Reviews status of family scholarship in 1938, finding that over 800 scholarly works on the family had been published in English by that year. Surveys major conceptual frameworks, methodologies, and topics of concern of that era. Concludes that many important issues of 1930s remain unanswered today. (Author/NB)

Explored relationship between divorce and suicide in Japan. Time series analysis was unable to substantiate divorce-suicide pattern for Japan. Although research did not offer support for relationship between divorce and suicide which Durkheim predicted, it did corroborate Durkheim's general theory of family integration. (Author/NB)

Compared self-reported characteristics of 22 families who completed the Family Environment Scale with direct behavioral observations of interactions on a problem-solving task. Results showed the expressiveness and conflict subscales correlated significantly with behavioral variables, while the cohesion and control subscales did not. (JAC)

Hypothesized that family relationships in remarriage are importantly influenced by involvement in remarriage kin network, that network makes for boundary ambiguity and marginalizing of membership in remarried families, and that these affect system of relationships in remarried families. Analyzed interview data for husbands and wives in 232…

Used data on 4,667 women from the Iran Fertility Survey to examine trends and social correlates of consanguineous marriage. Found modest increase in proportion of marriages between cousins in Iran from 1940s to 1970s. Results suggest that modernization may be eroding social bases on consanguinity, whereas increased availability of cousins may lead…

Presents log-linear methods for ordinal data, known as association models, which take ordinality of variables into account and provide flexible and parsimonious modeling tool to study family behavior and interaction. Explains uniform association model and applies it to nationally representative data to examine how ordinal scale of marital…

This study tests the common assertion that women, especially upper-middle-class housewives, vicariously experience their husbands' success. Findings for 121 mostly upper-middle-class housewives disprove this assertion. Husband's success does positively affect a housewife's self-esteem, but only indirectly, through its effect on perceived marital…

Presents a theoretical approach to the specific issue of the impact of courtship for remarriage on postmarital family reorganization, based upon existing theory and research. Several propositions for empirical testing derived from the theoretical argument are presented and discussed in relation to each of five subsystems within the reorganizing…

Assesses family development and life course approaches for studying family change. Discusses selected studies which illustrate the central research concerns that emerge within the two frameworks. Explores a range of current issues that may be examined effectively from family development and life course perspectives. (Author/ABL)

Surveyed married women obtaining abortions to examine assumptions concerning spousal notification held by federal courts. Results suggest that the assumption that notification and discussion promote marital harmony is plausible for only circumscribed subset of women whose marriages are already harmonious. (Author/NB)

Examined causal dynamics of stress contagion across work and home domains in married couples. Results revealed that husbands were more likely than wives to bring home stresses into workplace. Stress contagion from work to home was evident for both husbands and wives. Contagion of work stress into home appeared to set into motion process of dyadic…

Interviewed 105 midwestern stepfamilies, 39 of whom had reproduced together. Found no significant differences between families with mutual children and those without in terms of marital adjustment, stepparent- and parent-child relationships, and stepfamily affect. It was not possible to predict which families were most likely to reproduce together…

Reviews research documenting complex process in which macroeconomic and family demographic factors are associated with economic distress among individuals and families. Shows four components of economic distress--employment instability, employment uncertainty, economic deprivation, and economic strain--to be negatively related to individual…

Utilized theoretical framework of intergenerational relations to examine parent care performed by 958 employees in Portland, Oregon. Analyses identify contribution of workplace factors to intergenerational functional solidarity, and associations between functional solidarity and interactions between workplace factors and employee's gender.…

An examination of the economic, service, social and emotional support systems of Chicago area widows indicates an infrequency of appearance of the extended kin. Children and, in the case of younger widows, parents, are frequent contributors to these support systems. (Author)