Marriage Sociology

Inverno demografico: e davanti a noi si stendono pianure infeconde e ghiacciate da far impallidire Il Trono di Spade, nella mente risuonano echi di tragedie shakespeariane. In Italia non si fanno più figli, dove andrà a finire la nostra civiltà, ma soprattutto: chi pagherà le nostre pensioni? Ma che senso ha insistere a credere che l'unico modo per tenere in piedi il sistema sia procreare, anche laddove le donne - per la precisione una minoranza di donne quantificata dall'Istat nel 5 per cento - pur essendo nelle condizioni di fare figli, non li vuole?

Wieder ein Buch von Astrid Wagner, das die Leser durch packende Schilderung, Authentizität und Empathie mitreißt. Die in diesem Buch versammelten wahren Verbrechen zeigen die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele. Es sind unfassbare Geschichten von Liebe, die in Hass umschlägt, und Leidenschaft, die zu Mordlust wird.

"Wer sich nicht öffnet, fühlt auch nichts" oder "Die Gesellschaft braucht eine Therapie, nicht wir" – in kurzen Videos teilt Michael Nast seine Überlegungen zum Leben und der Liebe und erreicht damit mehrere hunderttausend Follower:innen. Nun gibt es sie in Buchform, seine klugen und gesellschaftskritischen Denkanstöße, die er für das Hörbuch selbst eingelesen hat. Stets mit persönlichen Erlebnissen verknüpft, sprechen sie die Hörer:innen auf Augenhöhe an, denn Michael Nast ist kein Coach, sondern hadert selbst mit sich und seinen Entscheidungen.

Medieval history is often written as a series of battles and territorial shifts. But the essential contributions of women during this period have been too often relegated to the dustbin of history. In Women in the Middle Ages, Frances and Joseph Gies reclaim this lost history, in a lively historical survey that charts the evolution of women’s roles throughout the period and profiles eight individual women in depth.

Low-wage workers make up the largest group of employed parents in the United States, yet scant attention has been given to their experiences as new mothers and fathers. Work Matters brings the unique stories of these diverse individuals to light. Drawing on years of research and more than fifteen hundred family interviews, Maureen Perry-Jenkins describes how new parents cope with the demands of infant care while holding down low-wage, full-time jobs, and she considers how managing all of these responsibilities have long-term implications for child development.

In Polygamy: A Very Short Introduction, Sarah M.S. Pearsall explores what plural marriages reveal about the inner workings of marriage and describes the controversies surrounding it. The book emphasizes the diversity of historical polygamist societies, from the Shi'ite Muslims and Wendat men who practiced short-term marriages to the Mixteca, Maori, Inca, Algonquin, and Marta indigenous people of North America and the Pacific Islands. Pearsall also explains the divides within Christianity that led to Joseph Smith's establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In Work Mate Marry Love, Harvard Business School professor and former Barnard College president Debora L. Spar offers an incisive and provocative account of how technology has transformed our intimate lives in the past, and how it will do so again in the future. Surveying the course of history, she shows how marriage as we understand it resulted from the rise of agriculture, and that the nuclear family emerged with the industrial revolution. In their day, the street light, the car, and later the pill all upended courtship and sex.

Ben Mattlin's wife, ML, recalls falling in love with his confidence and sheer determination. On one of their earliest dates, he persuaded her to ride on his lap in his wheelchair on their way home from an Elvis Costello concert. Thirty years later, they still travel like this from time to time, undaunted by the curious stares following them down the street. But In Sickness and in Health is more than an "inspiring" story of how a man born with spinal muscular atrophy

Striking the right balance between career and motherhood is one of the most stressful, heart-wrenching tasks facing women today. In Torn, 46 women examine the conflict between the need to nurture and the need to work, and reveal creative solutions for having the best of both worlds. The stories in the collection offer hope and inspiration, but they also reveal the messy realities of modern motherhood and life's inevitable crises, both small and large.

Why is it that children in a family can share the same gene pool, a similar socio-economic environment and experience similar parenting styles yet have fundamentally different personalities, interests and even different careers as adults? Birth order! The implications for parents, teachers and adults involved with children are many. First published in 2003 to great acclaim, this fully revised and updated edition seeks to increase the listener's understanding of birth order theory.

