family-economics

The author was much to self-absorbed. I gave it up half-way through.

I wanted to like this book very much, but after the first 50 pages I began to identify with the author's wife who encouraged him to quit ruminating on the loss of his title, his students, his office, etc. He visits friends and relatives in nursing homes to make himself even more melancholy about the future, frets over the variables of his investments and gives his co-workers a hard time over having a party to commemorate his career. I was hoping this would be a helpful "How To", but I found it to be a definite "How Not To".

I've been to two week-long workshops at the University of Iowa and found them extremely useful and well organized. Thus, I was disappointed in Klaus, who played an important role in the writing program at UI, because his book Taking Retirement leaves much to be desired. He is far too concerned about his own fear of retirement. If he had some suggestions for those who fear retirement, the book would be more helpful. I found it tedious, maybe because I've been retired for a while. Never did I read anyone's work who felt so sorry for himself. I wanted to tell Klaus to "get a life" as the younger generation says.

The book consists of questions and answers. They are divided into chapters by topic. This format makes this a reference book, but not one which you want to read cover to cover. If you are hungry for all 101 answers, you are better off with another book on the subject.
But it sits on my shelf for use as a reference.

I found this book confusing. I understand the subject matter is complex, but the topic was complicated by a rambling style, lack of specific examples and too many quotes from the tax code. I admit I made it through only two chapters -- then I decided I needed to look for another book to help prepare for an overseas assignment. The book needs tighter editing to eliminate repetition, a Frequently Asked Questions section and realitic scenarios.

The book seems to be oriented towards students learning about information systems in the healthcare context and is quite elementary in the topics covered. I didn't learn very much and preferred "Information Technology for Integrated Health Systems" (an Errnst and Young book) edited by Kerry Kinsinger and Sandra Borchardt.

.... One of the major downfalls is itsincomprehensiveness. The six chapters are divided into an introductionabout value, goals, options for managing money, saving money (2chapters), and controlling spending. Although the author coverstopics like credit cards, CDs, debt, checks, etc, they aren't giventhe amount of attention I believe required by today's society. Thebulk of the book describes very detailed budgeting, spending, andsaving methods which are too complicated for the age grouptargeted. .... One useful attribute besides the index and glossary isthe forms for copying which help track income and budget money. It isa pretty useful book if there isn't much literature out there on thistopic.

I got this book because I thought by the subtitle that it would have some useful information on what I have planned to do--stay at home with my child. Instead, this book spends its first 70 pages stating over and over why feminists are wrong, why the media is wrong, etc. It is repetitive and not very accurate. It also assumes the reader has not made up her mind about the benefits of staying at home with children and needs to be convinced.

The author finally gets into vague tips on saving money and working at home, but nothing unique. Instead she recommends reading books like Tightwad Gazette, or books on how to start a home business. If you really want to help your child, take the money you would have spent on this book and treat your child to some educational toys instead.

This book was too old fashioned to be useful today. The ideas were unrealistic.

The authors of this book go out of their way to portray fathers in the worst possible light. There attitude is that the diminished relationship between fathers and their children following divorce is entirely the fault of the father, and furthermore that this is no big deal. From their point of view, the man should just pay and go away. They are dismissive of the idea of joint custody, down right hostile to the idea of fathers getting custody, and seem to think that fathers are basically irrelevent to children, aside from their economic impact, even in intact families. Apparently all the information they gather on divorced dads comes from their ex spouses, at least that seems to be the only parents they ever quote. Their only substantitive policy recomendation is to raise the level of child support payments and ever stricter enforcement of them. They argue that the standard of living of the man goes up after divorce, which seems to indicate that they have never met a divorce man. They do not even mention that child support payments are tax free to the mother and non tax deductable to the father, a rather glaring and down right deceptive ommision in doing any assesment of the economic impact of child support. All in all this book is so biased against men as to almost reach the level of hate speech.

Weitzman falsified data and made numerous mathematical errors and faulty data gathering techniques to make her case that women and children suffer much worse financially after divorce than do divorced fathers. Feminist propaganda at its finest, which has been used to hurt many children and fathers.

Si ya leyó Padre Rico Padre Pobre, puede ahorrarse el leer éste lbro. Es bastante repetitivo, cansado, y dice lo mismo que su libro anterior. Admás de que estoy casi seguro que todo es inventado. Mejor compre Warren Buffett de Robert Hagstrom, ese libro si esta basado en hechos reales y contiene extrategias probadas, además su lectura se hace más fluida y más interesante.

I am a law student and bought this book for a paper I was writing. This book was useless. It does not cover any of the "real" issues surrounding Family Limited Partnerships such as IRS scrutiny and valuation discounts. I do not think this book would be helpful to anyone considering a Family Limited Partnership. I would go so far as to say this book could be misleading to someone considering a FLP.