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Les formes plurielles de précarité socio-économique (RMI, travail féminin à temps partiel, flexibilité de l'emploi...) et les insécurités quotidiennes dans tous les domaines d'existence font émerger des situations familiales nouvelles et sont susceptibles d'avoir des conséquences non négligeables sur la façon dont les parents occupent leur place et assurent leur rôle de père et de mère, sur la manière dont ils assument leur conjugalité et leur parentalité, et sur la façon dont se développent, de façon singulière, enfants et adolescents. Dans cette situation particulière que connaît la France mais aussi d'autres pays européens (Portugal, Espagne...), voire des pays "plus riches" tel que le Québec, cet ouvrage a pour mission essentielle de rassembler les résultats des recherches menées aux plans national et international, dans les champs disciplinaires que sont la psychologie, la sociologie, les sciences de l'éducation, le travail social... Il met en exergue les différentes actions menées auprès des populations les plus précarisées, et donne des pistes à développer par les politiques familiales et sociales. Son objectif est aussi d'examiner les fonctionnements, styles, pratiques éducatives des familles en situation de précarité, non pas dans une démarche de stigmatisation, mais dans une approche compréhensive des processus en jeu. Si les manques et les carences peuvent être analysés, les ressources, les modes de réactivité de ces familles doivent être eux aussi précisés et examinés.

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The teenage years are a fascinating time in the life of any family, but what happens when the challenges of parenting teenagers are combined with the desire to help your children build on their multilingual abilities? In this follow-up to Growing up with Three Languages: Birth to Eleven, Xiao-lei Wang offers a unique insight into the dynamics of a multilingual family. She combines practical, evidence-based advice with rich detail from observations of her own family to offer support and inspiration on an aspect of multilingual parenting that has received comparatively little attention. By placing language within the wider context of teenagers’ cognitive and social development, this book will enable parents everywhere to help and guide their children through the next step in their multilingual journey.

Teenagers --- Multilingualism. --- Language acquisition --- Sociolinguistics. --- Language. --- Parent participation. --- Adolescent multilingual development. --- Advantages and challenges of multilingual development. --- Heritage language development. --- Multilingual childrearing. --- Multilingual family well-being. --- Multilingual parenting. --- Parenting multilingual teenagers. --- Strategies for multilingual development. --- Trilingual development.

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This compelling book destroys the derogatory images of single mothers that too often prevail in the media and in politics by creating a rich, moving, multidimensional picture of who these women really are. Ruth Sidel interviewed mothers from diverse races, ethnicities, religions, and social classes who became single through divorce, separation, widowhood, or who never married; none had planned to raise children on their own. Weaving together these women's voices with an accessible, cutting-edge sociological and political analysis of single motherhood today, Unsung Heroines introduces a resilient, resourceful, and courageous population of women committed to their families, holding fast to quintessential American values, and creating positive new lives for themselves and their children. What emerges from this penetrating study is a clear message about what all families-two-parent as well as single parent-must have to succeed: decent jobs at a living wage, comprehensive health care, and preschool and after-school care. In a final chapter, Sidel gives a broad political-economic analysis that provides historical background on the way American social policy has evolved and compares the situation in the U.S. to the social policies and ideologies of other countries.

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A talented poet and a gifted dramatist, Antonia Pulci (1452-1501) pursued two vocations, first as a wife and later as founder of an Augustinian order. During and after her marriage, Pulci authored several sacre rappresentazioni-one-act plays on Christian subjects. Often written to be performed by nuns for female audiences, Pulci's plays focus closely on the concerns of women. Exploring the choice that Renaissance women had between marriage, the convent, or uncloistered religious life, Pulci's female characters do not merely glorify the religious life at the expense of the secular. Rather, these women consider and deal with the unwanted advances of men, negligent and abusive husbands and suitors, the dangers of childbearing, and the disappointments of child rearing. They manage households and kingdoms successfully. Pulci's heroines are thoughtful; their capacity for analysis and action regularly resolve the moral, filial, and religious crises of their husbands and admirers. Available in English for the first time, this volume recovers the long muted voice of an early and important female Italian poet and playwright.

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Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the "shadow mothers" they hire. Cameron Lynne Macdonald illuminates both sides of an unequal and complicated relationship. Based on in-depth interviews with professional women and childcare providers- immigrant and American-born nannies as well as European au pairs-Shadow Mothers locates the roots of individual skirmishes between mothers and their childcare providers in broader cultural and social tensions. Macdonald argues that these conflicts arise from unrealistic ideals about mothering and inflexible career paths and work schedules, as well as from the devaluation of paid care work.

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