By Youth Communication
Essays through children handle bullying: actual, verbal, relational, and cyber. those tales will attract readers as the cruelty and harm are unmistakably real—and the reactions of the writers are often cringe-worthy, frequently admirable, and consistently plausible.
Real youngster Voices Series
Teens speak in confidence inform own tales that take on tough, real-life matters. Direct, revealing, and sometimes uncooked, those voices will ring actual for any teenager reader who has confronted bullying, anger, or pressure. every bit has been chosen and edited to entice reluctant and rising readers as younger as 7th grade. Readers can be encouraged by means of the writers' braveness and energy in operating tough to beat difficulties either huge and small.
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They argued that commuter marriages represent a “laboratory” for studying the growing cleavage between two interlinked domains: that of work on one hand, that of family on the other. 0005 Work, Family and Commuting in Europe of industrial capitalism – following Functionalist and Marxist argument – the intact, conjugal unit of breadwinner husband and homemaker wife sharing a single residence proximate to the husband’s workplace best matched the demands of the economy. However, in the current stage of advanced, post-industrial capitalism, so Gerstel and Gross claim, there is an increasing demand for greater female participation in the labour force as well as for greater geographical mobility from all workers (including mobility away from national labour markets).
Family scholars generally examine commuter couples who travel within their own country, not necessarily crossing international borders. The macro-sociological reasons behind the formation of this non-nuclear household arrangement are examined, and the resulting ruptures and re-arrangements to family and intimate life are elucidated for both commuting and non-commuting partners, as well as for their children. Migration scholars interested in commuting as a distinct form of mobility generally examine commuting from an international or transnational perspective – that is, they consider those who traverse national borders as part of their commute.
0005 Work, Family and Commuting in Europe improved — like those commuting internally within a single nation state, they place the stress not on the quantity of time together but its quality (Lazarova et al. 2010). By virtue of their shared educational and occupational backgrounds, as well as enjoying similar access to various human, social and cultural capital, Euro-commuters discussed in the following chapters have much more in common with the “flexpatriate” global professionals outlined here than they do with poor, under-privileged transnational migrants moving from developing- to developed-world economies.
