Supporting young parents

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Jeff Duffey MD

Written by a psychiatrist, this book asks essential questions about single motherhood, adoption, and abortion to help you carefully think through your decisions about your unplanned pregnancy. Its resource chapters streamline your search for qualified assistance and save time. Its thoroughness and balance make it useful in opening a conversation with loved ones. A companion book as you explore your pregnancy to make the right decisions for you. -- Amazon.com

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Suzanne H. Stevens

Since the vast majority of those with an attention deficit disorder also have most of the characteristics associated with a learning disability -- and since almost all LD individuals have difficulty with concentration -- the suggestions in this book will usually apply to adults and children in both categories. The object of this book is to help parents raise their LD and/or ADD children so that they can grow up to be okay -- so that they will be happy, well-adjusted, and successful adults despite the learning and behavior patterns that make them different. And for the LD and ADD adults who read this book, the object is to give you control. With knowledge and understanding, it is possible to take charge of your mental processing and direct your physical energy so that differences that have long been handicaps are converted to assets. - Publisher.

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Suzanne Slater

Until now, lesbian families have had little help in identifying the stages of their couple relationships or recognizing the often stressful periods of relational transition. In this first-of-its-kind book, psychotherapist Suzanne Slater describes the joys and stresses common to lesbian families and provides a five-stage model of the development of lesbian couple relationships, from formation through old age and death. Drawing on sixteen years of clinical experience and research, Slater shows that lesbian families with and without children have created their own richly diverse family patterns, extending both the parameters of coupled life and the very definition of what constitutes "family." She describes the tasks, challenges, and accomplishments particular to each stage of the family life cycle, and helps couples distinguish between normal developmental stresses and the unique difficulties of particular couples. She considers in detail lesbian couples' interaction with their original families, with the straight world, and with the lesbian communities of which they are a part. Through a range of examples and cases, Slater addresses how lesbian families are affected by their position in a homophobic culture and details the unique coping mechanisms that different lesbian couples have created. Most important, she emphasizes the sources of fulfillment common to many lesbian families. In addition to educating lesbian couples and those close to them, this book will prepare psychotherapists to design more effective and informed therapeutic strategies. Instead of relying on theory based on heterosexual experience, clinicians can now base their interventions on what is normal for lesbian family life. The Lesbian Family Life Cycle will be invaluable reading for lesbian family members, their friends and relatives, and clinicians in a variety of helping professions.

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Lynn Shiner & Nancy Chavez with Nancy Eshelman

Two mothers with their only children murdered uncover a focus, drive and commitment to helping others in the aftermath of their loss. Through the power of their stories, understand the impact of crime, the stages of grief, the struggles they endured on their unique journey and the importance of family and friends.