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Drawing on her extensive experience in counseling families and individuals with sexual problems, psychologist Margretta Dwyer delivers a timely look at some of the sexual issues facing us today in Understand Offending. Dwyer believes the emphasis on natural, healthy sexual development is imperative to creating an atmosphere conducive to debunking myths and false teachings on sexuality. Dwyer also focuses on those who commit sexual offences and...

El autor muestra cómo fortalecer el amor en parejas de novios y de casados, detectando y gestionando aquellas debilidades emocionales que suelen generar conflictos. Así, trata la ira, el egoísmo y el afán de control, la distancia emocional y la ansiedad, la tristeza, la soledad y la infidelidad, la sombra del divorcio, la falta de comunicación y la desconfianza, la reticencia al matrimonio y la falta de conocimiento propio, ofreciendo modos...

Collaborative Practice: Deepening the Dialogue is the road map for family lawyers making the journey from traditional litigation to collaborative practice. A leader in the collaborative law movement, Nancy Cameron has written an essential resource for professionals who are practicing in or who are making the change to collaborative family practice. In a thoughtful, humorous, and concise manner, Nancy Cameron scrutinizes the landscape of traditional...

Single-parent families succeed. Within these families children thrive, develop, and grow, just as they do in a variety of family structures. Tragically, they must do so in the face of powerful legal and social stigma that works to undermine them. As Nancy E. Dowd argues in this bold and original book, the justifications for stigmatizing single-parent families are founded largely on myths, myths used to rationalize harshly punitive social policies....

En Esta es tu historia se aborda de manera sencilla y práctica el porqué, el cómo, el cuándo y el qué de la comunicación sobre los orígenes en adopción, resultando un instrumento de gran utilidad tanto para las familias que han adoptado internacionalmente, como para aquellos que están en proceso, para los profesionales relacionados con el mundo de la adopción o para otros profesionales en contacto con personas adoptadas.

Self-Help Guides to the Law™ explain the law in clear, concise terms to a popular audience of non-lawyers. Summarizing the key areas of the law with which readers are most likely to come into contact, the Guides broadly outline the statutes and cases that govern immigration law, landlord-tenant relations, personal injury, contracts, family law, criminal law and constitutional law and procedure. In this edition, Syrian family law is presented in...

Esta obra, que reúne un grupo de destacados académicos y profesionales, presenta reflexiones sobre distintos problemas jurídicos que, fruto de los cambios sociales y normativos, han desafiado al derecho de familia durante las últimas décadas. Dentro de este marco, el texto aborda, con una mirada práctica, analítica, crítica y reflexiva, asuntos relativos a la familia, los cuales son revisados desde ámbitos tan variados como la Constitución,...

With a near 50% divorce rate in the United States, every parent who reads this book is either going through a divorce, has been divorced, is married to or living with someone who is divorced, or will go through one or more of his/her children's divorces. Unlike books designed to enlighten parents about children's reactions to divorce, A Parents' Guide to Child Custody is written for parents themselves. The book provides parents with an overview...

Taucht mit Blue, dem kleinen Wal, hinab in die tiefe des Meeres. Auf der Suche nach seinem Algenball fühlt er sich plötzlich ganz merkwürdig: Sein Herz pocht wie verrückt, der Bauch grummelt und seine Schwanzflosse will nicht mehr aufhören zu zittern. Die Angst durchströmt ihn! Erfahrt zusammen mit Blue, warum Angst ein wunderbares Geschenk ist, was fühlen bedeutet und wie ein Korallenknaller helfen kann. Eine Gefühlswelle für Groß und Klein!...

The book is an extract from my doctorate degree thesis dealing with the formal requirements for the celebration of marriage: a comparative study of canon law, Nigerian statutory law, and customary law. It is universally recognized that consent of parties brings about marriage. But for consent to result in marriage, it must be validly exchanged/manifested. Formal requirements for marriage celebration deals with valid exchange of consent. The work thus...