An American Family
Title | An American Family PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Galluccio |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2001-02-16 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0312261233 |
The story of two gay men living in New Jersey who embark on a journey to adopt a child. The two men serve as Adam's foster parents and have cared for Adam since he was a newborn, afflicted with AIDS, and born addicted to crack, heroin, marijuana and alcohol. They took their fight to the New Jersey Courts and won.
An American Family
Title | An American Family PDF eBook |
Author | Reid Buckley |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2008-05-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1416572414 |
Written by one of his children, this book offers an unprecedented insider's view of oilman Will Buckley and his wife, and chronicles how the Buckley family have become the mainstays of American conservatism in politics and culture. b&w photos.
A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the Present
Title | A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the Present PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Wallace Calhoun |
Publisher | |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
An American Family
Title | An American Family PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Galluccio |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2014-03-04 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1466865490 |
What makes a family? Love makes a family. An American Family is the story of Jon and Michael Galluccio, two gay men who become foster parents to Adam, a premature baby, born with the AIDS virus and addicted to crack, heroin, marijuana, and alcohol. While nursing Adam through the many medical emergencies of his first year and surviving the daily dramas that all new parents go through, they realize that this child, their son, could be taken back from them at any time by the state, and they decide to try to legally adopt him together. Refused by the state-even as it asks them to care for another at-risk infant-they decide to fight for the adoption of their son in the courts, and win, setting a precedent for all unmarried couples in New Jersey. This book is dramatic proof that the American family is vibrantly alive and extending itself in remarkable new directions.
The American Family in Social-historical Perspective
Title | The American Family in Social-historical Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Gordon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Families |
ISBN |
Generations
Title | Generations PDF eBook |
Author | John Egerton |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780813127835 |
"Winner of the 1984 Lillian Smith Award The saga of the Ledfords of Lancaster, Kentucky, Generations transcends family biography to become a social history of our national experience, a metaphor of America. This twentieth anniversary edition brings the Ledfords' remarkable story up to date.
Domestic Revolutions
Title | Domestic Revolutions PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Mintz |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 603 |
Release | 1989-04-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1439105103 |
An examination of how the concept of “family” has been transformed over the last three centuries in the U.S., from its function as primary social unit to today’s still-evolving model. Based on a wide reading of letters, diaries and other contemporary documents, Mintz, an historian, and Kellogg, an anthropologist, examine the changing definition of “family” in the United States over the course of the last three centuries, beginning with the modified European model of the earliest settlers. From there they survey the changes in the families of whites (working class, immigrants, and middle class) and blacks (slave and free) since the Colonial years, and identify four deep changes in family structure and ideology: the democratic family, the companionate family, the family of the 1950s, and lastly, the family of the '80s, vulnerable to societal changes but still holding together.