Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from September 2007

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from September 2007

Editor's note.(Editorial)
September 22, 2007... This is the last issue for this year. While we have a number of articles ready for publishing, we can only publish eight articles, one research note and nine book reviews in this issue. As the Winter 2008 issue will be a special issue, we plan...

Transmission of religious beliefs across generations: do grandparents matter?(Report)
September 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION Although the transmission of religious values and beliefs across generations is one of the primary means by which continuity is maintained in the American family, cultural critics of contemporary family life maintain that the...

Intergenerational assistance and parental marital status in the US and Australia.
September 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION A great deal of research has been carried out in the United States concerning intergenerational assistance. In contrast, little research has been conducted on this topic in other countries, such as Australia. It is valuable to...

Inter-racial marriage and family socio-economic status: a study among Whites, Filipinos, Japanese, and Hawaiians in Hawaii.(Report)
September 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION Interracial marriages have been steadily increasing in the last few decades in the United States (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000; Lee and Edmonston, 2005), and are regarded by many as a sign of positive racial relations (Root, 2001;...

The impact of recohabitation on fertility: evidence from life history data in The Netherlands.(Report)
September 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION Due to the rise in divorce, people more often have children with more than one partner and fertility has become more dependent on reproductive behaviour in unions after the first (Coleman, Ganong, & Fine, 2000). Studies...

Culture, gender and the influence of social change amongst Emirati families in the United Arab Emirates.(Report)
September 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a country comprising seven separate Emirates that originally came to great affluence due to the oil-boom in the region, and today continues its rapid social momentum with regards to...

A comparison of component structures for the Australian Inventory of Family Strengths (AIFS) between an Australian and Malaysian sample.
September 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION To date, little if any formal research on family strengths has been conducted in Malaysia nor have any known (to the current authors) family strengths measures been developed or adapted from non-Malaysian contexts for the...

Experiences of Chinese families affected by AIDS via blood transfusion: an exploratory case study.(Case study)(Clinical report)
September 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION HIV/AIDS is spreading from populations with high risk behaviors to the general populations with relatively low levels of high risk behaviors (China Ministry of Health/UNAIDS, 2004; D'Cruz, 2003; Gogate, 1998). In China,...

Changing patterns in men's first marriage among the Sereer in rural Senegal.(Report)
September 22, 2007... INTRODUCTION The study of marriage in sub-Saharan Africa has drawn increasing attention among demographers because of its links with the onset of reproductive life. In these societies where women's sexual activity is controlled by the...

Variations in support exchange by marital status and gender.(RESEARCH NOTE)(Report)
September 22, 2007... BACKGROUND For most people, informal networks of family and friends provide the ties along which social, emotional, instrumental, material, and financial assistance is exchanged. For many with scant resources, informal exchange is key in...

Adolescent Sexuality: A Historical Handbook and Guide.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Cocca, Caroly. ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY: A HISTORICAL HANDBOOK AND GUIDE. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing, 2006. 208pp. Price: US $59.95, UK [pounds sterling]34.95. ISBN: 0313333998. This book provides a thoughtful and dense treatment of the...

Adopting Maternity: White Women Who Adopt Transracially or Transnationally.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Moosnich, Nora Rose. ADOPTING MATERNITY: WHITE WOMEN WHO ADOPT TRANSRACIALLY OR TRANSNATIONALLY. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004.192 pp. Price: US $57.95, UK [pounds sterling]31.95 (hc). ISBN: 0275978125 (pb). ISBN-13:9780275978129 (hc)....

Busier Than Ever: Why American Families Can't Slow Down.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Darrah, Charles N., James M. Freeman and J.A. English-Lueck. BUSIER THAN EVER: WHY AMERICAN FAMILIES CAN'T SLOW DOWN. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007.296 pp., Price: US $19.95 (pb), US $50.00 (hc). ISBN: 9700804754927 (pb). ISBN:...

Child Honoring: How to Turn This World Around.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Raffi Cavoukian and Sharna Olfman (Eds.). CHILD HONORING: HOW TO TURN THIS WORLD AROUND. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2006.278 pp. Price: US $29.95. Raffi, well known children's troubadour, has developed his child-first approach into...

Children of the 21st Century: From Birth to Nine Months.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Dex, Shirley and heather Joshi (Eds). CHILDREN OF THE 21ST CENTURY: FROM BIRTH TO NINE MONTHS. Bristol, UK: The Policy Press, 2006. 296 pp. Price: UK [pounds sterling]4.99 (pb), [pounds sterling]0.00 (hc). ISBN: 9781861346889 (pb). ISBN:...

Restructuring Family Policies: Convergences and Divergences.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Baker, Maureen. RESTRUCTURING FAMILY POLICIES: CONVERGENCES AND DIVERGENCES. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 336 pp. Price: NZ $72.00, CDN $42.00 UK [pounds sterling]65.00 (hc); CDN $29.95, UK [pounds sterling]20.00 (pb). ISBN:...

The New Generations of Europeans: Demography and Families in The Enlarged European Union.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Wolfgang Lutz, Rudolf Richter and Chris Wilson (Eds.). THE NEW GENERATIONS OF EUROPEANS: DEMOGRAPHY AND FAMILIES IN THE ENLARGED EUROPEAN UNION. London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan, 2006. 374 pp. Price: UK [pounds sterling]4.95. ISBN:...

The Social Economy of Single Motherhood: Raising Children in Rural America.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Nelson, Margaret. THE SOCIAL ECONOMY OF SINGLE MOTHERHOOD: RAISING CHILDREN IN RURAL AMERICA. New York, NY: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2005. 228 pp. Price: US $29.95 (pb), US $95.00 (hc). ISBN: 0415947774 (hc). Most American studies...

Handbook of World Families.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Bert N. Adams and Jan Trost (Eds.). HANDBOOK OF WORLD FAMILIES. New Delhi: Sage Publications, Inc., 2005. 664 pp. Price: US $125.00 (hc). ISBN: 9780761927631 (hc). Professor Bert N. Adams, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, and...