Globally, the women-centered approach to family planning service delivery and research is being replaced by one which encourages male responsibility and participation. Recognizing this shift, this study applied a Reciprocal Determinism framework to exploring the importance of ea…
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The goal of this dissertation is to determine how the bases of marriage choices on the island of Jerba have both changed and remained the same since 1956, the year of Tunisian independence, among local Berber Muslims, Jerban Jews and immigrant Malekite Muslims. The social and ec…
Erik Erikson (1963) suggested that grandparents can be important figures with whom their adolescent grandchildren can identify as representatives of sameness and family continuity. The feeling of sameness is thought to facilitate the adolescent in creating his or her own identit…
Men living in a shelter was examined from the perspective of the individual. The research encompasses three main areas: (1) attribution of causes which lead to homelessness, (2) the homeless' own definition of their situation, and (3) the subjects' future plans relating to their…
This research examines variations in women's labor force participation among a little known population of Arab-American women. Labor force participation is an important measure of women's achievement levels because it signifies access to economic power, which is strongly correla…
Pakistan is among the world's most populous countries and its population has been growing at a dramatic pace due to the high fertility levels that prevail in the country. There has always been a debate as to whether it is economic development or family planning services that bri…
This study compared differences in the mother-daughter relationship between fifty 18- to 34-year-old Arab Americans and 50 18- to 34-year-old European American females. The variables of interest in this study were Attitudinal Independence, Functional Independence, Emotional Inde…
This study is intended to test two major hypotheses linking socioeconomic variables, intervening variables, and fertility. The first hypothesis states that under a higher level of socioeconomic development, the socioeconomic-fertility association is expected to be negative. The …
This study examined cultural variations in mothers' attitudes toward the use of daycare for children aged birth to two years old between Israel and the United States. Based on Hofstede's (1980) individualism/collectivism model, Israel was assumed to be a collectivist culture and…
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of family coping and family resources with family adjustment and parental stress in the acute phase of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) experience. This study also identified the coping strategies used by mothers…
This is an ethnographic study of language minority students' perceptions of the socializing influences of family, school and community on their educational experiences. The theoretical orientation of this study is based on the framework of symbolic interactionism, a type of phen…
The purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of age at first marriage in India, and to identify the most influential variables. Identifying key determinants is critical in a country like India, which has young ages at marriage and immense regional and residential div…
This dissertation examines the connections between gender relations within the family, community and informal labor of Turkish domestic workers by means of survey data, in-depth interviews, and participant observation. The study focuses on two groups of formerly rural domestic w…
The purpose of this study is two-fold: first, it is an effort to understand how Nigerian immigrant families have improved their economic status and live up to their financial obligation to their relatives. Secondly, it intends to see how women's status changes by way of particip…
The Yoruba traditional housing form is the compound system. Its arrangement expresses the strong family ties central to the culture, emphasizing the compound as the unit of primary attachment for extended family members. However, the compound spatial structure has been changed c…
Nigeria, a country in West Africa, has a population of 126 million people of which about 2% are deaf. The Nigerian educational system is very similar to the British system, which was inherited during the colonial era. Nigeria has had formal education of the deaf through high sch…
The role of the home environment in cognitive development has been well documented in western societies. There has been a tendency until now to examine the relationship between environmental factors and cognitive development in non-western societies using "western perspectives".…
The primary goals of the present study were to explore generational differences in mothers' ideas and socialization practices, differences in these ideas and practices with respect to girls and boys, and interactional effects between mother's generation and gender of the child. …
While rural Bangladesh still maintains many traditional socio-Economic characteristics, modern contraceptives have been widely accepted by women of reproductive age for two decades. Matlab, Bangladesh, is a rural area with a significantly high rate of contraceptive use. Since th…