Above, the cover from the August 18, 2003 issue of The New Yorker presents Saul Steinberg's view of the "Family". On the left, the husband is hardly visible. On the right, the child is smudged out. Center stage, the dominant wife with stiletto heels and full armor. That's pretty close to the way the courts, the DA, "Family" services and Child Protective Services usually depict it, except to be more accurate, the husband should probably be shown on his knees passing buckets full of green pieces of paper to the DA who passes a single bucket on to the wife.
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Family Code: Deering's California
desktop code series with many research references. This is the
Family Code, accompanied by the Juvenile Court Law provisions of
the Welfare & Institutions Code and the Family Law and
Juvenile Court Rules. It offers you the following helpful
reference aids: a table of contents in each volume; a
table of sections affected by 1998 legislative changes, boldfaced
italics to indicate changes in the text of amended sections;
carefully selected research references; and a detailed and
comprehensive index for each volume. www.lexislawpublishing.com
Lexis Law Publishing, 1999 ISBN 0-327-06544-3 
Buck, Jari Holland, 24/7 or
Dead: A handbook for families with a loved one in the
hospital. The fifth leading cause of death in American
hospitals is medical mistakes. Church leaders who offer comfort
and counsel to sick individuals and their families are frequently
asked "Is there anything else I can do?" The best answer any
of us previously had was, "Pray." Now, we can and must do
more to prevent our loved one from becoming part of the medical
mistake death statistics. This book is a guidebook that describes
advocacy techniques on behalf of a hospitalized loved one. It
provides 14 practical suggestions illustrated by real life
examples and check-lists to ensure that even in emotionally
charged situations, advocacy can be accomplished. This book also
addresses personal care, without which advocacy is not possible.
It is designed to encourage and support family members in the
process of reclaiming the "power of partnership" with the
healthcare community. It is geared for the medically untrained
family member who needs a step-by-step process for educating
themselves and partnering with healthcare professionals to improve
the health and comfort of the patient. www.27-7ordead.com
Author House, www.authorhouse.com,
2006, ISBN 1-4208-5982-X 
Bem, Sandra Lipsitzm An Unconventional
Family. In 1965, when psychologists Sandra and Daryl Bem met
and married, they were determined to function as truly egalitarian
partners and to raise their children in accordance with
gender-liberated, anti-homophobic, and sex-positive feminist
ideals. During the next ten years, they exuberantly shared the
details of their daily lives in both public lectures and the mass
media in order to provide at least one concrete example of an
alternative to the traditional heterosexual family. In the 1990s,
Sandra Bem also published an award-winning book, The Lenses of
Gender, which spelled out the feminist theory behind their
feminist practices. This book, an autobiographical account of the
Bems' nearly thirty-year marriage, is both a persoanl history of
the Bems' past and a social history of a key period in feminism's
past. It is also a look into feminism's future, because the Bems'
children, Emily and Jeremy, now in their early twenties, speak in
the book as well. The author analyzes what aspects of family
background and psychological makeup led them to bond so
immediately and to become gender pioneers. She describes the
egalitarianism and feminist child-rearing that they invented for
their private needs and tells how these family agendas were
transformed into public feminist discourse. Finally, she
reassesses their early feminist union now that the marriage has
come to an end and the children are young adults, evaluating (with
the help of lengthy interviews with Emily and Jeremy and a brief
epilogue by Daryl) what the Bems' experiences - both positive and
negative - have to say about the viability and necessity of
nontraditional gender arrangements in society today. (Ed. I would
sure like to read more than a "brief epilogue" of Daryl's
experience through his own words. I hope that book is in the
works. It might be at least as enlightening as this one.) Yale
University Press, 1998
Carlson, Richard, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff with Your Family:
Simple ways to keep daily responsibilities and household chaos
from taking over your life. In his number one national
bestseller, the author showed readers how not to let the small
things in life drive them crazy. Now, we see how not to let small
annoyances in our home lives get us down. From defusing kids who
are whining or fighting, to working out issues with a spouse, to
reducing the hassles over household chores, the author shows us
ways to make our relationships at home - the place where it counts
most - more peaceful and loving. Hyperion 1998 Buy
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Dacey, John, Lynne Weygint, The Joyful
Family: Meaningful activities and heartfelt celebrations for
connecting with the ones you love. Is your family as closely
connected as you would like it to be? Do you yearn to find
new ways to celebrate both everyday togetherness and special
occasions? In this inspiring book, the authors present more
than seventy activities to help you create new traditions for
every event your family experiences and shares. Whether you are
honoring the birth of your child, celebrating his or her high
school graduation, or dealing with a difficult family situation,
you will want to turn to this book as a powerful resource for
increasing the strength, closeness, and love in your most
important relationships. Conari Press, www.conari.com
2002, ISBN 1-57324-572-0 Buy
This Book!
