Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from June 1999

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from June 1999

Matrimonial Behaviour in Canada and Ukraine: The Enduring Hold of Culture.(Review)
June 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION In an important article, published over three decades ago, John Hajnal (1965) established the existence of an East-West marriage pattern divide in Europe. Late marriage and the high proportion of never-marrying have been...

Cross-National Marriage in Sweden: Immigration and Assimilation 1971-1993.
June 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION Sweden is often thought of as a country with relatively little diversity in terms of ethnicity, religion and even social class. In Sweden today, however, with over 12% of the population foreign born or the children of...

A Reformulation of the Polygyny-Fertility Hypothesis.
June 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION Although the proportion of women in polygynous marriages has generally declined, over the last few years the effect of polygyny on fertility has drawn an extensive amount of research (Ahmed, 1986; Bean and Mineau, 1986;...

Structural Assimilation and Ethnic Fertility in Ghana.
June 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION This paper examines the relationship between structural assimilation and ethnic fertility differences in Ghana to determine the relative importance of socioeconomic and ethnic\cultural factors on possible convergence in...

The Precious Few: Women's Agency, Household Progressions and Fertility in Rajasthan Village.
June 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION The issue of supposed male authority and its counterpart, the 'structural mutedness' of women (Ardener, 1975) draws largely from the naturalness of the link between the dominated status of women and their role of mothering....

The Transition to Motherhood of Korean Women.
June 22, 1999... Since 1980, in the United States, there has been an increase in research on the transition to parenthood that focuses on the impact the birth of a child has on his/her parents (Smith, 1991; Smith, 1994). This research primarily has dealt with...

Men's Orientation Toward Marriage and Family Roles.
June 22, 1999... Given the visibility of the change in women's roles, especially in terms of labour force participation, many studies of gender-roles orientation focus exclusively on women, or on how women and men differ. Less attention is paid to the diversity...

Troubles in Interracial Talk About Discipline: An Examination of African American Child Rearing Narratives.
June 22, 1999... During the course of a five-year study of social service delivery, at an agency which will be referred to as Midwest Agency,(1) it was found that when social workers, who identified themselves as "white" discussed child rearing issues with...

Changes in Living Arrangement and Familial Support for the Elderly in Taiwan: 1963-1991.
June 22, 1999... Sociologists have long been interested in the study of the interrelationship between economic development and family structure, size and values (e.g., Goode, 1963; Parsons, 1943; Thornton & Fricke, 1987). The phenomenal advancement of the...

Racial/Ethnic Differences in High School Students' Academic Performance: Understanding the Interweave of Social Class and Ethnicity in the Family Context.
June 22, 1999... Differences in educational achievement across various ethnic and racial groups in the United States have been shown to be apparent in the early years of elementary school and to exist throughout the later years of secondary schooling (Stevenson...

RELIGION AND SOCIAL SYSTEM OF THE VIRASAIVA COMMUNITY.(Review)
June 22, 1999... CHEKKI, Dan A. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997, 149 pp., $55.00 hardcover. Though Hinduism is the main religion of India, there are diversities (despite unity) in it and hence, differences in the styles of life of various religious...

BINT ARAB: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1999... The migration of Arab women has received little attention in discourses of population movements in the Arab World. Prevailing societal ideologies have unquestionably been more confining to women compared to their male-counterparts. Cognizant of...