Nene Mesl-e Nān—‘Mother is Like Bread’: The Perception of Motherhood and Folklore Expressions among the Jews of Afghanistan

2017 ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Tsila Zan-Bar Tsur
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Bread Making ◽  
Legal Structure ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Jewish Mother ◽  
Cultural Force

This chapter focuses on Afghani motherhood that highlights the powerful role that mothers play within Jewish cultures while conforming to idealized notions of the Jewish mother within the family circle. It points out how the mother's praiseworthiness surfaces with husbands and sons glorifying her for serving as a protective force. It also cites that Ottoman mothers played active roles in the legal structure of family life, involving themselves in the betrothals and divorces of their sons and daughters. The chapter captures the ennobling manner in which Afghani mothers turn the everyday chore of bread-making into a protective cultural force. It illustrates family relationships that are conducted through bread and known among the Afghani Jews as nan.

‘Many kyne and few that dothe for me’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Clark
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Shared Goals ◽  
Family Groups

Family relationships were the cornerstone of society, especially for women, whose time was often spent advancing their kin. But not every relationship between kin could be positive all of the time, and this is as true for women as for men. Noble dynasties are often presented either as a series of coherent family groups united in pursuit of shared goals, or, conversely, as disparate individuals as likely to fight as unite, and women are not always given space in these interpretations. Yet this need not be an either/or choice. While both these interpretations might be true under extraordinary circumstances, even the Howards did not live every moment under such intense pressures. This chapter examines the everyday relationships between the Howard women and their kin, arguing that the family were neither automatically united nor wholly disunited.

Families with a Child with Epilepsy: A Sociological Contribution

1977 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. Mulder ◽  
T. P. B. M. Suurmeijer
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Family Doctor ◽  
Medical Advice ◽  
Epilepsy Patient ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Family Doctors ◽  
The Family ◽  
Delayed Referral

SummaryThis paper reports a pilot study of thirteen children with epilepsy and their families; the parents' efforts to obtain help for the child and the effect of the child's disability on the family relationships are described. About half of the parents did not consult the family doctor immediately after the first appearance of signs of epilepsy (patient delay). About a quarter of the family doctors delayed referral of the patient with epilepsy to the specialist (doctor's delay). Another 3 years passed, on average, before the patient reached a special centre or clinic for epilepsy (specialist delay); in three-quarters of all cases the first step to get there was taken by the parents and not by the specialist and chance plays an important role in determining how the entry into this third echelon is achieved. Reasons for the search for more specialized help were: dissatisfaction with the results of the treatment and the kind of rapport with the second echelon specialist. The out-patient clinic for epilepsy is generally favourably commented on because the expert medical advice is combined with the availability of a social worker, thus offering support with social problems also. As regards the influence of the illness on the family, there is evidence that family life is disrupted to a greater or less extent. The parents experience psychological stress and are generally apprehensive lest something will happen to their child. In a number of cases the relationships between siblings are rather disturbed. The parents, especially mothers, tend to (over-)protect the child with epilepsy. The child with epilepsy has a relatively isolated position in his social environment; he has few informal or formal social contacts with his peer group. The condition epilepsy contributes to a diminution of expectations for the future and curtailment of scholastic behaviour.

scholarly journals Prosperity of the Family - the Future of the World and the Church

Family Forum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Jindřich Šrajer
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Church

From a historical point of view, it can be argued that the cultivated arrangement of the relationship between man and woman, the support of the institution of marriage, and therefore families, have always been one of the important requirements of individual cultures and religions. There is also a close connection between the state of society (and the dominant requirements in it) and the form of personal and family life. In the Western cultural space with the decisive ecclesiastical discourse, the view of marriage and the family was not spared from one-sidedness and problematic practice. The current magisterium of the Catholic Church remains critical of some contemporary trends and phenomena, including the questioning of the very institution of marriage and the family. At the same time, it remains open to new challenges in this field.The article aims to critically reflect on some issues related to the current situation of marriage and the family, especially the individual and social ethical context of married and family life in contemporary Western culture.Using a reflection of the findings of selected authors, especially of sociologists (Lipovetsky, Beck), the article demonstrates the reality of problematic „points“ of the present time (marked by magisterial texts by Pope Francis) and their connection to married and family life. It thus verifies the thesis that the preconditions for marriage and the family are currently weakened in the Western area. This state of affairs include even the institutions that want to invoke the necessary personal and social responses to the problematic situation. Although the study does not capture the full range of issues and problems currently associated with marriage and the family, it does demonstrate that marital and family relationships in contemporary Western culture are conditioned by a number of factors. Those cannot be fully influenced by the individuals directly affected. The study points to the crucial role of politics, including its responsibility and to the exclusive role of the Church. The Church can, in many respects, increase respect for the institutions and bring a concrete help to the people.The result of the study is an emphasis on the fact that, in the current situation, it is not easy for individuals or families to maintain their own integrative values. It is not easy to withstand the pressures from the outside, to not succumb to the vision of success offered by the majority society. It is also problematic that the focus of politics is not predominantly on the family but, above all, on the immediate interests of the individual. Politics is irresponsibly undercutting itself in order to get into favor of individuals.The conclusion of the study confirms the validity of the magisterial belief that the prosperity of the family is crucial for the future of the world and the Church. Marriage and the family are natural communities that correspond to a person‘s anthropological setting. They allow him or her to find his or her own identity. They are a guarantee of the humanization of the person and society, a protection against deformations of the individualistic or collectivist type.

