This study's purpose is to investigate the experience of motherhood for Israeli mothers who have been raising their children in the United States. Its aim is to answer the question: How does the experience of becoming a parent in the United States impact Israeli immigrant mother…
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The study examines personal interviews with elderly people and their family members and describes their attitudes, meanings, and values towards euthanasia. The informants included 47 individuals from 19 families in Israel. Most participants expressed positive attitudes towards w…
Problem. Many marital satisfaction studies have focused on many sub-groups: Caucasians, Blacks, and many ethnic groups such as Japanese, German, Polish, Indian, Chinese-American, Swedish, Mexican-American, Nigerian, and Koreans in Korea. No study was found that has investigated …
This paper presents a model of migration, using male employment and migration histories from the 1988 Malaysian Family Life Survey (MFLS). The model can be regarded as reduced-form in nature, which represents myopic decision. The econometric model draws on Lee's (1983) general t…
Though religious intermarriage has become more common and more accepted, there are still several concerns that are created by the high rate of intermarriage. The first concern relates to harmony and longevity in the marriage; the second relates to the religious upbringing of chi…
Past studies indicate two contradictory portraits of Javanese women's status and power. Studies conducted after Indonesian independence generally picture Javanese women as having high status and access to resources in the household and in society. The positions are achieved thro…
This dissertation analyzes the determinants of female migration to Export Processing Zones in Malaysia, given special attention to the role of intra-household dynamics in family decision-making. Previous research has paid little attention to the role that intra-household conside…
This dissertation studies the migration of individuals and the migration of nuclear family units from households in rural Matlab to urban areas of Bangladesh. A model of the determinants of individual versus family migration tests the factors leading to migration as a community-…
The effects of war on children and adolescents were investigated using projective and questionnaire techniques. One-hundred-seventy-six (176) children (evenly divided by gender: ages 5, 9 and 14) were selected from two war/conflict areas (the Lebanese Border in Israel and Belfas…
This thesis reviews the variables that influence young women's ability to refuse sex with a man who has paid her school fees and a man who has power over her such as a teacher or employer. I use the 2002 Cameroon Adolescent Reproductive Health Survey, which contains information …
The link between economic reform and health, particularly the health of children, has been the subject of recent policy debate. Although economic reform remains a major feature of African policy-making, there has been very little empirical research on the impact of this reform o…
This research investigated issues of domestic roles of employed mothers in Indonesia, a developing, Muslim-majority country in Southeast Asia. The study was exploratory and utilized a qualitative interview method. Twenty-nine employed mothers with children under 10 years old who…
In this dissertation I evaluate the family support for the elderly in the aging developing countries. I argue that well-being of the elderly cannot be ensured by the family alone for two reasons: the burden will increase in the future and elderly are not necessarily taken of wel…
This research examines the living arrangements and social support of older persons in Egypt. Traditionally, social support of the elderly is the responsibility of the family, and especially the children. Continuing declines in fertility and mortality levels are contributing to t…
This study examines mother-child interaction from a Vygotskian perspective focusing both on maternal processes of scaffolding and on children's independent outcomes. Previous research on mother-child interaction has been dominated by the Anglo Western middle-class parent-child m…
This study examined the changes in the texture of the network of friends of divorced custodial fathers and mothers following the divorce compared to the period of the marriage, and the differences, in these changes with respect to gender based on Social Exchange Theory. The rese…
The present work, The Politics of Reform: A Study of Institutions, Ideas and Individuals by John Raphael Karaagac, is a comparative study of reform in four states of the modern era--seventeenth century Spain, seventeenth and nineteenth century Ottoman Empire, eighteenth century …
This dissertation is based on the idea that reproduction is a central locus of contest in the Galilee. "Modernization"--in the interrelated forms of nationalism, economic transformations, medical regulation, new forms of social stratification, and changing gender relations--have…
This study describes, explains and analyzes women's experiences of abortion in a large city in Malaysia. It is limited to a single clinic sample of primarily working-class Chinese, Malay and Indian women who had abortions during a period of three months in 1993. It also describe…
This study explored the ramifications of Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) on participants of Bosnian/Croatian descent who were geographically distant from the Bosnian/Croatian Civil War during the time of conflict. In this study it was anticipated that individuals who perceived …