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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Aunts"”.
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International students living with aunts and uncles: a narrative multiple case study
Some international students live with their aunts and uncles while studying in the United States. Living with aunts and uncles shapes these students’ college going experience. However, research about college student family issues has not specifically explored the role and impact of local extended …
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Aunthood and Narrative Voice: Virginia Woolf’s Materteral Form
… is the first study, of any length, which takes aunts in Woolf’s writing as its focus. This thesis starts by asking the question, why are there so many aunts in Woolf’s writing? This initial enquiry leads to a consideration of the position of aunthood in British culture during Woolf’s lifetime, …
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Fabrication of Organized Anisotropic Materials via Evaporative Self-Assembly
… the crystallization of gold nanotriangles (AuNTs) into hexagonal close-packed superlattices by slow evaporation and includes a morphological comparison of the crystallization habits of gold nanorods (AuNRs) and AuNTs. Chapter 3 discusses the use of a passive foaming system constructed from …
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Social support to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC): A beneficiary case study of the Ministry of Gender equality and child welfare initiative programme in the Oshana Region
… are torn apart as parents, siblings, aunts, uncles and relatives die. Children are left alone and disadvantaged.Their support system disappears and they are ever afraid
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Twenty-Four-Hour Woman
… voices of my long dead grandfather, grandmother, aunts and great uncle haunt poems such as "Blues," "Salvation," "A Memorial for Lawrence," and "Apartment 12 B Dwight D. Eisenhower Street." These poems say, "Even when it's sunny on the other side of town somebody could be wearing a frown. It's …
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An investigation into the families of physically disabled children
… disability grant. Caregivers included mothers, aunts, grandmothers and siblings. The physically disabled children attended mainstream education schools. Due to their condition they encountered a number of problems. Some left school, leaving caregivers devastated. Some caregivers shared a variety …
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Betel nut & tobacco chewing habits in Durban, Kwazulu Natal
… More than two third indicated family members (aunts,uncles and cousins) influence as a reason for chewing, in comparison to influences by parents or grandparents. The study also indicated that parents were far more likely to influence betel nut chewing if grandparents did so (p-value= 0.000). …
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Care of children affected and infected by HIV/ AIDS at Khayelihle Childrens Home, Cato Ridge, South Africa
… in the study. Three strata of: children: aunts/grandmothers: and the international volunteers were selected from the total population at Khayelihle children's home. Sixty people drawn from the stratas participated in the study. Data was collected by use of structured interviews. …
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An exploratory study on the factors influencing the parenting style choices of parents/caregivers enrolled in a parenting programme in Delf
… parents/caregivers such as grandmothers and aunts. Research findings revealed that the vast majority of the parents/caregivers enrolled in Sakha Isizwe Development Organisation's parenting programme employed an authoritative approach to child rearing with the exception of one participant who …
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“We have to learn how to transition with our children”: Parenting practices that promote school readiness among low-income black families in a head start program
… Extended family members, including grandparents, aunts, and cousins as well as residential and non-residential fathers and siblings are each contributing to the school readiness preparations for the majority of families (n=20). Mothers in this study demonstrated that beliefs about education are …
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Kinship and Narrative in Old Norse Literature: Parent-Child Relations in Mythic-Heroic Texts
… An examination of relations between uncles or aunts and their nieces and nephews proves that other kinds of intergenerational relationship were similarly characterised by ambivalence (chapter V). I further argue that the ambivalence which threatens to undermine parent-child relations is …
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A study to explore the extent of survival assistance to orphans within the family kinship system: the case of libala and chilenje
… Most care-takers were close relatives, often aunts or grandparents to the orphans. Cases obtained slightly more support, but this support had not enabled them to take care of the orphans adequately. Controls managed to do so inspite the fact that little support was given them. Most of the …
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A study to explore the extent of survival assistance to orphans within the family kinship system: the case of libala and chilenje
… Most care-takers were close relatives, often aunts or grandparents to the orphans. Cases obtained slightly more support, but this support had not enabled them to take care of the orphans adequately. Controls managed to do so inspite the fact that little support was given them. Most of the …
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A situational analysis of children living with terminally ill parents
… was mostly provided by grandmothers and aunts. Five provided food, five cared for the sick person and three helped with child care. Ten of the 35 households were never visited by relatives staying outside the homestead. From the wider community, neighbours were the most supportive group …
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Auf der Suche nach Sicherheit und Gemeinschaft : die Wirtschaft der Frauen in Harare, Simbabwe
… Mutual support is given between mothers, aunts, daughters, sisters in terms of child care, money, business contacts, marketing and emotional support. The neighbourhood in the township and a variety of social clubs and communities are female spaces in which women act and connect. The …
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The Impact of Family, Community, and Resilience on African-American Young Adults Who Had Parents Incarcerated During Childhood
… participants sought support and received it from aunts, uncles, brothers, and cousins. Not one child entered foster care during the father‘s imprisonment. Mothers and/or grandmothers were the primary caregivers. Grandmothers became surrogate parents when a significant number of mothers worked …
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The Extraordinary in the Ordinary.
… excuse for not being there was accepted. Both my Aunts carried this tradition on when they became mothers and grandmothers so I grew up with Sunday teas that were in turn full of mayhem, noise, laughter, drinks being spilt, children crying because they were overwhelmed and overtired. With …
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Communication in the aunt/adult niece dyad.
The modern family system is truly being widened by research into the field of extended family. Within this expansion, the role of aunt has immerged as an important, yet understudied relationship. Extant research on aunting has been limited to the perspective of strictly the nieces and nephews …
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African American Caregivers of Children Affected by Hiv/Aids
The Human Immunodeficiency Disease (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) have reached an epidemic proportion in many African American communities. There is a significant amount of stigma and denial associated with HIV/AIDS in these communities, leaving people with minimal knowledge …