Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from March 2008

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from March 2008

Abstracts (English).(Report)
March 22, 2008... CARDELL K. JACOBSON, Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University, Utah, USA. TIM B. HEATON, Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University, Utah, USA. Comparative patterens of Interracial Marriage: Structural Opportunities,...

Comparative patterns of interracial marriage: structural opportunities, third-party factors, and temporal change in immigrant societies.(Report)
March 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION Patterns of mate selection exhibit remarkable cross-cultural and sub-cultural variation (see Hamon and Ingoldsby, 2003; Qian, 1997). The specific nature of the contact between groups in each society creates unique patterns of...

The impact of migration on marital relationships: a study of Ethiopian immigrants in Toronto.(Report)
March 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION Much research has examined the effect of migration upon individual psychological and sociocultural adaptation (Karasz, 2005; Ahmad, ar al., 2004; Boyd & Grieco, 2003; Darvishpour, 2002). The former is commonly associated with...

Determinants of birth interval dynamics in Kohgylooye and Bovairahmad province, Iran.(Report)
March 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION In most developing countries, research on fertility largely examines the causes and consequences of total fertility, either complete or incomplete. Less attention has been paid to the timing of births. Timing nonetheless, has...

"I hardly understand English, but ...": Mexican origin fathers describe their commitment as fathers despite the challenges of immigration.(Report)
March 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION Latinos are the largest and most rapidly growing immigrant minority group in the U.S. (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2005). Of this group, every year over half a million individuals migrate from Mexico to the U.S. (OISDHS, 2003)....

Differences between European Americans and African Americans in the association between child obesity and disrupted parenting.(Report)
March 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION The rate of obesity among children has more than doubled the past 30 years (Berkowitz and Stunkard 2002) increasing concern about its physical and emotional health consequences (Braet, Mervielde, and Vandereycken 1997; DeJong...

The factors associated with adolescent marriages and outcomes of adolescent pregnancies in Mardin Turkey.(Report)
March 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION In recent years, adolescent pregnancy has become an important life-threatening issue worldwide. One in every 10 births in the world today is to a mother who is still a child herself, and complications of pregnancy and...

Divorce: a structural problem not just a personal crisis.(Report)
March 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION Urbanization has transformed societies globally and its impact is not only apparent in the infrastructure of these countries, but also in the everyday life of the individuals. Two factors that have been essential in the...

In the eyes of God: how attachment theory informs historical and Contemporary marriage and religious practices among Abrahamic faiths.(Report)
March 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION Judaism, Christianity, and Islam represent three of the greatest religious traditions in the world. Each is unique, and yet each also contains a shared amalgamation of religious traditions, dogmas, rituals, and conflicts...

Reciprocity revisited: give and take in Dutch And Immigrant families.(Report)
March 22, 2008... Introduction The idea that reciprocity is the basic principle underlying forms of social organization, among which the family, is as old as classical anthropology and sociology. The essence of the principle is that giving prompts...

Child Honoring: How to turn this world around.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Cavoukian, R. and S. Olfman (Eds.). CHILD HONORING: HOW TO TURN THIS WORLD AROUND. Praeger Publishers, 2006,278 pp., $29.95 USA. Raffi, well known children's troubadour, has developed his child-first approach into a simple philosophy that...

Family life in 20th Century America.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Coleman, Marilyn, Lawrence H. Ganong, and Kelly Warzinik.FAMILY LIFE IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICA.Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 2007. 324 pp. $65.00 US. ISBN 13:978-0-313-33656-9 ISBN 10:0-313-33356-4. A major strength of this book in...

Family welfare: gender property, and inheritance since the seventeenth century.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Green, David R. and Owens Alastair (Eds.). FAMILY WELFARE: GENDER PROPERTY, AND INHERITANCE SINCE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. Praeger Publishers 2004, Westport. Hearing the word "welfare", social scientists usually think of the state as the...

International family studies: developing curriculaand teaching tools.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Hamon, Raeann R. (Ed.). INTERNATIONAL FAMILY STUDIES: DEVELOPING CURRICULAAND TEACHING TOOLS. Binghamton, New York: The Haworth Press, Inc., 2006. This edited volume is a comprehensive look at a number of ways to internationalize family...

Mutuality matters: family, faith and just love.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Anderson, Herbert, Edward Foley, Bonnie Miller-McLemore and Robert Schreiter (Eds.). MUTUALITY MATTERS: FAMILY, FAITH AND JUST LOVE. Toronto: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. Almost sixty years ago, Simone de Beauvoir wrote: "The whole of...

Race and family: a structural approach.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Coles, Roberta L. RACE AND FAMILY: A STRUCTURAL APPROACH. Sage Publications. ISBN 0-7619-8864-5. This textbook, written primarily for American students at the college or university level, offers insights into contemporary American culture,...

The politics of the personal in feminist family therapy: international examinations of family policy.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Prouty Lyness, Anne M. (Ed.). THE POLITICS OF THE PERSONAL IN FEMINIST FAMILY THERAPY: INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS OF FAMILY POLICY. New York: The Haworth Press, 2005. 184 pp. $37.95 (h), $17.95 (p). As family therapists we must carefully...

Until our hearts are on the ground": Aboriginal mothering, oppression, resistance and rebirth.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Lavell-Harvard, D.M. and J. Corbiere Lavell (Eds.). "UNTIL OUR HEARTS ARE ON THE GROUND": ABORIGINAL MOTHERING, OPPRESSION, RESISTANCE AND REBIRTH. Toronto: Demeter Press. (2006). $29.95 (p). Reviewed by: Annette J. Browne, University...