Journal of Comparative Family Studies back issues from September 2003:
Mate selection and female age at marriage: a micro level investigation in Tamil Nadu, India.
Sep 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 family formation, family building and ...
Factors associated with marriage and family formation processes in Southern Ethiopia *.
Sep 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 have been developed with respect to ...
Postponement or abandonment of Marriage? Evidence from Hong Kong *.
Sep 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 women increased from 20.8 years in 1970 to ...
Paternal engagement in immigrant and refugee families *.
Sep 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 body of research that focuses on the ...
Intergenerational transmission of conjugal stability in a Caribbean community *.
Sep 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 environment has strong influences on the ...
Physical punishment and maternal beliefs in Sweden and Canada *.
Sep 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 with a number of negative developmental ...
Family and feminism; women, their position, rights and obligations in cross-cultural perspective *.(4 books on feminism)(Book Review)
Sep 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 and USA. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, ...
Boss Pauline, Family Stress Management: a Contextual Approach. 2nd Edition.(Book Review)
Sep 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 stress study. Realizing that publication ...
Daynes, Kathryn M., More Wives than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System. 1840-1910.(Book Review)
Sep 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 intertwines the complex issues facing ...
Sachs, Steven B., Voices of Reason; Adolescents Talk About Their Future Over Time.(Book Review)
Sep 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 unfolding the information, Sachs sets the ...
Ozment, Steven, Ancestors; the Loving Family in Old Europe.(Book Review)
Sep 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 understand the contemporary family it is ...
Price, Sharon J., Patrick C. McKenry and Megan J. Murphy, eds., Families Across Time: a Life Course Perspective.(Book Review)
Sep 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, the editors have included the experiences ...
Publications received.(Bibliography)
Sep 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., $18.00 sc/$45.00 hc. BALUJA, Kaari ...