scholarly journals Health Matters: The Dawson and Harrington Families at Home

Fontanus ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annmarie Adams ◽  
Peter Gossage
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social History ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Extended Families ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
The Rich ◽  
At Home

This article focuses on the spaces associated with the extended family of John William and Margaret Dawson, particularly their nine-room, two-storey home at 293 University Street in Montreal. The Dawsons purchased their retirement house in 1893, as well as the house next door for their daughter, Anna, her husband, chemistry professor Bernard Harrington, and their eight children. The two houses are rich sources on how two generations lived together and separately simultaneously. The rich archival legacy of the Dawsons illustrates how Anna Harrington organized her house to regulate her children’s health, especially that of her son Eric, who suffered from a series of ailments and died in 1894.  “Health Matters” contributes to our growing understanding of the architecture and material culture of childhood by modeling an interdisciplinary method drawn from architectural and social history. Secondly, it argues that mothers directed their movements according to the condition of children; furthermore, it looks at how children organized household and backyard spaces, completely independently from adults; and finally, it shows how extended families constructed sophisticated boundaries while living in a decidedly fluid, pre-modern way.ResuméCe texte présente une exploration des espaces associés à la famille élargie de John William et Margaret Dawson, dont notamment leur maison de neuf pièces sur deux étages, située au 293, rue University à Montréal. Les Dawson acquièrent cette maison en 1893 pour y vivre pendant leur retraite. Ils achètent en même temps la maison voisine pour héberger leur fille Anna, son mari Bernard Harrington, professeur de chimie, et leurs huit enfants. Les deux maisons constituent une documentation très riche sur la manière dont deux générations peuvent vivre ensemble et séparément en même temps. Le patrimoine archivistique de la famille Dawson fait ressortir la manière dont Anna Harrington organise sa vie domestique afin de réguler la santé de ses enfants et surtout celle de son fils Eric, qui souffre d’une série de maladies avant d’en mourir en 1894. À partir d’une méthode interdisciplinaire située au carrefour de l’histoire sociale et de l’histoire de l’architecture, “Health Matters” ajoute à nos connaissances de l’architecture et de la culture matérielle de l’enfance. Le texte suggère à quel point les mères agissent en fonction de la condition des enfants et démontre comment les enfants organisent parfois, à l’abri de toute intervention des parents, des espaces de la maison et du jardin. Enfin, il démontre la façon dont la famille élargie peut ériger des frontières internes complexes, tout en vivant d’une manière fluide, définitivement pré-moderne.

scholarly journals Parenting among Settled Migrants from Southern Africa: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruvimbo Machaka ◽  
Ruth Barley ◽  
Laura Serrant ◽  
Penny Furness ◽  
Margaret Dunham
Keyword(s):  
Extended Family ◽  
Evidence Synthesis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Qualitative Evidence Synthesis ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Global North ◽  
Need For Support ◽  
Health And Well Being

AbstractThe Global North has over the years been a popular destination for migrants from the Global South. Most of the migrants are in their reproductive ages who go on to bear and raise children. The differences and subjectivity in the context of their experiences may have an impact on how they ensure that their children have the best possible health and well-being. This paper synthesises 14 qualitative research papers, conducted in 6 Global North countries. We gathered evidence on settled Southern African migrants experiences of bearing and raising children in Global North destination countries and how they conceptualise sustaining children’s health and well-being. Results of the review indicated a concerning need for support in sustaining children’s health and well-being. Cultural and religious beliefs underpin how the parents in these studies raise their children. More research is needed which engages with fathers and extended family.

