Worldwide child and youth poverty and deprivation remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while the recent global economic crisis has exacerbated child poverty, youth unemployment, and social exclusion in many developed countries. By critically unraveling the long-term consequences of growing up poor, the close linkages between multiple deprivations...

Imagine yourself at the gym. You’re wiping the sweat from your face after working out on the elliptical machine for 60 minutes. You’re feeling fat and ugly, tired, and ready to take a hot shower when all of a sudden you see a gorgeous pair of man-legs standing in front of you. His backside is facing you. It’s nice. You’ve never noticed him before. What do you do? Perhaps what Suzanne Thompson does? She checks out the rest of him and likes what she sees. But little does she know, that the legs...

Sofia Adams opens her second book of the Legs Trilogy with Suzy and Robby embarking on a therapeutic vacation to the Island of Nevis.In She, Who Kissed His Feet, the relaxing retreat quickly becomes a nightmare when Suzy is whisked back to Michigan to stand trial for the murder of her deceased husband, Sam.Upon arrival, Suzy gets an unpleasant surprise from the ladies in the overcrowded jail cell. It is here where Suzy meets her deceased stepson’s pregnant girlfriend, CiCi ...

SOFIA ADAMS' Stepping Stones is the shocking conclusion of The Legs Trilogy. The ugly truths that have plagued Suzanne Thompson and Robert LeClure in Adams' previous books, Legs and She, Who Kissed His Feet, are finally exposed!The saga novel continues with Suzy awaiting the acquittal of the murder charge filed against her for killing her husband, Sam, and the miraculous birth of her deceased stepson’s baby!With a large inheritance left to the baby heir, appointed guardian,...