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Creator:: Alger, Georgina
Abstract:: Decreasing mortality rates and increasing life expectancy are contributing factors in a trend currently referred to as the "graying" of America. Some members of this aging population will require caregiving support from their families. Because women tend to outlive men, adult daughters generally assume this important role for their widowed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: costly action may be perceived to be rewarding when performed for a loved one (Walker, Martin, & Jones

Creator:: Hadlock, Terry G.
Abstract:: Contemporary parenting strategies tend to involve parent-child interactions in which the parent neither repressively dominates the child nor follows a permissive laissez-faire course but respects the child's dignity as a person. This paper integrates several current theories of parenting and parent education into the construct of "respectful parenting," which is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , 1979; Maccoby & Martin, 1983; Rohner, 1986; Simons, Conger, & Whitbeck, 1988; Steinberg, Elmen

Creator:: Henderson, Tammy L.
Abstract:: The current study was a content analysis of court opinions on grandparent visitation rights using the method of grounded theory. The research questions addressed in this study were: (a) On what bases were grandparents granted legal standing to petition for visitation with their grandchildren? (b) What was the legal reasoning...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Sasser-Coen, Jennifer
Abstract:: In this qualitative, phenomenological study I employed oral history methodology, grounded in a life-span developmental and feminist approach, to explore the developmental importance of menarche in twenty older women's "bodily histories." Menarche is an important developmental event in the female life course because it represents a major point of confluence...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , experiences (Jackson, 1992; Koff, Rierdan & Jacobson, 1981; Martin, 1987; Weideger, 1976; Whisnant & Zegans

Creator:: Lynch, Maureen Jessica
Abstract:: Every year thousands of families experience a major life-changing event when they are torn from their homeland and become refugees. Little is known about how the refugee experience impacts the family and how members perceive it affects their sense of family identity. The construct of family identity as proposed by...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: new identity. Refugees are, as Martin (1991, p. 7) described, both "agents of change" and

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