family-economics

Your Divorce Your Dollars by Achillea Davis is (a certified financial planner specializing in divorce and separation issues) is a thoroughly "user friendly" financial planning and self-help guide which is especially intended for anyone involved in a divorce or extended separation. Written in clear, no-nonsense, simple terms ideal for the non-specialist general reader, Your Divorce Your Dollars competently and expertly covers the five common models of divorce with their attendant money issues; the process of starting over with new financial realities in a single world; the financial aspect of remarriage preparations; taking the financial needs of children into account, and more. Enhanced with an appendix of extremely useful sample worksheets for calculating one's net worth, income, as well as expense estimates, Your Divorce Your Dollars is very highly recommended, clearly essential reading for anyone having to deal with the financial aspects of a dissolving marriage.

If you are considering getting a divorce, or even just separating from your partner, you should really have a look at this book. It tells you straight up what you can expect financially and gives great advice on avoiding some of the mistakes people often make. There's good advice in here even for people who have already divorced.

If you liked or found this book useful, you might also like "The Healing Journey Through Retirement" by Phil Rich and Dorothy Sampson. It's a book about the transition from work to retirement, and talks about how to make retirement a meaningful and satisying experience. The book provides lots of good ideas and information and uses a journal writing format.

This book is well-organized, thought-provoking, with helpful exercises to get you thinking about how you'll spend not only the next 50 years, but your next year or two. I found it very useful in terms of evaluating my own choices and plans, AND it has helped me broach similar issues with my mother who is moving into retirement. I highly recommend this book to anyone over thirty. Start thinking about this stuff now!

This is an outstanding book, one that economists and other social scientists interested in household behavior will find extremely interesting. It is a collection of six lectures on a variety of "economics of the family" topics. In most cases, Stark provides new and very intriguing ways of explaining household behavior. For example, we often observe adults giving money to their elderly parents. Why? Conventional explanations include altruism (people care about their parents) and "exchange" (money is given in exchange for services, e.g., elderly parents are taking care of grandchildren). Stark suggests an alternative explanation: people give money to parents to "demonstrate" the appropriate behavior to their own children. The hope is that the children will, in turn, transfer money to the parents once they become adults. This hypothesis generates testable predictions, and empirical work supporting these predictions is also presented.

Other topics Stark addresses include the reasons for investments in human capital (which may be linked to the timing of expected bequests), the motivation for remittances by migrants, the reasons why migrants may do better (e.g., in the labor market) than native born workers, and other. Again and again, Stark suggests new and interesting ways of thinking about these issues.

Most chapters contain "technical" sections that readers without graduate training in economics are unlikely to be able to follow. In all cases, however, the main points are also explained in plain English, so that even the non-initiated can understand the arguments and gain much from reading the book.

I must admit, The American Family Farm is one great book on farm memories and agricultural science. I only bought it because I have a big inteerest in farming, and if you do, this a book that you won't be able to put down!

Marriage is a business contract, and men break the contract all the time! I never thought my man would divorce me. But after 23 years and 4 kids, he decided he wanted out so he could be free to play around (aka finding himself). So buy this book as soon as you can, even BEFORE you think your marriage may be in trouble. I think Amazon should give chapter headings in their reviews, so I'll do it for you: Chap 1) Bad Divorces Happen to Nice Women (that's me; was I TOO nice?) Chap 2)Think about Divorce before you marry (wish I had!) Chap 3)What to do when your marriage is dying (recognizing when he's on his way out, and start protecting yourself) Chap 4)Choosing a lawyer; Your Most Important Decision Chap 5) What to Expect from Your Lawyer Chap 6) What your Lawyer expects from you Chap 7) Your Children and Your Divorce Chap 8) Money and the Divorce Treasure Hunt (find the money he's hiding from you. If you can't show that it's there, you can't claim your share!) Chap 9 After you File for Divorce (the legal roadmap) Chap 10) Discovery: What it is and How It Works Chap 11) Getting Ready for Trial Chap 12) The Trial Chap 13) The Ending Chap 14) Special Issues (violence, etc) and Appendices with a great little summary of divorce laws of all 50 states.

This book would have saved me a number of mistakes before our separation, but at least I got this excellent advice soon afterwards. No one book can have everything in it, so when you are ready for the "meat" of your finances, get the Violet Woodhouse book, Divorce & Money; How to Make the Best Financial Decisions during Divorce. Good luck and God bless.

At Home gives detailed descriptions of the daily routine "behind the scenes" for families and houses from 1750-1870. This book provides valuable background for understanding the lives of people who inhabited the historic homes that I take my interior design students to visit. We can appreciate the objects, furniture, and furnishings much more when we realize how they were used and how much work it took to maintain them!

Tolliver's advice, unlike most other women's self help authors, is practical and doable. This book is a must read for any new at home mother. I've found that her suggestions can really help to ease the transition from work to home.

An easily read and useful book that will appeal to ANYONE who feels they want to achieve a sense of balance in their lives. Lizotte and Litwak, by utilizing easily understood excercises, case studies and humor give the reader an opportunity to carefully examine their own circumstances, satisfaction, needs and priorites surrounding their careers, their positions and their personal goals and challenges. The authors take a very human, simple and often fun approach to some very difficult topics and provide a springboard for anyone interested in beginning to understand and achieve more balance in their lives!

Helps consumers make the best choices for long-term care, from protecting assets to understanding Medicare, Medicaid and other benefit programs.

There are those who believe that, if they are not their kids they are not their concern. Just how wrong, even potentially destructive, a mindset is underscored by the data presented in becoming ADULT: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work. This book is of immeasurable value to all but most highly recommended for parents and those even remotely involved in the educational process.

Having taken into account every variable conceivable, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his team have translated five years of research pertaining to how young adults prepare for the future, into useful knowledge. They provide an understanding of how adolescents develop their attitudes, interests, skills, and expectations that ultimately enable them to move forward to successful and rewarding adult lives. The book reinforces the adolescent's need for guidance and support, not only from their families and schools, but the community at large. It is made clear that helping young people to establish goals is not nearly enough; they require extended opportunities to increase the skills necessary to meet their future adult career needs. Most importantly, becoming ADULT offers a means to an end. It serves not only as a tool for more effectively assisting adolescents to make the transitions from childhood to adulthood, or school to a productive adult career, such self-affirming guidance will help them to create meaning and satisfaction in their everyday life.

In light of their significance to the future of society, the habits and values of young people should be guided with the intent of attaining the most positive outcome for both. The authors do not profess to have all of the answers, but they do offer a sound foundation to build upon.