Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from September 2008

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from September 2008

Editor's note.
September 22, 2008... We are now receiving an increasing number of articles for review, and we have many good suggestions for Special Issues. We are also regularly publishing Special Issues based on selected Papers presented at the Research Seminars of the Committee...

Errata.(Correction notice)
September 22, 2008... JCFS Apologizes to the authors who were listed in incorrect order with their article in Vol. 39, No. 2, Spring 2008, as well as having Tables 2 and 3 displayed inaccurately. Therefore, JCFS is reprinting the entire article with the corrected...

Gender differentials in household structure and socioeconomic characteristics in South Africa.(Report)
September 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION Several studies on types of households in Africa have suggested changes in household structures and composition (Bongaarts, 2001; Dungumaro, et al., 2006; Noumbissi & Zuberi, 2001; Zulu & Sibanda, 2005). The documented...

A Critical Evaluation of attitudes towards nuclear, joint and extended family structures among people of Indian origin in Durban, South Africa.(Report)
September 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION This paper is about attitudes towards nuclear, joint and extended family living arrangements among middle-class people of Indian origin in Durban, South Africa. It takes the view that joint and extended family arrangements...

Parental Psychological Control and Authoritarianism in Chinese-Canadian and European-Canadian Cultural Groups: their meanings and implications for University students' adjustment.(Report)
September 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION Psychological control and authoritarian control are thought to be distinct but related constructs (Barber & Harmon, 2002). However, the extent to which the measures are related versus distinct has not been examined...

Choosing between marriage and cohabitation: women's first union patterns in Hungary.(Report)
September 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION The political changes in Eastern Europe during the 1990s drew a lot of attention both from the media and academia. However, the demographic transformations of the region-less obvious, but equally important phenomena-rarefy...

Fairness and housework: a cross-national comparison.(Report)
September 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION The division of household labor is a source of dissatisfaction in many marriages (Glass & Fujimoto 1994; Rosenfield 1992). If household arrangements are viewed as inequitable, wives report lower levels of marital and personal...

Farm family coping with stress: the impact of the 1998 ice storm.(Report)
September 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION In January, 1998, unprecedented levels of freezing rain coated roads, trees and buildings in Eastern Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and the Northeastern United States with a layer of ice 5.5 cm to 10 cm (2-3 inches) in width...

Characteristics of Eastern European Immigration in the United States.(Report)
September 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION In the last centuries, Eastern Europe has been characterized by dramatic socio-political and economic transformations. Countries were formed and revised, political ideologies were imposed and then dropped leaving lasting marks...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) in Zambia: an examination of risk factors and gender perceptions.(Report)
September 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION The abuse and violation of women has reached epidemic proportions in Africa and this behavior seems to be accepted as normal (Fourie, 2004). Unfortunately, there is little pressure and controls in place to deter men from such...

"Sshh ...!! Don't tell my parents": dating among second-generation Patels in Florida.(Report)
September 22, 2008... L'article etudie le sexe de la communaute Patel en Floride, de meme que la facon dont les femmes et hommes de seconde generation de la caste Patel gerent les rencontres amoureuses dans le contexte de leur double identite culturelle...

Differences between European Americans and African Americans in the Association between child obesity and disrupted parenting.(Report)
September 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION The rate of obesity among children has more than doubled the past 30 years (Berkowitz and Stunkard 2002) increasing concern about its physical and emotional health consequences (Braet, Mervielde, and Vandereycken 1997; DeJong...

International family studies: developing curriculaand teaching tools.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Hamon, Raeann R. (Ed.). INTERNATIONAL FAMILY STUDIES: DEVELOPING CURRICULAAND THACHING TOOLS. Binghamton, New York: The Haworth Press, Inc., 2006. This edited volume is a comprehensive look at a number of ways to internationalize family...

Mutuality matters: family, faith and just love.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Herbert Anderson, Edward Foley, Bonnie Miller-McLemore and Robert Schreiter. Mutuality matters: family, faith and just love. Toronto: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. Almost sixty years ago, Simone de Beauvoir wrote: "The whole of feminine...

Race and family: a structural approach.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Roberta L. Coles. RACE AND FAMILY: A STRUCTURALAPPROACH. Sage Publications, 2006, ISBN 0-7619-8864-5. This textbook, written primarily for American students at the college or university level, offers insights into contemporary American...

The politics of the personal in feminist family therapy: international examinations of family policy.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Anne M. Prouty Lyness, (Ed.). The politics of the personal in feminist family therapy: international examinations of family policy. New York: The Haworth Press, 2005. 184pp. (h) $37.95, (p) $17.95. As family therapists we must carefully...

"Until our hearts are on the ground": aboriginal mothering, oppression, resistance and rebirth.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... D.M. Lavell-Harvard and J. Corbiere Lavell (Eds.). "Until our hearts are on the ground": aboriginal mothering, oppression, resistance and rebirth. Historically, the subjugation of Aboriginal women in Canadian society can be traced to the...