Suitable Alliances

2021 ◽  
pp. 279-289
Author(s):  
Patricia Fortini Brown

Girolamo marries off all five daughters to Friulian nobles—three to feudal lords, two to wealthy city dwellers—thus strengthening the family network of alliances. Alvise and Giovanni become priests, the latter destined to follow his uncle Michele into high church office. Girolamo’s oldest son, Sigismondo, seeks his fortune in service of the Hapsburgs. His first marriage brings him the feud of Spessa, complete with castle, in Gorizia, and a son and heir, Carlo, named after the archduke. A second marriage into a collateral Della Torre line based in imperial territory ties him ever more firmly to the Hapsburgs. Girolamo expands the castle at Villalta, grafting a seigneurial Renaissance country villa onto the medieval fortress, the complex becoming a metaphor for a feudal family that now embraces Venetian republican values. Michele is featured in Paolo Paruta’s Della perfezione della vita politica (1579), a treatise celebrating politics as civil discipline.

Author(s):  
Roberto Alvarez

I utilize my situated position as anthropologist, academician, and citizen to argue not only that we should “think” California, but also that we should “rethink” our state—both its condition and its social cartography. To be clear, I see all my research and endeavors—my research on the US/Mexico border; my time among the markets and entrepreneurs I have worked and lived with; my focus on those places in which I was raised: Lemon Grove, Logan Heights; the family network and my community ethnographic work—as personal. I am in this academic game and the telling of our story because it is personal. When Lemon Grove was segregated, it was about my family; when Logan Heights was split by the construction of Interstate 5 and threatened by police surveillance, it was about our community; when the border was sanctioned and militarized it again was about the communities of which I am a part. A rethinking California is rooted in the experience of living California, of knowing and feeling the condition and the struggles we are experiencing and the crises we have gone through. We need to rethink California, especially the current failure of the state. This too is ultimately personal, because it affects each and every one of us, especially those historically unrepresented folks who have endured over the decades.


Curationis ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Ngubane ◽  
L. R. Uys

A survey was carried out of almost 50% of Black inpatients in a state psychiatric hospital to evaluate the level of accessibility of the family network of the patients. Staff were interviewed on the problems they have with contacting families. The survey shows the extent of inadequate access and identifies reasons for the problem.


1985 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-180
Author(s):  
PAULINE BURDON
Keyword(s):  

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 300
Author(s):  
Iana Bezerra Lima

ABSTRACTDescriptive study, update, aiming to identify the family social changes, the family and its life cycle, rebuilding the family, in your new life cycle to identify the importance of family therapy, this process of re-marriage. This is an issue of timeliness, increasingly frequent, though little discussed in the academic world. In the traditional family, where the couple and children living and paternalism commands, is no longer the only model of relations between people. With this process of change biopsychosocial, economic, the difficulties faced by families have become increasingly constant and conflicting. The family groups disrupted and restructured created new family structures where these new relationships and new roles are more complex than in the traditional family model. The difficulties encountered by families restructured are different, if the assumption that there is a link parent/son before the marriage. In the first marriage, the couple goes through the process of adaptation and creates a bond before dealing with their children, which does not occur in the family rebuilt. Moreover, previous marital experiences can influence poorly resolved in this new reconstruction marriage. Descriptors: family; marriage; divorce; family restructured.RESUMOEstudo descritivo, de atualização, com o objetivo de identificar as mudanças sociais da família, da família e do seu ciclo vital, reconstruindo a família, no seu novo ciclo de vida para identificar a importância da terapia familiar, neste processo de re-casamento. Trata-se de uma temática da contemporaneidade, cada vez mais freqüente, embora pouco discutido no mundo acadêmico. Na família tradicional, na qual o casal e filhos vivem e o paternalismo comanda, deixou de ser o único modelo de inter-relações. Com esse processo de mudança biopsicossocial, econômico, as dificuldades enfrentadas pelas famílias também se tornaram cada vez mais constantes e conflituosas. Os núcleos familiares desfeitos e refeitos criaram novas estruturas familiares onde estão presentes novos relacionamentos e os novos papéis mais complexos do que no modelo de família tradicional. As dificuldades encontradas pelas famílias reconstruídas são diferentes, se partimos do princípio que existe um vínculo progenitor/filho que antecede o vínculo conjugal. No primeiro casamento, o casal passa pela fase de adaptação e cria um vínculo antes de lidar com os filhos, o que não ocorre na família reconstruída. Além disso, experiências conjugais anteriores mal resolvidas podem influenciar nesta nova reconstrução conjugal. Descritores: família; casamento; divórcio; família reconstruída.RESUMENEstudio descriptivo, de atualización, con el objetivo de identificar los cambios sociales de la familia, de la familia y su ciclo de vida, de la reconstrucción de la familia, en su nuevo ciclo de vida para identificar la importancia de la terapia familiar, este proceso de volver a contraer matrimonio. Se trata de una cuestión de oportunidad, cada vez más frecuentes, aunque poco debatido en el mundo académico. En la familia tradicional, donde la pareja y los niños que viven y el paternalismo comandos, ya no es el único modelo de las relaciones entre las personas. Con este proceso de cambio biopsicosocial, económicas, las dificultades que enfrentan las familias se han convertido en constante y cada vez más conflictiva. Los grupos familiares perturbadas y reestructurado creado nuevas estructuras familiares que son estas nuevas relaciones y nuevas funciones más complejas que en el modelo de familia tradicional. Las dificultades encontradas por las familias reestructuradas son hijo antes del-diferentes, si la hipótesis de que existe un vínculo padre/hijo. En el primer matrimonio, la pareja pasa por el proceso de adaptación y crea un bono antes de hacer frente a sus hijos, lo que no ocurre en la familia reconstruida. Por otra parte, las experiencias matrimoniales anteriores pueden influir en mal resueltas en esta nueva reconstrucción del matrimonio. Descriptores: familia; matrimonio; divorcio; familia reestructurada.