At Home in Renaissance Bruges

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie De Groot
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Domestic Spaces ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Rich Material ◽  
At Home

How did citizens in Bruges create a home? What did an ordinary domestic interior look like in the sixteenth century? And more importantly: how does one study the domestic culture of bygone times by analysing documents such as probate inventories? These questions seem straightforward, yet few endeavours are more challenging than reconstructing a sixteenth-century domestic reality from written sources. This book takes full advantage of the inventory and convincingly frames household objects in their original context of use. Meticulously connecting objects, people and domestic spaces, the book introduces the reader to the rich material world of Bruges citizens in the Renaissance, their sensory engagement, their religious practice, the role of women, and other social factors. By weaving insights from material culture studies with urban history, At Home in Renaissance Bruges offers an appealing and holistic mixture of in-depth socio-economic, cultural and material analysis. In its approach the book goes beyond heavy-handed theories and stereotypes about the exquisite taste of aristocratic elites, focusing instead on the domestic materiality of Bruges’ middling groups. Evocatively illustrated with contemporary paintings from Bruges and beyond, this monograph shows a nuanced picture of domestic materiality in a remarkable European city.

scholarly journals Limited English Proficiency, Primary Language at Home, and Disparities in Children's Health Care: How Language Barriers are Measured Matters

2005 ◽  
Vol 120 (4) ◽  
pp. 418-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Flores ◽  
Milagros Abreu ◽  
Sandra C. Tomany-Korman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Health Care Disparities ◽  
English Proficiency ◽  
Language Barriers ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Primary Language ◽  
Language Spoken At Home ◽  
At Home

Background. Approximately 3.5 million U.S. schoolchildren are limited in English proficiency (LEP). Disparities in children's health and health care are associated with both LEP and speaking a language other than English at home, but prior research has not examined which of these two measures of language barriers is most useful in examining health care disparities. Objectives. Our objectives were to compare primary language spoken at home vs. parental LEP and their associations with health status, access to care, and use of health services in children. Methods. We surveyed parents at urban community sites in Boston, asking 74 questions on children's health status, access to health care, and use of health services. Results. Some 98% of the 1,100 participating children and families were of non-white race/ethnicity, 72% of parents were LEP, and 13 different primary languages were spoken at home. “Dose-response” relationships were observed between parental English proficiency and several child and parental sociodemographic features, including children's insurance coverage, parental educational attainment, citizenship and employment, and family income. Similar “dose-response” relationships were noted between the primary language spoken at home and many but not all of the same sociodemographic features. In multivariate analyses, LEP parents were associated with triple the odds of a child having fair/poor health status, double the odds of the child spending at least one day in bed for illness in the past year, and significantly greater odds of children not being brought in for needed medical care for six of nine access barriers to care. None of these findings were observed in analyses of the primary language spoken at home. Individual parental LEP categories were associated with different risks of adverse health status and outcomes. Conclusions. Parental LEP is superior to the primary language spoken at home as a measure of the impact of language barriers on children's health and health care. Individual parental LEP categories are associated with different risks of adverse outcomes in children's health and health care. Consistent data collection on parental English proficiency and referral of LEP parents to English classes by pediatric providers have the potential to contribute toward reduction and elimination of health care disparities for children of LEP parents.

Working Mothers Represent: How Children Affect the Legislative Agenda of Women in Congress

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa A. Bryant ◽  
Julia Marin Hellwege
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Working Mothers ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Legislative Agenda ◽  
At Home

Issues and policies pertaining to children and families are often labeled “women’s issues” and assumed to be on the radar of all women, but we argue that they are more salient for mothers, particularly working mothers, than for other women. This study examines the role of motherhood as an identity for women in Congress by looking at the introduction of bills that affect children and families from 1973 through 2013. We define working mothers as women who have children below 18 years of age at home while they are in office, as opposed to those who have adult children or no children. Our findings show that Congressional working mothers are more likely to introduce legislation that address issues specific to parents and children. We also find that legislation specifically dealing with children’s health and welfare is more likely to be introduced by members with children than those without.

