Article: Caste, Class and Family Structure in West Bengal Villages.(Statistical Data Included)

Article: SPECIAL REPORT: Joint Family at Risk; Individualism ...
Hinduism Today;  January 31, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... family. In India, the joint family is a sacred institution ... harder to find. A joint family consists of many relatives ... knowing that this family structure, better that any ... blow to dharma. The joint family forms a veritable domestic ...

Article: Family joint activities in a cross-national perspective.(Research ...
BMC Public Health;  May 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... mealtime [1, 2]. Joint family activities contribute ... unclear whether family structure is related to joint family activities ... well [20]. Joint family activities are ... influence of family structure and family wealth ...

Article: INDIA-POPULATION: URBAN STRESSES CRACK UP FAMILY LIFE
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  June 12, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... of Madras, the rates climb by 15 percent annually. "The main cause may be the nuclear family structure. With the gradual crumbling of the joint family system, there are no elders in the family to guide and advise young couples," says Dr ...

Article: Family structure histories and high school ...
Canadian Journal of Sociology;  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... investigate the relationship between family structure and educational outcomes involves ... type of family a child lives in (family structure) or the stress of adapting to a marital ... weakness is an inability to locate family structure and family instability within the ...

Article: Dynamic dimensions of family structure in ...
Journal of Comparative Family Studies;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... between persistent poverty and family structure (McLanahan & Sandefur ... the most common measure of family structure [used in quantitative survey-based studies of family structure] is a dichotomous snapshot contrasting ...

Article: FAMILY BOUNDARY AMBIGUITY AND THE MEASUREMENT OF FAMILY ...
Demography;  February 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... in adolescent and mother reports of family structure and found that the greater the family ... likely adolescent and mother reports of family structure were discrepant. This boundary ambiguity ... those adolescents who reported their family structure as a cohabiting stepfamily, just ...

Alternative estimates of the effect of family structure ...
Journal of the American Statistical Association;  March 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... significant empirical associations between family structure during childhood and children's ... unobserved process jointly determines family structure and children's outcomes. Hown then ... interpret the association between family structure and high school graduation found among ...