custody of children

Provides a history of the legal challenges to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adoptions of children, with personal anecdotes of individuals who have challenged the view that same-sex orientation renders individuals incapable of being good parents.

Fourth-grader Amber Brown must make some important decisions when her mother and Max move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together, while her father makes some bad choices of his own.

Rosalind, a fourteen-year-old orphan, becomes the ward of her biological father after the tragic death of her gay mother, and struggles with the adjustment of getting to know a father she never knew.

During a resurgence of hostilities between the Greens and the Grays, Roger and Caroline Whittier seek help from a NYPD detective and a former Ellis Island clerk to rescue Melantha Green, a twelve-year-old girl kidnapped from the peace coalition.

Harboring romantic notions about golden-age Hollywood film stars, thirty-one-year-old Philadelphia Caf?e manager Cornelia Brown embarks on a too-good-to-be-true relationship with the debonair Martin Grace.

Legal recourse often seems like a last resort, especially when navigating the delicate business of family and domestic issues. However, by understanding the basics of family law, individuals may be able to prevent domestic issues from escalating, more easily manage those that do, and even find ways to facilitate major life milestones, such as marriage and childbirth. This essential volume simplifies the daunting language of family law so that even readers with no experience with the legal system can understand their options when making decisions about cohabitation, divorce, adoption, domestic abuse and violence, and a host of other situations.

On her fifteenth birthday, April Manning, whose family members all work for an airline and who has been hiding by taking one flight after another, relates the events leading up to her making a bomb threat on a jet.

Four years after the sudden death of his wife, novelist Mike Noonan is still unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares about a summerhouse called Sara Laughs. Upon his return to the town with the summerhouse, he finds the town's inhabitants in the grip of a vindictive man. As Mike is drawn into the town's struggles, he is also drawn into the mystery of the summerhouse, and its escalating terrors.

"When Mike's dad is killed in a car wreck, Mike wants to stay in his hometown and live with his dad's girlfriend, who has been like a mother to him for the last five years. But Mike's mother reappears in his life and demands that he return to her custody and live on the other side of the country with a family he doesn't know"--.

Gene Cheek describes his childhood in North Carolina with his loving mother and abusive, alcoholic father, tells how he was torn from his mother's home at the age of twelve when his father filed a complaint in court that she was unfit due to her involvement with an African-American man, and discusses the lasting impact of that event on his life.