This book recounts a successful effort to resocialize criminal offenders placed in Kibbutzim. Social scientist Michael Fischer and educational philosopher Brenda Geiger describe the events and experiences that unfolded when a Kibbutz adopted an Israeli ex-convict as a temporary member of its collective. They conclude that resocialization is achievable: that a world of hard work, interdependence, and self-denial can successfully compete against the temptations for adventure and diversion in an offender's past and present.Fischer and Geiger reconstruct the subjective experiences of the Israeli ex-convicts who were invited to live and work as members on separate Kibbutzim. They detail how a protective environment, daily routines, egalitarianism, peer group support, acceptance, and trust yielded involvement, commitment, and higher self-esteem on the part of the offenders. Relating the kibbutz experience to theories of social psychology and criminology, Fischer and Geiger offer a model for resocialization combining group dynamics with social learning in a context of meaningful work and acceptance. This study is valuable to students and scholars of social psychology, criminology, and Judaic Studies.

Reform Through Community: Resocializing Offenders in the Kibbutz (The Kibbutz Study Series)

Fischer, Michael

Geiger, Brenda

Praeger

Nuclear family and kibbutz childrearing practices are compared from a Rawlsian perspective of justice. Based upon the kibbutz educational system, which has reinstituted the family, Geiger and Fischer propose a model of educational change for consideration in the United States. This model is designed to strengthen the nuclear family while improving the prospects of disadvantaged, anomic, and unattached youth.
Geiger and Fischer examine, within a Rawlsian perspective, several child-rearing institutions affecting children. Justice as fairness would consider a child-rearing institution and its inequalities as fair if there are no alternative arrangements under which the prospects of least-advantaged children could be improved. Among these least-advantaged children are those who are neglected, abused, and stripped of self-respect. As the nuclear family disintegrates, the authors ask whether it can fulfill its child-rearing function. Utilizing a self-report study conducted on socialization and delinquency in Israel as well as several other observational studies, the authors demonstrate that in a more egalitarian structure such as the kibbutz, least-advantaged children have more opportunities to develop into autonomous responsible individuals. For Americans, the kibbutz educational system shows new paths for change from nursery school through high school that would allow for greater bonds between the family, school, work, and the community. An emerging sense of community would also stimulate the moral and intellectual growth of disadvantaged youth. This book is recommended to researchers and policy makers in the areas of education, delinquency, and social welfare.

Family, Justice, and Delinquency: (Contributions in Family Studies)

Caregiving role rather than gender has a predominant influence on parent interaction in nonstressful as well as stressful situations. Primary caregiving fathers can competently assume caregiving and nurturant functions so as to become their infants' primary attachment figures.Based on videotaped home observations, Dr. Geiger examines the unique and interactive effects of the gender of the caregiver and the primacy of the caregiver role on parent-infant interaction. Dr. Geiger observed 56 parents of different gender (father-mother) and caregiving role (primary-secondary) interacting with their infant in a non-stressful situation. Then infants were placed under stress in a modified version of the Strange Situation. A gender X caregiving role analysis of variance indicated no gender or role effect for parents' and infants' affiliative behaviors under nonstressful conditions except for fathers' rough tumble play. A caregiving role and/or a gender X role interaction effect was observed on the attachment behaviors of parents (caregiving and displaying affection) and of infants (displaying affection, clinging, moving away, and exploring). Infants' play interaction was most synchronous with that of primary caregiving fathers. Finally, the caregiver role effect indicated on all infants' attachment behaviors under stress showed a distinctive preference for primary caregivers (fathers or mothers) with disregard for gender.Dr. Geiger's study indicates that primary caregiving fathers can be as competent as primary and secondary caregiving mothers. They were more affectionate, and despite an increased amount of assumed caregiving and household chores, primary caregiving fathers were more involved and in greater synchrony with their infant's play activities than primary or secondary caregiving mothers. This study challenges sex-role stereotypes and suggests benefits of modeling a more egalitarian upbringing. It presents strategies to resolve the dilemma of day care for infants. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and other researchers involved with early childhood education, socioemotional development of children, and developmental psychology, especially once it is acknowledged that father care in the home for infants less than one year of age has become the most common form of primary nonmaternal care arrangement (21.6%) adopted by employed mothers.

Fathers as Primary Caregivers: (Contributions in Family Studies)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Safeguarding the Nest" is an easy-to-use guide that you'll want to read again and again for information on how to properly and legally protect those most precious in your life.

Safeguarding the Nest 2nd Edition (PB)

Parenting & Relationships

lulu.com

"Many of my clients are overwelmed by the amount of information out there on planning for long term care and protection of a loved one. I'm excited to see a book like this that addresses so many of the questions I commonly get asked. This book provides a simple explanation of the basic planning strategies and the issues that elders and their families need to be thinking about in order to plan for long term care and avoid court involvement if incapacity ever strikes."

