Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from March 2005

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from March 2005

Abstracts (English).
March 22, 2005... LINDY WILLIAMS, Department of Development Sociology, Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. MICHAEL PHILIPGUEST, Population Council, P.O.BOX 138, Pratunam Post Office, Bangkok 10409, Thailand. Attitudes Toward Marriage...

Abstracts (French).
March 22, 2005... LINDY WILLIAMS, Department of Development Sociology, Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. MICHAEL PHILIP GUEST, Population Council, P.O.BOX 138, Pratunam Post Office, Bangkok 10409, Thailand. Attitudes Toward...

Abstracts (Spanish).
March 22, 2005... LINDY WILLIAMS, Department of Development Sociology, Warren Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. MICHAEL PHILIP GUEST, Population Council, P.O.BOX 138, Pratunam Post Office, Bangkok 10409, Thailand. Attitudes Toward...

Attitudes toward marriage among the urban middle-class in Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines*.
March 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION Tracking marriage patterns in different contexts is important for a variety of reasons. In policy circles considerable attention has been paid to the negative effects of early marriage, particularly for women. These include,...

Ethnic intermarriage in Beijing and Xinjiang, China, 1990*.
March 22, 2005... Researchers have paid considerable attention to intergroup marriages in western societies, such as the United States and Australia. Few, however, have studied intergroup marriages in nonwestern societies. In this paper we examine ethnic...

Family size control by infanticide in the great agrarian societies of Asia*.
March 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION An important issue in demography is whether there is evidence for premodern population control, especially control of family size. In an earlier paper we have argued that there is insufficient evidence to conclude that...

Does family policy environment moderate the effect of single-parenthood on children's academic achievement? A study of 14 European countries.
March 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION In recent years, several large studies have compiled rich comparative data on the family policy environments in Europe (see, for example, Bradshaw et al., 1996; Clearinghouse, 2001). However, few international studies on...

Public school teachers perspectives on the contemporary Hutterite family.(Hutterian Brethren)
March 22, 2005... Foster (1984) stated in his study of three communal societies that "No social order is static, or unchanging, especially when it demands the kind of intense commitment and dedication that these experiments did" (p. 245). The same can be said...

Impact of gender disparities in family carework on women's life chances in Chiapas, Mexico*.
March 22, 2005... BACKGROUND Women's family caregiving responsibilities and the increase in women's labor force participation over the past century have been extensively documented in industrialized countries, yet fewer studies have been conducted in...

Intrafamiliar congruence in gender role attitudes and ethnic stereotypes: the Israeli case.
March 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION The study examines intrafamiliar congruence between mothers, fathers, and their adolescent children in two types of social schemata: gender role attitudes and ethnic stereotypes. Social schemata are cognitive frameworks...

Fatherhood in urban Mexico*.
March 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION This paper analyzes the practice of fatherhood in urban Mexico in the late 20th century. As it is known, this practice includes quite distinct, highly complex dimensions, such as deciding whether and when to have children,...

Sex differences in the effects of family structure on children's aggressive behavior*.(A RESEARCH NOTE)
March 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION There is no dearth of scientific literature and stereotypes on sex differences in children's emotional and behavioral outcomes. Both academic research and popular media have linked some of these outcomes to changes in family...

Family and Community in Ireland.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... ARENSBERG, Conrad M. and Solon T. Kimball, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY IN IRELAND (3rd ed. with a new introduction by Anne Byrne, Ricca Edmondson and Tony Varley). Ennis, County Clare, Ireland: Clasp Press, 2001, 417 pp., 33 Euro hardcover. ...

The Sibling Society: Papers Presented at the Robert Bly Colloquium.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... WHITE, Terry, ed., THE SIBLING SOCIETY: Papers Presented at the Robert Bly Colloquium. Lanham. MD: University Press of America. 2000, 216pp., $36.00 hardcover. Nearly a decade ago poet Robert Bly's The Sibling Society (1996) offered a...

Home and Kin: Families in Asia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... QUAH, Stella R., HOME AND KIN: Families in Asia. Portland, OR: International Specialized Book Services, 2003, 245pp., $26.00 softcover. This remarkable book, which must have been difficult to research and write, provides a major new...

Measuring and Monitoring Children's Well Being.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... BEN-ARIEH, A., N. H. KAUFAMN, A. B. ANDREWS, R. M. GOERGE, B. J. LEE and J. L. ABER, eds., MEASURING AND MONITORING CHILDREN'S WELL BEING. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, 158pp., $80.00 hardcover. Measuring...

Time to Care; Redesigning Child Care to Promote Education. Support Families, and Build Communities.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... LOMBARDI, Joan, TIME TO CARE; Redesigning Child Care to Promote Education. Support Families, and Build Communities. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2003, 232pp., $18.95 softcover. As many will read in the title of this book, it...

Exploring Twins; Towards a Social Analysis of Twinship.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... STEWART, Elizabeth A.. EXPLORING TWINS; Towards a Social Analysis of Twinship. New York, NY: Global Publishing at St. Martin's Press, 2003, 221 pp., $26.95 softcover. This extremely dense and turgid book, written by a sociologist who gave...

Journeys After Adoption: Understanding Lifelong Issues.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... SCHOOLER, Jayne E. and Betsie L. NORRIS, JOURNEYS AFTER ADOPTION: Understanding Lifelong Issues. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey, 2002, 292 pp., $23.95 softcover. Adoption is often represented in the popular media and scholarly...

Global Perspectives in Family Therapy: Development, Practice and Trends.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... NG, Kits., ed., GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES IN FAMILY THERAPY: Development, Practice and Trends. Independence, KT: Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2003, 234pp., $39.95 hardcover. This interesting, slender volume comes at a time when globalization and...