Extends the examination of the relationship between divorce and suicide to Canada by evaluating the hypothesis that provinces with high levels of divorce experience increased rates of suicide. Aggregate data for Canada's provinces and territories for 1971 and 1978 provide strong support for this prediction, thus indicating similarity in patterns…

Discusses some problems encountered in doing cross-cultural research and reports on the approaches used to solve the difficulties. (HMV)

Briefly examines and compares American and German parental control before and after World War II. (CKJ)

Investigates the differences between Japanese and American mothers' perceptions of support from their husbands, and the relationship between these perceptions and the mothers' involvement with their infants. Findings highlight differences in the cultural context of family life in the two societies. (Author/ABL)

Compared U.S. and German adolescents on self-esteem and perceived parental behaviors. Parents were perceived as engaging in similar levels of behaviors in each culture. Parenting behaviors (support and control) were significantly related to self-esteem in U.S. adolescents, but not in Germans. More general measure of quality of parent-adolescent…

The data suggest that there is some preference for sons although generally couples prefer to have children of both sexes. The general lack of a strong son preference is interpreted in terms of broader social and cultural patterns characteristic of Thai families. (Author)

Recognizing that status of the elderly is affected by several economic and familial factors, examined influenece of socialization values and ancestor worship. Found that status of the elderly was systematically higher in societies having conformity as a primary socialization value than in those where self-reliance was emphasized. Ancestor worship…

The data point to the need for cross cultural family researchers to pretest their instruments on a group of bilinguals and then discard those items and/or scales which produce nonequivalent measures before the research is carried out, as a necessary step in the research process in order to increase the probability of equivalent measurement across…

Describes recent changes in divorce laws in United States, England, Wales, France, and Sweden. Notes that divorce has become increasingly easy to obtain; spousal support has become less common; efforts have been made to increase child support awards and to improve payment compliance; and shared parental decision-making authority has become…

This article is a sociological analysis of the South Indian Family organization in an urban setting; in particular, it describes the nature of urban kinship ties and attempts to find differences in kinship ties across class and caste lines. (Author/HMV)

Suggests that female status in an important cause of divorce in tribal societies. Findings of the study and of income maintenance experiments also indicate a dilemma for American gains in women's liberation may be losses for family stability. Sociological and anthropological literature is also reviewed. (Author/BEF)

Examined whether women and men who have daughters will be more likely to support feminism than will those with sons. Data from Toronto (Ontario) and Detroit (Michigan) metropolitan areas revealed that, for women in both settings and for Canadian men, having daughters was associated with more egalitarian views. (Author/NB)

This study was designed to determine what concepts Indian mothers have of the ideal child in terms of what they believe should be encouraged and discouraged and to compare the results with the concepts of parents in the United States and experts on creative personality. (Author)

In both kibbutz and Israeli urban clinics, first-borns from opposite-sex sib pairs were more likely to be referred; in the kibbutz, the first-born was the only boy of the pair; in the city, the only girl of the pair. (Author)