Alternative Family category: 388 books
How We Live Now
Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A close-up examination and exploration, How We Live Now challenges our old concepts of what it means to be a family and have a home, opening the door to the many diverse and thriving experiments of living in twenty-first century America.
Across America and around the world, in cities and suburbs...
Social Work Practice with Children and Families
A Family Health Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Effectively engage clients in working for personal change
Social Work Practice with Children and Families presents the framework for family health social work and its applications in various practice environments. This vital textbook provides a unique blend of academic deliberations and practical...
by Rebecca Chianese
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
In the wake of her 49th birthday Carly has become a broke, divorced empty nester, no longer knowing her place in the glossy suburban bubble where she has carefully constructed a veneered existence. She thought she had left the uncertainty of a chaotic, drug-infused Brooklyn childhood behind her when...
Learning About Adoption
An Essential Adoption Information Guide That Provides You Adoption Facts To Help You Learn Adoption Process, Adoption Options And Adoption Ideas For You To Make The Right Adoption Decision!
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Adoption is the creation of a new, permanent relationship between an adoptive parent and child. Once this happens, there is no legal difference between a child who is adopted and a child who is born into a family.
Birth parents have many different reasons for putting children up for adoption....
Carry On
A Story of Resilience, Redemption, and an Unlikely Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
In the spirit of The Blind Side and Friday Night Lights comes a tender and profoundly moving memoir about an ESPN producer’s unexpected relationship with two disabled wrestlers from inner city Cleveland, and how these bonds—blossoming, ultimately, into a most unorthodox family—would transform...
by Christopher Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Chris is a young boy being raised in a single-parent home by a mother who is a lesbian. She clearly was not ready for motherhood; she has two older sons who are being raised by her mother, the oldest suffering from mental problems. Once her mother passes away, she is left with the responsibility of...
Lesbian Step Families
An Ethnography of Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love explores five lesbian step families’definitions of the step parent role and how they accomplish parenting tasks, cope with homophobia, and define and interpret their experiences. An intensive feminist qualitative study, the book offers guidelines for...
Side by Side
On Having a Gay or Lesbian Sibling
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
How would you react if your brother or sister came out to you?
*I'm proud to have been the first to know.
My conservative upbringing contributed to the notion that John’s behavior was sinful. The first thought I had about it was that my brother had somehow been misdirected, involving...
by Suzy Mitchell Collin
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
THE COVER UP IS OVER!
A married gay couple adopted nine special needs children. In spite of the challenging behaviors and diagnoses of the children, they were flourishing at home and in school. After a decade, baseless sexual allegations against the fathers were lodged and the once thriving...
Couples of Mixed HIV Status
Clinical Issues and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Examine the unique emotional challenges and issues that face couples of mixed HIV status today!
Previous books on this subject-mostly written in the days when HIV/AIDS was considered a fatal rather than a chronic disease-focused on end-of-life issues. However, Couples of Mixed HIV Status: Clinical...
Second Chance for a Love to Last
The Ultimate Guide to Marrying Again
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Everything you need to know whether you are recently divorced, dating, committing to a new beginning or dealing with the myriad of challenging second unions bring. Second Chance for a love to last takes you on a journey, It starts with marriage and relationships in general and takes you through...
Blissfully Blended Bullshit
The Uncomfortable Truth of Blending Families
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2019
Rebecca Eckler’s newest book chronicles the hard truth of what it’s really like to make a blended family.
Blissfully Blended Bullshit is a witty, engaging, refreshingly candid chronicle of a modern family’s journey as they blend households. We follow Eckler as her partner and his two...
by Serena Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
“Congratulations on your adoption!” Faith, age 8, and Hunter, age 11, aren’t so sure that congratulations are in order; having parents and a new family is complicated. Their new moms, Helen and Toni Green, are also finding adoption to be a challenge. Everyone seems to be above their heads this...
Raising Ryland
Our Story of Parenting a Transgender Child with No Strings Attached
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
This powerful, moving story—which has already touched more than seven million through a viral video created by the Whittington family—is a mother’s first-hand account of her emotional choice to embrace her transgender child.
When Hillary and Jeff Whittington posted a YouTube video chronicling...