Cengage Advantage Books: The Marriage and Family Experience - Relationships Changing Society
Published: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 631
The book presents the latest information on adoptive parenting, childbearing patterns, gay and lesbian families, the meaning of virginity, gender roles and sexuality, communication and conflict resolution, the influence of popular culture, and working families.
Today's kids face grave issues and harder decisions than ever before. Gang warfare, violence, drugs, alcohol, smoking, pregnancy, depression and suicide have found their way into middle and elementary schools. Divorce splits apart families every day. These issues make kids feel as if they must understand and accept all the troubles of the world.
Word Family Cards makes learning the basics fun. Reading research proves there are thirty-seven essential rimes (phonograms) children must learn. These common spelling patterns allow children to read and spell over five hundred words. Skilled readers decode words quickly. Rereading word family words helps children gain confidence and read fluently. These 37 large, ready-to-read word family cards can be used as flash cards to reinforce the word families such as ack, ail, ake, ale, ame, an, ank, ap, and so on.
In a remote city on the edge of two worlds, where blood has power and water is more precious than freedom, three far-flung friends unite on a quest to save their families.
The author is Josephine Feeney. The main character is a man and two girls..this book gives a strong message of environmental protection.
the two girls, because they protest about that man. Although that man is very rich and he controlled the main food supply in the village; used a lot of money to lure them, sent a dog to attack them, stopped selling food to their families. He hoped the two girls to stop the protest. However, the two girls still insisted to protest him whatever they were under the pressure of their families. I appreciate with their insistence, they stand firmly with their view.
