Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from September 1999

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from September 1999

Caste, Class and Family Structure in West Bengal Villages.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... SATADAL DASGUPTA [*] SEANA HENNESSEY [*] RAJAT SUBHRA MUKHOPADHYAY [**] One of the major questions which has been of interest to researchers on family in India is whether the family structure is influenced by caste or class. Caste...

Who Intermarries? Education, Nativity, Region, and Interracial Marriage, 1980 and 1990 [*].(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... ZHENCHAO QIAN [**] Since the turn of the century, interethnic and interfaith marriages among whites have become commonplace (Alba, 1976; Johnson, 1980; Kennedy, 1944). Many whites have crossed "ethnic lines" to marry people who share their...

Predicting Marital Quality in Ghana [*].(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... NANCY B. MILLER [**] LAWRENCE A. KANNAE [***] There has been abundant research on marital quality in the United States over the past three decades (see Glenn, 1990, for the latest decade review). However, what is conspicuously absent...

The Advantages of having many Children for Women in Formal and Informal Unions in Cameroon [*].(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... ANNE-EMMANUELE CALVES [**] DOMINIQUE MEEKERS [***] INTRODUCTION In Cameroon, as in many other countries of sub-Saharan Africa, many couples would like to have a large family (MINASCOF, 1988; Cochrane and Farid, 1989; National...

Independence and Obedience: An Analysis of Child Socialization Values in the United States and China [*].(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... HONG XIAO [**] Child socialization values, the values that parents hold high in teaching children, occupy a central place in the studies of the family and social stratification. Socialization values not only condition parental behavior in...

Traditional Values and Democratic Impulses: The Gender Division of Labor in Contemporary Spain [*].(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... LAURA SANCHEZ [**] CARLA S. HALL [**] The most consistent finding in North American and European time use research is that the gender division of labor contains both traditional and egalitarian dimensions. As a broad generalization,...

"Take This Child": Why Women Abandon Their Infants in Bangladesh.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... MARGOT WILSON [*] INTRODUCTION On Friday, a young woman came to the gate. She appeared to be no more than 16 years old. Her feet were bare and her sari was torn and very dirty. She handed an equally tattered bundle to the social worker...

Sharing and Compassion: Fosterage in a Polynesian Society [*].(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1999... WILLIAM W. DONNER [**] On Sikaiana, a small, isolated atoll in the Southwest Pacific with about 250 Polynesian inhabitants, there are very high rates of fosterage. It is expected that many children will live for long periods with foster...