Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from March 2001

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from March 2001

Conflicts between Family Strategies and State Policy in a Global Society.
March 22, 2001... BARBARA H. SETTLES [*] INTRODUCTION In the relationships between families and nation-states in terms of immigration it would appear that the dominant direction of influence would be from the state to the family. Usually the analysis of...

Beyond Joint and Nuclear: The Indian Family Revisited [*].
March 22, 2001... PREMIILLA D'CRUZ [**] SHALINI BHARAT [**] The systematic study of the family in India dates back to the 1940s. The works of M.N. Srinivas (1942) and M.N. Banerjee (1944-45) appear to be the earliest published materials (See Bharat &...

Relative Socioeconomic Status of Spouses, Gender Attitudes, and Attributes, and Marital Quality Experienced by Couples in Metropolitan Moscow [*].
March 22, 2001... DANA VANNOY [**] LISA A. CUBBINS [**] Socioeconomic status is clearly important for marital relationships. Families with less stress created by economic hardship have greater opportunity to focus on family relationships and quality of...

Decision-Making Influence in the Family: A Comparison of Turkish Families in Germany and in Turkey.
March 22, 2001... UTE SCHONPFLUG [*] INTRODUCTION Decision-making influence of family members in domains of family life seems to be a valid indicator for family structure and characteristic for different cultural contexts (c.f. Schonpflug and Fraczek,...

Children of Two Cultures: Immigrant Children from Ethiopia in Israel.
March 22, 2001... RIVKA W. BAR-YOSEF [*] INTRODUCTION The second part of the twentieth century could be rightly labeled as the century of migration. Vast numbers of people are moving from their country of origin to new countries in order to find better...

Child's Emotional Well-being and Parental Marriage Stability in Croatia.
March 22, 2001... MIRA CUDINA [*] JOSIP OBRADOVIC [**] INTRODUCTION In an effort to summarise research results on the impact of parental marriage stability on the emotional well-being of children, some meta-analytic papers (Amato, 1993) and reviews...

Strategic Adjustments of Elderly Asian Americans: Living Arrangements and Headship [*].
March 22, 2001... VOON CHIN PHUA [**] GAYLE KAUFMAN [***] KEONG SUK PARK [****] INTRODUCTION With the 1965 amendments to the immigration policy favoring family reunification, Asian immigration has increased. Unlike earlier waves of Asian...

Patriarchal Family Ideology and Female Homicide Victimization in Fiji.
March 22, 2001... MENSAH ADINKRAH [*] INTRODUCTION Scholarly interest in female homicide victimization, or femicide, has burgeoned in recent decades, as evidenced by the abundance of published material that has accumulated on the topic in the past 20...

Institutional Reforms, Population Policy, and Adoption of Children: Some Observations in a North China Village [*].
March 22, 2001... WEIGUO ZHANG [**] INTRODUCTION There is considerable research on child abandonment in contemporary China related to Chinese family planning programs. Johnson (1996) indicated that subsequent to the introduction of one-child policy at...

FAMILY ETHNICITY: STRENGTH IN DIVERSITY.(Review)
March 22, 2001... SHERYLINE A. ZEBROSKI [*] McADOO, Harriette Pipes, FAMILY ETHNICITY: STRENGTH IN DIVERSITY. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications Inc., 1999, 400 pp., $29.95 softcover. Family Ethnicity is an anthology of articles about ethnic...

POVERTY, SOCIAL ASSISTANCE, AND THE EMPLOYABILITY OF MOTHERS: RESTRUCTURING WELFARE STATES.(Review)
March 22, 2001... BAKER, Maureen and David TIPPEN, POVERTY, SOCIAL ASSISTANCE, AND THE EMPLOYABILITY OF MOTHERS: RESTRUCTURING WELFARE STATES, Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1999, 316 pp., $24.95 softcover / $60.00 hardcover. The rhetoric of...

THE GENDER LENS: CARING AND GENDER.(Review)
March 22, 2001... SHERYLINE A. ZEBROSKI [*] CANCIAN, Francesca M. and Stacey J. OLIKER, THE GENDER LENS: CARING AND GENDER. Thousand Oaks, California: Pine Forge Press, 2000, 183 pp., $21.95 softcover. This book explores the dimensions of caregiving...