Understanding Continuities and Changes in Irish Marriage: Putting Women Centre Stage

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Family System ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family

Contemporary changes and continuities in marriage and family life can be understood by focusing on women. Five main patterns may make sense of these phenomena: women's continued identification with and absorption within the family system; negotiation within marriage; a feminised conception of love; an attempt to transform the structural and cultural parameters of marriage and family life; and an uncoupling of the traditional sequence of marriage, sexual activity and procreation. These patterns are not mutually exclusive, but may be differentially adopted by women at different life-stages and from different social classes. It is argued that women are involved in these various responses in an attempt to deal with the reality of the institutional structure of marriage within a social and cultural context which is not always responsive to their needs and interests.

The Synod on the Family

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Language Group ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Church Teaching

This chapter provides a case analysis of the Catholic Church’s Synod on the Family, an assembly of bishops convened in Rome in October 2014 and October 2015, to address the changing nature of Catholics’ lived experiences of marriage and family life. The chapter argues that the Synod can be considered a postsecular event owing to its deft negotiation of the mutual relevance of doctrinal ideas and Catholic secular realities. It shows how its extensive pre-Synod empirical surveys of Catholics worldwide, its language-group dialogical structure, and the content and outcomes of its deliberations, by and large, met postsecular expectations, despite impediments posed by clericalism and doctrinal politics. The chapter traces the Synod’s deliberations, and shows how it managed to forge a more inclusive understanding of divorced and remarried Catholics, even as it reaffirmed Church teaching on marriage and also set aside a more inclusive recognition of same-sex relationships.

Understanding Family Role Reallocation following a Death: A Theoretical Framework

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Vess ◽  
John Moreland ◽  
Andrew I. Schwebel
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Family System ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Family Roles ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
The Family ◽  
Developmental Role ◽  
Role Allocation

Families in which a parent has died will show a variety of reactions and recovery patterns. This article examines several factors which contribute to this variance. Within the framework of a developmental role analysis of the family system, the influence of the stage of the family life cycle, the roles of the deceased, previous patterns of role allocation, and the type of death are discussed. It is suggested that “person oriented” families, characterized by achieved roles, open communication, and flexible power structures, will more effectively reallocate family roles following the death of a spouse/parent. On contrast, “position oriented” families, characterized by ascribed roles, closed communication, and relatively inflexible power structures, will be too dependent on cultural norms and will lack the role-reallocating mechanisms necessary to ensure adequate family functioning following such a death.

Partnerstwo w relacji małżeńskiej jako współczesna wartość wychowania

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-123
Author(s):  
Joanna Ostrouch-Kamińska
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Marital Relations ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Family

Today we observe the dynamic changes in relations between the sexes in the family, which appear as a result of economic, cultural, and social transformation, the growth of women’s economic strength, as well as the level of their education, and the development of the ideas of the equal rights of women and men in the labour market and in social life. Hitherto existing research results show that Poles are increasingly in favour of the egalitarian family model and declare their wish to build their relationships based on equality. In the article I will characterise our cultural context, in which the egalitarian relation of a man and a woman in a family is both an educational space of confrontation between the “old” concept of family life, often rooted in Parsons’ concept of the nuclear family, and the “new” one, specific for the socio-cultural breakthrough in Poland. I will also present the involvement of formal education in fixing stereotypical images of family life, which are in opposition to the changes observed in relations between women and men. At the end I will present my own concept of education for equality in the marital relations, as well as the frame of equality between spouses in marital relations as a value of upbringing, which are a response to the needs of contemporary women and men.

scholarly journals Decoupling African Traditional Religion and Culture from the Family Life of Africans: Calculated Steps in Disguise

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-212
Author(s):  
Ebenezer Boakye
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Family System ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
The Family ◽  
African Traditional Religion ◽  
The Masses ◽  
African Families

Even though African Traditional Religion and Cultural family life seem to have been detached from the indigenous Africans, with many reasons accounting for such a detach, the attempts made by the new wave of Christianity is paramount, under the cloak of salvation and better life. The paper focuses on the steps taken by Pentecostal-Charismatics in Africa to decouple African Traditional Religion and Culture from the family life of Africans in a disguised manner. The paper begins with the retrospection of African Traditional Religion as the religion with belief of the forefathers concerning the existence of the Supreme Being, divinities, Spirit beings, Ancestors, and mysterious powers, good and evil and the afterlife. It then walks readers through the encounter between Christianity and ATR and come out that Christianity from its earliest history has maintained a negative attitude toward ATR. The paper again explores that the traditional understanding of the African family system is portrayed in the common believe system and the functions of the family com-ponents. Again, the paper further unravels decoupling measures such as reaching the masses for audience, demonization of African the world of the spirit, demonization of African elders, pastors as-suming the traditional position of elders of African families are the factors that are being taken to ensure the taking away of African traditional religious and family life from Africans. The paper again discusses the adverse effects of these decoupling factors on Africans. The paper concludes that Traditional African family patterns are slowly but progressively being altered as a result of the process of the decoupling strategies.

