Journal of Comparative Family Studies back issues from January 2004:
Taking stock of America's attitudes on cultural diversity: an analysis of public deliberation on multiculturalism, assimilation and intermarriage*.
Jan 01, 2004; ... INTRODUCTION Since America's inception, both social scientists and the public have grappled with the issues associated with racial and ethnic inclusion. In 1835, when commenting on American race relations, de Tocqueville (1900:361) proposed that the presence of an isolated and ...
Attachment relationships between Korean young adult daughters and their mothers.
Jan 01, 2004; ... Attachment behavior is overt behavior by which the child attempts to maintain physical closeness and contact with the mother or primary caregiver. The existence of an internal state of attachment is inferred from attachment behavior. In attachment theory, the various types of behavior that ...
How the socio-cultural context shapes women's divorce experience in Hong Kong.
Jan 01, 2004; ... BACKGROUND AND FRAMEWORK The rising trend of divorce is a word-wide phenomenon. The impact of divorce can be felt by all parties concerned: the couple involved, the children, the families of origin, their work place, and social circle. Because of this growing tendency in the ...
International migration and men's marriage in Western Mexico.
Jan 01, 2004; ... Recent decades have witnessed a continuous flow of Mexican migration to the U.S. In 2000, 7.8 million foreign-born Mexicans resided in the U.S. This represents an increase of 7 million or 875 percent from the 0.8 million foreign born Mexicans residing in the U.S. in 1970 (Schmidley, 2001) ....
Family transformations and the well-being of children: recent evidence from Canadian longitudinal data.
Jan 01, 2004; ... INTRODUCTION Young children are completely dependent upon others for their well being. The ability to cope with economic uncertainty and/or family change varies by age, with childhood clearly a vulnerable stage of the life cycle. Correspondingly, the well being of children is ...
Psychometric properties of the Intergenerational Congruence in Immigrant Families: child scale in Chinese Americans *.
Jan 01, 2004; ... (Son): I am a different generation. Things aren't the same here, things are different. (Father). How different? You mean you don't have to work anymore? (Son) Of course, I want to work. I want to be a writer ... This is ... the path I have chosen to follow ... (and) whatever support I do ...
Kinkeeping and caregiving: contributions of older people in immigrant families *.
Jan 01, 2004; ... Many immigrant families in the U.S. contain transnational older people who maintain loyalties to their homeland and to the homes of their American children. These dual commitments give rise to a unique fife style among seniors who move between kin in different countries and continents ....
Collins, Mary. The Essential Daughter: Changing Expectations for Girls at Home.
Jan 01, 2004; ... 1797 to the Present. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002, 184 pp., $39.95 hardcover. In The Essential Daughter readers are asked to look back in history for insight into the challenge contemporary parents face in helping daughters development a healthy, internally ...
Cole, Arda L. and J. Gary Knowles, eds., Lives in Context: the Art of Life History Research.
Jan 01, 2004; ... Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2001,272pp., $ 22.95 softcover/$39.95 hardcover. Lives in Context comes at a time when life history and narrative research are attracting increasing attention, as the recent Narrative Matters conference (May, 2002), sponsored jointly by St ....
Colon, A. R. with P. A. Colon, A History of Children: a Socio-Cultural Survey Across the Millennia.
Jan 01, 2004; ... Westport. Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 2001, 565pp., $99.95 hardcover. This book, 15 years in the making, is truly a massive tour de force. A History of Children: A Socio-Cultural Survey Across the Millennia provides a major cross-cultural view of the lives of children across ...
Canniff, Julie G, Cambodian Refugees' Pathways to Success: Developing a Bi-Cultural Identity.
Jan 01, 2004; ... New York, NY: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2001, 312pp., $75.00 hardcover. As the United States becomes increasingly diverse, with immigrants and refugees from throughout the world, it is concomitantly important that all Americans understand their cultures and values. Cambodian ...
Choi, Namkee G., ed., Psychosocial Aspects of the Asian-American Experience: Diversity within Diversity.
Jan 01, 2004; ... Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, Inc., 200 340pp., $39.95 softcover/$69.95 hardcover.. This book is geared toward students, social services/healthcare/mental health practitioners, researchers, public policymakers and academics who want to understand the extreme diversity in ...
Northcott, Herbert C. and Donna M. Wilson, Dying and Death in Canada.
Jan 01, 2004; ... Aurora, Ontario: Garamond Press, 2001, 189pp., $24.95 softcover. Dying and Death in Canada provides a thorough overview of all aspects of death and dying in Canada. The book is divided into 3 major sections: The Demography and Epidemiology of Dying and Death [with lots of ...