Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from September 1998

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from September 1998

Impact of acculturation on socialization beliefs and behavioral occurences among Indo-Canadian immigrants.
September 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION The multicultural character of the Canada has emerged as a result of the society hosting immigrants belonging to various ethno-cultural groups. When the immigrants enter Canada, they bring with them a cultural baggage that...

Family life among El Salvadorans, Guatemalans and Nicaraguans: a comparative study.
September 22, 1998... The information base regarding the family life of Central Americans outside their homelands remains limited despite their presence in a number of countries. In this paper I report on a qualitative study conducted among El Salvadorans,...

Preserving multiple ancestry: intermarriage and mixed births in Hawaii.
September 22, 1998... A fundamental indicator of the extent to which cultural boundaries between groups are being preserved or being eroded is to be found in data on intermarriage. Many studies have taken an increase in intermarriage to indicate a decline in social...

The two-child family: the Egyptian model of family planning.
September 22, 1998... The concern over population growth is not new, nor have the parameters of the debate about its potential consequences changed very much during the last 200 years (Moffet, 1994, Sen, 1994, Wangh, 1995, U.S. News, 1994, Wattenberg, 1987). In his...

Well-being of youngsters of divorce without contact with nonresident parents in the Netherlands.
September 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION In this article the relation between variables denoting well-being and lack of contact with a nonresident parent will be explored for youngsters aged from 12 to 24 years in the Netherlands (1). Most studies stress the...

The impact of race on divorce in the United States.
September 22, 1998... The study of marital instability continues to attract the attention of social and behavioral scientists including sociologists, psychologists and psychiatrists, in part because marital disruption has been observed to have consequences for both...

Asymmetry and symmetry of conjugal violence.
September 22, 1998... GENDER ASYMMETRY AND SYMMETRY IN CONJUGAL VIOLENCE Traditional perspectives on conjugal violence have all rested on the empirical assumption that males are more likely than females to engage in violent activity in conjugal...

Perceptions of couple decision making in Panama.
September 22, 1998... Family is viewed as central to Latin American society, and yet little is known about the interdynamics between husbands and wives within a patriarchal society that has had strong influences from the Roman Catholic Church. Family is the context...

Double-surnames and gender equality: a proposition and the Spanish case.
September 22, 1998... INTRODUCTION "We've got to talk about this name deal." - Hillary Rodham, speaking to Bill Clinton about changing her name to his before his 1982 campaign for Governor of Arkansas. (Bruck, 1994: 64) Women have long seen their...

Shifting Circles of Support: Contextualizing Kinship and Gender in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.(Review)
September 22, 1998... PALRIWALA, Rajni and Carla RISSEEUW, eds., Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press (A Division of Sage Publications, Inc.), 1996, 343 pp., $34.95 hardcover. GIRI RAJ GUPTA One of the propitious recent trend in the studies of gender and...

Picture Brides: Japanese Women in Canada.(Review)
September 22, 1998... MAKABE, Tomoko, North York, Ontario: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1995, 180 pp., $24.95 softcover MILLIE CREIGHTON This is an English translation of a book first written in Japanese by a young Japanese woman, Tomoko...

Between Marriage and Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo.(Review)
September 22, 1998... HOODFAR, Homa, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997, 320 pp., $16.95 softcover/$45.00 hardcover. PAULA E. DREW This wise and scholarly ethnographic work is the result of a field study conducted among more than sixty...

The Spirit of Open Adoption.(Review)
September 22, 1998... GRITTER, James L., Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America, 1997, 315 pp., $18.95 softcover. WILLIAM FEIGELMAN As we look to establish meaningful and comfortable places for ourselves in our postindustrial families, we are...

Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario.(Review)
September 22, 1998... CHAMBERS, Lori, Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1997, 237 pp., $18.95 softcover. ZHENG WU In Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario, Lori Chambers provides an engaging and detailed account of reforms to...

Women, Power, and Childbirth: A Case Study of a Free-Standing Birth Center.(Review)
September 22, 1998... TURKEL, Kathleen Doherty, Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey (an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group), 1995, 184 pp., $52,95 hardcover. JYL JOSEPHSON This book is both, as its subtitle indicates, a case study of a particular...

Balancing Work and Caregiving for Children, Adults, and Elders.(Review)
September 22, 1998... NEAL, Margaret B, Nancy J. CHAPMAN, Berit, INGERSOLL-DAYTON. Arthur C. EMLEN, (Family Caregiver Applications Series. Volume 3). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1993, 292 pp., $24.00 softcover/$49.95 hardcover. CAROLE L. LeNAVENEC ...

Nothing Bad Happens to Good Girls: Fear of Crime in Women's Lives.(Review)
September 22, 1998... MADRIZ, Esther, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997, 187 pp., $20.00 softcover / $40.00 hardcover. ANN GOETTING From a social constructionist and radical feminist perspective, Esther Madriz examines women's fear of crime...

Divorced from Justice: The Abuse of Women and Children by Divorce Lawyers and Judges.(Review)
September 22, 1998... WINNER, KAREN, New York, NY: Regan Books (an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers), 1996, 329 pp, $24.00 hardcover. ANN GOETTING Divorced from Justice is a carefully researched and broadly accessible expose' of the misogyny, corruption...

Strengthening Aging Families: Diversity in Practice and Policy.(Review)
September 22, 1998... SMITH, Gregory C., Sheldon S. TOBIN, Elizabeth Anne ROBERTSON-TCHABO, and Paul W. POWER, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995, 290 pp, $22.50 softcover / $46.00 hardcover. N. JANE McCANDLESS With an emphasis on a holistic...

Poverty Transitions Among Elderly Widows.(Review)
September 22, 1998... DODGE, Hiroko H., (Garland Studies on The Elderly in America, edited by Stuart Bruchey). New York, NY: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996, 164 pp., $48.00 hardcover. VIOLA M. LECHNER Hiroko H. Dodge's book summarizes the author's research...