Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from June 2002

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from June 2002

Family backgrounds of teenage female sex workers in Istanbul metropolitan area *.
June 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION The International Labour Organisation targeting to eliminate child labour is directing special attention to one of its most intolerable and abusive forms- juvenile prostitution. The strategies addressed to this serious social...

The elder in the Cuban American family: making sense of the real and ideal *.
June 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION On a visit to a public housing building for elders in the City of Miami, Florida (U.S.A.), I was greeted in the lobby by a slight and energetic Cuban woman of about 70 years of age. The woman invited me into her neat little...

Dual legal system, Basotho culture and marital stability.
June 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION Lesotho has its indigenous or customary law and today the country has additional law that has been received from the Cape Colony, Holland and Britain. Thus a modem man or woman in Lesotho has a foot in two cultures. (Maqutu,...

Parental leave and father involvement in child care: Sweden and the United States *.
June 22, 2002... Originally, employment leave was available to mothers exclusively and was short in duration. The intent of this leave was primarily to allow for the mother's physical recuperation from childbirth rather than adjusting to the child or providing...

The changing role of the husband/father in the dual-earner family in South Africa.
June 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION When a bird's eye view is given of family theory of the twentieth century, one of the aspects that clearly comes to the fore, is that of the fact that both the family as a social institution and the family on collectivity...

Relational values and ideas regarding "successful aging" *.
June 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION Ideas regarding the gerontological term known as successful aging date back to 44 BC when Cicero wrote an essay on the nature of good aging (Oden, 1996 and Bowling, 1993). In it, he claimed that in order to age well one needs...

Cross-cultural studies of families: hidden differences.
June 22, 2002... The conduct of research across cultures is made more complex for many reasons, such as definition of constructs, relevance of constructs, issues on which people are willing to report honestly, differences in diversity of population within...

The linkage between work and family: female's employment patterns in three Chinese societies.
June 22, 2002... The significant rise of female's labor force participation in recent decades has become a focal topic worldwide. Outside of western industrialized nations, female's employment has been examined from its overall demographic trend, its...