Family Life Now

by Kelly J. Welch

A candid and thoughtful conversation about families and family life.   This text combines the personal touch and scholarly expertise of an outstanding teacher to explore the ways that family members and intimate partners interact, and how families adapt to stresses, changes and everyday challenges. We are all a product of our families of origin. How that influences who we are and who we become is a central theme woven throughout Family Life Now.   This book follows the Family Life Education framework to examine marriages, families, and intimate relationships. Throughout the text, theories from the fields of sociology, family studies, psychology, lifespan human development, and other social sciences are integrated so that they can be applied to real life situations. The text also presents enough biological science to explain some of the physical realities of who we are and why we behave as we do.

Genres: Sociology

672 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2006

Reviews

[Trevor Evans]

This textbook was extremely beneficial to my understanding of what families are comprised of, how they interact, what my role as a family member is, and so many other things. I read most of this textbook during a course that I took as an elective at my current college last semester, and after reading this textbook, it is definitely one that I would recommend to absolutely anyone. It was extremely informational and helpful in terms of understanding not only my family as a whole, but of other families and also myself as an individual. The author also provided countless examples from her own life to help the readers of her textbook grasp the concepts, ideas, and theories that she was compelled to write about. Although the entirety of this book wasn't covered through my course, it was still without a doubt an amazing read.

[Naomi · Rating 5 out of 5]

A readable and interesting text book.