Interviewing Families with Children: Guidelines and Suggestions

The article presents the results of a sociological study, the purpose of which was to conduct a comparative analysis of the lifestyle and medical activity of children with diabetes mellitus and healthy children aged three to six years according to sociological surveys of their parents. The data was collected using a specially designed questionnaire consisting of 36 questions. The study was conducted in 2019 in children's polyclinics in Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Birobidzhan. The study involved 84 people. The results of the study were analyzed using relative and average values. Significant differences in the lifestyle and medical activity of families with children with diabetes mellitus and healthy children were revealed.

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The 7008 Builders

10.1093/oso/9780190888275.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Rosanna Hertz ◽

Margaret K. Nelson

Keyword(s):

Pecking Order ◽

Sperm Donor ◽

New Members ◽

Original Narrative ◽

Families With Children ◽

Family Membership ◽

Traditional Families

This chapter introduces the members of the 7008er network at the occasion of a significant gathering, when seven families with children born from the same sperm donor come together at a hotel in the Midwest. From the beginning, the children in this network seek to construct themselves as a family. Love, trust, and harmony serve as guideposts in the unscripted land of donor-linked families. They also use structures they know from traditional families, such as a sibling pecking order. As the group expands to incorporate new members, the original narrative of family membership fails to describe the reality of competing allegiances among teenagers. Instead of remaining a coherent group, the members of this network break into a number of separate factions. Born between 1995 and 2001, the kids interviewed are between fifteen and nineteen years old.

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Belgium: Creeping Vulnerability of Children

10.1093/oso/9780198797968.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Julie Vinck ◽

Wim Van Lancker

Keyword(s):

Social Protection ◽

Child Poverty ◽

Growing Up ◽

Important Lesson ◽

The Great Recession ◽

Number Of Children ◽

Poverty Risk ◽

Poor Households ◽

Families With Children ◽

The Impact

Belgium has been plagued by comparatively high levels of child poverty, and by a creeping, yet significant, increase that started in the good years before the crisis. This is related to the relatively high share of jobless households, the extremely high and increasing poverty risk of children growing up in these households, and benefits that are inadequate to shield jobless families with children from poverty. Although the impact of the Great Recession was limited in Belgium, the crisis seems to have had an impact on child poverty, by increasing the number of children living in work-poor households. Although the Belgian welfare state had an important cushioning impact, its poverty-reducing capacity was less strong than it used to be. The most important lesson from the crisis is that in order to make further headway in reducing child poverty, not only activation but also social protection should be improved.

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Families with Children Have Fared Worst

Challenge ◽

10.1080/05775132.1986.11471068 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 40-47 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Sheldon Danziger ◽

Peter Gottschalk

Keyword(s):

Families With Children

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Has the Economic Lockdown Following the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed the Gender Division of Labor in Israel?

Gender & Society ◽

10.1177/08912432211001297 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 089124322110012

Author(s):

Meir Yaish ◽

Hadas Mandel ◽

Tali Kristal

Keyword(s):

Gender Inequality ◽

Unpaid Work ◽

Paid Work ◽

Flexible Work ◽

Work Arrangements ◽

Work From Home ◽

The Family ◽

Allocation Of Time ◽

Using Data ◽

Families With Children

The economic shutdown and national lockdown following the outbreak of COVID-19 have increased demand for unpaid work at home, particularly among families with children, and reduced demand for paid work. Concurrently, the share of the workforce that has relocated its workplace to home has also increased. In this article, we examine the consequences of these processes for the allocation of time among paid work, housework, and care work for men and women in Israel. Using data on 2,027 Israeli adults whom we followed since the first week of March (before the spread of COVID-19), we focus on the effect of the second lockdown in Israel (in September) on the gender division of both paid and unpaid work. We find that as demand for housework caused by the lockdown increases, women—especially with children—increase their housework much more than men do, particularly when they work from home. The consequences of work from home and other flexible work arrangements for gender inequality within the family are discussed.

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