Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from September 2000

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from September 2000

Comparisons of parenting attitudes among five ethnic groups in the United States [*].
September 22, 2000... SAIGEETHA JAMBUNATHAN [**] DIANE C. BURTS [***] SARAH PIERCE [****] Parenting attitudes and behaviors and their influence on children has been an area of great interest to researchers. There has been abundant research exploring...

East-Indian college student's perceptions of family strengths.
September 22, 2000... NILUPER P. MEDORA [*] JEFFRY H. LARSON [**] PARUL B. DAVE [***] ATTITUDES OF EAST-INDIAN COLLEGE STUDENTS TOWARD FAMILY STRENGTHS The concept of "family strengths" is reemerging as a very viable and important topic in the...

Polygyny, gender relations, and reproduction in Ghana.
September 22, 2000... VICTOR AGADJANIAN [*] ALEX CHIKA EZEH [*] INTRODUCTION AND CONCEPTUALIZATION Most demographic research on the institution of polygyny in sub-Saharan Africa has focused on reasons for the continued persistence or for the...

Premarital childbearing in urban Cameroon: Paternal recognition, child care and financial support.
September 22, 2000... ANNE-EMMANUELE CALVES [*] INTRODUCTION In many African countries, including Cameroon, an increasing number of urban young women and men postpone their entry into first marriage because of financial constraints and educational...

Family socialization of ethnic identity among Chinese American pre-adolescents.
September 22, 2000... Although the number of native-born immigrant children with Latin American and Asian origins reached 16.4 million in 1990, still little is known regarding this group of children's identity formation and socialization (e.g., Portes, l994a;...

Effects of child gender preference on contraceptive use in rural Bangladesh.
September 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION While Bangladesh continues to be one of the most densely populated countries, fertility rates have declined over the last 25 years. It is noteworthy that Bangladesh is characterized by factors conventionally considered to be...

The impact of postmarital residence of fertility, early childhood mortality, and child health in Southern Ethiopia [*].
September 22, 2000... GEBRE-EGZIABHER KIROS [**] DAVID I. KERTZER [***] The link between family systems and demographic behavior has recently been the subject of important new theoretical and empirical work by anthropologists and others. Among the key foci...

Favoritism and the changing value of children: A note on the Chinese middle class in Singapore [*].
September 22, 2000... EVELYN M.L. KOH [**] JOOEAN TAN [**] In the 1950s, there was a great deal of discussion in the United States about the impact of industrialization and urbanization on the American family (e.g. Parsons, 1956; Goode, 1963; Ogbum, 1964)....

CHALLENGES FOR WORK AND FAMILY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.(Review)
September 22, 2000... KIRSTEN DELLINGER [*] VANNOY, Dana and Paula J. DUBECK, eds., CHALLENGES FOR WORK AND FAMILY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. Hawthorne, New York: Aldine DeGruyter, 1998,234 pp., $21.95 softcover/$43.95 hardcover. This collection of...

FAMILY: The Making of an Idea, an Institution, and a Controversy in American Culture.(Review)
September 22, 2000... LAURIE WERMUTH [*] FALLELL, Betty G., FAMILY: The Making of an Idea, an Institution, and a Controversy in American Culture. Boulder Colorado: Westview Press, 1999, 199pp., $22.00 softcover/$69.00 hardcover. The Norman Rockwell portrait...

WOMEN AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: An Interdisciplinary Approach.(Review)
September 22, 2000... R. SOORYAMOORTHY [*] FEDER, Lynette, ed., WOMEN AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Binghamton, New York: The Haworth Press, Inc., 1999, 132 pp., $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover. Domestic violence, gaining...

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION: A Handbook.(Review)
September 22, 2000... R. SOORYAMOORTHY [*] PALUDI, Michele Antoinette, ed., THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION: A Handbook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999,272 pp., $69.50 hardcover. This book, which substantial research input, presents very...