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Parenthood

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• Families

• Fatherhood
• Motherhood
• Parenting

• The Business of Being a Father (1927), by John D. Rockefeller (multiple formats at archive.org)

• America's Fathers and Public Policy: Report of a Workshop (1994), ed. by Nancy A. Crowell and Ethel M. Leeper (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• Nurturing Fatherhood: Improving Data and Research on Male Fertility, Family Formation, and Fatherhood, by Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (HTML at hhs.gov)

• Elsie's Motherhood, by Martha Finley (Gutenberg text)

• Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Eric Kline Silverman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman and Claudia C. Klaver (PDF at Ohio State)

• Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman and Claudia C. Klaver (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Clarissa W. Atkinson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• A Partner in the Dynamic of Creation: Womanhood in the Teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson (HTML at sichosinenglish.org)

• Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman and Claudia C. Klaver (PDF at Ohio State)

• Enlightened Motherhood: An Address by Mrs. Frances E. W. Harper, Before the Brooklyn Literary Society, November 15th, 1892, by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (HTML at loc.gov)

• Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman and Claudia C. Klaver (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
• Poems at the Edge of Differences: Mothering in New English Poetry by Women (2008), by Renate Papke (PDF in Germany)
• Inventing Womanhood: Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Tara Williams (PDF at Ohio State)
• Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Beth Widmaier Capo (PDF at Ohio State)
• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2019), ed. by Modhumita Roy and Mary Thompson (PDF at Ohio State)

• Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Leah A. Plunkett, contrib. by John Palfrey (illustrated HTML at MIT Press)
• Youth, Pornography and the Internet, ed. by Dick Thornburgh and Herbert Lin (HTML and page images at NAP)

• No Basis: What the Studies Don't Tell Us About Same-Sex Parenting (2001), by Robert Lerner and Althea K. Nagai (PDF with commentary at archive.org)
• How to Help Your Child Say "No" to Sexual Pressure (Dallas et al.: Word Publishing, c1987), by Josh McDowell (PDF at josh.org)

• Charting Parenthood: A Statistical Portrait of Fathers and Mothers in America (2002), by Child Trends (HTML at hhs.gov)

• Charting Parenthood: A Statistical Portrait of Fathers and Mothers in America (2002), by Child Trends (HTML at hhs.gov)

• A Grandpa's Notebook: Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Encourage Intergenerational Outreach and Communication (2000 edition), by Meyer Moldeven (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Families: Beyond the Nuclear Ideal (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), ed. by Daniela Cutas and Sarah Chan (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury)
• The Family, as Process and Institution (New York: Ronald Press Co., c1955), by Clifford Kirkpatrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Modern Family (New York: F. S. Crofts and Co., 1932), by Ruth Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marriage and the American Ideal (1960), by Floyd Mansfield Martinson (HTML and PDF at ipce.info)
• Bernardus De Cura Rei Famuliaris; With Some Early Scottish Prophecies, &c. (EETS original series #42; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by Trübner and Co., 1870), by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, ed. by J. Rawson Lumby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical Theory of the Family, by Mark Poster (frame-dependent HTML at Wayback Machine)
• A History of Matrimonial Institutions (3 volumes; Chicago: University of Chicago Press; London: T. F. Unwin, 1904), by George Elliott Howard
  • Volume One: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume Two: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume Three: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• La Famiglia: Per le Nozze della Signorina Elena Palumbo col Signor Donato Sarri (in Italian; Trani: V. Vecchi, 1897), by Orazio Palumbo
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Life at Home, by William Aikman (page images at MOA)
• Three Things (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., c1915), by Elinor Glyn (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• In Laws, Pro and Con: An Original Study of Inter-Personal Relations (New York: Association Press, c1954), by Evelyn Millis Duvall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Family Relationships: Ten Topics Toward Happier Homes (study guide; Elizabethtown, PA: Continental Press, c1948), by Elizabeth S. Force and Edgar M. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family Relationships: Ten Topics Toward Happier Homes: A Handbook for Administrators and Teachers Who Use the Accompanying Study Guide (teacher's guide; Elizabethtown, PA: Continental Press, c1948), by Elizabeth S. Force and Edgar M. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Mother-Tempers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Marion J. Levy (HTML at UC Press)
• What is Right With Marriage: An Outline of Domestic Theory (New York: D. Appleton, 1929), by Robert C. Binkley and Frances Williams Binkley (multiple formats with commentary at wallandbinkley.com)
• The New Life and Future Mating (Omaha: Olerich Pub. Co., 1927), by Henry Olerich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1894), by Annie S. Swan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Observations on Northern Blackfoot Kinship (Monographs of the American Ethnological Society #9; New York: J. J. Augustin, ca. 1945), by Lucien M. Hanks and Jane Richardson Hanks
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • bound with Changing Configurations in the Social Organization of a Blackfoot Tribe: page images at HathiTrust
• Marriage and the Child (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1940), by James H. S. Bossard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Who Owns the Family? God or the State? (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press; Nashville et al.: T. Nelson, c1986), by Ray R. Sutton (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Christian Oeconomie: or, A Short Survey of the Right Manner of Erecting and Ordering a Familie According to the Scriptures (London: Imprinted by F. Kyngston for E. Weaver, 1609), by William Perkins, trans. by Thomas Pickering
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Mourning Becomes Electra: A Trilogy (1931), by Eugene O'Neill (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Zaragueta: Comedia in Dos Actos Original (revised edition, in Spanish, with English notes and vocabulary; New York et al.: Silver Burdett and Co., c1915), by Miguel Ramos Carrión and Vital Aza, ed. by George Carter Howland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Zaragueta, or, Money Talks: A Comedy in Two Acts (Chicago: T.S. Denison and Co., c1920), by Miguel Ramos Carrión and Vital Aza, trans. by Clarence Stratton
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone, Laurie Fields DeRose, and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone, Laurie Fields DeRose, and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.