1956 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 299-325 ◽  

Edmund Taylor Whittaker was born on 24 October 1873, the eldest child of John Whittaker and his wife Selina, daughter of Edmund Taylor, M.D. The family belonged to the district where the river Ribble forms the boundary between Lancashire and Yorkshire: his father, John Whittaker (1820-1910) was the youngest son of the first marriage of Henry Whittaker (1780-1853) of Grindleton near Clitheroe, who was the sixth of the eight sons of Richard Whittaker of Rodhill Gate near Grindleton. Several of Richard’s descendants were men of distinction in the late Victorian period, among them the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Palmer Whittaker (1850-1919), for many years M.P. for the Spen Valley division of Yorkshire, and Sir Meredith T. Whittaker (1841-1931), of Scarborough. His father on his marriage to his mother—whose father practised as a physician at Middleton near Manchester—settled in Southport. Though not well off, they were able to live on their private means: and there Whittaker was born. In childhood he was extremely delicate, and his time was spent almost entirely with his mother, who devoted herself to him and was in his earlier years his only teacher. As he grew older he grew stronger, and at the age of eleven was sent away from home to the Manchester Grammar School, which then dominated education in Lancashire. He was on the classical side, which meant that three-fifths of his time was devoted to Latin and Greek: in the lower forms, where the study was purely linguistic, he did well: but his lack of interest in poetry and drama caused a falling-off when he was promoted to the upper school, and he was glad to escape by electing to specialize in mathematics. Only after he had left school did he discover the field of Latin and Greek learning that really appealed to him—ancient and mediaeval theology, philosophy and science.


1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quanhe Yang

SummaryThis paper examines the changing nuptiality pattern of rural China, particularly rural Anhui in relation to the planned social changes since 1949 and their effect on fertility. The data are from the 1/1000 Fertility Survey of China, conducted by the Family Planning Commission in 1982. Before the family planning programme was introduced to rural Anhui (1972), the changing nuptiality pattern was indirectly affected by the planned social changes; after 1972, the substantial increase in age at first marriage was mainly due to the family planning programme. More recently, the centrally controlled social structure is loosening, due to the economic reform and the nuptiality pattern seems to join the 1972 trend, suggesting that the dramatic change of nuptiality pattern during the early 1970s to early 1980s was a temporary one. But its effect on fertility is clear, and the shortening interval between marriage and first birth may bring difficulties for future population control in rural China.


2019 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 231-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurélien Dasré ◽  
Olivia Samuel ◽  
Véronique Hertrich

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-34
Author(s):  
Ramesh Adhikari ◽  
Kusol Soonthorndhada ◽  
Pramote Prasartkul

Aim: This study aims to determine the factors influencing unintended pregnancy among married women in Nepal Methods: This paper reports on data drawn from Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), 2001 which is a nationally representative sample survey. The analysis is restricted to the currently pregnant women at the time of survey. Logistic regression was used to assess the net effect of several independent variables on unintended pregnancy. The factors leading to unintended pregnancy were also predicted by using some significant variables in the model. Results: More than two-fifth of the respondents (41%) reported that their current pregnancies were unintended. The results indicate that age, age at first marriage, religion, exposure to radio and knowledge of family planning (FP) methods were key predictors of unintended pregnancy. Experience of unintended pregnancy augments along with the women’s age. Similarly, increase in age at first marriage reduces the likelihood of unintended pregnancy among women. Those who were exposed to radio were less likely (odds ratio, 0.65) to have unintended pregnancy compared to those who were not. Those women who had higher level of knowledge about FP methods were 40% less likely to experience unintended pregnancy compared to those having lower level of knowledge. Conclusion: One of the important factor contributing to high level of maternal and infant mortality is unintended pregnancy. Programs should intend to reduce unintended pregnancy by focusing on all these identified issues so that infant and maternal morbidity and mortality as well as abortion will be decreased and the overall health of the family could be improved. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/njog.v3i2.10828   Nepal Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Vol.3(2) 2008; 26-34


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