Summary: This program looks at aspects of how relationships are formed and sustained. Interview segments include a couple who talk about connecting online through Match.com; a diverse group of young Muslim women who discuss the liberating effects of physical modesty and Islamic approaches to courting and marriage; and a couple who describe how they met and demonstrate how PREP relationship enhancement...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: What exactly is love? What are its biological underpinnings, and how have cultural definitions of that word, so heavily endowed with meaning, evolved? Beginning with the Sumerians and other ancient civilizations, this program seeks to understand love's social rituals and its interrelated physiological imperatives. Topics under consideration by anthropologist Helen Fisher of Rutgers University,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Can the American family be defined? Today's isolated nuclear families, some with unmarried or same-sex parents, challenge traditional notions. This video explores the evolution of new family types and what they mean for the future.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In 2003, the Beaudry family left their comfortable middle-class home to backpack across the world. A year after their adventure, Samuel Beaudry took another journey-one that left his wife, Maryse Chartrand, with shocking questions. How could a life-loving person take his own life? When mourning exhausts itself, what comes next? Can a family survive suicide? This documentary, originally planned...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Drawing upon laboratory and field experiments, this program compares and contrasts experimental research methods through an attractiveness study involving young adults. Section one observes how subjects respond to photos in two lab environments-one comfortable, and one not. Then, section two repeats the experiment in two field locales: a trendy bar and a dull coffee shop. Does context make a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program furnishes background on the issues of sexual expression, preference, and choice and sensitively identifies the characteristics of the sexually healthy adult. Topics under discussion include different types of relationships, factors that influence the formation and maintenance of relationships, and social and psychological perspectives on people as sexual beings.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Marriages, they say, are supposed to last forever. Why then have courts and legislatures made it so much easier to get a divorce? How did they imagine it would help society? And have women and children really reaped the intended financial and social benefits? This program examines the state of divorce in America as it argues that the time has come for the pendulum of legislation to swing the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: New research points to the role that a father plays in his child's IQ development, social adaptation, and even the stability of that child's eventual marriage. This video offers a fascinating look at today's father, and what he can and does mean to his kids.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: An institution supported by religious and civil authorities, marriage bestows both freedoms and restraints designed to promote social stability. But as divorce rates continue to soar, is marriage getting a bad name? In this program, author Sabine Da Costa and anthropologists Helen Fisher, of Rutgers University, and Peter Lovell, of the University of New Brunswick, track the development of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Is polygamy a degrading and harmful practice that only benefits men, or a misunderstood aspect of American subculture that deserves a break? This ABC News program gives the subject careful attention by interviewing women with widely varying polygamist experiences. Some practitioners portray it as a healthy institution that eliminates jealousy and isolation. Another woman condemns it, recounting...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The institution of marriage is facing strong challenges in the 21st century, as diversity and inclusivity continue to reshape its underlying principles. Supported by some and opposed by others, issues such as same-sex marriages and the raising of families outside of marriage are ongoing sources of debate. Can marriage evolve? This program focuses on the efforts of religion and society to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Men and women of marriageable age are staying single in record numbers. The traditional family is fast becoming an anachronism. Could the 21st century be the era when the sexes go their separate ways? Through a series of filmed portraits and candid, often gritty interviews, this program looks at changing contemporary gender relations and expectations, exploring how men and women feel about...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In an era where dual-career couples and single parents have become the norm, mothers and fathers are getting caught in a work-family conflict that pits the "ideal worker" against the "ideal parent." In this timely documentary, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith examines the impact and implications of a massive shift in our workforce that has buried the traditional...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Topping a million per year, the number of divorces in the United States has tripled since 1960, and one in three babies in America today is being born to single parents. A growing body of evidence suggests that these trends are threatening the very fabric of society. Is it too late to infuse new life into a time-honored relationship? This program spotlights the efforts of those committed to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: With half of American marriages ending in divorce, why does 90 percent of the nation still enter into matrimony? Is the Western notion of permanent, monogamous marriage entering a new phase, a more flexible and adaptable one, or is it becoming obsolete? Are there alternatives that make sense? This film presents an eclectic mix of couples (both male-female and same-sex) who discuss how and why...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: What conditions of physical attraction tend to subtly speak out to members of the opposite sex? Why is there typically a fundamental difference in attitudes between men and women toward sexual relations? What physiological factors can influence men and women to stray from their partners? This program seeks to answer those and other questions as it sheds light on the mystery of sexual...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: From prehistoric extended families to today's double-income and single-parent families, the family as an institution has undergone dramatic change. This program examines the concept of family as viewed around the world and down through time. Historians Andre Burguiere and Pieter Spierenburg; authors Beatrice Gottlieb and Helene Tremblay; Henri Leridon, of the Institute for Demographic Studies;...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Ogden, Gina.
Contents: Opening yourself to sexual desire -- The four energies that spark sexual desire -- What's "normal?" -- The quest for partnership -- Ménage à moi -- Losing yourself in your partner -- Are men the problem? -- Bringing up baby -- Beyond monogamy -- Living curly in a straight culture -- Abuse and trauma -- Sacred union -- What women want -- Afterword: Like fine wine--when desire ripens with age --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trumpeter 2008