When police raided the Short Creek compound of the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1953, it soon became a political and publicity nightmare and eventually cost the governor of Arizona his job. From that point on, skittish public officials allowed the polygamist sect to practice its tenants unmolested for the next 50 years and turned a blind eye to child abandonment, kidnapping, statutory rape, incest, and massive tax and welfare fraud. But then Warren Jeffs, a new FLDS prophet, escalated the sect’s crimes to near madness.

Wendell battles to the heart of all of the problems in society and teaches his lost children how to defeat Hook and his evil mind controlling pirates. Our path gets darker as the fairies of the world lose the fire that drives them. Because if we lose the ability to interpret non-literal examples into the reality of how we and everything around us functions, then we also inflict oppression that could obtain us real collective insight.

In our society the act of infidelity is usually associated with the husband. But what happens when the wife cheats? Very little is written about how the husband and children deal with the lies, deceit, betrayal, and abandonment when the wife violates the martial vows. Follow one man's journey as he and his two young daughters cope the devastation that occurs when the wife cheats.

Oggi i nonni sono più importanti che nel passato: vivono di più e in buona salute e quindi si allungano gli anni di vita condivisa con le generazioni più giovani; le relazioni con i nipoti diventano più strette e affettuose, fondandosi su un rapporto di cura che permette anche alle madri di lavorare fuori casa; infine i nonni rappresentano spesso un ancoraggio sicuro nei momenti di crisi e cambiamento della famiglia, come una separazione, un divorzio, una migrazione.

"Alle, wirklich alle Frauen können betroffen sein. Und alle, wirklich alle Männer können Täter sein." Die Rechtsanwältin Christina Clemm zeigt, wie allgegenwärtig die Gewalt gegen Frauen ist, und was wir verändern müssen - politisch wie privat. Lisa M. trifft Mirko im Studium. Sie verlieben sich, streiten kaum. Dann wird sie schwanger, sie ziehen zu seiner Mutter, haben bald drei Kinder. Eine Familie wie im Bilderbuch, wäre da nicht seine Wut. Anfangs muss Lisa die Hämatome noch verstecken, mit der Zeit wird er zielsicherer. Sie versucht zu fliehen, doch vergeblich.

Education, employment, and home ownership have long been considered stepping stones to the middle class. But in Abandoned Families, social policy expert Kristin Seefeldt shows how many working families have access only to a separate but unequal set of poor-quality jobs, low-performing schools, and declining housing markets, which offer few chances for upward mobility. Through in-depth interviews over a six-year period with women in Detroit, Seefeldt charts the increasing social isolation of many low-income workers.

Thousands of women have stepped inside Becker’s Bridal in Fowler, Michigan, to try on their dream dresses in the Magic Room, a special space with soft lighting, a circular pedestal, and mirrors that carry a bride’s reflections into infinity. The women bring with them their most precious expectations about romance, love, fidelity, permanence, and tradition. Each bride who passes through has a story to tell - one that carried her there, to that dress, that room, that moment.

Diskriminierung im Zeitalter von #MeToo, Catcalling, Manspreading, Sexismus - nur wenige Themen finden gegenwärtig ein solches Maß an Aufmerksamkeit wie diese, wohl auch deswegen, weil vieles im Umbruch ist. Speziell die westlichen Gesellschaften, aber auch ein großer Teil der nicht-westlichen Weltbevölkerung, befindet sich in einer Art Suchbewegung, stellt Althergebrachtes in Frage, ohne genau zu wissen, was an seine Stelle treten soll. Konfrontationen und Verunsicherungen sind die Folge. Dieses Hörbuch diskutiert ethische und philosophische Aspekte der Geschlechterbeziehungen.

Wozu sind Menschen fähig, die ihrem Partner verfallen sind? Die bekannte Strafverteidigerin Astrid Wagner gewährt in diesem Buch Einblick in etliche ihrer spektakulärsten Fälle. Sie handeln von enttäuschter Liebe, aus der abgrundtiefer Hass wird, von dunklen Familiengeheimnissen, von kranker Sexualität, von Gier und von Rache. Menschlichen Emotionen, die in unfassbaren Verbrechen münden.

Traditional family structures are adapting to make room for children conceived in previously unimaginable ways. Whole industries and internet-enabled communities are being built around reproductive technologies. And there's more change coming as science continues to move forward. Combining intimate personal stories with cutting-edge research, Reconceptions invites listeners to reconsider their own ideas about parenthood and embrace a new vision of the meaning of family.