Author: Brenda Jackson
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369706218
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Unstoppable attraction meets immovable hearts Duty or Desire by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson Sheriff Pete Higgins is an honorary Westmoreland, a man of his word—of course he’ll put duty to his orphaned niece first. Too bad the temporary nanny is tempting him with every look. Myra Hollister captivates him. But she’s keeping dangerous secrets, the kind that remind Pete of all he’s lost before and what he can’t afford to lose again… FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! Single Man Meets Single Mom by USA TODAY bestselling author Jules Bennett Hollywood agent Ian Shaffer could have his pick of gorgeous women. So he’s surprised by the intensity of his attraction to horse trainer Cassie Barrington. The single mom’s luscious curves and unadorned beauty are refreshingly appealing, but it’s her vulnerability and passion that he finds irresistible. And that sets off alarm bells, because Ian’s as commitment-shy as they come. A woman with a child is absolutely off-limits!
Duty or Desire & Single Man Meets Single Mom
Author: Brenda Jackson
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369706218
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Unstoppable attraction meets immovable hearts Duty or Desire by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson Sheriff Pete Higgins is an honorary Westmoreland, a man of his word—of course he’ll put duty to his orphaned niece first. Too bad the temporary nanny is tempting him with every look. Myra Hollister captivates him. But she’s keeping dangerous secrets, the kind that remind Pete of all he’s lost before and what he can’t afford to lose again… FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! Single Man Meets Single Mom by USA TODAY bestselling author Jules Bennett Hollywood agent Ian Shaffer could have his pick of gorgeous women. So he’s surprised by the intensity of his attraction to horse trainer Cassie Barrington. The single mom’s luscious curves and unadorned beauty are refreshingly appealing, but it’s her vulnerability and passion that he finds irresistible. And that sets off alarm bells, because Ian’s as commitment-shy as they come. A woman with a child is absolutely off-limits!
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369706218
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Unstoppable attraction meets immovable hearts Duty or Desire by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson Sheriff Pete Higgins is an honorary Westmoreland, a man of his word—of course he’ll put duty to his orphaned niece first. Too bad the temporary nanny is tempting him with every look. Myra Hollister captivates him. But she’s keeping dangerous secrets, the kind that remind Pete of all he’s lost before and what he can’t afford to lose again… FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! Single Man Meets Single Mom by USA TODAY bestselling author Jules Bennett Hollywood agent Ian Shaffer could have his pick of gorgeous women. So he’s surprised by the intensity of his attraction to horse trainer Cassie Barrington. The single mom’s luscious curves and unadorned beauty are refreshingly appealing, but it’s her vulnerability and passion that he finds irresistible. And that sets off alarm bells, because Ian’s as commitment-shy as they come. A woman with a child is absolutely off-limits!
Motherhood and Single-Lone Parenting: A 21st Century Perspective
Author: Maki Matapanyane
Publisher: Demeter Press
ISBN: 1772580732
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The 21st century sustains one significant commonality with the decades of the preceding century. The majority of individuals parenting on their own and heading one-parent families continue to be mothers. Even so, current trends in globalization (economic, political, cultural) along with technological advancement, shifts in political, economic and social policy, contemporary demographic shifts, changing trends in the labor sector linked to global economics, and developments in legislative and judicial output, all signify the distinctiveness of the current moment with regard to family patterns and social norms. Seeking to contribute to an existing body of literature focused on single motherhood and lone parenting in the 20th century, this collection explores and illuminates a more recent landscape of 21st century debates, policies and experiences surrounding single motherhood and one-parent headed families.
Publisher: Demeter Press
ISBN: 1772580732
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The 21st century sustains one significant commonality with the decades of the preceding century. The majority of individuals parenting on their own and heading one-parent families continue to be mothers. Even so, current trends in globalization (economic, political, cultural) along with technological advancement, shifts in political, economic and social policy, contemporary demographic shifts, changing trends in the labor sector linked to global economics, and developments in legislative and judicial output, all signify the distinctiveness of the current moment with regard to family patterns and social norms. Seeking to contribute to an existing body of literature focused on single motherhood and lone parenting in the 20th century, this collection explores and illuminates a more recent landscape of 21st century debates, policies and experiences surrounding single motherhood and one-parent headed families.
