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  • Predictors of participation in a prison-based parenting program

    Creator:
    Schumer, Jean Ellen
    Abstract:
    The focus of this study was threefold. This research examined the extent to which parenting alliance between incarcerated parents and the caregivers of their children, influences participation of inmate parents in parenting programs. This research explored the extent to which family contact influences participation of inmate parents in parenting programs....
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    Dissertation
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    extent to which family contact influences participation of inmate parents in parenting programs

  • Different worlds? : asymmetry in graduate student marriages

    Creator:
    Sakashita, Shari S.
    Abstract:
    That graduate study is detrimental to marriages has received empirical support. This study utilized systems theory to examine and help explain the dissolution process of graduate student marriages. Specifically, it examined the impact of marital structure on perceptions of marital quality. Drawing primarily from Scheinkman's (1988) qualitative study, spouses in...
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    Masters Thesis
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    CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Over a million graduate students in the United States juggle school and family

  • Women's feelings about the work-family interface of long-haul truck drivers : six days on the road and he's gonna be home tonight

    Creator:
    Moon, Susan F.
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    Long-haul truck drivers are absent from their families for prolonged periods of time. This paper examines the methods trucking families use to remain connected given such absences. Interviews with ten women married to long-haul truck drivers underwent qualitative analysis. Initially, personal profiles were developed to illustrate life experiences of the...
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    Dissertation
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    important role in the success of the trucking family relationship, as it is left largely up to her to

  • Forging new paths : life course transitions for American women and their families

    Creator:
    Schmiege, Cynthia J.
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    Families of remarriage constitute a growing number of American families. The spiraling divorce rate of the 1970s was accompanied by a concomitant increase in the number of remarriages. Forty percent of American families today contain at least one spouse that has been previously married, thus studying relationships within families of...
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    Dissertation
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    Philosophy in Human Development and Family Studies presented on May 4, 1994. Title: Forging New Paths

  • The impact of children with chronic health problems on marriage

    Creator:
    Eddy, Linda L.
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    The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of having a child with a chrome illness or handicapping condition on marital quality and perceived marital stability. The subject is important because the belief that marriages in parents of chronically ill or handicapped children are uniformly less happy and...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Gender and ethnic issues in parenting : a study of some determinants of parenting in American Indian and non-Indian families

    Creator:
    Kawamoto, Walter T.
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    An analysis was conducted to test current theories regarding education, income, and marital satisfaction as determinants of parenting in different ways for men and women. The gender specific issues in parenting to be tested were: 1) Education is positively related to parental involvement for both men and women. 2) Marital...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Kawamoto for the degree of Masters of Science in Human Development and Family Studies presented on