No matter your size, shape, or pedigree--if you love each other, you are a family! Moms, dads, sisters, brothers — and even Great Aunt Sue — appear in dozens of combinations, demonstrating all kinds of nontraditional families!
This award-winning book is based on over ten years of studying archetypes, recording the behaviors that come with each one, and discovering the most effective way to handle the challenges.
These qualities can be shown in a single parent household also. There are several different types of family structures, each is built on relationships, based on strengths and weaknesses.
In a book far ahead of its time, All Kinds of Families celebrated the broad diversity of American families when it was first published in 1976. Now Norma Simon and Sarah S. Brannen have updated this classic for the modern age.
Uses children's drawings and comments about their personal situations to invite readers to express, explore, and understand some of the issues and feelings associated with living in a single-parent home.
And, as we grow up, our families grow, too. Mary Ann Hoberman gives readers a sense of belonging in this all-inclusive celebration of families and our role in them.
Examines different kinds of families, including a nuclear family, extended family, and adoptive family, and describes the interpersonal relationships that make them function.