What every child would like parents to know about divorce

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Beverly Falk

This book brings together a group of educators and scholars who offer insights about what we can do to defend childhood from societal challenges. The authors explain new findings from neuroscience and psychology, as well as emerging knowledge about the impact on child development of cultural and linguistic diversity, poverty, families and communities, and the media. Each chapter presents experiences and suggestions, from the perspectives of different disciplines, about what can be done to ensure that all children gain access to the supports they need for optimal physical, social, intellectual, and emotional development.

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Stephen P. Nicholson

"In this grounbreaking book, Stephen Nicholson shows how issue agendas shaped by state ballot propositions prime voting decisions for presidential, gubernatorial, Senate, House, and state legislative races." "As a readily accessible source of information, the issues raised by ballot propositions may have a spillover effect on elections and ultimately define the meaning of myriad contests. Nicholson examines issues that appeal on the ballot alongside candidates in the form of direct legislation. Found in all fifty states, but most abundant in those states that feature citizen-initiated ballot propositions, direct legislation on represents a large and growing source of agenda issues."--Jacket.

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Jon Bruschke, William E. Loges

"Free Press vs. Fair Trials: Examining Publicity's Role in Trial Outcomes is appropriate for scholars and students in mass communication, media effects, media law, psychology, sociology, and criminal justice. It will also serve as a valuable resource for professionals concerned with criminal procedures and First Amendment issues, including judges, lawyers, and legal consultants."--BOOK JACKET.

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Hester Vaizey

Telling the stories of mothers, fathers and children in their own words, Vaizey recreates the experience of family life in Nazi Germany. From last letters of doomed soldiers at Stalingrad to diaries kept by women trying to keep their families alive in cities under attack, the book vividly describes family life under the most extreme conditions.