intergenerational relations

Discusses drug abuse and alcoholism, how they may be passed from one generation to the next, and the problems they can cause in families.

Offers guidelines to families experiencing the dilemma of adolescent pregnancy and parenthood.

Presents a discussion of various issues pertaining to grandparents raising children, covering cultural variations and different benefits and challenges of the living situation.

Discusses issues involved when teenagers must move in with relatives because of the death of parents or problems in their families.

An important collection about intergenerational relationships, reflecting the special bonds between people who are separated by many years, but who are connected by warmth, understanding, and mutual appreciation.

Seventeen-year-old Josh Bell a soon-to-be high school graduate with no plans for the future, agrees to help eighty-four-year-old William Davis record his memoirs--a project that has lasting benefits for both men.

Rachael, whose mother is Danish and father is an African-American, loses both her parents and is forced to move to a new city to live with her strict African-American grandmother, but when she is immersed into an African-American community, her physical appearance draws attention and Rachel struggles with her own uncertainties about her identity.

The author challenges the comments made by entertainer Bill Cosby at the 2004 NAACP dinner that poverty, high crime rate, and illiteracy among poor African Americans is a direct result of their own self-destructive behavior.