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When an inkblot, who can write, listen, learn, and draw, jumps out of Mr. Rylance's sketchbook, Ethan believes he may be the answer to their problems and names him Inkling.

This book is part of a concentrated series of books that examines child maltreatment across minoritized, cultural groups.Specifically, this volume addresses American Indian and Alaska Native populations. However, in an effort to contextualize the experiences of 574 federally recognized tribes and 50+ state recognized tribes, as well as villages, the authors focus on populations within rural and remote regions and discuss the experiences of some tribal communities throughout US history. It should be noted that established research has primarily drawn attention to the pervasive problems impacting Indigenous individuals, families, and communities. Aligned with an attempt to adhere to a decolonizing praxis, the authors share information in a strength-based framework for the Indigenous communities discussed within the text. The authors review federally funded programs (prevention, intervention, and treatment) that have been adapted for tribal communities (e.g., Safecare) and include cultural teachings that address child maltreatment. The intention of this book is to inform researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and advocates about the current state of child maltreatment from an Indigenous perspective.

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The fine family values incorporated into China’s Civil Code can effectively resolve the contradiction between the Marriage and Family Law’s specific socialization requirements and the relatively insufficient socialization they present after they have been incorporated into the Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China. The fine family values clauses can reflect the ethics of Marriage and Family Law by introducing the family’s subject position in identity law, by specifying the scope and source of public order for judging behavior legitimacy in family relations, and by checking and balancing the tendency of turning Marriage and Family Law into Property Law. The clauses’ normative effect includes the organizational effect aimed at regulating family power, social power and state power, and the advisory effect for promoting moral education. However, its core lies in its behavior normative effect for guiding the judicial process and its adjudicative normative effect. In terms of specific application, we should focus on realizing the normative function of the fine family values clauses. This function includes proving the relationship between a guardian’s “lack of control and education” and external damage caused by family members, balancing family stability and personal freedom value, limiting seeking improper property interests by means of identity behavior and creating independent legal interests.

Izzy, who comes from a long line of excellent burglars, gets a bad feeling whenever she steals so she begins doing good deeds for everyone she is sent to rob.

According to Melinda Cooper’s Family Values, neoliberal and socially conservative policies have come together throughout the 20th century to support the normative family as the primary tool to internalize the costs of individual behavior and to privatize distribution. Despite a wealth of research and detailed policy analysis, Cooper’s work suffers from both ideological blinders and an overly narrow vision of the family itself. Cooper’s work ultimately fails to take the family seriously as an emergent and self-reproducing institution that is unlikely to be replaced fully in any sense by government policies, however well framed. Her analysis also fails to provide a good-faith analysis of the neoliberal and socially conservative scholars she discusses. At the same time, Cooper’s analysis is a useful one for classical liberal and libertarian thinkers who have, in the past, struggled to know what to do with the family as an institution and how to balance concerns about state coercion against concerns about coercion in the private sphere. It therefore provides a call for classical liberal and libertarian scholars to think more seriously about the family and how a narrow focus on freedom from government might ignore real and serious threats to human freedom in other areas.

Allie West finds it challenging to make new friends and stay true to old ones as she navigates fifth grade at a school run by her mother.

History is replete with examples of spectacular ascents of family businesses. Yet there are also numerous accounts of family businesses brought down by bitter feuds among family members, disappointed expectations between generations, and tragic sagas of later generations unable to manage their wealth. A large fraction of businesses throughout the world are organized around families. Why are family firms so prevalent? What are the implications of family control for the governance, financing and overall performance of these businesses?

Biases and paradoxes are inherently context-dependent phenomena, as they are influenced by various contextual factors that can either magnify or diminish their prominence. In the realm of family entrepreneurship, these contextual intricacies are particularly pronounced due to the confluence of family life, family values, and family and business objectives. Nonetheless, the literature on family entrepreneurship has largely neglected exploration of whether the biases exhibited by family entrepreneurs are intricately linked to, stem from, and predict paradoxes. In this research, we gather, assess, and synthesize current literature to uncover whether and how biases of family entrepreneurs are linked with paradoxes—unique in the family entrepreneurship context—and how they affect behavior in family businesses. Our main contribution lies in the construction of an encompassing framework informed by the lens of value heterogeneity. This integrative framework aims to guide future research and hence to push research on the link between biases and paradoxes of family entrepreneurs further. Plain Summary English Biases and paradoxes exhibit context-dependent characteristics, being shaped by diverse contextual factors that can either amplify or reduce their prominence. Within the domain of family entrepreneurship, these contextual intricacies become especially noticeable due to the intersection of family life, family values, and both family and business objectives. This amalgamation sets the stage on which biases manifest, become institutionalized, and subsequently attenuate or dissipate. Furthermore, it introduces inherent tensions and paradoxes that loom prominently in critical decision-making processes. Nonetheless, the literature on family entrepreneurship has largely neglected a thorough exploration of whether the biases exhibited by family entrepreneurs are intricately linked to, stem from, and predict paradoxes. The current study undertakes a comprehensive synthesis of the literature pertaining to the manifestation of biases and paradoxes within the context of family entrepreneurship. The primary aim is to identify the intricate interplay between the biases of family entrepreneurs and the paradoxes they encounter, along with their consequential effects on behavioral patterns. Analysis reveals that family values can act as catalysts for specific biases, such as the loss aversion bias, and paradoxes, exemplified by the initiative paradox. Our main contribution lies in the construction of an encompassing framework informed by the lens of value heterogeneity. This integrative framework aims to guide future research, and hence to push research on the link between biases and paradoxes of family entrepreneurs further. The principal implication of this study is twofold. We provide managerial implications to family business owners to ease bias-induced tensions in their businesses’ operations. Because tensions in families that own and manage FBs can manifest outside the realm of the business, they also tend to spread and affect the private family life. Our study thus has practical relevance by helping to resolve family conflicts.