-David B. Gaw, J.D.,
Gaw Van Male, a Professional Corporation

Brenda Geiger and Bradley Erdosi have written this book to provide you with valuable information regarding the types of problems we help our clients solve. Elder Law attorneys help seniors plan access to future medical care, and help ensure that aging adults continue to have a high quality of life when it matters most. You may not have ever thought about or even thought to ask some of the questions answered in this book. Our purpose is to act as your guide to help you plan to protect yourself or a loved one so that you are not forced into the court process down the road or left wondering "how are we going to afford to pay for long term care". This book is about ensuring your piece of mind.

The book also features an extensive chapter on qualifying for VA benefits. Brenda Geiger's grandfather, Bernard Godfrey, served as a bombardier in WWII in the Airforce. "I've always been very proud of both of my grandfathers for serving our great nation. Without our veterans, we would not experience the freedom we have all become so accustomed to."

-Brenda Geiger

How to Avoid the Catastrophic Costs and Effects of Long Term Care: A California Elder Law Guide

Erdosi, Bradley

Aging Parents

Word Assn Pub

Many of my clients are overwelmed by the amount of information out there on planning for long term care and protection of a loved one. I'm excited to see a book like this that addresses so many of the questions I commonly get asked. This book provides a simple explanation of the basic planning strategies and the issues that elders and their families need to be thinking about in order to plan for long term care and avoid court involvement if incapacity ever strikes. -David B. Gaw, J.D., Gaw Van Male, a Professional Corporation 
 Brenda Geiger and Bradley Erdosi have written this book to provide you with valuable information regarding the types of problems we help our clients solve. Elder Law attorneys help seniors plan access to future medical care, and help ensure that aging adults continue to have a high quality of life when it matters most. You may not have ever thought about or even thought to ask some of the questions answered in this book. Our purpose is to act as your guide to help you plan to protect yourself or a loved one so that you are not forced into the court process down the road or left wondering how are we going to afford to pay for long term care. This book is about ensuring your piece of mind. 
 The book also features an extensive chapter on qualifying for VA benefits. Brenda Geiger's grandfather, Bernard Godfrey, served as a bombardier in WWII in the Airforce. I've always been very proud of both of my grandfathers for serving our great nation. Without our veterans, we would not experience the freedom we have all become so accustomed to. -Brenda Geiger

The Smart Family's Guide to Protecting An Aging Parent from a Long Term Care Financial Crisis In California

Family Law

Word Association Publishers

Secrets of Great Estate Planning

In this book you’ll discover… • What immediate actions you need to take after the death of a loved one • What your responsibilities are as the Successor Trustee of a Trust • What things you should do and those you should NOT do when administering a trust • How estate and income taxes are handled for trusts after a loved one has passed • How record keeping and accountings are required for a trust • What to do when transferring non-trust assets to beneficiaries • How and when to close out the trust and distribute assets to the beneficiaries

The Trustee's Guide to Trust Administration in California

Tax Law

This fifth edition of Secrets of Great Estate Planning covers not only the basic things you'll need to know to set up and maintain your estate plan, but also more advanced planning strategies such as Retirement Plan Trusts and Irrevocable Gifting Trusts for children and grandchildren. In this easy-to-read book you'll discover: - What the probate process is in California and why it should be avoided- How to "fund" (transfer assets to) your revocable trust and which assets cannot be owned by your revocable trust- How you can protect your children's inheritance from creditors, predators and their future divorcing spouses- How you can protect your spouse with the right Marital Trust provisions in your revocable trust- The best way to ensure your retirement accounts are protected in the right way for your children to inherit them with asset protection- How to protect yourself if you own rental real estate with an LLC- The top 25 mistakes people make in their estate plans, and how to avoid them Brenda Geiger is a skilled and experienced Estate and Business Planning attorney in Carlsbad, California. Her practice focuses on protecting clients from the probate process, helping them avoid future litigation and on forward thinking asset protection for her clients and their heirs.

Secrets of Great Estate Planning: Fifth Edition

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Reform Through Community: Resocializing Offenders in the Kibbutz (The Kibbutz Study Series)

Family, Justice, and Delinquency: (Contributions in Family Studies)

Fathers as Primary Caregivers: (Contributions in Family Studies)

Safeguarding the Nest 2nd Edition (PB)

How to Avoid the Catastrophic Costs and Effects of Long Term Care: A California Elder Law Guide

The Smart Family's Guide to Protecting An Aging Parent from a Long Term Care Financial Crisis In California

Secrets of Great Estate Planning

The Trustee's Guide to Trust Administration in California

Secrets of Great Estate Planning

Secrets of Great Estate Planning: Fifth Edition