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Written in a lighthearted yet informative style, and including numerous interviews with fathers themselves, this book covers the wide range of issues fathers encounter from conception to teenage traumas.

Shows parents how to tell the difference between the ordinary ups and downs and depression, helping them understand clinical warning signs and the various approaches to treatment. This book offers parents practical guidance on how they can reach out to their children and find professional assistance.

Anorexia and bulimia nervosa are illnesses that affect entire families, not just the afflicted. Yet remarkably few books discuss the impact of these disorders on the entire family. Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa: Guests from Hell tells the story of one familya s struggle with a daughter with an eating disorder.

Perhaps the greatest challenge in being a parent is learning how to manage behavior problems in younger and older children. This work is a guide to understanding and managing child behavior. It offers advice on issues such as: providing positive attention for children; using rewards; communicating effectively; and, empowering teenagers.

Like the other volumes in the Family Matters series, this authoritative new book provides expert advice to ordinary people struggling with everyday challengesA-in this case, the emotional trials of new mothers. Enduring the stresses of pregnancy and giving birth are only half of what it takes to become a parent.

Family Matters is a brand--new series from Wiley highlighting topics that are important to the everyday lives of family members. Each book tackles a common problem or difficult situation, such as teenage problems, new babies or problems in relationships, and provides easily understood advice from authoritative professionals.

Helping teenage children to cope with their own sexuality can be difficult for parents, especially when society and its attitudes towards sexual behaviour have changed so rapidly. This book offers advice on a range of problems from the bodily changes at puberty through to coping with relationships.

Family Matters is a brand--new series from Wiley highlighting topics that are important to the everyday lives of family members. Each book tackles a common problem or difficult situation, such as teenage problems, new babies or problems in relationships, and provides easily understood advice from authoritative professionals.

Death is something many people are uncomfortable talking about. However, a young person's first experience with death can be extremely traumatic when other family members are unable to discuss the situation in an open way. This book aims to bridge the gap between the unspoken and hard-to-communicate aspects of dealing with a death in the family and the questions and concerns of preteen readers.

He could hardly stop thinking of Elizabeth, and no longer tried to convince himself that he should. Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy is drawn to Elizabeth Bennet from the day they met, captivated by her cleverness, her charm, and her good humour. While he initially sees only a friendship between them, his feelings for her soon grow more ardent, even while he tries to persuade himself she would be an unsuitable bride. At length, however, his pride and his prejudices must be laid aside; he knows that to be happy in marriage is more important. ALAS JUST AS HE GROWS CERTAIN of his own heart and mind, a problem reveals itself. Mr William Collins, a cousin of the Bennets who has lived in Longbourn since his boyhood, returns to Hertfordshire. The fondness between Elizabeth and Mr Collins is clear and Darcy begins to fear there is an understanding between them. His fears are confirmed by Miss Caroline Bingley who warns him that the pair are on the brink of matrimony. A chance encounter when he is visiting his aunt, Lady Catherine, changes everything. Deceptions are uncovered and friendships end, but is it too late for him and the woman he loves? A Matter of Prudence is a Pride and Prejudice vagary in which mistaken identities and false assumptions complicate the road to true love for Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet.