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Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective

The Second Edition of Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective travels across geographic, cultural, and historical boundaries to explore the diversity of the world's families-in family structure, processes, history, and social and environmental contexts. Editors Bron B. Ingoldsby and Suzanna D. Smith examine a full range of topics including family origin and universality, family functions, marital structure, kinship rules, comparative research methods, family development, marriage adjustment, parenting, divorce, and aging. This comprehensive text increases students' recognition of and respect for cultural diversity as it influences family life; meets educators' needs for a comparative family text; and contributes to the development of new ways of thinking about families that highlights culture and context.

Families in a Global Context

Each chapter in Families in a Global Context describes customary types of family patterns within each country's social organization and culture. Important social, economic, political, and other trends are explored in detail, and major ethnic, religious, or other subcultures are noted emphasizing marriage and family patterns that differ from the more typical ones. The book is extensively referenced and includes tables to clearly present data.

Grandparent Resource Sites

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

Nursing Homes and Assisted Living: The Family Guide to Making Decisions and Getting Good Care

A complete guide for family members facing the practical and emotional issues that arise in seeking nursing home care and who are learning to be "the family member" of someone in a nursing home or senior's housing.

Casey Life Skills

Core resources include, It's My Life: Employment Guide, Apartment Hunt, Creative Life Skills Activities, Developing your Vision while Attending College, I Can Do it! A Micropedia of Living on Your Own, I Know Where I am Going (But Will My Cash Keep Up?), It's Perfectly Normal, Life Skills Activities for Special Needs Children, Preparing Adolescents for Young Adulthood (PAYA), and may more resources available at low cost.

from Zippy Weekly Videos

A Life Saved Through CPR

According to the American Red Cross (ARC), most people who survive a cardiac emergency are helped by a bystander. In this important video, ARC tells the story of an older gentleman saved by CPR administered by his son and a bystander in a grocery store. The American Red Cross has a YouTube channel with helpful videos on CPR, natural disasters, preparedness and all kinds of vital information. Are you up to date on your CPR training? You never know when you will be called upon to be that life-saving bystander.

When Families Grieve

Sesame Street Workshop includes a number of initiatives designed to help prepare children for the challenges that await them by addressing a wide range of developmental needs, from the basics of ABCs and 123s to life lessons about health, safely, getting along, and coping with loss.

from Family Focus on Fatherhood

Early Experience with High-Risk Fathers: Puberty Changes in Daughters by Bruce J.Ellis and Kali Van Campen, Unviersity of AZ

A new study shows that girls start to menstruate earlier when they experience biologically-disrupted homes(families in which the biological parents are separated or divorced) in early childhood. When a girl starts life with a high-risk father in the home, and then the family breaks up and that father leaves, her timing of puberty changes. She gets her first period about a year earlier than does either her older sister or other girls from disrupted families whose fathers do not display high risk behavior.

Strong Families Around the World. Strengths-Based Research and Perspectives

The strengths of families from culture to culture, when compared to each other, are remarkably similar and give us common ground around the world upon which to unite and develop mutual understanding. Strengths-Based Research and Perspectives: Strong Families Around the World, provides a conceptual framework for global family strengths, discussing the diverse strengths and challenges that families face regardless of location.

from Zippy Weekly Videos

Change the First Five Years and You Change Everything

The Ounce of Prevention organization promotes family policy that underscores optimal early childhood development. They produced this video to illustrate just how important an ounce of prevention is worth. Click here to read about the evidence that answers the question, "Why Invest Early?"

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