Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from September 1994

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from September 1994

Fictive kinship relations in black extended families.
September 22, 1994... A growing body of research has documented the existence of extensive kin networks within African American communities (Aschenbrenner, 1973; Hill, 1972; Martin and Martin; 1978; McAdoo, 1980; Stack, 1974) and the importance of these networks as...

Combining ethnographic and survey methods: a study of the nuptiality patterns of the Shona of Zimbabwe.
September 22, 1994... If anthropologists need to learn to be numerate, demographers need also to learn to be culturally aware. Africa offers many special problems to the demographers of which they are well aware (Ware, 1977:19). INTRODUCTION Recently, awareness...

Socioeconomic structures and mate selection among urban populations in developing regions.
September 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION The topic of change and continuity in traditional behaviors evidenced by migrants from rural areas to urban settings in developing nations has been increasingly studied by anthropologists and others since World War II. Rather than...

Cross-cultural comparison of the social support system after childbirth.
September 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION It is well known that women do not only need support during childbirth, but also after childbirth in the weeks and months that follow. Postnatal support is generally not just restricted to financial and practical assistance, but...

The influence of parental drinking attitudes and behavior in the drinking patterns of black and white adults.
September 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study is to compare the influence of parent drinking attitudes and behavior on the drinking patterns of U.S. black and white adults. The importance of parents as a source of influence on drinking behavior has...

Relationships between marital satisfaction and privacy preferences.
September 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION This paper is concerned with the relationship between married couples' patterns of privacy preferences and their levels of relationship satisfaction. Kelvin has defined privacy as "... a condition of separateness, deliberately...

Marriage, divorce, and sexual relations in contemporary China.
September 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Chinese traditions about sex, marriage, and divorce have been under assault. For much of the period information about what was taking place was difficult to...

Divorce in West Java.
September 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION In the 1950s and 1960s, divorce rates were exceptionally high in various parts of the Malay world of Southeast Asia. At this time, Java and the Malaysian states of Kelantan and Trengganu appeared to have the highest rates of...

The Filipino Family: A Text with Selected Readings.
September 22, 1994... Although there have been a number of introductory and general sociology books with a particular focus on the Philippine setting that have been published over the last four decades or so; a comparatively less attention has been given to works...

Father-Child Relations: Cultural and Biosocial Contexts.
September 22, 1994... For decades male parenting has been undermined by traditional sex-role stereotypes and the myth the males were simply incapable of such activity. As women were deemed to be more qualified, and child care became their private domain, males rarely...

Women and Divorce/Men and Divorce: Gender Differences in Separation, Divorce and Remarriage.
September 22, 1994... This book was also published as a 1991 issue of the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage (Volume 14, Numbers 3/4). The authors of the twelve articles are drawn from the fields of psychology, clinical psychology, child development, sociology and...

No Place to be a Child: Growing Up in a War Zone.
September 22, 1994... No Place To Be a Child: Growing Up in a War Zone presents compelling stories of children who have been and continue to be victimized by war. Although many writers paint war stories by discussing the numbers of children affected by wars, Garbarino...

At Personal Risk: Boundary Violations in Professional-Client Relationships.
September 22, 1994... Moved by the mounting skepticism of a more awakened and increasingly litigious public, the media are reporting an avalanche of misconduct from law, medicine, religion, education, and psychotherapy - professions with strong moral, ethical and...

A Practical Guide to Cognitive Therapy.
September 22, 1994... For the person in the helping professions, Schuyler, a psychiatrist, presents an easy to read and understand treatise on one of the contemporary therapies. The book is divided into five parts. Part I examines preliminary issues in...

The Other Half: Wives of Alcoholics and Their Social-Psychological Situation.
September 22, 1994... Jacqueline Wiseman's The Other Half describes the sequential processes of problem identification and coping of two sets of wives of alcoholics. Both the similarities and differences of the American and Finnish experiences provide a compelling...

Families Under Stress: Community, Work, and Economic Change.
September 22, 1994... The title of Families Under Stress" Community, Work, and Economic Change promises a lot. Sociological perspective on the family have changed over the last 30 years, and the family, once viewed almost as an institution-in-itself, is now seen as an...

The Cost of Raising Children in Canada.
September 22, 1994... This book is strictly a manual intended for professional such as lawyers and financial planners and for astute family members who need to access a detailed accounting system to determine family expenditures on children. It is not useful for...

Out of Control: Family Therapy and Domestic Disorder.
September 22, 1994... "Out of Control: Family Therapy and Domestic Disorder," by Jabber F. Gubrium is an engrossing study of two institutions treating troubled families. It is interesting and useful to a variety of people in the behavioral sciences. Gubrium's interest...