Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from January 2006

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from January 2006

Abstracts (English).
January 1, 2006... GARY N. MARKS, Melbourne Institute for Applied Economic And Social Research, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia and Australian Council for Educational Research, 347 Camberwell Rd. Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia ...

Abstracts (French).
January 1, 2006... GARY N. MARKS, Melbourne Institute for Applied Economic And Social Research, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia and Australian Council for Educational Research, 347 Camberwell Rd. Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia ...

Abstracts (Spanish).
January 1, 2006... GARY N. MARKS, Melbourne Institute for Applied Economic And Social Research, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia and Australian Council for Educational Research, 347 Camberwell Rd. Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia ...

Family size, family type and student achievement: cross-national differences and the role of socioeconomic and school factors.
January 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION The finding that students from larger families have less favorable educational outcomes is well established in the United States (Blake, 1989; Mare and Chen, 1986; Powell and Parcel, 1999). Negative effects for family size or...

Cohabiting unions in sub-Saharan Africa: explaining Botswana's exceptionality.
January 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION Despite extraordinary diversity across sub-Saharan Africa (1), early dominant models of traditional marriage in many societies of the continent stressed several key components. These included, inter alia, almost universal...

Reconstructing mothering (1) among Korean immigrant working class women in the United States.
January 1, 2006... Since the national origin quota system was abolished four decades ago in 1965, (2) immigration from Korea to the United States has dramatically increased. Unlike previous immigrants who were mainly farmers and laborers, many new Korean...

Changing views on family diversity in urban Korea.
January 1, 2006... With increased industrialization and urbanization in a particular society, we can expect population changes and newly emerging family patterns with changing views and values toward family diversity. From a structural-functional perspective,...

Child care by poor single mothers: study of mother-headed families in India.
January 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION The impact of single parent families on child development is complex and varied. Traditionally housewives in India are expected to take care of their families, which include their children. Normally they are not likely to be...

Labor force participation of married women in Hong Kong: a feminist perspective.
January 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION As a former British colony with the majority of its population being Chinese, Hong Kong has been transformed from a back ward fishing village to a prosperous modern city. Industrialization and modernization have brought about...

Social values and self-disclosure: a comparison of Chinese native, Chinese resident (in U.S.) and North American spouses.
January 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION As Chinese families are becoming more prominent in the US population (Ferguson, 1995), there is an increasing need for research on Chinese and North American experiences of marriage. Previous cross-cultural research has...

Two-lives, one partner: Indo-Canadian youth between love and arranged marriages*.(RESEARCH NOTE)
January 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION Indo-Canadian youths say they are living two lives: one in Canadian secular society, the other in their Indian ethnic community. They experience two family systems, particularly different in the ways marriages are decided. On...

Comforting the Occupation. Work, Education, and Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Rosenfield, Maya. COMFORTING THE OCCUPATION. WORK, EDUCATION, AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM OF PALESTINIAN FAMILIES IN A REFUGEE CAMP. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA 2004. Soft cover, ISBN 0-8047-4987-6. Confronting the Occupation is a...

Rampage: the Social Roots of School Shootings.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Newman, Katherine S., Cybelle Fox, David Harding, Jal Mehta, and Wendy Roth., RAMPAGE: THE SOCIAL ROOTS OF SCHOOL SHOOTINGS. New York: Basic Books, 2004, $27.50 hardcover. Rampage highlights two low-crime, family-centered U.S. communities...

Reinventing the Culture of Womanhood in America and Brazil, an Anthropological Perspective: Models for the 21st Century 1964-2001.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Westfried, Alex Huxley., REINVENTING THE CULTURE OF WOMANHOOD IN AMERICA AND BRAZIL, AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE: Models for the 21st Century 1964-2001. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002, 199 pp. Paperback. While this small...