Single Mothers and the State’s Embrace
Author: Harriet M. Phinney
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 029574944X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
In the mid-1980s, after the Indochina Wars, a shortage of men meant that many single women in Vietnam found themselves without suitable marital prospects. A number of these women chose to pursue single motherhood by “asking for a child” (xin con)—asking men to get them pregnant out of wedlock. Xin con appeared to be a radical departure from traditional Vietnamese kinship values and practices, which were based in Confucian patriarchal and patrilineal reproductive interests. However, this innovative solution was rooted in both pre- and postwar values, practices, and notions of gender, kinship, love, and sexuality. This ethnography explores the practice of xin con among single mothers in the postwar era and today, and considers the ways their reproductive agency was embraced rather than rejected by the Vietnamese state as it entered the global market economy. Rather than condemning or trying to restrict older single women’s reproductive agency, government officials enacted policies that would accommodate both the women and the state—a strategy that represents an intriguing alignment of Confucian heritage, Communist ideology, and governing tactics and demonstrates the social power of women.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 029574944X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
In the mid-1980s, after the Indochina Wars, a shortage of men meant that many single women in Vietnam found themselves without suitable marital prospects. A number of these women chose to pursue single motherhood by “asking for a child” (xin con)—asking men to get them pregnant out of wedlock. Xin con appeared to be a radical departure from traditional Vietnamese kinship values and practices, which were based in Confucian patriarchal and patrilineal reproductive interests. However, this innovative solution was rooted in both pre- and postwar values, practices, and notions of gender, kinship, love, and sexuality. This ethnography explores the practice of xin con among single mothers in the postwar era and today, and considers the ways their reproductive agency was embraced rather than rejected by the Vietnamese state as it entered the global market economy. Rather than condemning or trying to restrict older single women’s reproductive agency, government officials enacted policies that would accommodate both the women and the state—a strategy that represents an intriguing alignment of Confucian heritage, Communist ideology, and governing tactics and demonstrates the social power of women.
Friends' Intelligencer
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Friends' Weekly Intelligencer
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Families
Author: Alex Liazos
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131725970X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Unlike other family textbooks that mostly emphasize conflicts and problems, this book also features the joys and pleasures of family living and its mutually nourishing qualities. Its perspective reflects polls, surveys, and student essays indicating that most people value their families. Families everywhere provide love, support, and sustenance to their members, but they do so in many different arrangements.Understanding the wide variety of families historically and across cultures gives the student a better basis for understanding how families change and a better grasp of more controversial changes such as the gradual acceptance by Westerners of same-sex marriage and child-rearing by single people. Liazos offers two poignant chapters not found in other texts. Family Living (Chapter Six) focuses on the social value of caregiving and family meals. Kin and Community (Chapter Seven) focuses on relationships among kin and the larger community.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131725970X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Unlike other family textbooks that mostly emphasize conflicts and problems, this book also features the joys and pleasures of family living and its mutually nourishing qualities. Its perspective reflects polls, surveys, and student essays indicating that most people value their families. Families everywhere provide love, support, and sustenance to their members, but they do so in many different arrangements.Understanding the wide variety of families historically and across cultures gives the student a better basis for understanding how families change and a better grasp of more controversial changes such as the gradual acceptance by Westerners of same-sex marriage and child-rearing by single people. Liazos offers two poignant chapters not found in other texts. Family Living (Chapter Six) focuses on the social value of caregiving and family meals. Kin and Community (Chapter Seven) focuses on relationships among kin and the larger community.
