Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from June 1994

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from June 1994

The role and status of women and the timing of marriage in five Asian countries.
June 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION The study of nuptiality in non-industrial societies is of special interest to demographers and social scientists. Reductions in marriage rates generally translate into lowered fertility. A rise in age at marriage can also...

Kikuyu bridewealth and polygyny today.
June 22, 1994... This paper is on bridewealth and polygyny among the Kikuyu of Kenya, and is based on data collected in 1990. It seeks to take account of recent changes, an to respond to calls for new data. Helen Ware stated the situation in the early 1980s as...

The impact of migration on the sexual division of family work: a case study of Italian immigrant couples.
June 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION This paper presents the results of a case study of twenty working class Italian immigrant couples residing in Toronto. The investigation focuses on the subjective experiences of wives and husbands who have migrated from one...

Marital status, distress, and well-being: an international comparison.
June 22, 1994... At least since Durkheim's study of suicide, the relationship between marital status and psychological well-being has been an important field of sociological inquiry. A quite strong relationship has often been reported in the literature. In...

The impact of divorce on men and women in India and The United States.
June 22, 1994... Adjustment to divorce has been the focus of a great deal of research in the west. However, relatively little is known about how divorce affects people' s lives in nonwestern, developing nations. As Kitson and Morgan (1990), in a recent review,...

Depressive symptoms of younger and older Korean married women.
June 22, 1994... This research investigated factors related to depressive symptoms among younger and older married Korean women. A primary objective was to determine the relative importance of five assessments of personal and family relationships fo depressive...

The strengths of Apache grandmothers: observations on commitment, culture and caretaking.
June 22, 1994... "My great grandmother is a special person to me because she did a good job of raising my mother. I am happy for what she has done and for what she is still doing for us." So begins a tribute written by Garrett Dazen, a fifth grader, published in...

Violating the Hindu norm of husband-wife avoidance.
June 22, 1994... Until recently, anthropologists focused so much on uncovering cultural patterns that they de-emphasized the anomalies and irregularities that they found (Freilich, Raybeck and Savishinsky, 1991: 1). Fortunately, it is now increasingly recognized...

Unintended marital separation in The People's Republic of China: a pilot study.
June 22, 1994... During the last several years the authors have been involved in a number of research studies in the People's Republic of China (Abbott & Zheng, in press; Abbott, Zheng & Meredith, 1992; Meredith, 1991; Meredith, Abbott, Zhu, 1989). O one visit to...

American Families: A Research Guide and Historical Handbook.
June 22, 1994... This volume of readings is an important acquisition for any university library, but the price might discourage the temptation of adding it to one's personal collection. Two caveats are in order at the outset. First, one should note that although...

Human Relationships, 2nd ed.
June 22, 1994... The second edition (1991) of this classic Introduction to the Study of Human Relationships by Steve Duck has been expanded to take account of recent research. An important change has been the use of a new framework that emphasizes the role of...

Mumsahib: A Novel In Stories.
June 22, 1994... A cross-cultural novel is a difficult genre at best. The novelist's task is especially challenging if the plot is required to shuffle back and forth betwee cultures, between vastly different geographical locales, in sudden, fitful spurts rather...

Rites of Marrying: The Wedding Industry in Scotland.
June 22, 1994... The research for this book is a blending of the standard ethnographic approach with the ethnomethodological techniques necessary to render the familiar as problematic. The main body of the book is a collage of the experiences of 40 prospective...

Intercultural Marriage: Promises and Pitfalls.
June 22, 1994... Given the author's definition of intercultura marriage--a marriage between partners from "diverse cultures as well as countries"--this book would more appropriately be titled "international" marriage. The book is written from primarily a...

The Social Construction of Gender.
June 22, 1994... The Social Construction of Gender is a collection of 18 articles, all but one reprinted from Gender & Society, a journal founded in 1987 by Sociologists for Women in Society. The volume is intended as a textbook aimed at both undergraduate and...

Families That Abuse: Diagnosis and Therapy.
June 22, 1994... In this well-translated and easily read book, Cirillo and DiBlasio have, in a sense, written the history of a social service agency that specializes in clients involuntarily ordered by a court into therapy for abusive behavior towards children....

Theories of Child Abuse and Neglect: Differential Perspectives, Summaries, and Evaluations.
June 22, 1994... As the reported incidence of child abuse and neglect escalates, it becomes increasingly urgent that researchers and practitioners join to develop accurate and comprehensive models for the prevention and treatment of child maltreatment "Theories...

The Clinical Detective: Techniques in the Evaluation of Sexual Abuse.
June 22, 1994... Hoorwitz's purpose is to provide the reader with a step by step approach to the process of evaluating sexual abuse allegations and formulating conclusions and recommendations. He argues that competent evaluation of sexual abuse is important for...

Stepparents: Wicked or Wonderful?
June 22, 1994... Hughes' primary interest is to make a contribution to our understanding of step-parenting. In particular, she is concerned with the negative image of the stepmother in Western culture. While the author sought to rehabilitate the image of the...

The Passionate Mind: Bringing Up An Intelligent and Creative Child.
June 22, 1994... Parents wish their children to be smart, bright, intelligent and even genius. However, despite conscious efforts made by many parents only a small proportion of children turn out to be really intelligent in a specific cultural context. A select...

Children, Families and Public Policy in the 90s.
June 22, 1994... This collection of articles is an apparent first attempt by the Toronto Child, Youth and Family Policy Research Centre to promote and disseminate the findings of policy relevant research regarding children, adolescents and families in Canada. The...