Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from June 1995

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from June 1995

Freedom of partner choice in Togo.
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION In many traditional African societies marriages were frequently arranged by the parents of the couple, and in some cases infant and child betrothals were practiced. Theories of nuptiality and family change predict an increasing...

A cohort analysis of home-leaving in Canada, 1910-1975.
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Leaving the parental home implies an important transition to adult roles affecting not only the young adults but also their ageing parents. A few studies have examined the process of home-leaving in the developed countries and...

Gender and the distribution of household work: a comparison of self-reports by female college faculty in the United States and China.
June 22, 1995... BACKGROUND AND LITERATURE REVIEW Who does the housework has become an increasing source of conflict among dual-career married couples. Surveys reveal that women have become increasingly angry at their husbands because of their unwillingness do...

Remarriage and intermarriage of Asians in the United States of America.
June 22, 1995... The U.S.A. has witnessed a phenomenal increase in the number of Asians (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1981). This increase has brought about a number of social science studies (see for example Yu, 1980; Chiswick, 1983; Gardner et al., 1985; Wong,...

Spousal interdependence, female power and divorce: a cross-cultural examination.
June 22, 1995... A recurrent speculation in the social science literature is that divorce rates climb when women gain more independence in marriage or more equality with men. This idea is present in many accounts of the secular rise in divorce accompanying...

Mental health in rural and urban Chinese families: the role of intergenerational personality discrepancy and family solidarity.
June 22, 1995... Across cultures, people are, by and large, social beings. Nonetheless, the importance of interpersonal relationships varies from culture to culture. Hsu (1985) has noted that, unlike Westerners, Chinese people define themselves not individually...

The East-West pattern of ethnic intermarriage and marital assimilation in Hawaii, 1969-1971 and 1979-1981.
June 22, 1995... In the Hawaiian "natural laboratory for the study of ethnicity," applicants for marriage licenses are asked to declare themselves in an open-ended statement that places each member of the couple in a "meaningful" ethnic category. These actions...

Changes in the breadwinner role: Punjabi families in transition.
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION The concept of the breadwinner has historically served to define relationships within families and societies. As family units respond to the dynamics of their social and economic environments, the concept of the breadwinner role...

Parenting styles and children's satisfaction with parenting in China and the United States.
June 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Since the People's Republic of China established its one child family policy in 1979, Chinese families have undergone great changes from their traditional system. While this policy still is not fully implemented in all parts of...

Understanding Family Process: Basics of Family Systems Theory.
June 22, 1995... The intellectual inheritance for family process theory is indeed diverse. Listed among the progenitors would be Shannon and Weaver's mathematical theory of communication, Weiner's cybernetics, the influence of Gregory Bateson, the writings of the...

Measurement of Love and Intimate Relations: Theories, Scales, and Applications for Love Development, Maintenance, and Dissolution.
June 22, 1995... This book is the sequel to Tzeng's Theories of Love Development, Maintenance, and Dissolution: Octagonal Cycle and Differential Perspectives (Praeger, 1992). In this second book, his focus on the measurement of love attempts to: 1) show...

The Canadian Family in Crisis.
June 22, 1995... Conway views the family as undergoing a major transition, from the traditional patriarchal family to an egalitarian family, and argues that while this transition is underway the family is in a state of serious crisis. This crisis partly involves...

Bitter Sweet Passage: Redress and the Japanese Canadian Experience.
June 22, 1995... This book which deals with terrible experience of Japanese Canadian Families who were interned during the Second World War on the false assumption that they were security risks. While the subject of this publication only partly deals with family...

Working with West Indian Families.
June 22, 1995... This book is aimed at readers in social services and education working with West Indian client populations. They will find it useful and rewarding. It provides useful questionnaires for assessing immigrants' problems, as well as references to...

Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions, rev. ed.
June 22, 1995... This book is designed to draw readers into two decades of feminist thinking about the family. Considering all issues raised by feminists, it is those that bear on the family that have been the most controversial. Among them, demands for abortion...

