Authors:Laura Werber Castaneda, Margaret C. Harrell, Dani
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: implications, support, retention, families, reserve, experiences, guard, deployment
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833045733
ISBN-13: 9780833045737

Use of the Guard and Reserve has steadily increased since the first Gulf War in the early 1990s, and this trend is likely to continue as the Global War on Terror persists. Previous research on how deployments affect military families has focused almost exclusively on the Active Component; however, demographic differences between active component and reserve component families suggest that the latter may face different issues during deployment and consequently require different types of support. Castaneda et al. interviewed military family experts and guard and reserve service members and spous

Author: A.J. Braithwaite
Publisher: eBookDB.org
Keywords: runaway, roman
Number of Pages: 86
Published: 2007-12-31
eBookDB-ID: EBDB010023

Having a good family friend as your headmaster might sound ideal, but Luke Brownlow soon finds that it just makes life even more complicated. Luke is in trouble with his parents for not bothering to do any school work at his local comprehensive. When they decide to send him to Hawley Lodge to get him away from his friends, Luke falls out with his family completely and plans to get expelled from the new school. In the meantime, in order to avoid his parents, Luke forges a summer friendship with Ned Kelly, the man who lives next door. Things begin to get problematic once Luke arrives at his new

Author: World Health Organization Department of Reproducti
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Ce
Keywords: providers, handbook, global, planning, family
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 2007-06-11
ISBN-10: 0978856309
ISBN-13: 9780978856304

This new handbook offers clinic-based health care professionals the latest guidance on providing contraceptive methods. One of the World Heath Organization s Four Cornerstones of Family Planning Guidance, the book has been prepared through a unique collaboration between Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the United States Agency for International Development and over 30 organizations around the world.

Author: Lynn A. Karoly Michael Mattock
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: social, indicators, final, report, database, affairs, supreme, council, family, qatar
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833039474
ISBN-13: 9780833039477

The Qatar Supreme Council for Family Affairs (QSCFA) is charged with reviewing and proposing legislation, promoting policies, adopting plans, implementing projects and programs, enhancing the role of national institutions, and disseminating information related to all aspects of family affairs in Qatar. Its six operating departments carry out its goals, each focusing on a specific population in Qatar: families, women, children, youth, the elderly, and people with special needs. In support of its mission, the QSCFA is developing a social indicators database system that will provide essential inf

Authors:Brian Gill, P. Mike Timpane, Karen E. Ross, Domin
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: charter, schools, vouchers, need, versus, reality, rhetoric
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0833027654
ISBN-13: 9780833027658

Education vouchers and charter schools are two of the most prominent and far-reaching forms of family-choice policies currently in evidence in the nation

Author: Pippa Norri
Publisher: World Bank Publication
Keywords: governance, reform, media, news, sentinel, public
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2009-11-19
ISBN-10: 0821382004
ISBN-13: 9780821382004

The purpose of this book is to inform governance advisors about the vital role of the news media for governance reform. This book approaches the issue of news media and governance with three broad questions that it attempts to answer on the basis of quantitative data and case studies. First, a normative approach asks: What ideal roles should media systems play to strengthen democratic governance and thus bolster human development? Second, an empirical approach considers independent evidence derived from cross-national comparisons and from selected case studies, asking: Under what conditions do

Author: Hilda Petrie-Coutts
Publisher: RJ Communications
Keywords: destiny, danger
Number of Pages: 508
Published: 2007-09-18
ISBN-10: 097007414X
ISBN-13: 9780970074140

Five years old Chantal, daughter of Charles Beddington, prominent MP and wealthy landowner, is kidnapped by the international terrorist gang ’September Nova’ setting in motion a series of dramatic events stretching into her adult life. Following several violent assaults on her family, Chantal has to face the age-old dilemma - whether to try to evade and escape evil or to confront it head on as she questions - Is Danger My Destiny?