Features Individuals and Families in a Diverse Society is a dynamic NEW resource specifically researched and written for the new Ontario curriculum. A four-colour textbook, featuring many photographs, tables, diagrams and cartoons, was developed to appeal to the variety of learners in your classroom. Current research is delivered through articles, biographies, legal issues and case studies, and is used to examine the social patterns, psychology, and social issues individuals and families face as they proceed through different stages of the life cycle. There are ample questions and exercises for students to consolidate, apply, and communicate their learning. Features Developing Your Research Skills helps students develop inquiry skills. Research Studies provides students with actual examples of authentic research recently conducted in a particular area. In Focus includes the published findings social scientist's who have conducted research on a topic, or whose occupation is relevant to the expectations of the curriculum. This keeps you and your students as up to date as possible. Case Studies examine the different members of an extended family, and the changes they experience as they proceed through different stages in life. This overview provides students with real-life high interest examples, to perhaps draw parallels to their own family's experiences through time. A diagram of a family tree is included to illustrate the structure and members of the family for easy identification. Legal Matters Marvin Zuker, an Ontario family court judge authors this feature to help students better appreciate family issues through a legal perspective. Legal Matters includes things such as the legal definition for different types of families, legal rights at various ages, and legal issues relating to divorce, custody, support, domestic violence, and wills. Web Connections Provide relevant web sites are connected through the McGraw-Hill Ryerson web-site to assist students researching the various topics being studied. Quotations of high interest appear in the margins of each chapter providing students with alternative perspectives on the subject matter being studied. SUPPLEMENTS: 0070909601 Teacher's Resource on CD-ROM 0070916020 Teacher's Resource in Print 0070909598 Computerized Assessment Bank

This best-selling text on marriages, families, and relationships combines a rigorous scholarly and applied approach with a theme especially relevant to today's dynamic global environment: making choices in a diverse society. The authors use an engaging narrative to create a highly readable text that offers insightful perspectives on the diversity of our modern society, including different ethnic traditions and family forms. The balanced presentation discusses a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., family ecology, structure-functional, interaction-constructionist, family systems, biosocial), emphasizing both social structure and the importance of individual agency, choice, and decision-making. Students are encouraged to question assumptions and reconcile conflicting ideas and values as they make informed choices in their own lives. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Adoptive Families in a Diverse Society brings together twenty-one prominent scholars to explore the experience, practice, and policy of adoption in North America. While much existing literature tends to stress the potential problems inherent in non-biological kinship, the essays in this volume consider adoptive family life in a broad and balanced context. Bringing new perspectives to the topics of kinship, identity, and belonging, this path-breaking book expands more than our understandings of adoptive family life; it urges us to rethink the limits and possibilities of diversity and assimilation in American society.

Individuals and Families: Diverse Perspectives is a brand new resource written for both the University- and College-level student. It has been specifically developed for the realities facing Canadian individuals and families in the 21st century.

This bestselling marriage and family text combines a rigorous scholarly and applied approach with a unique theme especially relevant to today's dynamic global environment: Making choices in a diverse society. The text achieves an excellent balance between the sociological and ecological or family systems theoretical perspectives, while including extensive coverage of family dynamics and interpersonal relationships. The authors use warmth, humor, and an engaging presentation to create a highly readable text that offers insightful perspectives on the diversity of our modern society, including different ethnic traditions and marriage and family alternatives.