Introduction: Strengthening families -- Changes in American families -- Importance of community support -- The national experience with child care and parent education -- Assessing options for serving families -- Providing services directly to families -- Exemplary state programs -- Strengthening families through public schools -- Conclusion: Enhancing the well-being of children, families, and …
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Part one : Back to wifeliness. The great con game -- Beyond the "Me" marriage -- The joy of unkinky sex -- Part two : Back to babies. God's least-wanted blessing -- Who's afraid of the big bad baby? -- Family banning and planned barrenhood -- Part three : Back to mothering. Who owns our kids? -- Beyond "no-fault" child-rearing -- Raising kids without confusion -- Home as a green…
Parenting -
Children are from heaven -- What makes the five messages work -- New skills to create cooperation -- New skills to minimize resistence -- New skills form improving communication -- New skills for increasing motivation -- New skills for asserting leadership -- New skills for maintaining control -- It's okay to be different -- It's okay to make mistakes -- It's okay to express negative emotions -…
Harnessing the power -- Who's at the controls? -- Consulting the marriage map -- Distance or intimacy -- Neglect or nurturing -- Indifference or loving -- In conflict: choices that make you a winning team -- Power struggles: the secret war -- Confusion or order: a master plan -- Strategies for your master plan -- The way to financial freedom -- In-laws and other challenges -- If you'd like to c…
Includes bibliographical references (page 305) and index.
What ever happened to marriage? -- Why did you want to get married? -- What about your expectations? -- What is the meaning of commitment? -- Making sure you understand each other -- How you communicate without words -- The adventure of growing together -- Surviving the child-rearing years -- How to handle the twin stresses-money and work -- The best half of life?
Marriage. Interpersonal relations. Life cycle, Human. Interpersonal relations. Life cycle, Human.