Frommer's, 500 Places to Take You Kids
before They Grow Up. In this personal yet practical guide,
travel writer and mother of three sends you across town and around
the globe to some of the most exciting and memorable destinations
on earth. This book is packed with must-see destinations and
must-do activities for kids of all ages - trips families will
remember for a lifetime. Complete with travel and hotel
information, age recommendations, web sites and more, this
inspirational guide provides the advice you need to plan a trip
the whole family can enjoy. Wily Publishing, www.wiley.com,
2006, ISBN 0-7645-9588-1 
Fumia, Molly, Honor Thy Children: One
family's journey to wholeness. Jane and Alexander Nakatani
were living the American dream - success, a lovely home, and three
wonderful sons. One day everything changed. Here, the author takes
on one of the most controversial issues of our time and writes one
of the most powerful and poignant true stories you will ever read.
This book begins and ends with a modern-day hero, a young man out
to change the world. In between is the creation, demise, and
unbelievable resurrection of a family. This is a story that will
break your heart and make it whole again. It will bring you into
realms of humanness and compassion you didn't know you had. It
might even set you free to love in ways you've never loved before.
Conari Press 1997 ISBN 1-57324-198-9 Buy
This Book!
Gephardt, Richard, An Even Better
Place; American in the 21st Century. For over two
decades, this Congressman has been in the public eye. As a leader
of the Democratic Party and a former presidential candidate, he
is, after the president and vice-president, the most powerful
Democrat in Amierca. But many Americans have never heard what he
really thinks about the challenges we now face as a nation and as
Americans. Until now. Here is the result of over a decade of work
and thought about what we need to do to make our country better
for our parents, our children and ourselves. Part memoir and part
argument, it comes at a time when politics as we know it has
stagnated in bitter partisanship, when despite a booming economy,
surprisingly few people feel secure, when our schools are gettting
worse and worse and our voter turnout less and less. Indeed, as
the author argues, American democracy itself is at risk.
Meanwhile, a "quiet crisis" continues: families without
adequate healthcare; experienced workers now unemployed; children
growing up in poverty. And yet, as the author explains, there is
reason to hope. Solutions exist - some easy, some hard - and this
book is full of them. Public Affairs, 1999 ISBN 1-891620-16-9
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Krane, Gary, Simple Fun for Busy People, 333 free ways to enjoy
your loved ones more in the time you have. The ever-quickening
pace of modern life has put the squeeze on time, money, and having
fun together. The author, a psychologist and game creator, shows
us how to put fun back into our lives without spending more time
or money. He has found and devised hundreds of physical, mental,
and emotional games that are meant to be played in the everyday
situations of your busy day without special planning or equipment
- waking up, going to work, shopping at the mall, doing chores,
commuting (even traffic james), sitting down to dinner. Everyone
from couples to families of all sizes can share in each of the 333
games; there's even a section devoted to creative aloneness. An
absolute must for anyone seeking family closeness and a more
imaginative, spontaneous and fun-filled life. Conari Press, 1998
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This Book!
Mierzwa, Joseph, The 21st Century Family Legal Guide: The
law you must know to protect yourself, your family, your property
and your money, ProSe Assoc., 1994
Rosemond, John,
Because I Said So: 366 insightful and
thought-provoking reflections of parenting and family life.
America's most widely read authority on child rearing and family
life is back this time with 366 doses of common sense to soothe
the savage parent. In this latest work, he covers every
conceivable aspect of parenting from allowances to zibling rivalry
with the same characteristic wit and practical wisdom that
millions of parents have cherished in his six previous books. This
day-to-day collection contains reflections for battle-worn
parents, one per dated page. True to form, the reflections are
often humorous, always common-sensical and always
thought-provoking. Taken together, they illuminate the complex web
that exists between child rearing, marriage and the family. The
author's philosophy harkens back to a simpler time when "because I
said so" was the only reason a parent ever needed to give a child.
Nothing has changed, says the author. Successful parenting still
calls for the same basic ingredients that worked for thousands of
previous generations. By following his old-fashioned, common sense
advice, parents can avoid raising children who are spoiled and
sassy, and deal effectively with daily problems as diverse as
bedwetting and boredom, territoriality and television. Read weekly
in over 100 newspapers nationwide, the author is a familiar,
trusted voice-of-reason to millions of Ameircan parents. Andrews
& McMeel, 1996 ISBN 0-8362-0499-9 Buy
this book!
Steinmetz, Suzanne K. & Gary W.
Peterson, editors, Pioneering Paths in the Study of
Families: The lives and careers of family scholars. In
this book you'll find 40 autobiographies written by leading
scholars in sociology, family studients, psychology and child
development. Their fascinating stories demonstrate how their
family experiences, educational opportunities, and occupational
endeavors not only shaped the disciplines they chose but also
shaped the theoretical perspectives they utilized and the topics
they researched. Haworth Press, www.HaworthPress.com, 2002,
ISBN 0-7890-2089-0 Buy
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