Parenting and Marital Trust in Japan

2005 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 515-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsushi Sakai
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Parenting Stress ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Nursery School ◽  
Parenting Behavior ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
Japanese Mothers ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between marital trust, mothers' parenting stress and maladjusted parenting behavior in Japan. The participants consisted of 327 Japanese mothers who reside in the greater Tokyo area and whose children go to kindergarten or nursery school (the children's ages range from 3 to 6 years. Participants were asked to complete questionnaires about their family structure (nuclear or extended family), demographic information about their child (sex, age, birth order, etc.), marital trust, parenting stress, and maladjusted childrearing behavior. Analysis indicated that the relationship between marital trust, mothers' parenting stress and maladjusted childrearing behavior was different depending on the family structure. More specifically, for mothers in nuclear families, marital trust, especially the sense of being trusted by the husband, was associated with parenting behavior directly as well as indirectly via parenting stress. In contrast, for mothers in an extended family marital trust was not associated with maternal parenting behavior. The results were discussed in terms of the differences in the availability of social support in a nuclear family compared to the extended family.

Family Structure in Los Angeles, California: 1850–1900

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-39
Author(s):  
Barbara Laslett ◽  
Katherine Nash
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social History ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Life Patterns ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship

In an overview of recent research on the history of the family, Tamara Hareven (1991) points out that this field of study took its inspiration from developments in historical demography and from the “new social history” of the 1960s. Family historians, like other social historians, had “a commitment to reconstructing the life patterns of ordinary people, to viewing them as actors as well as subjects in the process of change” (ibid.: 95). The flowering of research in this field has provided us with a more detailed understanding of the relationship between social change and family life than was previously available. We have learned, among other things, that rather than a single trajectory of change from extended family life before industrialization to the nuclear family afterward, changes in family organization have rarely been invariant, linear, or unidirectional.

scholarly journals Adoption Status and Disparities in the Familial Configurations of Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-487
Author(s):  
Kevin J. A. Thomas ◽  
Ashley Larsen Gibby
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Single Mother ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Minority

Few studies have examined the familial configurations of adopted children and how these configurations differ from those of nonadoptees. As a result, this study examines the relationship between adoption status and inequalities in the family structure of children. Our results indicate that adopted children are more likely to live in nuclear families compared with nonadopted children. Part of this is driven by the comparatively limited presence of adoptees in single-mother, single-father, and other types of nonnuclear families. Foreign-born adoptees are more likely to live in nuclear families compared with U.S.-born adoptees, but adoptees from racial and ethnic minority groups are less likely to live in such families compared with their White counterparts. These race-ethnic inequalities in family structure are however moderated by foreign-born status. Accordingly, our results indicate that foreign-born Black and Hispanic children have the highest odds of residing in nuclear families among the U.S. population of adopted children.

scholarly journals Change in Family Structure in the Modern Times

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Himani Bhasin
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Family System ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Joint Family ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
System A ◽  
The Family

In India, the land of culture and unity, culture and unity are well manifested in the structure of society, indeed in the smaller unit of a society i.e. family. A family is a set of human beings related to each other in a non-professional manner, giving rise to a concrete cohesion within the family. Love, care, and affection are the most prominent human values, which are responsible for maintaining these bonds of relationships within a family. Typically, a nuclear family may be conceived as a unit consisting of a couple, children, and grandparents, and pets. In India however, there exists a special kind of family structure that really is quite vivid in the way it manages to handle and keep intact the human relations. This special kind of family structure is Joint Family System. A joint family is a collection of more than one, nuclear families that are interconnected by blood relations or marital relations. All the members, regardless of which particular nuclear family (within that joint family) they belong to, live together and share happiness, grief, and virtually every kind of problem and joy together. The joint family in itself simulates a typical view of our multi-cultural, multi-lingual, yet tightly intertwined Indian society. Indian president replies to a question related to spiritual strengths of India as:

The Origins of the Village Revisited: From Nuclear to Extended Households

2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kent V. Flannery
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Near East ◽  
Shared Storage ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Extended Households ◽  
The Village

In Mesoamerica and the Near East, the emergence of the village seems to have involved two stages. In the first stage, individuals were distributed through a series of small circular-to-oval structures, accompanied by communal or “shared” storage features. In the second stage, nuclear families occupied substantial rectangular houses with private storage rooms. Over the last 30 years a wealth of data from the Near East, Egypt, the Trans-Caucasus, India, Africa, and the Southwest U.S. have enriched our understanding of this phenomenon. And in Mesoamerica and the Near East, evidence suggests that nuclear family households eventually gave way to a third stage, one featuring extended family households whose greater labor force made possible extensive multifaceted economies.

It's about Family: The Death of a Close Family Friend

2009 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Beder
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Entire System ◽  
The Family ◽  
Counseling Interventions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Close Family

When an individual dies, the role of the family member(s) is clearly prescribed by society: support, presence, caring, and remembrance. Traditionally, the definition of “family” has broadened to create the “extended family” or “expanded family” with members defined by deep bonds, relationships, and friendships. Currently, close friends who become the extended/expanded family, can be as central as kin to family structure and stability. Therefore, when one member of an extended family dies, the death resonates throughout the entire system affecting not only the lives of the immediate family members, but also those in the expanded circle of family relationships. This article describes the relationships in one extended family and discusses the struggles and counseling interventions used when one member of an extended family suddenly dies.

Replacing the family? Beguinages in early modern western European cities: an analysis of the family networks of beguines living in Mechelen (1532–1591)

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIM OVERLAET
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
European Cities ◽  
The Family

ABSTRACTIn many early modern towns of the southern Low Countries, beguinages gave adult single women of all ages the possibility to lead a religious life of contemplation in a secure setting, retaining rights to their property and not having to take permanent vows. This paper re-examines the family networks of these women by means of a micro-study of the wills left by beguines who lived in the Great Beguinage of St Catherine in sixteenth-century Mechelen, a middle-sized city in the Low Countries. By doing so, this research seeks to add nuance to a historiography that has tended to consider beguinages as artificial families, presumably during a period associated with the increasing dominance of the nuclear family and the unravelling ties of extended family.

The Relationship between Family Structure and Eating Attitudes of People Registered to the Family Mediciners

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Salim Ozenc ◽  
Sirzat Yesilkaya ◽  
Dursun Karaman ◽  
Nuri Yildiran ◽  
Erdal Pan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

Intergenerational Association of Alexithymic Characteristics for College Students and Their Mothers

2001 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isao Fukunishi ◽  
Wayne Paris
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Parental Bonding ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Toronto Alexithymia Scale ◽  
Extended Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Types

The intergenerational association of alexithymic characteristics of mothers and their children were examined in a sample of 232 pairs of college students and their mothers. Scores on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Parental Bonding Inventory, and the Family Environmental Scale of college students were significantly correlated with their mothers' memories of when they were also 20 years old. College students' scores were significantly correlated with their mothers' scores on each questionnaire. The student-mother pairs were further divided into two family types, nuclear and extended families. Correlations were higher for scores of the nuclear family than for those of the extended family. Such results suggest there may be intergenerational transmission of alexithymia and related factors from mothers to children.

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