiced on every continent and by every level of cultural complexity...read more

Product Description: When adoptions fail to happen, the effects can be devastating on children and the families who chose to adopt themWhat if you were an adopted child and someone tried to remove you from the family you had grown to love? In the last twenty years, changes in laws, judicial decisions, social welfare practices, and the availability of American children for adoption have led to an increase in disrupted adoptions...read more

Product Description: Examine the pros and cons of nontraditional adoption! Welcome Home! An International and Nontraditional Adoption Reader is an essential guide to the process, pros, and cons of adopting children from outside the United States, with special needs, and/or from a different racial/cultural background...read more

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Product Description: Offering a series of guided journal entries designed to help men and women through the difficult process of divorce, this text provides helpful information about the emotional, psychological, and practical facets of ending a relationship, as well as specific entries designed to help readers discover how to forge a fulfilling new life on their own...read more

Product Description: Psychologists are increasingly sought after by the media for insights into national events and social issues, and for guidance in dealing with psychological disorders and common interpersonal problems. This opportunity offers psychologists a credible, far-reaching and inexpensive way to educate millions of Americans about psychological findings and knowledge...read more

Product Description: A source of support and expert guidance through a difficult life passage Like a wise and comforting companion, this unique journal can help you to understand and work through those feelings of anger, fear, confusion, remorse, grief, and hopelessness that come along with the breakup of a marriage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book should guide all professionals involved in counselling involuntarily childless couples. The author explains the benefits and risks of the options available to infertile couples - adoption, surrogacy, and biotechnical methods for overcoming infertility - and examines the emotional, financial, and other factors that go into the decision-making process...read more

Product Description: History of Conversion and Contemporary Cults is a study of proselytization, conversion, and commitment through an examination of historical case studies and the contemporary religious cult movements. Archival research and present-day surveys reveal interesting similarities in both missionary techniques and motives for conversion...read more

Product Description: First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.