Recovering Families is a 34 page parenting workbook designed to be used by parenting programs, drug and alcohol inpatient rehab facilities, outpatient counseling offices, and support groups that are working with parents who are recovering from chemical addiction.
The first comprehensive text on stress and crisis management specifically tailored to courses focusing on the family. Organized by stress model, this book helps readers understand the relationships among models, research, crisis prevention, and crisis management with individuals and families. Providing a balance of theory, research, hands-on applications, and intervention strategies, this innovative text presents a comprehensive overview of the field. An ideal core text for upper division undergraduate and graduate students in courses such as Family Crisis, Family Stress and Coping, and Dysfunctions in Marriage and Family.
Wendy Kramer will talk about the Donor Sibling Registry (DSR), which she created to help sperm donor siblings connect with one another. The internet-based nonprofit organization has connected over 7000 families, redefining how family is conceptualized.
Discussants: Alexis Walker; Yvette Perry; Ingrid Connidis
Philip and Carolyn Cowan are Professors Emeriti of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
The Cowans will be reporting on more than a decade of intervention studies on parental relationships with young children, particularly in times of transition. Their recent studies contrast the impact of couples' groups and fathers' groups and how interventions encourage low income fathers to become and stay involved with their young children.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The Project produces reports exploring the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the internet through surveys that examine how Americans use the internet and how their activities affect their lives.
The program’s goal is to give these church leaders the background and preparation they need in order to offer variety of domestic violence prevention and intervention activities in their churches and communities. Please check out the manuals and powerpoints.
The Grandparent Resource Site Grant provides a holistic system of services to grandparents, grandchildren and professionals with the goal of enhancing the abilities of kinship care families to foster school readiness in young children. The goal of this initiative is to enhance and advance the cognitive, social, emotional and physical development of preschool-aged children by supporting and educating grandparents, grandchildren and professionals
by William Marsiglio, Professor of Sociology, University of Florida
Although the multilayered cultural narrative of American fathering is slowly evolving in progressive ways, the word “fathering,” for too many, still signals notions of paternity, breadwinning, or something nebulous about “being there.” “Mothering,” on the other hand, more readily conjures up sentiments tied to nurturance, caregiving—the core stuff of relationships.
I am a family sociologist teaching in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah. My research has explored marriage and divorce, the changing economics of single motherhood, work-family issues among higher education faculty, and how religion affects marriage and other intimate relationships.
I am the author of Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in Their Own Marriages (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and the editor, with Lori Kowaleski-Jones, of Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda (Springer, 2005). Two additional books are under contract: Soulmates: Religion and Relationships among African-Americans and Latinos (Oxford University Press), with W. Bradford Wilcox, and Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower (Rutgers University Press), with Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden.
