There is considerable evidence that dowry payments in India have not only increased over the last five decades, but that the custom has spread into regions and communities where it was never practiced before. The aim of this thesis is to understand why these changes have occurre…
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The purposes of this study were: (a) to identify the variables associated with selection of majors; (b) to determine the differences between science and nonscience majors in general, and high and low achievers in particular, with respect to attitudes toward science, integrated s…
The employment and earnings of married women have been increasing in both developed and developing countries. The question is whether the increased earnings of married women affect family income inequality. On one hand, the rise in married women's earnings could reduce overall i…
The study was a secondary analysis of 56 qualitative interview transcripts of 7 African immigrant families from Ethiopia, Nigeria and Congo with the purpose of exploring their childcare experiences. Using data from the Minnesota Child Care Partnership Research Project, a natural…
This study explored the effects of acculturation to American Society on Nigerian women and the impact on their views about domestic violence. The study also examined their perception of wife abuse and the ways they would seek help. Thirty-four married Nigerian women from one eth…
This dissertation is an anthropological study to describe and interpret urban process and its influence upon modern tribal structure and “contemporary” tribal marriage in Kuwaiti. Incorporating anthropological perspectives and qualitative and quantitative research methods, a var…
This study examined types of parental involvement in UAE schools and determined whether parental involvement contributes to the success of “distinguished schools.” In order to answer the study's questions, interviews were conducted with principals, teachers, and parents from dis…
The maltreatment of children is a serious problem that seems to have an effect on large numbers of children in many societies. Child abuse and neglect are acts which occur due to a number of factors. This exploratory study focuses on examining the relationship between some socia…
Approximately one in three marriages end in divorce in Kuwait. This first empirical study about reasons for divorce went beyond the demographic cause of family dissolution, and measured variables in a couple's daily life. There were 500 participants, (300 divorced and 200 marrie…
The purpose of this study was to examine Saudi parental guidance of children's television viewing habits and to determine what effects American television has on Saudi children. A questionnaire containing measures of these variables was mailed to a nationwide sample of 400 Saudi…
The influx of oil revenue has brought rapid development to the Saudi traditional society. This fast development had created some social problems in Saudi Arabia. The rise of juvenile delinquency is considered one of these problems. The purpose of this study was to investigate th…
It has been widely believed that modernity is a byproduct of a nuclear family system, a highly urbanized society, and a secular way of life. As such, developing countries are characterized as modern insofar as their social and cultural structures are able to correspond to these …
The purpose of this study is to examine spousal time allocation and explain the ways in which husbands and wives allocate their time between work at home, work in the market place, and leisure. The sample used in this study is obtained from 1979–1992 waves of the University of M…
A hermeneutic phenomenological study was carried out to explore the experience of being a first-time mother for rural Indonesian women. The purpose of the study were to provide nurses and other health care providers with a greater understanding of these experiences and to examin…
The thrust of this dissertation is to bring into focus a pastoral theology of marriage and family life that will help Nigerians understand better the dynamic of love and intimacy in Christian marriage. My concern is to provide a pastoral theology that is designed to contribute t…
Why it was so difficult for battered women to get divorced in Israel? It is argued that instead of asking why individual women stay in violent relationships, we should investigate how various cultural, legal, and bureaucratic institutions and ideologies respond to battered women…
In the present, as in the past, people have been immigrating from one part of the world to another. In this act, they seek better conditions to their current situation. However, studies often show that immigration leaves a scar in individual's and families' experiences, interrup…
This study explores the interrelated issues of family and the development of gender roles within contemporary middle and upper-middle class Muslim Egyptian families. It considers the ways in which these families respond to the interplay of contemporary material forces, the basic…
This dissertation examines Uighur family change in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uighur. Autonomous Region, during the period from the founding of the Peoples' Republic of China in 1949 to the present. I argue that the process of Uighur family change among the educated urbanit…