Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from June 2001

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from June 2001

Intermarriages between Germans and Foreigners in Germany.
June 22, 2001... THOMAS KLEIN [*] INTRODUCTION Since the end of World War II the German Federal Republic has been a country of permanent immigration. Germany is comparable with other classical immigration countries in respect to the migration of...

Dual-Resident Marriages in Thailand: A Comparison of Two Cultural Groups of Women.
June 22, 2001... PAUL L. SCHVANEVELDT [*] MARGARET H. YOUNG [**] JAY D. SCHVANEVELDT [***] The advent of urbanization and economic specialization has greatly affected family structure, size, and residence (Adams, 1971; Coontz, 1997). These broad...

Shame in Korean Families [*].
June 22, 2001... It could be argued that shame is a common feeling and concept across cultures so that knowing how shame is expressed, understanding the meanings of shame, understanding its sociocultural context, and knowing how it is dealt with in one culture...

The Hutterite Family in Transition [*].
June 22, 2001... BRON B. INGOLDSBY [**] This article is an attempt to describe family life among the Hutterian Brethren. Very little research in this area has been published in the last twenty or more years. After Peter (1971) and Hostetler(1974) "wrote...

Discrepant Parent-Adolescent Views on Family Functioning: Predictors of Poorer Self-Esteem and Problems of Emotion and Behaviour in British and Canadian Adolescents [*].(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... CHRISTOPHER BAGLEY [**] LORNE BERTRAND [***] FLOYD BOLITHO [****] KANKA MALLICK [*****] INTRODUCTION It is well-established in the self-esteem literature that parents, in providing a firm but affectionate environment for...

New Immigrants' Perceptions of Family Life in Origin and Host Cultures: In-group and Out-group Favoritism Effect.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... SHLOMO A. SHARLIN [*] VICTOR MOIN [*] INTRODUCTION Immigration is a phenomenon which requires adaptation to a new, culturally unfamiliar environment that generates a high level of uncertainty. Knowledge of different aspects of the...

Contesting the Rhetoric of 'Black Family Breakdown' from Barbados.
June 22, 2001... CHRISTINE BARROW [*] "The traditional extended family (parents, children, grandparents and other relatives)... has been replaced by the nuclearfamily (parents and children only) and this has caused 'a breakdown in family life"'...

Migrant Culture and Changing Face of Family Structure in Lesotho.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... I.V.O. MODO [*] INTRODUCTION With the discovery of diamonds in the Orange Free State in 1867 and the opening of gold mines in Transvaal in 1886, Basotho men were drawn into the capitalist politic-economic system and have since depended...

A GENERATION AT RISK: GROWING UP IN AN ERA OF FAMILY UPHEAVAL.
June 22, 2001... MOLLY A. MARTIN [*] AMATO, Paul R. and Alan BOOTH, A GENERATION AT RISK: GROWING UP IN AN ERA OF FAMILY UPHEAVAL. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000,319 pp., $18.95 softcover. A Generation at Risk provides a thorough...

RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD: DECRIMINALIZING CONTRACEPTION IN CANADA.(Review)
June 22, 2001... ANNETTE BURFOOT [*] APPLEBY, Brenda Margaret, RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD: DECRIMINALIZING CONTRACEPTION IN CANADA. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1999,301 pp., $24.95 softcover/$60.00 hardcover. Brenda Margaret Appleby...

FAMILIES AND COMMUNES: AN EXAMINATION OF NONTRADITIONAL LIFESTYLES.(Review)
June 22, 2001... JUNE CORMAN [*] SMITH, William L., FAMILIES AND COMMUNES: AN EXAMINATION OF NONTRADITIONAL LIFESTYLES. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1999, 159 pp., $24.95 hardcover. Families and Communes is an accessible book on life in...

WOMEN, FAMILIES, & HIV/AIDS: A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE EPIDEMIC IN AMERICA.(Review)
June 22, 2001... CHRISTY M. PONTICELLI [*] CAMPBELL, Carole, WOMEN, FAMILIES, & HIV/AIDS: A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE EPIDEMIC IN AMERICA. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999,257 pp., $18.95 softcover/$49.95 hardcover. In the past two...

PROFILING CANADA'S FAMILY II.(Review)
June 22, 2001... ZHENG WU [*] The Vanier Institute of the Family, PROFILING CANADA'S FAMILY II. Toronto, Ontario: The Vanier Institute of the Family, 2000, 187 + xiii pp., $30.00 softcover. Over much of the last century the family, as one of the oldest...