There is a widespread agreement among gender and family violence investigators that gender and socioeconomic inequalities play key roles in domestic violence against women (DVAW). By integrating the concepts of gender traditionalism and decision-making power into a variety of resource-based theories, this study develops a gender perspective to…

Analyzed General Social Survey data to determine if women's sex role ideology may be negatively related to marital happiness and stability. Found women with nontraditional gender values less happy and more likely to be separated or divorced. Results suggest that modern sex role ideology is negatively related to marital success for women.…

Study used a method different from that of past studies to reexamine first-date scripts of heterosexual college students. As expected, the findings did not change. Despite egalitarian claims, initial dating practices consistently appear to be primarily traditional. Article concludes that semi-egalitarian, semi-traditional perspectives of students…

Oswald (2000) reported the processes by which heterosexual family weddings may undermine gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) people's family membership. The present study sought to understand whether family membership during ritual was also conditional for heterosexual people. Toward that end, Oswald's methodology was replicated with…

Examines the traditional and present-day household task performance of Vietnamese and Laotian families. There were differences by ethnicity but not by gender. Traditional patterns involved sharing of tasks. Results show a change toward additional sharing and two patterns that suggest lack of consensus or a transition in role performance.…

Discusses the tradition of the Italian family and changes in family life since World War II. Examines socioeconomic differentiation and family forms; family structure and kinship networks; social policies and family solidarity; stability and family dissolution; and innovative processes in family life. Concludes that there is a profound change in…