KIN AND NON-KIN MARRIAGES AND FAMILY STRUCTURE IN A RICH TRIBAL SOCIETY

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 797-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omran Bakoush ◽  
Amin Bredan ◽  
Srdjan Denic
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Extended Families ◽  
National Medical ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Social Insecurity ◽  
Mean Size ◽  
Tribal Society ◽  
The Rich

SummaryHuman consanguinity is often attributed to poverty, lack of education and social insecurity. Nevertheless, kin unions continue to be arranged in socioeconomically transformed societies. This study examined the structure of families and marriages in the rich tribal society of the United Arab Emirates, which has had a high gross domestic product for the last two generations and currently has one of the highest in the world. The respondents were 217 national medical students whose families are proportionally distributed to the population of the country emirates. The rate of parental consanguinity (defined as a union of any two cousins) was 36%. The social status and mean size of consanguineous and non-consanguineous families were not significantly different. In non-consanguineous families, polygamy was more common and the number of half-siblings per family was higher. The extended families were on average 7% larger among non-consanguineous families. In contrast, for the extended families of the participants’ grandparents, non-consanguineous families were smaller than their consanguineous counterparts. Participants from consanguineous families indicated that marriage of either a son or daughter was more difficult to arrange than did participants from non-consanguineous families. Though consanguineous parents had their offspring marry consanguineously more often than non-consanguineous parents, the numbers of married offspring in the two groups of families were not different. Consanguineous parents have more difficulty than non-consanguineous parents in finding spouses for themselves and for their offspring, and they arranged kin marriages for their children more often.

Managing the Family's Health: Preferences and Experiences of Women with Different Work and Family Arrangements

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona J Andrews ◽  
Hal Swerissen
Keyword(s):  
Financial Constraints ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Simple Relationship ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Depth Interviews

Balancing the needs of work and family is a subject of much debate. The purpose of this research was to explore how families manage their children's health within the context of different work and family arrangements. In-depth interviews were conducted with women who were at home full time (8) or in paid work over 30 hours a week (7). Women had at least one child under five years of age. Findings revealed there was no simple relationship between women's working arrangements and how they managed their children's health. All women, irrespective of their working arrangements, held similar preferences for managing their children's health. However, most women experienced either time or financial constraints that meant they had to compromise their original preferences. In some cases this meant children missed out on receiving health services. Workplace support, extended family support and general satisfaction with work and family arrangements appeared to be important factors for the small number of women who had no problems in managing their children's health. The implications of these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Long-Term Care and Wide Effects on Children Caregivers -- New Evidence From Taiwanese Administrative Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 1019-1020
Author(s):  
Kuan-Ming Chen ◽  
Chen-Wei Hsiang ◽  
Yu-Hsuan Chou ◽  
Shiau-Fang Chao ◽  
Kuan-Ju Tseng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Administrative Data ◽  
Health Expenditure ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Term Care

Abstract Long-term care (LTC) needs have profound impacts on the care-receivers and their children. Past research has focused on primary caregivers' short-term responses to LTC needs on limited aspects. This study brings new Taiwanese administrative data on health insurance, LTC program usages, and tax records. Rich information allows this study to explore long-term impacts on care-receivers' extended families. Event study combined with various regression analyses is the main framework of this study. Using the longitudinal record of more than 23 million individuals older than 65 over 18 years, the present study examines extended family members' various outcomes along the LTC needs trajectory. Among others, these outcomes include labor market participation and health expenditures. There are several findings in this study. Parents' LTC needs decrease all children's average full-time labor force participation by 2.5 percentage points even 10 years after the needs incurred. These needs do not directly increase children's health expenditure. A precise zero effect is found on children's health expenditure before, during, and after parents' LTC needs. Nevertheless, parents' health status or LTC risks, in general, may still pass on to children through other channels. The inter-generational health association is found to be approximately 0.25, indicating some degree of transmission. The results suggest that the impacts of LTC needs on family members are profound and widespread. Policy needs to address multiple aspects to cater to potential difficulties for care-receivers' family members.

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