scholarly journals Family life satisfaction – Perception of the youth and their parents

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasminka Zloković ◽  
Zlatka Gregorović Belaić ◽  
Nadja Čekolj
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Satisfaction ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Complex Concept ◽  
Faces Iv ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Family

Family satisfaction is significant and complex concept that includes personal satisfaction and relationship satisfaction among family members. The aim of this paper is to present and discuss the preliminary young people’s and their parents’ perception family satisfaction analysis. The research was conducted on a convenient sample of students/young people (N=50) and their parents (N=84). For the purposes of this research The Family Satisfaction Scale from FACES IV instrument (Olson, 2010) was used. The mentioned scale measures the positive aspects of relationship among the family members. The results indicate that young people and their parents are generally satisfied with their family life. On some items of the scale there is statistically significant difference among young people and their parents. Parents are more satisfied with their family life than their children. These results are encouraging especially in the context of COVID 19 pandemics and increasing numbers of undesirable family relationships.

scholarly journals Social and psychological dimensions of gender deprivation in the field of marriage and family

HUMANITARIUM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-88
Author(s):  
Olha Kiz
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Equal Distribution ◽  
The Family

The article deals with the factors of the family environment that have a depriving effect on the participants of gender relations in the systems "husband-wife", "parents-children" and hinder the development of parity relations in private life. Gender relations in the field of marriage and family are considered as real practices and models of intersex interaction, behavior, values and social norms that determine the organization of family life and the culture of family relations. The definition of "gender deprivation in marriage and family" as deprivation faced by women and men in the performance of marital and parental roles due to gender perceptions, stereotypes and attitudes present in the mind, and gender prejudices reflected in the behavior of individuals of marital and parent-child interaction, which generate gender differentiation, stratification, gender imbalance in the distribution of household responsibilities, household, educational, guardianship, recreational and other family roles in the field of unpaid domestic work. The aggravation of contradictions between partners in focusing on the egalitarian or patriarchal type of building family relationships and the tendency to dysfunctional development of the modern family, which manifests itself in overburdening women with family responsibilities, inflexibility of family norms, inconsistency of role behavior, ignoring the needs and feelings of family members, conflict interaction, domestic violence, blurred family life plans have been emphasized. The conditions for overcoming gender deprivation in the field of marriage and family are identified: the gender- oriented state family policy as a tool for strengthening and developing the social institution of the family, ensuring the comprehensive development of the family and its members, preventing and resisting domestic violence; the approval in the society the value of parity marital relations, equal distribution of domestic responsibilities, mutually responsible fatherhood / motherhood; educational activities to strengthen the egalitarian and weaken the patriarchal foundations of the modern Ukrainian family, the formation of zero tolerance of society to domestic violence; increasing the gender sensitivity of the population, expanding the rights and providing opportunities for a wife and a husband for personal and professional development; activation of personal resources of women and men to choose the optimal strategies of self-realization in the field of marital and family relations and other spheres of public life.

scholarly journals Family relationships and polar opposition: Being equal while remaining different

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-80
Author(s):  
Martín Carbajo Núñez
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
The Family ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
Polar Opposition ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Amoris Laetitia ◽  
The Way

On the fifth anniversary of Amoris Laetitia, this article focuses on the importance of family relationships in our globalized world. The family allows everyone to feel equal while remaining different. In tune with Romano Guardini, Pope Francis uses the dialectic of polar opposition to describe the unity in diversity typical of authentic family life (part 1). He notes, however, that the technocratic paradigm, homogeneous and one-dimensional, cancels out this dynamic, thus opening the way to globalized indifference and the throwaway culture (part 2). Therefore, the Pope invites us to rebuild family relationships and preserve polar opposition at our four fundamental levels: spiritual, personal, social and natural (part 3).

