Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from June 1993

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from June 1993

Kinscripts. (framework for studies on families)
June 22, 1993... The kinscripts framework is derived in part from the family life course perspective (Aldous, 1990; Elder, 1987; Hagestad, 1990; Hareven, 1982, 1986), studies of kinship (Aschenbrenner, 1975; Di Leonardo, 1986; Hinnant, 1986; Stack, 1974), and...

A comparative study of the occupational attainment processes of white men and women in the United States: the effects of having ever married, spousal education, children and having ever divorced.
June 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION The major purpose of this study is to compare the extent to which the occupational attainment processes of men and women are affected by having ever married and by the human capital assets that spouses bring to marriage. The bulk...

Does culture affect perceived family dynamics?: a comparison of Arab and Jewish adolescents in Israel.
June 22, 1993... In today's continuously changing world, societal norms and demands concerning the family's roles and functions are in a process of rapid transformation. Nevertheless, the family unit still constitutes the main framework in which the individual...

Children and marital happiness of black Americans.
June 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION Family researchers have completed numerous studies of marital happiness or satisfaction, psychological distress associated with marital roles, and marital stability during the last 20 or more years. A development of the earlier...

The formation and stability of informal unions in Cote D'ivoire.
June 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION The dominant model of traditional African marriage is one of a process that establishes a socially sanctioned relationship and creates an alliance between kin groups and lineages. The interests of the extended family in the union...

Sociodemographic correlates of the size and composition of informal caregiver networks among frail ethnic elderly.
June 22, 1993... While extensive reference is made to the importance of ethnic heritage in mediating the aging process (Driedger and Chappell, 1987; Gelfand and Baresi, 1987; Rosenthal, 1986), questions linger about how this ethnic connection is related to...

Family Research: A Sixty-Year Review.
June 22, 1993... This book sat on my desk for two weeks before I had the time to seriously read it. During this two week period the book was borrowed by three graduate students in various stages of thesis writing, a colleague who used the book in her family life...

Family and the State of Theory.
June 22, 1993... David Cheal has tackled a phenomenal task. He attempts to give some sense and meaning to family theory development since the 1960s. He is relatively successful. The book identifies the new direction or a big bang (chap. 1) explosion after the...

Population Change in Canada: The Challenge of Policy Adaptation.
June 22, 1993... Population Change in Canada provides an excellent discussion of the state of knowledge concerning interactions between population and public policy in Canada. The book begins with a general discussion of population and policy, and then examines...

Work/Family Conflicts: Private Lives-Public Responses.
June 22, 1993... The interrelated pressures of family and work pose an increasing challenge for many Americans at the end of the twentieth century. That is the theme of Bradley Googins book, which he sustains effectively throughout its ten chapters. He is...

Families in Crisis: The Impact of Intensive Family Preservation Services.
June 22, 1993... This study is designed to provide an extensive and objective evaluation of Intensive Family Preservation Services in Utah and Washington states. Such services, as their name implies, involve crisis - oriented intervention by skilled therapists in...

Adolescence: An Anthropological Inquiry.
June 22, 1993... Alice Schlegel, an anthropologist, and Herbert Barry III, a psychologist, have reputations as careful scholars whose work contributes to advancing basic knowledge. This well written and closely reasoned study strengthens and extends their...

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America.
June 22, 1993... Alex Kotlowitz introduces us to "The Other America" as lived and seen through the eyes of two brothers, Lafayette aged twelve and Pharoah aged nine. They are black, poor and with their mother and siblings are tenants of the Horner housing project...

The Family In Italy from Antiquity to the Present.
June 22, 1993... This timely and informative volume is comprised of eighteen papers drawn from the Bellagio conference on "The Historical roots of the western family," which featured intensive interdisciplinary excavation on Italian ground. Though admittedly not...

In the Midst of Winter: Systemic Therapy with Families, Couples and Individuals with AIDs Infection.
June 22, 1993... In the Midst of Winter presents an ecosystemic account of HIV infection in North America which speaks to scholar, therapist, and activist alike. Material for this work is drawn from Gillian Walker's experience as a therapist with The Ackerman...

Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes.
June 22, 1993... Egalia's Daughters, a novel describing a fictional matriarchy, was originally published in Norwegian in 1977 by a feminist Norwegian schoolteacher who had earned her arts degree in English, History, and Social Science at the University of Oslo....