The teenage years can be exciting and enjoyable times for parents and their teenagers with proper encouragement, preparation, and training. Have you ever made this statement, or had this thought go through your mind, “I really don’t look forward to facing the teenage years with my children!” Are you concerned that it is possible that you have not given sufficient time in providing the necessary training for your children leading up to the teenage years and that you are afraid of the conflicts you could be facing? You don’t have to enter your child’s teenage years and experience conflict after conflict although many families do! This book will provide wonderful guidance and encouragement that will enable parents to be on the same page when preparing their children to face and enjoy their teenage years. How important is discipline in raising children, and how important is it that both parents be in agreement when discipline becomes necessary? What happens if the parents are on separate pages? These are very important questions that Enjoying the Teenage Years addresses. Teenagers often struggle substantially with their self-esteem, and parents are taught, in the book, the importance and what can be done to bolster their children’s self-esteem. This helps make the teenage years more enjoyable for both parents and their children. The challenge of choosing the right friends is addressed as well. The importance of passing the spiritual baton from parents to their children and the eternal results is a topic that is addressed throughout the book. This book will provide successful guidance and encouragement that will assist husbands and their wives to be on the same page, and this will eliminate conflicts and arguments between the parents. The teenage years, when the teaching in Enjoying the Teenage Years is practiced, will provide wonderful memories in the future years for both parents and their children.
Discusses the realities of teenage marriage, including such problems as lack of money, in-law relationships, jealousy, and spousal abuse. Includes quotes from teenage couples and suggestions for making relationships work.
A Life-Cycle Approach to Treating Couples draws on 30 years of clinical work and a rich body of research about lifecycle theory to offer couple therapists a guide to helping couples traverse six developmental stages—dating and commitment; transition to parenthood; midlife couples; launching and retiring couples; late-life couples; and relationship endings. For each stage, the author offers clinical vignettes as well as questions and strategies for the clinician to pursue. In this clear and authoritative book, Fishel provides examples and research about clients who are diverse in their marital status, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, SES, and health.
This book explores the experiences of pregnant teenagers, their partners, and midwives, from pregnancy realisation through the early years of motherhood. It examines changing attitudes to female sexuality and moral discourses on adolescent subjectivity especially as these pertain to teenage motherhood.
Trafficking and prostitution are widely believed to be synonymous, and to be leading international crimes. This collection argues against such sensationalism and advances carefully considered and grounded alternatives for understanding transnational migrations, forced labor, sex work, and livelihood strategies under new forms of globalization. From their long-term engagements as anti-trafficking advocates, the authors unpack the contemporary international debate on trafficking. They maintain that rather than a new 'white slave trade,' we are witnessing today, more broadly, an increase in the violation of the rights of freedom of movement, decent employment, and social and economic security. Critical examinations of state anti-trafficking interventions, including the U.S.- led War on Trafficking, also reveal links to a broader attack on undocumented migrants; tribal and aboriginal peoples; poor women, men, and children; and sex workers. The book sheds new light on everyday circumstances, popular discourses, and strategies for survival under twenty-first century economic and political conditions, with a focus on Asia, but with lessons globally. Contributors: Natasha Ahmad, Vachararutai Boontinand, Lin Chew, Melissa Ditmore, John Frederick, Matthew S. Friedman, Josephine Ho, Jagori, Ratna Kapur, Phil Marshall, Jyoti Sanghera, Susu Thatun.
Ethnography of Inuit adolescence describing the life of young people between the ages of 9 and 20 in the community of Holman Island, NWT. Describes the day-to-day activities of Inuit youth, their time playing sports and games, attending school, engaging in sexual play, simply "hanging out" with friends and peers