Women and Families: Feminist Reconstruction.
June 22, 1995... Women and Families: Feminist Reconstructions is a compact primer of interdisciplinary work on contemporary American women and families. Authors Kristine M. Baber and Katherine R. Allen draw on literatures of psychology, sociology, family studies,...

Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java.
June 22, 1995... In a carefully argued and written ethnography of rural Javanese family village, and factory life, Diane Lauren Wolf makes an important contribution to the comparative analysis of women's work. By evaluating both qualitative and quantitative data,...

Sexuality.
June 22, 1995... This short book on the expression of sexuality in the context of intimate relationships (dating, cohabiting and marital relationships) examines the contemporary studies carried out in this field. While the theoretical dimension is quite...

Dangerous Passage: The Social Control of Sexuality in Women's Adolescence.
June 22, 1995... Dangerous Passage presents some of the key shifts in the construction and management of adolescent female sexuality and reproduction as social problems, from the mid nineteenth century to the present. This particular range of deviant behaviours...

Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming and Community in the Midwest.
June 22, 1995... Prairie Patrimony is much more than a study of family, farming and community in the Midwest, and deserves a far wider audience than might be attracted by the title alone. In Prairie Patrimony Sonya Salamon demonstrates how culture and ethnicity...

Nonresidential Parenting: New Vistas in Family Living.
June 22, 1995... The complexity and interrelatedness of issues and themes of nonresidential parenting pose a challenge not only to the editors of this collection of articles but to families, practitioners, policy analysts, and researchers. As the editors of...

Fathers and Families: Paternal Factors in Child Development.
June 22, 1995... Using a life-span, biopsychosocial perspective, Biller discusses the involvement of fathers in a variety of different areas of child development. The book consists of twelve chapters, each of which focuses on the important part fathers play in...

Families and Aging.
June 22, 1995... As someone who regularly teaches a course on later life families, the Opportunity to review new material published on the topic is welcome. This volume, originally published as a special issue of the journal Generations, has as its stated purpose...

Aging in Black America.
June 22, 1995... The seventeen chapters in this volume provide analyses of data collected in the National Survey of Black Americans. The survey, conducted in 1979 and 1980, included 2,107 individuals, a cross-section sample of black Americans 18 years and older...

The Frail Elderly: Problems, Needs, and Community Responses.
June 22, 1995... The Frail Elderly by Carole Cox deals with frailty among older Americans as a major public health issue. By the year 2030 there will be about twelve million Americans aged 85 and over, and another twenty-three million aged 75 to 84. This clearly...

Trauma and Survival: Post-Traumatic and Dissociative Disorders in Women.
June 22, 1995... At last, a psychotherapeutic construct that takes structural factors into account. This book presents a new concept and approach to female psychology. Elizabeth Waites is a psychotherapist who looks beyond the level of individuals to the ways in...

Welfare System Reform: Coordinating Federal, State, and Local Public Assistance Programs.
June 22, 1995... The U.S. National Commission for Employment Policy commissioned these papers, intending to generate recommendations on improving coordination in the complex system of public assistance programs. Though Welfare System Reform is really focussed on...

The Other Half: Wives of Alcoholics and Their Social-Psychological Situation.
June 22, 1995... Jacqueline Wiseman's The Other Half describes the sequential processes of problem identification and coping of two sets of wives of alcoholics. Both the similarities and differences of the American and Finnish experiences provide a compelling...

Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook.
June 22, 1995... Susan Lukas has written a most useful books for the new social worker, therapist, or case worker, a handbook for interviewing new clients. This step by step approach guarantees the interviewer will "know the customer" (page xi). By carefully...

How to Organize Prevention: Political, Organizational, and Professional Challenges to Social Services.
June 22, 1995... This edited volume is addressed to social workers, policy analysts and, to a lesser extent, evaluation researchers. Its thirty-five contributors participated in the international conference on the organization of prevention held in 1990 at...