scholarly journals On Family Relationships under the Laws of Hammurabi

2012 ◽  
pp. 172-181
Author(s):  
K. V. Karpenko
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
The State ◽  
The Family ◽  
Ancient Mesopotamia ◽  
Financial Power ◽  
Marital Union

The article presents an analysis of the family relationships in ancient Babylon, in accordance with the laws of Hammurabi. The author dwells upon the characteristics of selected institutes of family law of the Amorites and comes to the conclusion that the family life in ancient Mesopotamia was very developped. The family in the Hammurabi Code represents the basis not only for economic and financial power of the state, but also for its political stability and security. The rights and obligations of spouses are not equal, but they are together, though each in his own way, achieving the main goal of the marital union - the birth and upbringing of children.

Slavery and the Family

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Stefan Doddington
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Face ◽  
Atlantic Slavery ◽  
Politics And Gender

From the earliest historical studies on Atlantic slavery to the present day, historians have been interested in the development of family ties among enslaved people. They have debated, denied, questioned, and celebrated the ability of enslaved people to forge meaningful family relationships and kinship networks in the face of the traumas and violence of slavery. Arguments over the legacies of slavery and the actions of enslavers and enslaved alike in the context of family life have extended beyond the academic world; histories of the slave family have been used and abused in political debates, addressed and expressed in popular culture, and connected to contemporary concerns relating to social structures, racial politics, and gender dynamics across the Americas. In broad terms, scholarship on the slave family has moved beyond a focus on rigid consanguineal links or a biologically based model, as well as challenged Eurocentric perceptions as to the normality of nuclear or patriarchal structures in family life. Instead, historians have revealed the diverse forms of kinship and family relations found across and within the Atlantic world, noting connections, adaptations, and retentions among the various actors present in the slaving zones of the Atlantic world. Historians have done tremendous work in connecting the destruction and reconstruction of familial units in slavery to wider themes relating to resistance, trauma, and survival in the face of oppression. Pioneering work on enslaved women, and attention to the reproductive and productive exploitation women faced, has likewise revealed the centrality of sex, gender, and the family to the strategies of domination employed by enslavers in the Americas. These scholars also revealed how family life could provide a measure of respite, act as a site of pleasure, and serve as the foundation of a culture of resistance for enslaved people. Debates on the slave family thus provide insight into the most personal and intimate areas of enslaved people’s lives and reveal the complex power dynamics, negotiations, contest, and resistance between enslavers and enslaved people in the Atlantic world. In the rest of this piece I outline key texts relating to the slave family, focusing on scholarly monographs and structured roughly by geography. Scholarly articles have not been referenced, outside of one or two significant pieces, but readers should make use of the specific journals cited to explore the topic of the slave family. Select online databases and banks of primary source material are also listed.

Imagining and Enacting Birth Family Contact Over Time

2019 ◽  
pp. 125-186
Author(s):  
Abbie E. Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Contact Dynamics ◽  
Family Life Cycle ◽  
The Family ◽  
Birth Family ◽  
Family Contact ◽  
Over Time

This chapter draws from interview data at multiple phases of the family life cycle (preadoption, 3 months postadoption, 5 years postadoption, and 8 years postadoption) to describe the diverse patterns of adoptive–birth family relationships that unfolded, from the perspective of parents who pursued private domestic adoptions. The chapter addresses the intersecting dimensions of structural and communicative openness, with attention to how they change over time. It outlines a typology of contact dynamics over time, such that couples were classified as embodying one of these patterns: (a) low enthusiasm for openness maintained, little contact; (b) increasing enthusiasm for openness, some contact; (c) increasing enthusiasm for openness, little contact; (d) high enthusiasm for openness maintained, some contact; (e) high enthusiasm for openness maintained, no contact; (f) decreasing enthusiasm for openness amid boundary challenges, contact terminated or reduced; and (g) enthusiasm for openness maintained amid boundary challenges, contact maintained.

Negotiations

2020 ◽  
pp. 164-200
Author(s):  
Arnold Michael
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Parenting Strategies ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Face

This chapter examines the various ways digital media technologies and devices are embedded and embodied in the everyday activities of parents and children working, playing, educating, socializing, and entertaining in the home. Through this century, we have visited many families and have talked with them about their experiences and their parenting strategies in the face of new technologies. In this chapter, we identify the major strategies and stances and contextualize their nuances and subtleties vis-à-vis the particulars of the family relationships. We also place our findings in the context of the literature on families and technology use, relating the particularities of the vignettes to observations derived from quantitative and larger-scale studies.

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