Category Archives: Family & Parenting

Still a Family: A Guide to Good Parenting Through Divorce

Divorce can have a devastating effect on children. Yet for families who carefully consider and manage the intricacies associated with this difficult and upsetting time, the family, as seen from the child’s perspective, can remain strong, healthy, and as loving … Continue reading

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The Secrets of Happy Families: Eight Keys to Building a Lifetime of Connection and Contentment

“This is a wonderful book. I recommend it to all families as required reading.” —Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. author, Getting the Love You Want and Giving the Love That Heals: A Guide for Parents “This is a beautiful book—timely, passionate, and … Continue reading

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Baby Signs: How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk, Third Edition

The Essential Parenting Guide- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED AND EXPANDED! In 1982, child development experts Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., and Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D., discovered that babies can communicate with simple signs-even before they’re able to talk. The result: Baby Signs, the groundbreaking … Continue reading

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The Best Kept Secret: Single Black Fathers

The Best Kept Secret studies the often-overlooked group of single, African American custodial fathers. While the media focuses on the increase of single mothers and the decline in marriage in the black community, Roberta Coles paints a nuanced picture of … Continue reading

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The Secrets of Happily Married Women: How to Get More Out of Your Relationship by Doing Less

From the authors of the best-selling The Secrets of Happily Married Men comes the much-anticipated follow-up book The Secrets of Happily Married Women. In their first book, Dr. Haltzman and his coauthor Theresa Foy DiGeronmio outlined a recipe for men … Continue reading

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When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don’t Get Along

In When Parents Hurt, psychologist and parent Joshua Coleman, Ph.D., offers insight, empathy, and perspective to those who have lost the opportunity to be the parent they desperately wanted to be and who are mourning the loss of a harmonious … Continue reading

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The Truth about Cheating: Why Men Stray and What You Can Do to Prevent It

The New York Times bestselling look at the real reasons for male marital infidelity and what might prevent it Few events cause as much turmoil in a marriage as infidelity. It can shatter trust and breed insecurity and resentment from … Continue reading

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Conceptions of Parenthood (Ashgate Studies in Applied Ethics)

Our parents often have a significant impact on the content of our beliefs, the values we hold, and the goals we pursue and becoming a parent can also have a similar impact on our lives. In “Conceptions of Parenthood”, Michael … Continue reading

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Child Abuse and Family Law: Understanding the Issues facing human service and legal professionals

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ABC of Child Protection (ABC Series)

The fourth edition of this important and highly praised guide has been substantially revised and updated, providing concise, practical information on a difficult and distressing area of paediatric medicine. This new edition of the ABC of Child Protection now includes … Continue reading

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