Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from March 1994

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from March 1994

State-to-state differences in social inequality and social bonds in relation to assaults on wives in the United States. (Special Issue: Family Violence)
March 22, 1994... THEORIES OF WIFE-BEATING Individual-Level Versus Social System-Level Theories Most research on the causes of wife-beating has used data on the characteristics of the persons involved (such as their education or personality) or...

Wife beating and modernization: the case of Papua New Guinea. (Special Issue: Family Violence)
March 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION In response to a directive from the Minister of Justice in 1982, the Papua New Guinea Law Reform Commission undertook a series of standardized questionnaire surveys to investigate the extent and nature of domestic violence...

Out-of-town brides: international marriage and wife abuse among Chinese immigrants. (Special Issue: Family Violence)
March 22, 1994... During the mid-nineteenth century, tens of thousands of Chinese males came to the United States to work in the gold mines and on railroads (Barth, 1964). Since family members were not allowed to accompany them, there were very few Chinese women...

Group work with African American men who batter: toward more ethnically sensitive practice. (Special Issue: Family Violence)
March 22, 1994... Over the past two decades, awareness and concern about the incidence and seventy of wife or partner abuse has mounted. information about men who batter has grown. Prevention and treatment efforts have been developed and widely disseminated as...

Violence toward black women in a nationality representative sample of black families. (Special Issue: Family Violence)
March 22, 1994... Despite the growth of research on family violence, our knowledge about family violence in families of color or minority families is limited. One reason for this is because there have been few systematic studies of family violence based on...

Child maltreatment: a test of sociobiological theory. (Special Issue: Family Violence)
March 22, 1994... Although the American Humane Association (1986) reported 1.7 million cases of child maltreatment in the U.S. in 1984, attempts to understand and ameliorate child maltreatment have met with limited success. Perhaps as a result, sociobiology has...

Parental abduction of children from interracial and cross-cultural marriages. (Special Issue: Family Violence)
March 22, 1994... Violence and crimes involving family members, including physical and sexual abuse of children, elder abuse, spousal violence and marital rape, are widely recognized as serious social problems in many societies. In the U.S., much of the concern...