Pub Date : 2008-10-11DOI: 10.1080/01494920802013078
Dick Carpenter
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between various measures of parental and student expectations and aspirations and math achievement among Latino 12th graders of immigrant parents in the Educational Longitudinal Study (ELS): 2002 database. Findings indicate parental expectations and aspirations were not significant predictors of student achievement after controlling for an index of covariates. Moreover, neither were student expectations, agreement between student and parent expectations, nor student perceptions of parental aspirations. The analyses of the secondary questions likewise indicated only one strong relationship between aspirations, expectations, and parents' time in the United States – parental aspirations and expectations.
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Pub Date : 2008-01-01DOI: 10.1080/01494920802010272
Leslie Reese, Claude Goldenberg
ABSTRACT This paper reports relationships among communities, families, and Spanish-speaking children's language and literacy development in kindergarten and grade 1. Findings from a study of 35 communities show that communities with greater concentrations of Latinos are less likely to have printed materials, and available materials are more likely to be in Spanish. Communities with higher income and education levels have more literacy materials in English. Contrary to predictions, there are few associations among community literacy resources, frequency of children's home reading activities, and children's literacy achievement. This lack of association is due to within-community variation in home literacy practices and to schools' impact on home literacy. However, there are associations among community and family language characteristics and child literacy outcomes in Spanish and English, suggesting that at least in the early stages of literacy development, communities' influence on Spanish-speaking children's literacy development is through language-learning opportunities rather than literacy-learning opportunities per se.
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Abstract A positive and useful approach to conceptualizing families from a global perspective links family strengths, community strengths, and cultural strengths and demonstrates how families use these valued tools to meet the many challenges they face today in a difficult world. In this epilogue, we develop conceptual models from all three levels of strength from an analysis of the 18 countries discussed in this text, and two visual models are also presented in order to help students in family studies world-wide better understand and organize their thinking on the complexities of family life today.
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R. Fabes, R. Poulin, N. Eisenberg, Debra A. Madden-Derdich
SUMMARY The Coping with Children's Negative Emotions Scale(CCNES) is an increasingly used self-report instrument consisting of six subscales that reflect different ways parents respond to their young children's negative emotions. However, psychometric testing of this scale has not been conducted. In two studies, we examine its psychometric properties. In the first study, 101 parents (mostly mothers) completed the CCNES and a variety of other scales. The results reveal that the CCNES is internally reliable and has sound test-retest reliability and construct validity. Factor analysis of the structure of the CCNES suggests that there may be only four rather than six subscales. In the second study, we examined the predictive validity of the CCNES to 36 children's emotional competence (decoding and expressiveness). The supportive subscales (positively) and parental distress (negatively) predicted children's decoding, whereas emotional encouragement (positively) and nonsupportive parenting (negatively) predicte...
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Intersections, points at which divergent roads come together, is a common theme in this collection of essays. Perhaps a more descriptive title for these essays, however, might be “How did I get HERE from THERE?!!” That is, the authors, in a number of these essays, seem amazed at how their choices, often seemingly at odds with previous academic experiences, resulted in academic careers in which they now study individuals and families. Reading these essays allows one to understand how fortuitous or unpredictable experiences and relationships helped to shape their lives and careers. As one reads these accounts, the authors often seem to be trying to make sense of the important “intersections” that provided incremental and successively new directions to their lives. Specifically, the concept of “life intersection” refers to points in life when specific directions were taken, some involving serendipity, sudden obstacles, or based on advice that was given. Different directions were taken by these authors at these intersections due largely to disconnected events, unanticipated happenings, forced circumstances, and fortunate contacts with friends or mentors. These individuals often pursued new pathways when they came to successive intersections in their lives, a process that eventually led them HERE. The pathways these authors pursued did not emerge from singleminded purposes, but were governed more by unanticipated circumstances. The stories that these individuals tell do not proceed according to clearly defined plots or some sense of purpose conveyed by more conventional novels about progress in life. Instead, the very process of telling their stories encourages them to assign meaning to their life ex-
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ABSTRACT Rapidly escalating incarceration rates for female offenders create a crisis not only for offenders, but also for an estimated 1.3 million children each year, who depend on these women for care. Offenders being released back into their communities often face staggering obstacles, including poverty, unemployment, inadequate housing, untreated health mental health, and substance abuse problems, and numerous family problems. High recidivism rates and concerns for the next generation have prompted some communities to focus on assisting female offenders through the transition process. One innovative effort in Central Indiana involves the provision of strengths-based Wraparound services to women and their families starting during late stages of incarceration, and continuing through the transition and stabilization in the community. The Women's Transition Project Care Coordination program is anticipated to facilitate female offenders' re-integration into their communities, promote family reunification, and lower recidivism rates.
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ABSTRACT This paper describes the social and demographic characteristics of contraceptive users in Ghana, using the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS) data (1993). Analysis has revealed that contraceptive use among women is quite low. Women's age, marital status, educational level, and place of residence are some of the factors that relate significantly to contraceptive use. The reasons most frequently cited for non-use of a modern birth control method are the desire to have children, lack of knowledge, and health concerns. The data show little motivation among women to practice family planning. Suggestions for effective family planning are provided.
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ABSTRACT The study examines gender differences in the buffering effects of two coping resources, potency and marital quality, on a random sample of 103 married women and 96 married men who live under the threat of relocation in the Golan Heights region, Israel. Findings indicate that potency (profound faith in one's own ability, and true belief in order and meaning in society) had a buffering effect on perceived demands and stress in both men and women, while marital quality had a buffering effect on perceived demands in women only. Also, perceived demands were found to aggravate stress in women.
{"title":"Living Under the Threat of Relocation","authors":"Rachel Lev‐Wiesel","doi":"10.1300/J002v29n01_07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J002v29n01_07","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study examines gender differences in the buffering effects of two coping resources, potency and marital quality, on a random sample of 103 married women and 96 married men who live under the threat of relocation in the Golan Heights region, Israel. Findings indicate that potency (profound faith in one's own ability, and true belief in order and meaning in society) had a buffering effect on perceived demands and stress in both men and women, while marital quality had a buffering effect on perceived demands in women only. Also, perceived demands were found to aggravate stress in women.","PeriodicalId":51527,"journal":{"name":"MARRIAGE AND FAMILY REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1999-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J002v29n01_07","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66466191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT Although human reproductive strategies, mating, do not preclude multiple sexual partners, virtually all marriage systems across the world reinforce a pair-bonding template. The question is addressed: why would cultural traditions so universally reinforce monogamy-pair-bonding-as a marriage system? Conversely, what happens when multiple partners are increased within a social group? Data are presented which suggest that an unraveling of the pair-bond template is aligned with a number of serious societal dysfunctions. In turn, these societal dysfunctions place the commonweal at a disadvantage in the competition among those societies, which generate alternative cultural formulae, based upon reduced numbers of sexual partners.
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ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to review the research literature concerning the development of children with gay and lesbian parents. It begins by discussing some of the social, theoretical, and legal implications of studying this population, and critiques a number of the assumptions guiding this research. The review then proceeds to include studies on children of divorced lesbian and gay parents, as well as studies conducted on children of gay and lesbian families that are planned. The body of literature generally concludes that children with lesbian and gay parents are developing psychologically, intellectually, behaviorally, and emotionally in positive directions, and that the sexual orientation of parents is not an effective or important predictor of successful child development. The paper also includes a discussion of the limitations of these studies, provides suggestions for future research, and discusses the challenge these families pose for the meaning and definition of family.
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