| Description |
x, 175 pages ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Social work, marriage, and ethnicity: policy and practice / Colita Nichols Fairfax -- Strengthening American Indian couples' relationship quality to improve parenting / Gordon E. Limb, Cindy White, and Magen Holgate -- In circle: a healthy relationship, domestic violence, and HIV intervention for African American couples / Tricia Bent-Goodley -- Arab American marriage: culture, tradition, religion, and the social worker / Alean Al-Krenawi and Stephen O. Jackson -- Teenage marriage among Hmong American women / Pa Der Vang and Pa Her -- Puerto Rican intergroup marriage and residential segregation in the U.S.: a multilevel analysis of structural, cultural, and economic factors / Anthony De Jesús, Giavani Burgos, Melissa Almenas, and William Velez -- Transnational Vietnamese American marriages in the new land / Peter Nguyen -- "First train out": marriage and cohabitation in the context of poverty, deprivation, and trauma / Naomi Farber and Julie E. Miller-Cribbs -- African American marital satisfaction as a function of work-family balance and work-family conflict and implications for social workers / Noelle M. St. Vil -- American Indian perceptions of paternal responsibility / Gordon E. Limb and Jerilyn Tobler -- Single parenting in the African American community: implications for public policy and practice / Ingrid Phillips Whitaker, Mark M. Whitaker, and Kanata Jackson. |
| Summary |
This volume examines the conventional knowledge, theories, and best practices relating to marriages. The collected essays address marriage interventions, female empowerment, parenting, and cohabitation, as well as the variables which impact these situations, such as employment, housing, domestic violence, and HIV/ AIDS, within appropriate and meaningful cultural contexts. |
| Subject |
Family social work.
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Marriage.
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Ethnicity.
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Social service.
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Ethnicity. (OCoLC)fst00916034
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Family social work. (OCoLC)fst00920516
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Marriage. (OCoLC)fst01010443
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Social service. (OCoLC)fst01123192
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| Added Author |
Fairfax, Colita Nichols, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781138932173 (hardcover) |
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1138932175 (hardcover) |
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