Good Parents or Good Workers? draws upon new ethnographic studies and longitudinal interviews that are reporting on the daily lives of women and children under new welfare policy pressures. Contributors look at family policy in the context of daily demands and critique new social programs that are designed to strengthen families. The book is divided into three course-friendly sections that deal with the impact of welfare reform on caregiving, the lived experiences of low-income families, and family policy debates. Good Parents or Good Workers? is an important text on the impacts of welfare reform that will be essential reading in a variety of courses in education, sociology, and politics.
Tilly has spent most of her adult life in the Caribbean, working and bringing up three children. Divorced from their lawyer dad, she remains part of his large family, until, in her mid-forties, to the surprise and consternation of all, she becomes involved with Tim, an old friend of her former husband, and a known drug dealer. Convinced Tim is worth the emotional investment, and believing his promise that he will quit 'the business', Tilly moves with him to England. Unbeknownst to her, Tim, and his accomplice, Mary, have planned a massive importation of drugs. When it is intercepted, Tilly is charged with money-laundering. She is convicted and goes to prison. The experience is beyond eye-openening. But with the devoted support of family and friends, and the colourful cast of characters she meets along the way, Tilly emerges with a new belief in herself and a new understanding of justice.
About the Book The Epistle of James shows how the Book of James is still very relevant to modern Christian life. As revealed within the epistle, more insight is given into how to best live a godly life. About the Author Tamia Jill loves to read the Word of God. Her other passions include traveling, watching movies, and playing games with her family, but writing is her favorite thing to do. She loves to write and believes she was born to write. Tamia Jill feels blessed to have finally written her first book and is excited to write more.
Teacher's guide shows how to encourage children to explore, experience, and enjoy the reality of God all around them. Includes activity pages and music.
Detective-Superintendent Robert Bone has been called on by his friend Ken when death threats arrive, and has a case on his hands when Ken disappears and a body is found in a quarry near his house. If Bone can't find his way through a maze of deceptions and secrets from the past, a wedding may have to be cancelled for a funeral.
Each Custom Curriculum book includes a how-to article from experts in youth ministry like Mike Yaconelli and Duffy Robbins. Then there's publicity clip art and five complete Bible-based sessions. Each session includes a fast-paced program of icebreakers, thought-provokers, carefully chosen Bible passages, application and personal challenges. Plus, reproducible handouts and a 14-point, 5-page plan for customizing your event. You'll use these sessions over and over again.
Intimate apparel, a term in use by 1921, has played a crucial role in the development of the "naughty but nice" feminine ideal that emerged in the twentieth century. Jill Fields's engaging, imaginative, and sophisticated history of twentieth-century lingerie tours the world of women's intimate apparel and arrives at nothing less than a sweeping view of twentieth-century women's history via the undergarments they wore. Illustrated throughout and drawing on a wealth of evidence from fashion magazines, trade periodicals, costume artifacts, Hollywood films, and the records of organized labor, An Intimate Affair is a provocative examination of the ways cultural meanings are orchestrated by the "fashion-industrial complex," and the ways in which individuals and groups embrace, reject, or derive meaning from these everyday, yet highly significant, intimate articles of clothing.
Fascinating, well researched and finely honed... This is a must read." -- Judge Peggy F. Hora, California BenchOnce upon a time in America, morphine and cocaine were routinely sold in pharmacies, and "hop heads" gathered in shadowy basements to smoke opium. So begins Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams, Jill Jonnes's ground-breaking history of illegal drugs in America. Jonnes vividly traces our first turn-of-the-century drug epidemic, successfully quelled, and then follows the story into the postwar era: starting in the jazz world of the northern cities and moving through the "flower power" 1960s to the cocaine and crack explosion of the 1980s and 1990s.
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