Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from March 1999

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from March 1999

Work-family stage and satisfaction with work-family balance.
March 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION Work and Family Stage Family development theory (Hill & Rodgers, 1964; Rodgers, 1973; Aldous, 1978; Mattessich & Hill, 1987; White, 1991; Rodgers and White, 1993) posits that each stage of the family is marked by a...

Dynamic dimensions of family structure in low-income African American families: emergent themes in qualitative research.
March 22, 1999... In the past two decades, dramatic increases in the number of economically disadvantaged households headed by females have renewed scholarly interest in the relationship between persistent poverty and family structure (McLanahan & Sandefur,...

Marital power relations, resources and gender role ideology: a multivariate model for assessing effects.
March 22, 1999... Over the past 40 years, empirical research on marital power relations has been based on Resource Theory (Blood and Wolfe, 1960), an extension of the well-known Exchange Theory (Thibaut and Kelley, 1959). This popular approach to family power...

Away from home: Iranian women, displacement cultural resistance and change.
March 22, 1999... Patriarchy is a structural and ideological system of domination which produces, sustains and reproduces authoritarian, asymmetrical sexist values and practices. The material conditions of life - that is, political, economic and social...

Work and marriage: mother-daughter similarities in Sri Lanka.
March 22, 1999... Generational interaction and gender roles are two of the most important dimensions of family life in most societies. This is especially true for Asian cultures where status and roles in the gender and generational hierarchies are key to...

Single women in Nepal: familial support, familial neglect.
March 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION Women, commonly lacking access to property, jobs, and power, have in many conunmunities successfully relied on one another(1) as they work to create sustainable futures for themselves and (often) their dependents. Women of...

Prevalence and patterns of female headed households in Latin America: 1970-1990.
March 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION Recent research almost uniformly finds increasing trends in female headed households in the United States and other industrialized countries (Garfinkel and McLanahan, 1986; Wojtkiewicz et al., 1990; Bennett, Bloom and Craig,...

Parental attitudes toward their parenting styles and children's competence in families whose children are hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriers in Guangzhou China.
March 22, 1999... More than 20,000 children in Guangzhou were carriers of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), and one out of every six children between the ages of three to six were victims of HBV (Guangzhou AGAPE newsletter 1990; Guangzhou Daily News, Mar. 26 1991). In...

Ethiopian and Israeli students' adjustment to college: the effect of the family, social support and individual coping styles.
March 22, 1999... Ethiopian refugees have been a growing ethnic group in Israel during the past few decades, and children who entered Israel as a part of this immigration pattern are now in the college system. These students are considered to be at risk because...

Living arrangements of older parents in Korea.
March 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION Living arrangements are an important dimension of family relations influencing the daily lives of the elderly (Kertzer, 1986). However, the living arrangements of older persons vary widely across societies. For example, living...

The Family in India.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Critical Essays. New Delhi: Orient Longman Ltd., 1998, 173 pp., $14.00 / Rs. 110.00 softcover. In this collection of essays, A. M. Shah presents an analysis of the family as one of the fundamental structures of Indian society. The articles...

The Trouble with Normal.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality. Toronto Canada: University of Toronto Press Inc., 1997, 225 pp., $19.95 softcover / $50.00 hardcover. The trouble with Normal: Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality is more about...

Sexually Aggressive Children.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Coming to Understand Them. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997, 246 pp., $24.50 softcover. This work lays out a new field of social science study concerned with preadoleseent children who exhibit sexually aggressive behaviors...

Teenage Sexuality, Opposing Viewpoints.(Review)
March 22, 1999... San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1994, 236 pp., $16.20 softcover/$26.20 hardcover. This book is one of several volumes in the Opposing Viewpoints Series, edited by David Bender and Bruno Leone. Others of possible interest to readers...