Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from March 22 1996

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from March 22 1996

Marriage as a pure relationship: exploring the link between premarital cohabitation and divorce in Canada.
March 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION One of the more puzzling findings in family sociology in recent years has been the strong negative association discovered between premarital cohabitation and marital stability. Contrary to the popular belief that living together...

What do education and work mean? Education, nonfamilial work/living experiences and premarital sex for women in Taiwan.
March 22, 1996... A QUIET REVOLUTION While premarital sex among teenagers is common in present Western societies, the substantial increase in premarital sexual relations and premarital pregnancy in Taiwan during recent decades has surprised people. The 1986...

Socioeconomic and familial status of women associated with age at first marriage in three Islamic societies.
March 22, 1996... Low socioeconomic status of women is often linked to their relegation to familial roles. This tendency is particularly evident, in, but certainly not limited to Islamic societies. A combination of early - often arranged - marriage, high...

Cumulative fertility in Iran.
March 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION After almost one decade of increasing fertility levels in Iran, there is currently strong support for a fertility control policy by the Government. A family planning program was established in 1989, and it is growing very fast...

Social disapproval of wife assaults: a national survey of Singapore.
March 22, 1996... Women's rights and, consequently, woman abuse have generated increasing public attention worldwide (Bunch, 1990; Chapman, 1990; Gondolf, 1990). An examination of woman abuse on an international scale highlights the diversity of cultures in which...

Do female-headed households have different shelter needs than men? The case of Monrovia Liberia.
March 22, 1996... The United Nations' Habitat Program indicates that a major proportion of dwellers in squatter settlements in developing countries are women and children, who represent the poorest households (United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, 1982). A...

Well-being among caregivers of indigent Black elderly.
March 22, 1996... Caring for elderly family members forces caregivers to cope with a number of factors that can take their toll on the caregiver's emotional well-being (Fitting et al., 1986; Zarit, Todd, and Zarit, 1986). The resulting burden can lead to...

The status and specific problems of elderly foreigners in the Federal Republic of Germany.
March 22, 1996... In a Europe of the 1990s, which recently took the first practical step to an economic and political area without borders, labour migration has taken on particular significance. In this process, many states of the European Union can draw on their...

Immigrant and Native Families: The Impact of Immigration on the Demographic Transformation of Western Massachusetts.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by SAMPSON LEE BLAIR This text provides a concise, yet very thorough, description of the impact of immigration into the Hampshire and Hampden counties area of Western Massachusetts between 1850 and 1900. Using a variety of data...

Family Tightrope: The Changing Lives of Vietnamese Americans.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by DANIEL GOODKIND This book is a very welcome addition to several literatures. While it focuses specifically on changes in family life among Vietnamese immigrants in the US, it spans a broad range of issues that will be of interest...

Family Land and Development in St. Lucia.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by CATHY A. RAKOWSKI This monograph is the first in a series launched by the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies. One objective of the series is to disseminate relevant information on the Caribbean...

Hindu Children in Britain.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by LALA CARR STEELMAN This ethnography essentially traces the life experiences of a dozen Hindu children growing up in Coventry, England whose parents originally migrated from India. This monograph provides a microscopic glimpse into...

Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by ANN GOETTING Ecofeminism is a theory that springs from various fields of feminist inquiry and activism, including peace movements, labor movements, women's health care, and the anti-nuclear, environmental, and animal liberation...

Women, Education, & Family Structure in India.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by DEEANN WENK This book brings together several excellent studies examining the linkages between gender, family, and education in India. As the editors point out, the multifaceted relationships between these spheres is often...

Working Wives and Dual-Earner Families.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by KAY B. FOREST The increased labor market participation of married women since the 1970s has been well-documented; however, little research has examined the comprehensive impact of wives' work status on the economic status of...

Their World, Our World: Reflections on Childhood.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by SPENCER E. CAHILL This is a bizarre little book. The opening chapter summarizes the findings of a cross-national study of school age children's everyday fears and concerns. It is followed by four chapters of breezy prose that are a...

International Handbook of Adolescence.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by VERED AMIT-TALAI This handbook provides national overviews of the situation of youths in thirty-one states. Klaus Hurrelmann's success in eliciting the contributions of forty-seven researchers from such a diverse range of countries...

Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by MARLENE EPP Historians make one of their greatest contributions when they can provide an historical context to a problem of contemporary relevance. Karen Dubinsky's study of sexual violence in Ontario at the turn of the century...

Bridging the Silence: Nonverbal Modalities in the Treatment of Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by JUDY AULETTE People who have been sexually abused often have difficulty articulating their experience. Finding words to describe what happened to them and how they felt about it as children, as well as what they think and feel now...

From Punishment to Doing Good: Family Courts and Socialized Justice in Ontario, 1880-1940.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by E.A. CEBOTAREV This is an excellent, well researched and significant book. It is well written and well organized. The 7 chapters are accompanied by copious end-notes, 4 appendices, a bibliography and an author-subject index. The...

AIDS Prevention and Services: Community-based Research.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by E. MATICKA-TYNDALE In the edited volume, AIDS Prevention and Services: Community Based Research, Johannes P. VanVugt sets out to make a case for the place of community based research within the compendium of research methodologies...

Gerontological Social Work: An Annotated Bibliography.
March 22, 1996... Reviewed by PICK CONNER What is the purpose of an annotated bibliography? To help scholars, teachers, and practitioners find sources of specific information, without having to search through the literature themselves. To help them find the...