MTV and Teen Pregnancy
Author: Letizia Guglielmo
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810891700
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In 2009, 16 and Pregnant premiered on MTV, closely followed by the spinoffs Teen Mom and Teen Mom 2. Because of their controversial portrayals of teenage mothers, the shows have received ongoing media attention. While some argue that the programs could play a factor in reducing the number of teen pregnancies, others claim the shows exploit young women and glamorize their situations. Among these debates, there have been surprisingly few in-depth discourses that discuss the roles such shows have on teenage audiences. In MTV and Teen Pregnancy: Critical Essays on 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom, contributors from a variety of backgrounds and expertise offer potent essays about these programs. Divided into four parts, the book tackles the controversial representations of teen pregnancy from various disciplines. Part I explores gendered social norms and the shows’ roles as either educational resources or idealized depictions of teenage motherhood. Part II prompts readers to consider the intersections of race, class, gender, and the social and cultural power structures often glossed over in these programs. Part III focuses on teenage fathers, the portrayal of masculinity, and “good” vs. “bad” parents. Part IV draws from TVs representations of reality to discuss the impact of these shows on the viewing audience. This section includes a narrative from a teen mother who argues that the shows do not accurately reflect the life she leads. As the debates about 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom continue, this collection provides a valuable critical discourse to be used both inside and outside the classroom. Those engaged in courses on gender and women’s studies, as well as media studies, social work, and family and childhood development, will find MTV and Teen Pregnancy especially insightful—as will those involved in community outreach programs, not to mention teens and young mothers themselves.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810891700
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In 2009, 16 and Pregnant premiered on MTV, closely followed by the spinoffs Teen Mom and Teen Mom 2. Because of their controversial portrayals of teenage mothers, the shows have received ongoing media attention. While some argue that the programs could play a factor in reducing the number of teen pregnancies, others claim the shows exploit young women and glamorize their situations. Among these debates, there have been surprisingly few in-depth discourses that discuss the roles such shows have on teenage audiences. In MTV and Teen Pregnancy: Critical Essays on 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom, contributors from a variety of backgrounds and expertise offer potent essays about these programs. Divided into four parts, the book tackles the controversial representations of teen pregnancy from various disciplines. Part I explores gendered social norms and the shows’ roles as either educational resources or idealized depictions of teenage motherhood. Part II prompts readers to consider the intersections of race, class, gender, and the social and cultural power structures often glossed over in these programs. Part III focuses on teenage fathers, the portrayal of masculinity, and “good” vs. “bad” parents. Part IV draws from TVs representations of reality to discuss the impact of these shows on the viewing audience. This section includes a narrative from a teen mother who argues that the shows do not accurately reflect the life she leads. As the debates about 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom continue, this collection provides a valuable critical discourse to be used both inside and outside the classroom. Those engaged in courses on gender and women’s studies, as well as media studies, social work, and family and childhood development, will find MTV and Teen Pregnancy especially insightful—as will those involved in community outreach programs, not to mention teens and young mothers themselves.
The Sense of an Ending
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307957330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307957330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Report to the General Assembly Meeting in 1925 of the Commission Appointed to Study and Revise the Statutes of Pennsylvania Relating to Children
Author: Pennsylvania. Commission to Study and Revise the Statutes Relating to Children
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Breaking the Single Mom's Rules
Author: JC Harroway
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369731344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
An electrifying connection sends this doc and single mom’s head in a spin, but will the single dad be worth breaking her rules for? Find out in the second book in JC Harroway's latest duet, Gulf Harbour ER. She made the rule… But will she keep it? Doctor and single mom Kat always sticks to protocol. So when nurse Nash plays it fast and loose, she has no problem confronting him. Only to find the disarmingly attractive single dad leaves her tongue-tied! As they're forced together by their daughters’ friendship, the tension only intensifies… Kat has lived by her no-men rule meticulously. She just never anticipated a connection as electric as hers and Nash’s! From Harlequin Medical: Life and love in the world of modern medicine. Gulf Harbour ER Book 1: Tempted by the Rebel Surgeon Book 2: Breaking the Single Mom's Rules
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369731344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
An electrifying connection sends this doc and single mom’s head in a spin, but will the single dad be worth breaking her rules for? Find out in the second book in JC Harroway's latest duet, Gulf Harbour ER. She made the rule… But will she keep it? Doctor and single mom Kat always sticks to protocol. So when nurse Nash plays it fast and loose, she has no problem confronting him. Only to find the disarmingly attractive single dad leaves her tongue-tied! As they're forced together by their daughters’ friendship, the tension only intensifies… Kat has lived by her no-men rule meticulously. She just never anticipated a connection as electric as hers and Nash’s! From Harlequin Medical: Life and love in the world of modern medicine. Gulf Harbour ER Book 1: Tempted by the Rebel Surgeon Book 2: Breaking the Single Mom's Rules