Suchergebnisse

1. The changing world of families -- 2. Family scholarship in action : theories, methods, and ethics -- 3. Risk and resilience : families at their best -- 4. Family health : beyond illness and disease -- 5. Sexual intimacy : biology and pleasure -- 6. Early trajectories : being single, choosing partners -- 7. The new conjugal : marriage, but also civil unions -- 8. Kith and kin : creating families in communities -- 9. Family discord : power, conflict, and violence -- 10. Decoupled families : deserted, separated, divorced, and widowed -- 11. Money matters : economics and family lives -- 12. From family values to valuing families.

This first-ever interdisciplinary study of the woman as prophet shows that, in these troubling times, ordinary women-especially Christian women-need to function as prophets by proclaiming, in word and deed, the indispensability of lovingly seeking the welfare of others.