U.S. household structures have changed dramatically since the pinnacle of the post-World War II baby boom, around 1960 (US Census 2018), when single parents housed about 9% of children. Single parent homes now house 23% of U.S. children (Kramer 2019), the highest rate in the wor…
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This dissertation consists of three studies that evaluate how women form partnerships, leave partnerships, and the economic outcomes of those partnerships. These demographic transitions and outcomes are evaluated in three country contexts with differing political, welfare regime…
In the first citation of Hebrews, God declares that he is a Father by virtue of being in relationship with Jesus his Son (Heb 1:5). Attention to the familial relationships that appear throughout the letter reveals the theological, christological, and ecclesiological implications…
As concerns with global interconnectedness have moved cosmopolitanism to the center of political philosophy, interest in Kant's cosmopolitan arguments has surged. Kant's vision of cosmopolitanism and his claims to universalism have been attacked by feminist theorists, critical r…
My dissertation highlights two ways in which intergenerational relationships can be studied in light of increasing population heterogeneity. One approach is to assess whether immigrants and their descendants adopt "mainstream" attitudes, norms and behaviors related to parent-chi…
This study measures the impact of intergenerational acculturation gaps on overall family functioning with second-generation Iranian Americans. It was hypothesized that significantly larger differences in acculturation level between the participants and their first-generation par…
The typical life course of a young woman in Egypt today is significantly different from that of her mother when she came of age a generation ago. In this dissertation, I focus on differences between the experiences of the current generation of female youth and those of their mot…
The dissertation is an ethnographic study of the experiences of Chaldean immigrant women, with an emphasis on gender and family, in metropolitan Detroit. Research was conducted between 1993 and 1997. Data collection consisted of in-depth interviews, ethnographic field work and p…
The formation of human capital is the main issue in this dissertation. More specifically, this dissertation discusses two alternative types of transferring human capital, in contrast to the transfer of human capital from parents to their children's education. These two types of …
Interpreters of Matthew's Parable of the Wedding Feast (22.1–14) typically associate the ‘king’ with God and then justify his violent attacks against city and guests; interpreters of the Parable of the Ten Virgins (25.1–13) typically associate the ‘bridegroom’ with Jesus and the…
This study examined linkages between two aspects of the family context and children's appraisals, coping and attention regulation. Specifically, associations among these child variables and interparental conflict and supportive parent-child relationships were investigated, and s…
Educational research emphasizes the importance of the family's role in the child's educational process. Jewish tradition grants the family a dominant role in passing on Jewish heritage from generation to generation. For Jewish schools to enhance school achievement and teach valu…
Across much of South Asia, the basic unit of social and economic organization is the family. Within the family, norms of patriarchy and preferences for living in large joint-households induce predictable cycles of household formation and dissolution. The cycle begins when a male…
The dissertation addresses the question of the social organization of early Christian communities, c. 50 C.E. to c. 260 C.E. I demonstrate that the primary conceptual and behavioral model for early Christian social organization was the surrogate family (Chapter One). The specifi…
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 …
This thesis examines conceptions of homosexuality among lower income gay men of various ethnicities in Jakarta, Indonesia. The primary focus is on the relationship between homosexuality and conceptions of male gender, and it is argued that sexuality plays a minimal role in defin…
Families, broadly conceived, are multiply determined and determining systems whose functioning and well-being are sensitive to a range of contexts, including the dynamic policy context across the full range of policy domains. Particular political attention with strong normative …
This thesis analyses how ways of thinking about and meanings of family are (re)negotiated and (re)presented in six films that, to varying degrees, are categorised as cine social. The group of films consists of Familia (León de Aranoa, 1996), Solas (Zambrano, 1999), Flores de otr…
This thesis is concerned with two discrete but related themes that are of considerable socio-legal significance: South Asian divorce and disputes involving South Asian children. Both themes are explored empirically by means of a qualitative research study conducted in an urban a…