This work presents the most recent data on poverty, family structure and participation in welfare programmes. It analyses the causes for the continuing rise in female-headed households, the high rates of poverty among such families, and evaluates past, present and future reform policies.

“I’m so terrified... that psycho’s going to kill me!” Maria Dersch prophetically predicted her death at the savage hands of her ex-boyfriend, Billy Ray Shaughnessy, who hid in her attic for two and a half days with an ax before sneaking down in the dead of night, chopping Maria and her new lover to death.In The Attic is an intense, shocking, and unforgettable psychological crime thriller based on the horrific, true murder case Gar...

The Truth Lies Buried. Under The Ground is a psychological suspense thriller based on the true crime story of Kristen Madsen—a troubled eighteen-year-old victim last seen with her ex-boyfriend, Esa Raasanen in a small city on Vancouver Island at Canada’s southwest coast.Conventional police procedural techniques fail to find the buried truth in the mystery of Kristen’s disappearance, so a highly-complex criminal undercover operation sets upon Esa. ...

If you’re a true-crime fan, you’ll love this 3-book collection from Garry Rodgers — retired homicide detective and forensic coroner. In The Attic, Under The Ground, and From The Shadows are the first in the Based-On-True-Crime Series of riveting cases that Garry investigated as a serving police officer.Warning: These stories are deadly real. You follow the criminal investigations from sta...

Dead men do tell tales. An unidentified and decomposing body found dumped down a secluded bank beside a rural Vancouver Island road becomes the most baffling and bizarre homicide case of a detective’s long career.“Beside The Road” becomes the file name for the rotting John Doe as the Serious Crimes investigation team uses nearly every available tool to figure out who this person was… and what happened to him. This based-on-true-crime story shows you how re...

Who had the most to gain by murdering a bad-ass biker—especially the powerful president of a Hells Angels Motorcycle Club chapter? The answer lies in Between The Bikers—Book 6 in the Based-On-True-Crime-Series by retired homicide detective and forensic coroner, Garry Rodgers.Mark Mitchell, aka Zeke, disappears on a Saturday afternoon just before a full-patch ceremony held between the bikers at a Hells Angels clubhouse on ...

What if six members—three generations—of your family were slain in a monstrous mass murder?From The Shadows is based on the horrific true crime story of grandparents, Ed and Patricia Bartley, parents Gunner and Trisha Jephsen, and their two prepubescent girls who disappeared on a Vancouver Island camping trip. Ella was just eleven. Lily was only nine.This terrible tragedy shocked North America and riveted the Canadian public as Ser...

Desperate People Do Desperate Things - How far would you go to save your child?No Life Until Death is a terrifying, psychological suspense thriller by retired homicide detective and forensic coroner, now investigative crime writer, Garry Rodgers.Outwardly, Inspector Sharlene Bate of I-HIT, Vancouver’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, has her life back on track. Shining career. About to remarry. And a healthy, thirte...

What monstrous savage viciously attacked Bea Bonnell—inflicting fractures, burns, and excruciating torture on her? And why did he do it? Bea was seventy-four years old, for God’s sake, when this true crime story occurred.Beatrice Bonnell and her husband, Stan Bonnell, spend their winters at the cabin they own on De Courcy Island in the mild southwest coast of British Columbia. Their De Courcy cabin is far south of their second home near Atlin, an equally small place in the cold gol...

Do you believe in ghosts?No Witnesses To Nothing is a police procedural novel based on a true crime story straight out of CSI or The X-Files where many believe that paranormal intervention occurred.Sergeant Sharlene Bate, of Vancouver's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, pries open Pandora's Box when two drug informers are brutally executed and a tragedy occurs when two young police officers attempt to capture a madman terrori...

Learn how to letter and create fun, adorable illustrations featuring everyday objects in this step-by-step guide—with tips and tricks to kickstart your creative journey.In this effervescent approach to art instruction, artist Jesi Rodgers opens up her tool kit, sharing techniques, inspiration, and encouragement to teach the creatively curious how to draw and paint adorable projects. Adorable Art Class expl...

The memoirs of Mary Rodgers—writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and “a woman who tried everything.”“What am I, bologna?” Mary Rodgers (1931–2014) often said. She was referring to being stuck in the middle of a talent sandwich: the daughter of one composer and the mother of another. And not just any composers. Her father was Richard Rodgers, perhaps the greatest American melodist; her son, Adam Guettel, a worthy successor. What that leaves out is Mary herself, also ...