Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from September 2003

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from September 2003

Mate selection and female age at marriage: a micro level investigation in Tamil Nadu, India.
September 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION Marriage is one of the important social institutions in India. It is not only a union of two individuals but also an alliance between two families thereby bringing about a new network of relationships. It is a threshold for...

Factors associated with marriage and family formation processes in Southern Ethiopia *.
September 22, 2003... BACKGROUND The importance of marriage and marital status as factors influencing the size and structure of households and families is very evident and has been widely studied by demographers and sociologists. Various conceptual perspectives...

Postponement or abandonment of Marriage? Evidence from Hong Kong *.
September 22, 2003... BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES It is commonly known that the age at first marriage for women has been on the rise in the post-WWII era in industrial and industrializing countries. In the United States, the median age at first marriage among...

Paternal engagement in immigrant and refugee families *.
September 22, 2003... BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE Paternal disengagement and the "breakdown of fathering" have been identified as a primary risk factor for children, and a priority for research and intervention (Health Canada, 1998). While there is a significant...

Intergenerational transmission of conjugal stability in a Caribbean community *.
September 22, 2003... We are interested in whether family relations are replicated from generation to generation. Is the daughter of a single mother, for example, more likely to become a single mother herself? Inter- and intra-cultural variation indicates that...

Physical punishment and maternal beliefs in Sweden and Canada *.
September 22, 2003... INTRODUCTION Over the past 20 years, parental use of physical punishment has become an increasingly controversial practice. The controversy has been fueled by a growing body of research demonstrating that physical punishment is associated...

Family and feminism; women, their position, rights and obligations in cross-cultural perspective *.(4 books on feminism)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... BASU, Srimati. SHE COMES TO TAKE HER RIGHTS: Indian Women. Property and Propriety. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999, 303pp., $21.95 softcover. SOMERVILLE, Jennifer, FEMINISM AND THE FAMILY; Politics and Society in UK...

Boss Pauline, Family Stress Management: a Contextual Approach. 2nd Edition.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Thousand Oaks, Ca: Sage Publication, Inc., 2002, 215 pp., $69.95 hardcover, $29.95 softcover. Pauline Boss has enhanced the first edition of her book with cutting-edge material available on key concepts within the framework of family...

Daynes, Kathryn M., More Wives than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System. 1840-1910.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001, 305pp., $34.95 hardcover. In More Wives than One, Kathryn M. Daynes offers a well-researched and highly readable account of Mormon plural marriage over a sixty-year period. Daynes' deftly...

Sachs, Steven B., Voices of Reason; Adolescents Talk About Their Future Over Time.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001, 280 pp., $54.95 hardcover. Voices of Reason: Adolescents Talk About Their Futures Over Time by Steven Sachs presents a qualitative study often adolescents over a five-year period. Before carefully...

Ozment, Steven, Ancestors; the Loving Family in Old Europe.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001, 162 pp., $29.95 hardcover, $14.95 softcover. We have long known that reflection of the past is important to viewing and evaluating the present. It is believed that in our effort to...

Price, Sharon J., Patrick C. McKenry and Megan J. Murphy, eds., Families Across Time: a Life Course Perspective.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Los Angeles, California: Roxbury Publishing Company, California, 2000, 241 pp., $59.50 softcover. This text offers a comprehensive review of family science through the time-based lens of the family development perspective. To its credit,...

Publications received.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2003... ALLEYNE, Mervyn C., ed., THE CONSTRUCTION AND REPRESENTATION OF RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE CARIBBEAN AND THE WORLD. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press (OU Distribution Center, 4100, 28th Ave. NW, 73069-8218, USA), 2002, 280pp.,...