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Families are the safety nets for society. They handle whatever problem there is no program or organizational response to solve in the larger society. Normative arrangements for exchange and transfer that have served families well for many generations are under considerable strain as demographic, medical and economic change has increased the length of time generations care for each other, the severity of problems that people are surviving while continuing to need care, and the complexity of making long term plans in a globalization setting. This review and analysis will look cross culturally at both traditional arrangements and new expectations and strategies. The cases as seen in several contemporary societies, of grandparents caring for grandchildren will be highlighted in terms of res...
... nations and many of the developing countries such as China and India. Globalization, Social and...
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Sisimpur is an educational children's television program in Bangladesh that is co-produced by Sesame Workshop, the makers of Sesame Street. Sisimpur's goals include the support of Early Childhood Development (ECD) objectives in Bangladesh, such as the teaching of pre-academic skills to young children. In this paper we draw on qualitative research to explore how Sisimpur and its benefits are viewed by the family members and teachers of children in rural Bangladesh. Our results suggest that Sisimpur is valued by diese caregivers as a source of ideas and information about how best to raise children. We argue that Sisimpur's favorable reception is related to the success with which it has portrayed children on the show as both connected to Bangali traditions and able to take advantage of the...
... a growing policy emphasis in developing countries (Perm, 2005; UNESCO, 2004; Young, 2002). The estab...
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La persistance en vue de l'obtention d'un diplôme a été étudiée dans un groupe de 944 étudiants du premier cycle (272 hommes; 672 femmes) d'une grande université canadienne sans résidences. Durant une période de six ans, 57,9 % des étudiants ont obtenu leur diplôme, 9 % sont demeurés inscrits et 33,1 % n'étaient pas inscrits ou n'ont pas obtenu de diplôme. Les résultats indiquent que les prédicteurs directs de la persistance sont le sexe, le southen des parents, le stress, la dépression et la moyenne pondérée cumulative (MPC) de la première année d'études. Après l'ajout des échelles d'adaptation de [Baker] et [Siryk] (1985), l'adaptation sociale et l'engagement envers le but et l'établissement d'enseignement sont devenus des prédicteurs directs en plus du southen des parents et de la MP...
... (i.e., country of birth, parents' countries of birth) that, although a nonsignificant predicto...
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...Both countries intertwine sovereignty issues with strong rhetoric...
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This paper investigates the factors which influence the ability of resettled refugee parents to envisage their adolescents' futures and support them in setting and achieving goals. It is based on the findings of a study of 10 refugee families from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, two to three years after they had arrived in Melbourne, Australia. Analysis of the findings draws on Antonovsky's 'sense of coherence' framework to highlight the conditions which assist refugee parents to negotiate their social environment and develop realistic ambitions for their families' futures. This framework is also used to point to ways in which refugee families might best be assisted by host communities to guide and support their children and thus overcome some of the potential intergenerationa...
... children to become in resettlement countries (Shimoni, Este, and Clark, 2003). Their understand...
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To explore the internal dynamics of intercultural marriage, we conducted in-depth interviews with 18 married couples, of whom one partner was bom in Israel and the other immigrated from the former Soviet Union. The interviews focused on the contentious issues of everyday life: selfidentity, language use, cultural consumption, relations with the families/friends, division of household labor, and childrearing. The findings point to a clear tendency for immigrants to make most adjustments to the norms and expectations of the Israeli spouses and their social networks. For most immigrant spouses, the selective acculturation they had hoped for at the outset in fact morphed into relentless assimilation. The Israelization was expressed in the exclusive use of Hebrew in these homes; preference o...
... or geographic location of origin countries (Brown et al., 2003; Yancey, 2002). Social support...
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Distributive justice theory argues that individuals make fairness decisions partly by comparing themselves to similarly situated others. Utilizing fixed effects analyses of 4,643 married women nested in 12 nations from the 1991 International Social Justice Project, this paper examines whether the relationship between the division of household labor and perceptions of fairness of that division was informed by such comparisons. Specifically, this paper tests whether political history, women's political representation, and average division of labor within a nation set expectations for the division of household labor against which married women made fairness determinations. Although political history and women's political representation seem to have been directly influential in constructing...
... of all married women from the 12 countries in the study (not just the women in me analytic sa...
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...; the fact that three nuclear-weapons countries continue to abstain from the nuclear nonproliferat...
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Previous research has found that high levels of education and job commitment tend to generate dissimilar patterns of family formation and household responsibility for men and women. Using university-based academics as examples of highly educated professionals with strong career commitment, this paper investigates their family circumstances through a survey of previous research and qualitative interviews in New Zealand. Although more women are now entering the academic profession and moving into senior positions, their personal biographies often differ from their male counterparts. The paper reveals the extent of family differences, exploring gendered priorities, perceptions and constraints reported by academics with similar educational qualifications. The paper argues that family patter...
... and work for men and women in Western countries. Men with high levels of formal education tend to ...
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This paper investigates money management practices in private households. It compares married and cohabiting couples across four countries with different levels of institutionalization of cohabitation and different welfare regimes (Denmark, Spain, France, and the United States). Using data from the International Social Survey Program 2002 module on Changing Family Roles (ISSP 2002), this study shows mat the legal status of the union is one of the strongest predictors of the money pooling practices in all four countries. Cohabitors tend to choose independent money management more often than married couples and this finding holds even after controlling for a range of socio-economic and attitudinal characteristics. Moreover, the effect of the union type is radier uniform across diese four ...
