This study was designed to answer the question, "What maternal/paternal balance of parenting work, under what type of coparenting arrangement, and under what levels of interparental hostility, succeeded for what percentage of joint legal custodians?" It also addressed the possib…
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The theoretical frameworks which undergrid this study are (1) a generational understanding of the person; and (2) the work of Donald Williamson on personal authority. The generational perspective is developed from Claus Westermann's anthropology of generations, based on Genesis …
Sixteen widows with dependent children were interviewed in the United States and Israel. The widows came from a wide range of social, religious, and ethnic backgrounds and groups. In the United States, the group interviewed were American born (Southern and Northern), others were…
Despite increasing attention paid to marital dissolution and remarriage in many developed countries, there has been little focus in demographic studies of Africa on the subject of marital instability. In a comparative study of Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria using World Fertili…
The conflict between traditional and Christian values makes marriage as taught by the Western Church a serious problem in Africa. But national consciousness coupled with cultural renaissance and revolution demand the indigenization of Christianity in order to make it meaningful …
The primary objective of this study is to determine what mate preference dimensions are used by Moroccans in establishing mate selection criteria and whether or not (1) these reflect hypothesized cultural norms, and (2) whether or not these preferences corroborate predictions ba…
This thesis explores the increasing incidence of conjugal violence in Nigeria, and how the construction of masculinity is one of the challenging dynamics concerning this issue. The cultural construction of masculinity in Nigeria is a result of the complicated intermingling of hi…
This dissertation analyzes the results of a quantitative ethnographic study of parental and offspring behavior among the Karo Batak. The goals of this project were to bring behavioral ecology theory to bear on demographic, economic, and behavioral data, and to assess the power o…
In the United States in post 9/11 context, American mothers perform a daily struggle to both protect children from indirect experience of the war on terror and other dangers, and prepare children to enter into the social world safely and successfully. How mothers manage this eve…
Many factors are responsible for conflict in marriage. It has been hypothesized that culture may play a role in the processing and management of conflicts in the marital relationship. We studied two groups of people, Hispanics and Anglos, to determine salient issues present in t…
This study addressed the parenting experiences of adults in Israel who have a vision impairment ranging from partial sight to total blindness. It was framed within the overarching study problem of disability and was grounded in a social model of disability that identifies disabi…
The topic of my research is the lives of resistors with arwah abiya. Arwah is the plural word of rouh, which means soul or spirit. Abiya is an adjective, from the verb yabaa, which means to resist and fight injustice, humiliation, or any controlling power. The purpose of this in…
While religion and corrections are historically intertwined and share a common concern with moral codes of behavior, their interaction in the context of prison and parole is not very well understood. Through interviews with men and women who converted to a new faith or re-commit…
In Ethiopia, there is no formal institutional support system for the vast majority of the elderly. Only former government employees receive pension or survivor benefits. Where formal systems are not well developed, coresidence is ordinarily the main mechanism by which families m…
A growing body of literature has demonstrated that the challenges that migrants face as they try to acculturate to their new context can result in stress, which, in turn, can contribute to psychosocial difficulties of adjustment. Although refugees constitute a significant propor…
School choice is a topic that has been widely examined in the literature. One aspect of school choice that has interested researchers is what motivates parents to choose specific schools for their children. The research clearly indicates that academic considerations are the prim…
This study investigated the childbearing patterns of immigrant Nigerian women to understand how they negotiate their reproductive rights. Using unstructured interviews, the study focused on nineteen Igbo Nigerian women. The participants were interviewed individually and in addit…
This research aimed to assess the effects of economic status (ES), ideation and social interaction regarding family planning on fertility levels, fertility change, and women's fertility intentions in Ghana, Kenya and Senegal. Specifically, it aimed to determine (a) the relative …