The Patriarchal Family Neurotic

2020 ◽  
pp. 205-239
Author(s):  
Melanie V. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Family Life ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
Greek Myths

Focusing on the continuance of the patriarchal family in modern narratives, this chapter explores Dell’s idea of a condition called “patriarchal family neurosis,” in which modern ideologies of family life are continually forestalled by patriarchal habits. Tracing contests over bodily forms and property, Wharton’s work repeatedly turns to the touchstone of Beatrice Ceni’s tragedy, while O’Neill invokes Greek myths to depict the patriarchalism infusing American culture and the infantilization of young adults.

scholarly journals Stepfamilies

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Gill Gorell Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
If Current ◽  
Children And Young Adults ◽  
The One ◽  
Year 2000

Family life in Britain is changing daily to include more stepfamilies, which have widely differing structures with varying histories, losses, transitions and economic circumstances. Of the one in five children who currently experience separation before they are 16, over half will live in a stepfamily at some point in their lives. Of the 150 000 couples with children who divorced each year at the end of the 1980s, a further 35 000 had a subsequent divorce. For some children we need to think of step-parenting within wider processes of transition, which include relationship changes of many kinds. The National Stepfamily Association have calculated that if current trends of divorce, cohabitation, remarriage and birth continue, there will be around 2.5 million children and young adults growing up in a stepfamily by the year 2000. The true pattern of re-ordering of partnership and family life is hard to chart, since many couples second or third time around prefer to cohabit rather than to marry.

The Effects of the Great Recession on Family Structure and Fertility

2013 ◽  
Vol 650 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Cherlin ◽  
Erin Cumberworth ◽  
S. Philip Morgan ◽  
Christopher Wimer
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Recent Immigrants ◽  
Term Trend ◽  
Younger Women ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Intergenerational Coresidence ◽  
Long Term Trend

Recessions can alter family life by constraining the choices that individuals and couples make concerning their family lives and by activating the family’s role as an emergency support system. Both effects were visible during and after the Great Recession. Fertility declined by 9 to 11 percent, depending on the measure, and the decline was greater in states that experienced higher increases in unemployment. The decline was greater among younger women, which suggests postponement rather than forgoing of births. The fall in fertility was sharpest for Hispanics, a result the authors attribute to a drop in Mexican immigration, which reduced the number of recent immigrants, the group with the highest fertility. Substantial increases occurred in the percentage of young adults, single and married, who lived with their parents, augmenting a long-term trend toward intergenerational coresidence. There was a slight decline in divorce and separation in states with higher unemployment.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing The Financial Independence of Young Adults, and Evidence From Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-192
Author(s):  
Evelyn Evelyn ◽  
Sherly Rosalina Tanoto ◽  
Ricky Ricky
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Financial Independence ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Gender Education

Financial independence is a mark of an individual’s maturity. Achieving financial independence for an individual is very important for family life. Society would be better off when most of its members were independent financially. This study investigates whether different groups of young adults based on their age, gender, education, and income significantly differ in their financial independence. Also, this research intends to study demographic factors that influence the financial independence of a society. The research method was quantitative by using a survey with 539 respondents. The result shows that different groups of young adults categorized based on age, gender, education, and income have a significant difference related to financial independence. Age and income are the two most important factors influencing the financial independence of young adults.

House, Land, and Family Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 386-404
Author(s):  
Pádraic Whyte
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Gender Construction ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter examines representations of house, land, and family life in significant works of modern Irish fiction for children from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It analyses key narrative trends and explains how different manifestations of home are in dialogue with each other. With a focus on realist fiction, the chapter identifies notable touchstones and examines specific depictions of home, from the Big House to the thatched cottage; from gender construction within the domestic sphere to the collision of traditional and modern forces within the home; from diverse family structures in urban homes to fractured families during the conflict in Northern Ireland; and from the interweaving of private and public histories to the creation of sanctuaries for young adults. A chronological analysis of varying types of homes reveals the complicated cultural and social discourses at play in modern Irish children’s fiction.

