scholarly journals “En part égale”: Family, Inheritance, and Market Change in a Francophone Community on the Prairies, 1880-1940

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken M. Sylvester
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Farm Families ◽  
Canadian Prairies ◽  
Rural Municipality ◽  
Market Change ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Parents And Children

This paper uses the fates of farm families in a southern Manitoba community to examine the evolution of nineteenth-century inheritance practice during the development of the Canadian prairies. In Montcalm, settlers from Quebec shared their new rural municipality with anglophones from eastern Ontario. While parents were originally committed to establishing as many of their progeny as possible, by the 1920s landholders tended to liquidate their assets for distribution among already independent middle-aged children. Generally, this meant that property was transferred in portable and individual bundles, and decisions on how to make a living were left to the inheriting generation. Aging parents still provided for their children's futures, but because their relationship to the market economy had changed, so too had their relationship to their children. While simplifying obligations between farm parents and children, market change increasingly expressed family ties in the language of the marketplace.

Two Properties, One Land: Law and Space in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (04) ◽  
pp. 807-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Banner
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Property System ◽  
Level Of Consciousness

If we use the word land to refer to the physical substance, and reserve the word property for the intellectual apparatus that organizes rights to use land, we can say that in colonial New Zealand, the British and the Maori overlaid two dissimilar systems of property on the same land. That difference in legal thought structured each side's perception of what the other was doing, in ways that illustrate unusually clearly the power of law to organize our awareness of phenomena before they reach the level of consciousness. Over the course of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power gradually swung to the side of the British, they were largely able to impose their property system on the Maori. The centrality of property within the thought of both peoples, however, meant that the transformation of Maori into English property rights involved much more than land. Religious belief, engagement with the market economy, political organization—all were bound up in the systems by which both peoples organized property rights in land. To anglicize the Maori property system was to revolutionize Maori life.

The Age of Mass Child Removal in Spain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Juvenile Court ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Juvenile Courts ◽  
Efficient System ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Democratic Regimes ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich

This book analyses the ideas and practices that underpinned the age of mass child removal. This era emerged from growing criticisms across the world of ‘dangerous’ parents and the developing belief in the nineteenth century that the state could provide superior guardianship to ‘unfit’ parents. In the late nineteenth century, the juvenile court movement led the way in forging a new and more efficient system of child removal that severely curtailed the previously highly protected sovereignty of guardians deemed dangerous. This transnational movement rapidly established courts across the world and used them to train the personnel and create the systems that frequently lay behind mass child removal. Spaniards formed a significant part of this transnational movement and the country’s juvenile courts became involved in the three main areas of removal that characterize the age: the taking of children from poor families, from families displaced by war, and from political opponents. The study of Spanish case files reveals much about how the removal process worked in practice across time and across democratic regimes and dictatorships. It also affords an insight into the rich array of child-removal practices that lay between the poles of coercion and victimhood. Accordingly, the book further offers a history of some of most marginalized parents and children and recaptures their voice, agency, and experience. It also analyses the removal of tens of thousands of children from General Franco’s political opponents, sometimes referred to as the lost children of Francoism, through the history and practice of the juvenile courts.

scholarly journals Revisiting Intergenerational Contact and Relationship Quality in Later Life: Parental Characteristics Matter

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 139-149
Author(s):  
Hye Won Chai ◽  
Steven H. Zarit ◽  
Karen L. Fingerman
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Functional Limitations ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Middle Aged Adult ◽  
Middle Aged Adults

Contact and relationship quality between adult children and aging parents are two widely used indicators of intergenerational solidarity and are often assumed to be positively correlated. However, the association between the two may depend on characteristics of the parent involved. Using Family Exchanges Study Wave 1, this study assessed whether parental difficulties—measured as functional limitations and life problems—and gender moderated the associations between middle-aged adults’ contact and relationship quality with their parents. We found that more frequent email or phone contact was associated with worse relationship quality for fathers who had functional limitations. For life problems, however, more contact was not related to relationship quality for fathers with life problems. The associations did not differ by mother’s difficulties. These results suggest that frequent contact between middle-aged adult children and aging parents does not uniformly reflect better relationship quality but rather depends on parents’ characteristics.

scholarly journals Aging Parents’ and Middle-Aged Children’s Evaluations of Parents’ Disability and Life Problems

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-146
Author(s):  
Hyo Jung Lee ◽  
Kyungmin Kim ◽  
Lauren R. Bangerter ◽  
Steven H. Zarit ◽  
Karen L. Fingerman
Keyword(s):  
Middle Aged ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Life Problems

Kono Tabi: A little-known Japanese Religion

1933 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-109
Author(s):  
Arthur Waley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Japanese Religion ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
Buddhist Monasticism

In 1802 Kino, a middle-aged Japanese peasant woman in a remote country place, declared that God, having many times tried unsuccessfully to manifest himself in saints and prophets, had “this time” (kono tabi) managed at last to find in her a vehicle for the delivery of his full and final message. From 1802 till 1826 (the year of her death God, through his intermediary Kompira, who plays the part that the archangel Gabriel plays in the Koran), inspired this illiterate peasant with a continuous flow of communications, which from 1811 onwards were taken down in writing and are preserved in some 300 rolls. On the strength of this revelation she founded a sect that despite prosecution in the nineteenth century to-day numbers about 40,000 followers, and which, though its ways of life owe something to Buddhist monasticism, can only be described as a separate religion.

Karl Polanyi's Concept of Non-Market Trade

1970 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Rotstein
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Near East ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Evolutionary Context

Karl Polanyi's studies in economic history were concerned with an unusually wide range of economies and societies. Aristotle's Greece, the ancient Near East and Hammurabi's Babylonia, pre-colonial West Africa, and the laissez-faire economy of the nineteenth century were among the areas which he explored. The main focus of his work might well be summed up by the title of the present conference, “The Organizational Forms of Economic Life and Their Evolution,” and equally well by the subtitle, “Non-Capitalistic Organization.” To talk of organizational forms (in the plural) and of non-capitalistic organization is to focus attention on different kinds of economic institutions and on ways of distinguishing among them. To raise this question in an evolutionary context is to suggest a departure from a notion of unilineal development that would tend to see earlier economies as miniature replicas or potential versions of our own market economy.

scholarly journals PREDICTORS OF MIDDLE AGED WOMEN`S PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING: ATTITUDES TOWARD PARENTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatyana L. Krukova ◽  
Maria V. Saporovskaia ◽  
Maria E. Voronina
Keyword(s):  
Middle Age ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Middle Adulthood ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Developmental Theories

The analysis of developmental theories of well-being in middle adulthood, concerning women is presented in the paper. The research is based on  Ryff`s (1996) conception relating <em>psychological well-being</em> to eudemonic lifestyle as most confirmed. Empirical results reveal how middle aged women`s attitudes toward parents impact on their psychological well-being through 4 basic adult attachment types. Special focus is made on correlations of emotional autonomy from parents, guilt and well-being. The guilt of responsibility is enhanced in middle age, being a mechanism motivating a woman to realize the eudemonic lifestyle (self-realization through care, first of all for aging parents and growing up children).

scholarly journals Middle-aged adults’ daily sleep and worries about aging parents and adult children.

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 621-629
Author(s):  
Haowei Wang ◽  
Kyungmin Kim ◽  
Jeffrey A. Burr ◽  
Kira S. Birditt ◽  
Karen L. Fingerman
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Middle Aged Adults
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