Author: Ann C. Crouter; Alan Booth
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Keywords: university, state, family, issues, symposia, penn, opportunities, adolescence, sex, emerging, adulthood, risks, romance
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2005-10-27
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0805853901
ISBN-13: 9780805853902

Contents: Preface. Part I: What Are the Evolutionary Origins of Contemporary Patterns of Sexual and Romantic Relationships? Where Does Evolution Leave Off and Where Do History and Culture Begin? H.E. Fisher, Broken Hearts: The Nature and Risks of Romantic Rejection. B.L. Barber, To Have Loved and Lost...Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Rejection. D.P. Schmitt, Short- and Long-Term Mating Strategies: Additional Evolutionary Systems Relevant to Adolescent Sexuality. P. Schwartz, What Elicits Romance, Passion, and Attachment, and How Do They Affect Our Lives Throughout the Life Cycle? Part I

Authors:Ann C. Crouter, Alan Booth,
Publisher: Urban Institute Press
Keywords: policies, life, work
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2009-02-28
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0877667489
ISBN-13: 9780877667483

Workplace policies that provide flexible scheduling, leave for caregiving, and assistance with child care likely benefit employers in recruitment, retention, productivity, and health care costs. The benefits to employees seem obvious. Researchers, however, are just beginning to move beyond correlational, descriptive studies into rigorous intervention research. These new investigations examine not only the effects of formal policies, whether federal law or company HR initiatives, but also changes in workplace cultures. _Work-Life Policies_ assembles a diverse group of commentators industrial ps

Authors:Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter,
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: school, transitions, contribute, readiness, disparities, families
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-08-04
List price: $42.50
ISBN-10: 0805859810
ISBN-13: 9780805859812

Significant disparities exist in children’s behavioral and learning capacities that support successful transitions into school. In this new volume, leading researchers from a variety of disciplines review the latest data on how families influence their children’s transitions into school. The inequalities that exist in school readiness, the roots of the inequalities, and the ways in which families exacerbate or minimize these inequalities, are explored. The book concludes with a review of policies and programs that represent the best practices for how families, schools and communiti

Authors:Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter, Suzanne M. Bianchi, Judit
Publisher: Urban Institute Press
Keywords: caregiving, intergenerational
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0877667470
ISBN-13: 9780877667476

Dramatic changes in the American family have transformed the way we care for its oldest and youngest members. Nuclear families have become smaller as childbearing has declined, but extended families have become larger as life expectancy grows. Divorce, extramarital childbearing, cohabitation, and remarriage, have increased our number of kin but often complicate relationships and diffuse responsibility for care. Further, women’s increasing participation in the workforce has meant that previous generations must reevaluate their assumptions about caregivers. In Intergenerational Caregiving,

Author: Alan Booth
Publisher: Kodansha Globe
Keywords: japan, walk, sata, roads
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1997-08-14
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1568361874
ISBN-13: 9781568361871

Author: Alan Booth
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: consequences, trends, 1990s, care, child
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1992-07-01
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0805810609
ISBN-13: 9780805810608

Bringing together professionals from sociology, economics, psychology, and family studies, this volume presents papers from a symposium on child care that sought answers to each of the four questions listed in the table of contents. A lead speaker provided an answer, and discussants had a chance to critique the main presentation and set forth their own views. Each session also included a policy person to deal with issues from an applied perspective. The lead papers, review papers, and rejoinders constitute the contents of this volume. Interdisciplinary in scope, it deals with the central issue

Authors:Alan Booth, Judith F. Dunn,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: family, university, issues, symposia, series, state, outcomes, school, links, affect, educational, penn
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1996-04-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0805818405
ISBN-13: 9780805818406

Based on the presentations and discussions from a national symposium on family-school links held at the Pennsylvania State University, this volume brings together psychologists, sociologists, educators, and policymakers studying the bidirectional effects between schools and families. This topic -- the links between families and schools, and how these affect children’s educational achievement -- encompasses a host of questions, each of key social and educational significance. * How far does parental involvement in schools affect children’s experiences and achievement at school? *