Journal of Family Issues articles from September 1998

Journal of Family Issues archives from September 1998

Harsh, firm, and permissive parenting in low-income families: relations to children's academic achievement and behavioral adjustment.
September 1, 1998... In her groundbreaking work involving middle-class preschool children and their parents, Baumrind (1971) described three approaches to parenting. Authoritarian parents valued obedience and respect for authority, favored punitive discipline, and...

Race differences in intergenerational financial assistance: the needs of children and the resources of parents.
September 1, 1998... The importance and strength of kin networks among African Americans is well documented (Allen, 1979; Aschenbrenner, 1973; Hays & Mindel, 1973; R. Hill, 1972; Martin & Martin, 1978; McAdoo, 1980; Stack, 1974). These studies are often interpreted...

Estimating a proposed family policy's effects; incorporating labor supply responses to an assured child support benefit.
September 1, 1998... The watershed Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRA) delegates responsibility from the federal government to the states to design and administer programs for poor children and their families. The...

Community assessments of adoption issues: open adoption, birth reunions, and the disclosure of confidential information.
September 1, 1998... Adoption, as an institution and a family form, is currently in the process of change. Reunions of adult adoptees with birth parents are common. Open adoption, characterized by ongoing contact with the birth parents, is currently offered in the...

Stress in marital interaction and change in depression: a longitudinal analysis.
September 1, 1998... This study undertakes a longitudinal analysis of the effects of stress in marital interaction at one point in time on change in depressive symptoms of marital partners. Stress has been specified as "a state of arousal resulting from either the...

A patriarchal perspective of beliefs about wife beating among Palestinian men from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. (Israel)
September 1, 1998... Over the past three decades, beliefs about wife beating have been one of the focal topics of research on domestic violence in Western and Eastern societies throughout the world. In this connection, cross-cultural research has revealed...

The role of valued outcomes, justifications, and comparison referents in perceptions of fairness among dual-earner couples.
September 1, 1998... Wives and mothers have steadily increased their labor force participation since the 1960s (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1995). Over the same period, working wives reduced their hours spent on housework significantly, but increases in their...