“Marriage under Two Roofs”: Feminism and Family Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 243-268
Author(s):  
Amy Aronson
Keyword(s):  
Birth Control ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Love Marriage ◽  
Novel Approaches ◽  
Private Domain

Crystal Eastman ardently pursued equalitarian feminism but also asserted that feminism must have three parts: politics and public policy; wages and the workplace; and—the distinctive final portion—the private domain of love, marriage, and the family. She believed millions of women like herself experienced acute feminist concerns not merely in the battle for economic opportunity in the workforce, or political representation and voice, but also from conflicts between their desire for the rewards of life beyond the home and for the rewards of family as well. She pursued this missing policy analysis for the rest of her life, advocating birth control in the feminist program, the endowment of motherhood, and feminist child-rearing and education. In unpublished articles, she also explored wages for wives and single motherhood by choice. All the while, Eastman was experimenting with a variety of novel approaches to integrating her feminism in own her marriage and family life.

Constituting Love in Persianate Cinemas

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-217
Author(s):  
Pedram Partovi
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Love Marriage ◽  
Economic Ties

Abstract Critics have long regarded the popular cinemas of India, Iran, and Turkey as nothing more than cheap Hollywood knock-offs. While scholars have recognized the geographic and economic ties between these film industries, few have noted their engagement with themes and images particularly associated with earlier Persianate courtly entertainments. Persianate cinemas have challenged modernist ideas of love, marriage, and family life exemplified in Hollywood features and instead taken up older aristocratic conceptions of the family in order to apply them to contemporary society.

The family in the view of Israeli adolescents in foster care

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-221
Author(s):  
Michal Mahat-Shamir ◽  
Bilha Davidson Arad ◽  
Guy Shilo ◽  
Ronit Adler ◽  
Ronit D Leichtentritt
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Young People ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Of Origin ◽  
Family System ◽  
Genetic System ◽  
Social Expectation ◽  
Biological Parents ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

Summary This qualitative study explores the unique views about the family system held by adolescents who have spent years in foster care in Israel. This inductive study is among the few to address the unheard views held, and the salient challenges faced, by adolescents who have not grown up in their biological parents’ home, with a focus on their view of the family. Findings Participants’ demonstrated conflicting, polarizing perceptions of the family: (a) family is a genetic system: blood is thicker than water; (b) the family system is constructed and limited by terminology; and (c) communication is essential to family life. Applications While the first two themes highlighted the participants’ family of origin as their “true family” the last theme emphasized on the foster family as their “true” family system. Synthesis between these views could not be achieved as informants embraced the social expectation perceiving the family as one. Raising social and professional awareness about the difficulties these young people face partly because of an exclusive social view of the family lies in the sphere of interest and the social work professional expertise.

scholarly journals Transformation of the desired family model in different generations: Results of the All-Russian sociological study

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-545
Author(s):  
T. K Rostovskaya ◽  
O. V Kuchmaeva
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Multivariate Statistical ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Family Model ◽  
The Family ◽  
Happy Family

The difficult demographic situation and the search for an effective model of demographic and family policy have revived the discourse about the Russian family model. The article aims at describing general and specific characteristics of the desired family model in different generations to identify vectors of transformation of the family institution and directions of the family policy. The authors conclusions are based on the statistical data, all-Russian population censuses (2002 and 2010), micro-census (2015), sample surveys of the Federal State Statistics Service, and the results of the authors research conducted in 2019. Ideas about the desired family model change under the influence of cultural and social-economic factors and differ between generations; therefore, a comparison of the opinions of different generations allow to identify transformations of the desired family model and directions of family policy. Family is still a significant value for Russians, but the model of the desired family changes towards nuclearization, mosaic family life models, decreasing role of formal mechanisms for regulating marriage, and increasing share of people who do not want a family. The discourse about the traditional family model, which is the basis of the Russian family policy, is supported by many Russians only formally. In general, Russians ideas about the desired family model change in the direction of liberalizing norms and attitudes to marriage and family life, and there are serious generational differences. Methods of multivariate statistical analysis allowed the authors to identify typological groups that differ in their ideas about the happy family.

scholarly journals Perceptions of Surrogacy Within the Yoruba Socio-Cultural Context of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria

F1000Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Oluwatobi Joseph Alabi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Family System ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Fertility Treatment ◽  
Reproductive Process ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Birth Attendants ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Family ◽  
African Context

Background: Surrogacy might be a reproductive process that brings joy and fulfilment to many but it also brings with it numerous ethical and legal concerns; it raises questions about the fundamental human rights, welfare and wellbeing of women and infants especially within a context where it is barely regulated. This article examines the perception of surrogacy within the Yoruba socio-cultural context in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. It brings to the fore various socio-cultural concerns that questions the influence of surrogacy as a reproductive process on womanhood, motherhood and parenthood. It discusses by analysing the narratives of participants how surrogacy process is a dereliction of the sacredness and cultural sanctity of the family system, most especially in an African context. Methods: 15 stakeholders (traditional birth attendants and gynaecologists) were engaged in an in-depth interview to unravel the challenges surrogacy might or is encountering within the socio-cultural context of Ado-Ekiti. Results: There are various social, cultural and religious beliefs that police the reproductive sphere of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, which has grave implications on fertility treatment. These socio-cultural and religious factors do not provide a fertile ground for surrogacy to thrive within the study location. Hence, it is important that the socio-cultural framing of reproduction within this cultural context become receptive to medical reproductive solutions and innovations if at all the processes are to thrive or at least become less stigmatised. Conclusions: The process of surrogacy is very complex and people’s attitude towards the practice is greatly influenced by their culture, religion and social belief systems about what is considered appropriate for procreation. Also, it is important to have clear-cut policy regulating surrogacy and all forms of ARTs in Nigeria, as this will protect women and infants, as well as, ensure that they are not to exposed abuse, commercialization and exploitation.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document