Children of migration: Hopes and tensions over border-crossing in Moldova

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 223-234
Author(s):  
Catherine Douillet
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Migration Rates ◽  
The World ◽  
High Migration

Moldova is one of the smallest and poorest European countries, with one of the highest migration rates in the world. While actual migration figures are difficult to obtain, due to the fluctuating and often illegal nature of Moldovan migration, it is an ever-present fact of life in Moldova with about, according to some estimates, a third of the adult population working abroad, often ‘leaving behind’ children in the care of relatives, neighbours or in orphanages. This paper investigates how such high migration rates affect Moldovan family life and personal definitions of identity and success. It highlights the personal quests of the young Moldovan population, particularly college students, and pays particular attention to the young adults who are children of migration themselves, with many of them having grown up with one or both parents working abroad during part or all of their childhood and adolescence.

Catholic East and Pentecostal West (1800–Present)

2020 ◽  
pp. 633-660
Author(s):  
David W. Kling
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Missionary Education ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Stable Marriages ◽  
Cursory Examination ◽  
Christian Message

The first part of this chapter examines Catholic missions among the Maasai, with particular attention given to the perennial issues raised by Vincent Donovan in his book Christianity Rediscovered. After a cursory examination of the role of missionary education as a vehicle of conversion, the discussion returns to the Maasai and, in particular, to the attraction of the Christian message to women. The second part of the chapter revisits West Africa with a brief glimpse of the Aladura movement in Yorubaland (Nigeria) before taking up Nigeria’s Pentecostal explosion in the mid-1970s. Expressed in multitudinous forms and organizations, the emergence of Spirit-centered movements took place within a local context of socioeconomic and political upheaval and a larger global context of exposure to modernizing influences, particularly those emanating from North American Pentecostalism. In addition to attracting young adults, women find that Pentecostalism is a boon to stable marriages and family life.

scholarly journals Exploring the Impact of Religiosity and Socioeconomic Factors on Perceived Ideal Timing of Marriage in Young Adults

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenifer N. Fuller ◽  
Ami M. H. Frost ◽  
Brandon Kevin Burr
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Family Practitioners ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Ideal

In light of rising averages in the age of first marriage for men and women, as well as changes in attitudes regarding marriage and family life in young adults, the study of marital timing has received increased attention in recent years. Marital timing has been known to be associated with various aspects of marital satisfaction and stability, yet most research has focused on limited variables to assess perceptions of the ideal timing of marriage. This study explored the association of demographic, current and background socioeconomic (SES) factors, and religiosity with various measures of perceived ideal marital timing in a sample of 385 unmarried young adults. Overall, results indicate that religiosity and ethnicity have an impact on perceived ideal age and timing of marriage. Also, less pronounced associations were found between SES factors and perceived marital timing. Implications and future directions for family practitioners and researchers are discussed.

scholarly journals Li Qingzhao and A. P. Bunina: difficult fates of women’s poetry

Litera ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 81-96
Author(s):  
Heng Xing Gong
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Women's Literature ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Women's Poetry ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
First Time ◽  
High Social Status

Despite the fact that Li Qingzhao and Anna Petrovna Bunina were bound by neither geographical affiliation or time, their contemporaries called them the Chinese and Russian Sappho. This is substantiated by the consonance of their poems with the lyrics of the Ancient Greek poetess, sensuality of their poems, as well as their independent position atypical for the women of their eras. This article draws parallels between the biographies of the two prominent poetesses, each of whom is considered the founder of women's poetry in their homeland. Although both poetesses are widely known and considered the pioneers of women's literature, their works are compared virtually for the first time. Besides the high social status and good education, the poetesses are interrelated by the fact that their fates transgressed the traditional canon of women's behavior: instead of patriarchal family life, they have chosen creative self-realization. The uniqueness of their position, which placed them in the focus of public attention, and in a way made them pariahs, on the other hand gave them the freedom in choosing problematic and literary language. This allowed them to become the founders of women's poetry and develop their own literary style. Namely this circumstance typologically apposes the works of the two poetesses, which are eight centuries apart from each other. The theme of their poetry is remarkably similar; however, the imagery differs significantly, since it is justified by the literary tradition of their country.

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