Guia para los Padres/The Parent's Handbook

An intriguing study on families and their changing roles, Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Families, Work, and Change provides fresh viewpoints on factors that have an impact on family life and relationships. This thematic volume, with chapters from scholars in Italy, Australia, Israel, Jordan, West Germany, Yugoslavia, Norway, and Finland, is truly international and covers a variety of substantive concerns. Among these is the concern for new familial models which will meld both the individual and the whole into a viable family entity capable of providing for the wishes, needs, and aspirations...

Provides advice on all aspects of infant care from the members of the American Academy of Pediatrics, discussing such topics as behavior, growth, immunizations, and safety.

Es indudable que las familias biologicas y las familias adoptivas compartimos aspectos esenciales en cuanto a la crianza de los hijos. Sin embargo, las familias adoptivas, a las dificultades propias de toda crianza, debemos anadir el hecho de que las vidas de nuestros hijos no comenzaron cuando nosotros entramos a formar parte de ellas. ?Que traen nuestros hijos en su "mochila"? ?Como afecta la calidad y duracion del periodo de institucionalizacion en el establecimiento de un vinculo seguro? ?Que influencia tienen factores pre y postnatales, como la malnutricion, el alcoholismo, los toxicos...

This authentic diary, kept by a Viennese schoolgirl when she was eleven to fourteen years old, first appeared publicly in 1919. Richly expressive and emotionally moving, it intimately chronicles her passage from childhood to puberty with frankness, lucidity, and an honesty that scandalized the anonymous author's contemporaries. Originally presented by Sigmund Freud as a specimen to analyze and observe the development of a young female during the vital years of personal growth, the book relates, in a gently ironic tone, daily encounters and experiences as well as private conversations and...