Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from June 2004

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from June 2004

Abstracts (English).(includes multiple articles )(Author Abstract)
June 22, 2004... LINDA G. BELL, University of Houston, Clear Lake Houston, Texas, USA HISAKO DENDO, National Institute of Mental Health, Ichikawa, Japan YOJIRO NAKATA, Fukushima University, Fukushima, Japan DAVID C. BELL, Affiliated Systems...

Abstracts (French).(includes multiple articles )(Author Abstract)
June 22, 2004... LINDA G. BELL, University of Houston, Clear Lake Houston, Texas, USA HISAKO DENDO, National Institute of Mental Health, Ichikawa, Japan YOJIRO NAKATA, Fukushima University, Fukushima, Japan DAVID C. BELL, Affiliated Systems...

Abstracts (Spanish).(includes multiple articles )(Author Abstract)
June 22, 2004... LINDA G. BELL, University of Houston, Clear Lake Houston, Texas, USA HISAKO DENDO, National Institute of Mental Health, Ichikawa, Japan YOJIRO NAKATA, Fukushima University, Fukushima, Japan DAVID C. BELL, Affiliated Systems...

The experience of family in Japan and the United States: working with the constraints inherent in cross-cultural research*.
June 22, 2004... An examination of the scientific basis of cross-cultural explanation shows that the necessary logical requirements of such explanation cannot be met with certainty. In the first place, cross-cultural comparisons require that the same thing--the...

Ideology and changing family arrangements in Singapore.
June 22, 2004... An eminent mainstream journal of the sociology of the family has only recently taken to publishing articles that challenge the conventional perspective of family studies based on narrow rationalist foundations (Sprey 2000, Allen 2000: 8). Prior...

How parents influence the life plans of graduating Chinese university students*.
June 22, 2004... Students graduating from Chinese universities today enjoy unprecedented freedom of choice in shaping their own futures. True, the security of a guaranteed job has disappeared, but with it has gone the obligation to return to one's hometown to...

Making the move: cultural and parental influences on Canadian young adults' homeleaving decisions*.
June 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION The decision to leave the parental home is an important life course event that most young adults contemplate during their transition to adulthood. Moreover, homeleaving decisions have undergone dramatic transformation in many...

Inter-racial marriages in South Africa*.
June 22, 2004... Scholars have examined the rising rate of inter-ethnic and inter-racial marriage from several different theoretical perspectives. While researchers have used these theories to examine intergroup marriage in some Western societies, we do not...

"This is not where I belong!" The emotional, ongoing, and collective aspects of couples' decision making about where to live*.
June 22, 2004... This article explores the topic of decision making in couples and demonstrates that emotions are important in decision making, that decision making does not end when the decision is "made", and that many individuals outside the couple are...

Immigrant adolescents' individual and environmental influences on young adults' educational attainment*.(A Research Note)
June 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION In the Special Issue of this Journal dedicated to Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Families, Nauck and Settles (2001) examined the new challenges confronting family and migration research. They proposed, for example, that future...

Revitalizing the Institution of Marriage for the Twenty-First Century.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... HAWKINS, Alan J., Lynn D. WARDLE and David Orgon COOLIDGE, editors, REVITALIZING THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; An Agenda for Strengthening Marriage. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2002, 216pp., $24.95...

The Family in the Mediterranean Welfare States.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... NALDINI, Manuela, THE FAMILY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN WELFARE STATES. Portland, Oregon: International Specialized Book Services, 2003, 248 pp., $62.50 hardcover. Manuela Naldini examines the influence of a welfare state's institutions on...

Discovering the Welfare State in East Asia.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... ASPALTER, Christian, editor. DISCOVERING THE WELFARE STATE IN EAST ASIA. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2002, 198 pp., $56.95 hardcover. The book has the aim to describe the Welfare State in East Asia well aware of the fact that these...

Personnel Preparation in Disability and Community Life.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... RACINO, J.A., PERSONNEL PREPARATION IN DISABILITY AND COMMUNITY LIFE; Toward Universal Approaches to Support. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 2000, 330 pp., $65.95 hardcover. Racino carefully documents a well-researched...

The Package Deal.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... TOWNSEND, Nicholas W., THE PACKAGE DEAL; Marriage. Work and Fatherhood in Men's Lives. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2002, 264 pp., $19.95 softcover and $64.50 hardcover. Contemporary North American culture, like...

Children. Family and the State.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... THOMAS, Nigel, CHILDREN. FAMILY AND THE STATE: Decision-making and Child Participation. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2001, 242 pp., $65.00 hardcover. With this book, Nigel Thomas aims at an exploratory evaluation of the British system...

Becoming Asian American.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... KIBRIA, Nazli, BECOMING ASIAN AMERICAN; Second-Generation Chinese and Korean American Identities. Baltimore, Maryland: The John Hopkins University Press, 2002, 217pp., $40.95 hardcover. Kibria's book is a timely and important contribution...

Silenced Angels.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... PEINKOFER, James R., SILENCED ANGELS; The Medical. Legal, and Social Aspects of Shaken Baby Syndrome. Westport, Connecticut: Auburn House Publishers, 2002, 291 pp., $44.95 hardcover. This has got to be one of the most distressing and sad...

Changing Gender Roles.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... DeBIAGGI, Sylvia D.D., CHANGING GENDER ROLES; Brazilian Immigrant Families in the US. New York, NY: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2002, 163 pp., $55.00 hardcover. BALUJA, Kaari P., GENDER ROLES AT HOME AND ABROAD; The Adaptation of...

Violence in the Lives of Black Women.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... WEST, Carolyn M., editor, VIOLENCE IN THE LIVES OF BLACK WOMEN; Battered Black and Blue, co-published simultaneously as WOMEN and THERAPY. Volume 25, Numbers 3-4, 2002. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, 2002, 211 pp., $24.95 softcover and...

What Happened to Johnnie Jordan?(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... TOTH, JENNIFER, WHAT HAPPENED TO JOHNNIE JORDAN? The Story of a Child Turning Violent. New York, NY: The Free Press, 2002, 291 pp., $25.00 hardcover. This intense narrative account of the life of Johnnie Jordan draws the reader into the...