Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from January 1999

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from January 1999

Computers and the family life: a family development perspective.
January 1, 1999... There remains little doubt that computer technology will increasingly pervade the lives of individuals, institutions and societies in the future. The last ten years has witnessed a dramatic and unprecedented proliferation of computer-based...

Men, marriage, and ideal family size in Francophone Africa.
January 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION Although women and men are partners in the reproductive process, fertility and family planning research energies have predominately been focused on women over the last few decades (Isiugo-Abanihe, 1994). Given that in...

The trajectory of family change in Nigeria.
January 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION Ethnic cleavage constitutes a continuing problem in sub-Saharan Africa where national boundaries reflect the commercial and military interests of colonial powers to the neglect of pre-existing tribal and regional...

Consensual unions in two Costa Rican communities: an analysis using focus group methodology.
January 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION Given Latin America's culturally distinctive pattern of union formation, characterized by a high incidence of consensual unions, it is surprising that for this region there is only a small body of knowledge concerning the...

Comment of coding marital status in Latin America.
January 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION Marital-specific information is often valuable in cross-societal investigation. In demography for instance, a common value often considered superior to the age-specific fertility rate is the age-marital-specific fertility...

Mexican and French children's conceptions about family: a developmental approach.
January 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION The present investigation was designed to study the development of children's conceptions of family, in relation to cognitive and cultural aspects. A considerable amount of research in developmental psychology...

The social construction of family life in the Sunday comics: race as a consideration.
January 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION The value of the comic strip as a cultural artifact to identify prevailing beliefs, values, and norms has long been established. Spiegelman et al. (1953), for example, examined aspirations and the means of achieving them...

Household structure, satisfaction and distress in India and the United States: a comparative cultural examination.
January 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION Although psychological distress has been studied to a great extent in western and industrialized nations, few studies of the processes influencing distress have been conducted on more traditional and lesser developed...

Interracial Marriage in Hawaii: 1983-1994.(Review)
January 1, 1999... FU, Xuanning and Tim B. HEATON, INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE IN HAWAII, 1983-1994. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellon Press, 1997, 207 pp., $89.95 hardcover. This book is another significant contribution to the on-going study of interracial marriage in...

Gender and Families.(Review)
January 1, 1999... COLTRANE, Scott, GENDER AND FAMILIES. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1998, 220 pp., $19.95 softcover. Gender and Families belongs to a book series called The Gender Lens. The volume is designed to encourage the development of...

Hunger and Shame: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro.(Review)
January 1, 1999... HOWARD, Mary and Ann V. MILLARD, HUNGER AND SHAME: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, 271pp., $27.99 softcover, $98.00 hardcover. Hunger and Shame is a very moving description of poverty and...

The Two Sexes: Growing up Apart, Coming Together.(Review)
January 1, 1999... MACCOBY, Eleanor S., THE TWO SEXES: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard, University, 1998, 376pp., $39.95 hardcover. The Two Sexes undertakes an examination of gender segregation that...

The Rescue of the Innocents: Endangered Children in Medieval Miracles.(Review)
January 1, 1999... FINUCANE, Ronald C., THE RESCUE OF THE INNOCENTS: Endangered Children in Medieval Miracles. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1997, 268pp., $49.95 hardcover. Until about thirty years ago our knowledge of family patterns in the past was...

Researching Sexual Violence Against Women: Methodological and Personal Perspectives.(Review)
January 1, 1999... SCHWARTZ, Martin D., ed., RESEARCHING SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: Methodological and Personal Perspectives. Thousand Oakes, CA: Sage Publications, 1997, 222pp., $19.95 softcover. In the Preface to this volume, the editor tells readers...