Alternative Family category: 388 books
Family Secrets
Gay Sons - A Mother's Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
As a clinical psychologist, Jean Baker had always considered herself open-minded and tolerant, but found she wasn’t prepared for the revelation that her only two children were both gay. Family Secrets is an inspirational story of how she and her family learned to accept one another and overcome...
Therapy with Single Parents
A Social Constructionist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Provide effective counseling to members of single-parent families
With more than half of all first marriages ending in divorce, it’s time to re-think the notion that divorce means failure. Therapy with Single Parents focuses on the strengths of the single-parent family rather than...
Love's Promises
How Formal and Informal Contracts Shape All Kinds of Families
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Blends memoir and legal cases to show how contracts can create family relationships
Most people think of love and contracts as strange bedfellows, or even opposites. In Love’s Promises, however, law professor Martha Ertman shows that far from cold and calculating, contracts shape and sustain...
by Marvin B Sussman
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The first book of its kind, Homosexuality and Family Relations focuses on the effects of homosexuality and being homosexual on individuals in families and on the family as a group. Edited by Frederick W. Bozett, RN, DNS, and Marvin B. Sussman, PhD, this informative and enlightening volume examines...
Family Romance
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
The author of The Debt to Pleasure digs into his family's extraordinary past in a memoir as enthralling as his finest fiction
It was only when his mother died that John Lanchester realized how little he really knew about his parents. With the cache of letters and papers she left behind, he...
A Family by Any Other Name
Exploring Queer Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for best LGBT Anthology
Winner of a 2015 Silver Independent Publisher Book Award
At no other time in history have lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) relationships and families been more visible or numerous. A Family by Any Other Name recognizes...
Love Lives Here
A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
An inspirational story of accepting and embracing two trans people in a family--a family who shows what's possible when you "lead with love."
All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father, and while her mother and stepfather were...
The Family of Adoption
Completely Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Full of wonderful stories that give insight into a wide variety of adoption issues, now revised in light of recent developments, The Family of Adoption is a powerful argument for the right kind of openness in adoption. Joyce Maguire Pavao uses her thirty years of experience as a family and adoption...
by Joanne R. Sanborn
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
How To Feel More Connected To Your Family In Less Than 24 Hours. Research Online Family Tree, Family Tree Software, Family History Online, A History of Genealogy and Family Tree Charts
Stepfamilies
Love, Marriage, and Parenting in the First Decade
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Based on a landmark longitudinal study, the nation's leading expert on stepfamilies reveals his breakthrough findings and offers the first detailed guide to easing the conflicts of stepfamily life and healing the scars of divorce.
There are more than twenty million stepfamilies in America....
Working Girltalk - Family Business
Keeping it in the family
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Working Girltalk
Natasha talks about her experience working for a family business. Sometimes it’s better to mind your own business than get too involved, but then you want to be a part of the “family”. Find out how this working girl copes with la familia……
Somewhere Different
A family adventure through the Balkans, Egypt and Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
This is a true tale of family adventure and travel through the Balkans, Egypt and Sri Lanka. It tells the real life story of a family escaping the rat race and "the norm", only to arrive at their new home in Sri Lanka one day before the 2004 tsunami. There are no other books in publication telling the...
Living "Difference"
Lesbian Perspectives on Work and Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Living “Difference”: Lesbian Perspectives on Work and Family Life examines the roles of lesbians in the home, in the workplace, and as parents. Discussing the advantages of female same-sex relationships, this book suggests that these partnerships are able to facilitate more egalitarian ideals...
How to Make a Life
A Tibetan Refugee Family and the Midwestern Woman They Adopted
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
An immigration story of crossing cultural bridges and finding family.
When Madeline Uraneck said hello to the Tibetan woman cleaning her office cubicle, she never imagined the moment would change her life. After learning that Tenzin Kalsang had left her husband and four children behind in a...