The purpose of this study was to discover and interpret reasons Florida parents enrolled their children in Islamic schools. A selection of 30 parents from 3 different schools in Florida were interviewed by the researcher using a semi-structured interview guide which used both or…
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The study questioned the extent to which the economy shapes political behavior and attitudes of Egyptian rural people in the face of recent economic changes and structural adjustment policies. It also examined the extent to which rural people's experiences and perceptions of eco…
The Jewish/Christian dialogue has achieved a great deal during the past forty years. During the same period the rate of interfaith marriage from within the Jewish community has increased beyond 50% nationally and threatens the long-term vitality of Judaism and the Jewish communi…
Children’s work in developing countries is generally depicted as competing with children’s education, harmful to children and societies, and a product of family strategies for confronting poverty. These assumptions remain problematic as they are built on research that focuses on…
Polygamy, or marriage to more than one spouse at the same time, is a worldwide practice that still affects the lives of many people. As such it must be given serious attention by any Christian group involved in mission work. As a denomination with a global mission emphasis, the …
This dissertation addresses two primary issues: measuring women's work in a context where female labor force participation is low and including the full range of women's work activities in the investigation of the work/fertility relationship. Using data from the Egypt Use Effect…
Homeless families living in two shelters, the Baghdad Inn and the Starlight Inn, in Arid Acropolis were studied to determine the effects of shelter living on the families' abilities to meet their needs. Participant-observation was used to gather the data. Over two years, 103 fam…
This study describes and compares Taiwanese American (TA) children's and Non-Taiwanese American (NTA) children's perceptions of war. A qualitative research design was adopted. In-depth interviews were conducted with a total of 50 TA and NTA children recruited mainly from two mid…
The marriages arranged by British-Pakistani parents for their children create and perpetuate transnational connections between families in Britain and Pakistan. By focusing on the experiences and attitudes of British-Pakistani women living in the northwest of England, this disse…
La presente etude porte sur 142 adolescents de 82 familles suivies par l'Action social a Dakar (Senegal). Elle explore les liaisons entre les caracteristiques des adolescents, celles des familles, les conditions de vie familiale avec les problemes situationnels et/ou de comporte…
Events that could, and often do, crush us psychologically (and/or physically) can also be used for personal transformation and change. There are some individuals who find hope and opportunity in the midst of adversity and use their experience as a catalyst for positive social ch…
This descriptive study was conducted to examine the occurrence of disability and stress among refugees living in the Gaza Strip. A survey was administered in 100 households in each of three refugee camps. Two survey instruments were selected to evaluate stress and disability amo…
Migration is often regarded as a human capital investment with socioeconomic returns. Women, however, are likely to be constrained in reaping the full benefits of migration. This is because of two factors. At the family level migration decisions are taken to favor men rather tha…
This study investigated the language loss factors that plagued two Mexican-American families and the language maintenance strategies that they used to preserve Spanish in their lives. Six subjects participated in the study. A representative of each family for each of three gener…
Social policy differences between Canada and the U.S. impact the quality of life and levels of material hardship experienced by the working poor. This dissertation examines the role of specific policy differences through a cross-national comparative study of hotel industry emplo…
The dominant mechanism through which maternal employment is thought to affect child development and survival is mother-worker roles incompatibility [Meyers and Indriso, 1986]. This implies that working mothers may not be able to provide adequate care for their children. Hence, t…
The purpose of this thesis is to describe and interpret caregiver-infant interaction in a Borneo community through an observational study of 23 Melanau children aged 15 months in Miri, Sarawak, East Malaysia. This thesis is particularly relevant to the question of universality i…
In an aging western society, and in the Christian church, the challenge is to embrace a ministry to and by older persons with a wholehearted approach as views of aging are changing from the negative to the positive. Selected statistics are discussed in the Introduction Any such …
The principal reason cited in the literature on overseas assignments for the failure of foreign postings is the inability of the employee's partner—the “trailing spouse”—to adapt to expatriate life, resulting in maladjustment, unhappiness, and an ignominious return home. Using e…