Journal of Comparative Family Studies back issues from September 2008:
Editor's note.
Sep 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 on Family Research, (CFR) (RC 06) of the ...
Errata.(Correction notice)
Sep 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 tables in this issue for "Differences between ...
Gender differentials in household structure and socioeconomic characteristics in South Africa.(Report)
Sep 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 changes, amidst persistent deeper poverty in ...
A Critical Evaluation of attitudes towards nuclear, joint and extended family structures among people of Indian origin in Durban, South Africa.(Report)
Sep 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 within this segment are still as popular as ...
Parental Psychological Control and Authoritarianism in Chinese-Canadian and European-Canadian Cultural Groups: their meanings and implications for University students' adjustment.(Report)
Sep 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 empirically. In this article, we consider the ...
Choosing between marriage and cohabitation: women's first union patterns in Hungary.(Report)
Sep 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 came into the focus, although they tend to ...
Fairness and housework: a cross-national comparison.(Report)
Sep 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 happiness (Pina & Bengtson 1993), ...
Farm family coping with stress: the impact of the 1998 ice storm.(Report)
Sep 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 (Statistics Canada, 1998). Thousands of ...
Characteristics of Eastern European Immigration in the United States.(Report)
Sep 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 on individuals and families ....
Intimate partner violence (IPV) in Zambia: an examination of risk factors and gender perceptions.(Report)
Sep 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 practice. The attitudes of men and ...
"Sshh ...!! Don't tell my parents": dating among second-generation Patels in Florida.(Report)
Sep 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 indo-americaine. Il s'avere qu'ils rejettent tous la ...
Differences between European Americans and African Americans in the Association between child obesity and disrupted parenting.(Report)
Sep 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 and Kleck 1986). This increase has been ...
International family studies: developing curriculaand teaching tools.(Book review)
Sep 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 science curricula, from models of teaching ...
Mutuality matters: family, faith and just love.(Book review)
Sep 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 history has been man-made ... Men have ...
Race and family: a structural approach.(Book review)
Sep 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 culture, provides an interesting ...
The politics of the personal in feminist family therapy: international examinations of family policy.(Book review)
Sep 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 consider the broader social contexts which ...
"Until our hearts are on the ground": aboriginal mothering, oppression, resistance and rebirth.(Book review)
Sep 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 colonial images used to disparage the ...