Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from January 2000

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from January 2000

Privacy in the Family: Its Hierarchical and Asymmetric Nature.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... YING-KEUNG CHAN [*] INTRODUCTION Social and behavioural scientists tend to define privacy in many different ways. Some define it in terms of the individual's ability to withdraw from unwanted interactions; others refer to the...

Intermittent Employment Among Married Women: A Comparative Study of Buenos Aires and Mexico City [*].(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... MARCELA CERRUTTI [**] INTRODUCTION In the past decade, female labor force participation in Latin America has grown rapidly. This increase has coincided with the implementation of structural adjustment and economic reform policies,...

Status Exchange in Intermarriage Among Hawaiians, Japanese, Filipinos and Caucasians in Hawaii: 1983-1994.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... XUANNING FU [*] TIM B. HEATON [**] High rates of intermarriage are a unique demographic characteristic of the people of Hawaii. Historically intermarriage has been common in Hawaii, and the outmarriage rate during the last decade was...

Intermarriage Among Italians: Some Regional Variations in Australia [*].(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... PARIMAL ROY [**] IAN HAMILTON M. [**] INTRODUCTION This paper is part of a larger project on the prevalence of intermarriage in Australia based on an analysis of census data. The primary aim of the paper is to identify the extent...

Family Policy in a Changing Vietnam.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... STEVEN K. WISENSALE [*] Vietnam has a long history of maintaining a double life. For more than 1000 years it resisted foreign domination by China, France, and the United States. This "closed," defensive stance was balanced by a genuine...

Intrafamiliar Congruence in Gender-Role Ideology: Husband-Wife Versus Parents-Offspring [*].(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... LIAT KULIK [**] The study deals with congruence in gender-role ideology among family members (i.e., husband-wife, and parents-offspring). This topic is especially relevant, owing to the recent emergence of diverse family patterns which...

Child Fostering and Fertility: Some Evidence from Ghana [*].(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... ROGER KLOMEGAH [**] INTRODUCTION Child fostering is a custom that is practiced in many African societies. Children are fostered out to live with surrogate parents in the event of family crisis or when the biological parents, for some...

Impact of Watching International Television Programs on Adolescents in India: A Research Note [*].(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... ARCHITA VARMA [**] INTRODUCTION Learning leads to a relatively permanent change in the behavior of an individual as a result of practice or experience. Apart from classical conditioning or instrumental conditioning, learning also...

THE EXCLUDED WIFE.(Review)
January 1, 2000... DR. GEORGE KURIAN [*] WOON, Yuen-Fong, THE EXCLUDED WIFE. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998, 295pp., $29.95 hardcover. One might expect an uninspiring historical account of the struggles of the Chinese women who...

RESILIENCY IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAMILIES.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ANGELA A. A. WELLETO [*] McCUBBIN, Hamilton I, Elizabeth A. THOMPSON, Anne I. THOMPSON and Jo A. FUTRELL, editors, RESILIENCY IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAMILIES. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998, 357pp., $28.95 softcover/$59.95...

THE BOTTOM RUNG: African American Family Life on Southern Farms.(Review)
January 1, 2000... WILLIAM (BEAU) WESTON [*] TOLNAY, Stewart E., THE BOTTOM RUNG: African American Family Life on Southern Farms. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999, 232pp., $20.00 softcover / $45.00 hardcover. Tolnay, a SUNY Albany...

UNWILLING IDLERS: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ZHENG WU [*] BASKERVILLE, Peter and Eric W. SAGER, UNWILLING IDLERS: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1998, 294pp., $24.95 softcover. Unemployment has a...

FAMILY CHANGE AND FAMILY POLICIES IN GREAT BRITAIN, CANADA, NEWZEALAND, AND THE UNITED STATES [*].(Review)
January 1, 2000... ROBIN M. WEINICK [**] KAMERMAN, Sheila B. and Alfred J. KAHN, FAMILY CHANGE AND FAMILY POLICIES IN GREAT BRITAIN, CANADA, NEWZEALAND, AND THE UNITED STATES. [*] New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997, 463pp., $135.00 hardcover. ...

WOMEN, FAMILY AND CHILD CARE IN INDIA: A World in Transition.(Review)
January 1, 2000... R. SOORYAMOORTHY [*] SEYMOUR, Susan C., WOMEN, FAMILY AND CHILD CARE IN INDIA: A World in Transition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 323pp., Rs.595 softcover. The book is an outcome of a meticulous anthropological...