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Lone parenthood is an increasing reality in the 21st century, reinforced by the diffusion of divorce and separation. This volume provides a comprehensive portrait of lone parenthood at the beginning of the XXI century from a life course perspective. The contributions included in this volume examine the dynamics of lone parenthood in the life course and explore the trajectories of lone parents in terms of income, poverty, labour, market behaviour, wellbeing, and health. Throughout, comparative analyses of data from countries as France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Hungary, and Australia help portray how lone parenthood varies between regions, cultures, g...
This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written by leading demographers and sociologists that examine contexts, causes, and consequences of childlessness in countries throughout the region.The book features data from all over Europe. It specifically highlights patterns of childlessness in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Austria and Switzerland. An additional chapter on childlessness in the United States puts the European experience in perspective. The book offers readers such insights as the determinants of lifelong childlessness, whether...
Second chances are God’s way of telling us to try again. —Mountain Home Amish proverb Rachel Miller has sold her ranch in New Mexico and returned to the Montana valley where she grew up. Where she fell in love. Where she married the man she wanted to grow old with. But life brings changes, and she’s returning a widow. She buys a dilapidated inn in Mountain Home, which she plans to renovate and restore with the help of her four grown children and her extended family on the Circle M Ranch. Long ago, Luke Hertzler was the best friend of Rachel’s late husband. But his life hasn’t been an easy one, and now he’s just a cowboy for hire, with a past that dogs every wandering step. When h...
“Adina Senft writes Amish books that feel like drinking a warm cup of tea with a brown hen settled on your lap. I’ll keep reading whatever she writes.” –Rebecca, Goodreads All her life, Ruby Wengerd has felt the eyes of the two Mountain Home Amish churches on her. Because she’s the bishop’s daughter, there’s an unspoken expectation that she’ll set the example for the Youngie. Watch her tongue and never give offense. And now that she’s in her twenties, choose one of the valley’s young men pursuing her and make a godly home. But she doesn’t want to make a home with anyone but Amish cowboy Zach Miller. She’s loved him for as long as she can remember—and he only sees he...
Walking away for the best of reasons was the worst mistake this Amish cowboy ever made … Susanna Miller had her doubts when her mother bought a dilapidated historic inn in Mountain Home, Montana. But now the family has brought it back to life as the Wild Rose Amish Inn, and Susanna is helping to show their guests some good Amish hospitality. She has barely settled into her new life when she learns to her horror that Stephen Kurtz has hired on as foreman at a neighboring ranch. Once, she’d believed she would be his bride. But he’d left town without even a good-bye … leaving her with broken dreams and a heart convinced it would never trust again. Walking away from Susanna Miller for th...
This edited volume demonstrates the potential of mixed-methods designs for the research of social networks and the utilization of social networks for other research. Mixing methods applies to the combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative methods. In social network research, mixing methods also applies to the combination of structural and actor-oriented approaches. The volume provides readers with methodological concepts to guide mixed-method network studies with precise research designs and methods to investigate social networks of various sorts. Each chapter describes the research design used and discusses the strengths of the methods for that particular field and for specific outcomes.
Expect double trouble when the Miller twins decide to make a match for their father … Widower Tobias Miller’s seven-year-old twins are almost more than the exhausted wrangler can handle. Not only is he helping his mother and sister run the Wild Rose Amish Inn, but he also works at Mountain Home Feed and helps out on any ranch that needs another hand. So it’s a gift from God when Sylvia Keim offers to look after the children until school starts. She has such a gentle spirit, and is so capable he could almost hug her … if his love for his late wife wasn’t still burning in his heart. Sylvia Keim is older than many of the Youngie in Mountain Home, and her marriage prospects seem to dim...
This book analyses theoretically and empirically why some single mothers are less disadvantaged than others. It argues that single parenthood is associated with different risks, depending on the stage in the life course at which it is experienced and on the institutional protection provided at the respective stage of the life course.
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