Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from March 2002

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from March 2002

Perceived attitudes towards romanticism; a cross-cultural study of American, Asian-Indian, and Turkish young adults *.
March 22, 2002... Romanticism has been defined as: "a general disposition an individual has towards love, marriage, the family, and with relationships involving male-female interaction in which the affective component is regarded as primary and all other...

Who interracially dates: an examination of the characteristics of those who have interracially dated *.
March 22, 2002... Interracial romantic relationships are useful as a barometer of macrolevel race relations (Gordon, 1964; Lewis and Yancey, 1995; Yancey and Yancey, 1997). Members of different groups that have sufficiently reduced social distance between each...

Education, work, and childbearing after age 30 *.
March 22, 2002... Beliefs about the "appropriate" age for motherhood have long governed the reproductive behavior of women. In 1950, a woman who wanted children was expected to complete her intentions by the end of her twenties. Thirty was believed to be too old...

Biased childhood sex ratios and the economic status of the family in rural China *.
March 22, 2002... Demographers have consistently found that in human populations male births are slightly more frequent than female births. Data from several European countries over different periods of time show that, on average, about 105 to 106 boys are born...

Qualities men prefer for children in the US and Sweden; differences among biological, step and informal fathers *.
March 22, 2002... Most of the studies of the dramatic growth in cohabitation, in divorce, and in non-marital childbearing, a constellation of rapid changes sometimes called "the second demographic transition" (van de Kaa 1987), have linked these changes to the...

Competence and family support of vulnerable and invulnerable adolescents representing scheduled tribes and scheduled castes in India *.
March 22, 2002... As the 21st century unfolds it is becoming increasingly apparent that the future of any society depends on the ability of its citizens to help children and youth develop their full potential and have the opportunity to lead productive and...

Immigrant women challenge the role of men: how the changing power relationship within Iranian families in Sweden intensifies family conflicts after immigration.
March 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE If one is to describe and analyze the power of women in families in the Western world today, one should also discuss the situation of women in immigrant families. We know that the situation of women in Sweden is...

Indian suicide and marriage: a research note *.
March 22, 2002... INTRODUCTION Among the propositions so thoroughly confirmed that they may claim the status of sociological laws is that which states that marriage tends to 'protect' individuals from suicide. Durkheim noted that married people over 20 of...

No Paradise Yet: The World's Women Face the New Century.
March 22, 2002... MIRSKY, Judith and Marty RADLETT, eds., NO PARADISE YET; The World's Women Face the New Century. London: The Panos Institute and Zed Books, 2000, 261 PP., $ 65.00 hardcover. This is one of the most eye-opening and disturbing books I have...

My Mother Who Fathered Me: A Study of the Families in Three Selected Communities in Jamaica.
March 22, 2002... CLARK, Edith, MY MOTHER WHO FATHERED ME; A Study of the Families in Three Selected Communities in Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica: The Press University of West Indies, 1999, 274pp., $25.00 softcover. This text is a re-issuing by the Clarke...

When Men Are Women: Manhood Among Gabra Nomads of East Africa.
March 22, 2002... WOOD, John C, WHEN MEN ARE WOMEN; Manhood Among Gabra Nomads of East Africa. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 199, 240pp., $49.95 hardcover/$ 19.95 softcover. This book is an ethnographic account of the Gabra, nomadic...

Full Circles. Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition.
March 22, 2002... BATESON, Mary Catherine, FULL CIRCLES. OVERLAPPING LIVES: Culture and Generation in Transition. New York, NY: The Ballantine Publishing Group, 2001,263 pp., $12.95 softcover. This book, by the daughter of famous anthropologists Mary...

Beyond the Bottom Line: The Search for Dignity at Work.
March 22, 2002... RAYMAN, Paula M., BEYOND THE BOTTOM LINE; The Search for Dignity at Work. New York, NY: Palgrave (St. Martin's Press), 2001, 220pp., $26.95 hardcover. "Can you work and have a life?" Paula Rayman addresses this question in her book, which...

Life Stories of Women Who Left Abusive Men.
March 22, 2002... GOEITING, Ann, LIFE STORIES OF WOMEN WHO LEFT ABUSIVE MEN. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1999,286 pp., $24.95 hardcover. The statistics are terrifying: every year more than 2.5 million cases of battering are reported in the...