Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from June 2006

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from June 2006

Editor's note.(Editorial)
June 22, 2006... This year we are trying to expedite the mailing of the issues of the Journal. Some of the subscribers encountered long delay in receiving the issues which were sent by surface mail. Therefore, we are sending the Journal copies by air-mail to...

Obituary.(Prof. Kevin McLeod Marjoribanks, Vice-Chancellor of University of Adelaide)(Obituary)(Brief article)
June 22, 2006... It is with great regret to inform you all readers of this Journal the untimely demise of Prof. Kevin McLeod Marjoribanks, Vice-Chancellor of University of Adelaide. Australia on April 29th 2006. Prof. Marjoribanks had published number excellent...

Abstracts (English).(family studies)
June 22, 2006... BARBARA A. MITCHELL, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology & Dept. of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC. V5A 1S6 Canada Changing Courses: The Pendulum of Family Transitions in Comparative perspective ...

Abstracts (French).
June 22, 2006... BARBARA A. MITCHELL, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology & Dept. of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC. V5A 1S6 Canada Changing Courses: The Pendulum of Family Transitions in Comparative perspective ...

Abstracts (Spanish).
June 22, 2006... BARBARA A. MITCHELL, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology & Dept. of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC. V5A 1S6 Canada Changing Courses: The Pendulum of Family Transitions in Comparative perspective ...

Changing courses: the pendulum of family transitions in comparative perspective.
June 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Striking transformations are taking place in the family lives of young adults in Western, industrialized societies. Relative to their parents' generation, today's young people often experience less permanency and more movement...

Exploring relationship functioning in premarital Caucasian and Latino/a couples: recognizing and valuing cultural differences*.
June 22, 2006... Recent divorce trends show that 43 percent of first marriages end in separation or divorce (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2002). Furthermore, second marriages fail at a rate of about 60 percent (Gottman, 1994). Based on these...

Premarital characteristics, selection into marriage, and African American marital disruption*.
June 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Research on marital stability among African Americans has a long history, dating back to the time of DuBois (1899). Ruggles (1997) documents that the marital disruption rates of African Americans have been substantially higher...

Living together or communicating at a distance: structural and associational solidarity between mid-life parent and adult child in New Zealand*.
June 22, 2006... Family theorists in the early to mid-twentieth century argued that as a result of industrialisation, occupational specialisation and urbanisation, the family was being depleted of its functions, devolving them in part to other institutions...

Maasai marriage: a comparative study of Kenya and Tanzania*.
June 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Changes in marriage are a "ready barometer" (Goodkind, 1996:718) of change in society. Comparative analyses reveal rising age at first marriage for both men and women (Westoff et al, 1994) and a relative decline in the...

Correlates of spousal communication on fertility and family planning among the Yoruba of Nigeria.
June 22, 2006... Several studies have tried to examine the reasons for the sustained high fertility among various ethnic groups in Sub-Saharan Africa (van de Walle and Foster, 1990; Kritz and Gurak, 1991; Isiugo-Abanihe, 1994a; Makinwa-Adebusoye and Feyisetan,...

Intergenerational transmission of motherhood patterns: three generations of immigrant mothers of Moroccan descent in Israel.
June 22, 2006... Patterns of gender role division and child rearing are determined by the belief system, values and conditions that characterize a given culture (Harkness, Super & van Tijen, 2000). In traditional societies it is one of the main...

Asphalt Justice: A Critique of the Criminal Justice System in America.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Cook, John Raymond. ASPHALT JUSTICE: A CRITIQUE OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN AMERICA. Praeger: Westport, Connecticut, 2001, hardcover, 211 pages. ISBN0-275-96827 Cook is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Mars Hill College in North...

Parent-Youth Relations: Cultural and Cross-Cultural Perspectives.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Peterson, G.W., Steinmetz, S.K., and Wilson, S.M. (Eds.). PARENT-YOUTH RELATIONS: CULTURAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES. Binghamton, New York: The Haworth Press, Inc. 2005, soft cover $79.95; hardcover $109.95. This timely collection of...

The Family in Global Perspective: A Gendered Journey.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... LEEDER, Elaine. THE FAMILY IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: A GENDERED JOURNEY. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004. 305pages, soft cover $43.95. Introductory family textbooks often seem to have been written with the goal of being as much as possible like...

Survival of the African American Family: The Institutional Impact of U.S. Social Policy.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Jewell, K. Sue. SURVIVAL OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILY: THE INSTITUTIONAL IMPACT OF U.S. SOCIAL POLICY. Westport: Praeger, 2003. 303 pages. Jewell makes an interesting effort to provide a relatively nonpartisan assessment of the effects...

Making Adult Stepfamilies Work: Strategies for the Whole Family When a Parent Marries Later in Life.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Gabe, Grace and Jean Lipman-Blumen, MAKING ADULT STEPFAMILIES WORK: STRATEGIES FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY WHEN APARENT MARRIES LATER IN LIFE. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2005, soft cover, 336 pages. $14.95 US/$21.95 CAN There is relatively...

Death of a Parent: Transition to a New Adult Identity.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Umberson, Debra. DEATH OF APARENT: TRANSITION TO ANEW ADULT IDENTITY. Cambridge University Press, 2003, hardcover, 255 pages. ISBN#0-521-81338-7 I remember when my mother-in-law called us one night to tell us that my husband's father had...

Morality and Custom in Ancient Greece.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Dillon, John M. MORALITY AND CUSTOM IN ANCIENT GREECE. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. $29.22. Scholarship focusing on issues of morality and custom in ancient Greece traditionally has revolved around the...

Sexual Revolutions: Gender and Labor at the Dawn of Agriculture.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Peterson, Jane. SEXUAL REVOLUTIONS: GENDER AND LABOR AT THE DAWN OF AGRICULTURE, Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2002, Cloth 0-7591-0256-2 $75.00; Paper 0-7591-0257-0 $29.95. Drawing on a feminist orientation, Jane Peterson has organized...

Marriage among African American women: a gender perspective.
June 22, 2006... Analyses of single-mother families stood at the center of Black family scholarship during the twentieth century, with social scientists and policymakers alike theorizing the causes of such families, debating their ability to adequately perform...