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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"family practices"”.
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Examining work-family practice use and employee attitudes in a New Zealand local government organisation
Work-family practices have proliferated in response to major changes in the workplace, including the increased participation rates of women and mothers, the rise in dual-career families and single parent families, and growth in the elderly population. These changes are seen as providing employees …
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Effectiveness of the Prenatal to Three Parenting Classes: A Program Evaluation
<p>Background. Parenting practices, skills, and community involvement impact the parent/child relationship. Families of low socio-economic levels often lack access to parenting classes that educate parents about parenting skills, practices, and availability of community resources. Parenting classes …
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The Lived Experience of Inheritance for Muslim Widows in Contemporary South Africa
… explore their attitudes towards these practices among their wider family. In particular, I investigate the experience of inheritance for Muslim widows, and interpret how these experiences relate to the governing principles of equality and diversity in the South African Constitution. …
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Barns röster om växelvis boende. Vardagsliv, familjepraktiker och nära relationer
… across two households, with a special focus on family practices, influence and personal relationships. The thesis draws on qualitative interviews with children and teenagers, whose stories, descriptions and reflections have been analysed using thematic analysis. Both theoretically and …
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Vaikas transnacionalinėje šeimoje: globos organizavimas, šeiminiai ryšiai ir vaiko patirtys /
… population encourages changes in the field of family life. Transnational families are formed, with parents and minor children living on both sides of the border, when one or both parents go to work abroad and the child (ren) remains to live in Lithuania. The aim of the dissertation research is …
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Intergenerational Spanish Language Transmission: Attitudes, Motivations and Linguistic Practices in 2 Mexican American Communities
… parental motivations, attitudes, and linguistic practices related to the intergenerational transmission of Spanish in two Mexican American communities, and is the first qualitative Midwest/Southwest comparison of two communities on different ends of the bilingualism spectrum: El Paso, Texas and …
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A Phenomenological Study of Racialized Experiences of Asian Adopt Adoptees
… and finally, self-acceptance as a result of family practices and social environment, in addition to their racialization and the adoption experience.</p>
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Continuity and change in Chinese marriage
Family change in China over the past few decades has been characterised by a trend towards later marriage, greater marital instability, and increases in non-marital pregnancy and unmarried cohabitation. At the same time, many other features of Chinese marriage patterns have changed very little. …
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Continuity and change in Chinese marriage
Family change in China over the past few decades has been characterised by a trend towards later marriage, greater marital instability, and increases in non-marital pregnancy and unmarried cohabitation. At the same time, many other features of Chinese marriage patterns have changed very little. …
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An investigation of family literacy practices of eight families with preprimary children and a family literacy program conducted in a low socio-economic area
… long before they enter formal schooling. Family literacy has been shown to have the potential to impact powerfully on children's perceptions about literacy use through role models and support provided by various family and community members. Literacy activity is often deeply embedded in …
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The Motherhood Contract: Mental Load, Moral Risk, and Gendered Care In Contemporary Parenting and Digital Culture
… the gendered and moral expectations shaping family life? (2) How are cultural ideas about childcare and parenting constructed, circulated, and reproduced through parents’ narratives and social media discourse? The research employs qualitative narrative inquiry drawing on feminist theory and …
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Exploring and Promoting Family Connections at a Distance Through FamilySong
… Media Spaces by introducing and studying FamilySong (FS), a system that allows the synchronous playback of music between two remote households. FS does not share live audio or video, yet our studies show that FS provides a context for increasing serendipity as families integrate it into …
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Friendship and intimacy : exploring Malaysian students' experiences of living temporarily abroad
… is to explore close friendships and intimacy practices of Malaysian students in the context of living abroad and how they form and maintain intimacy in their close friendships with both established friends in Malaysia and new friends in the UK. This study develops theories of ‘distance’ by …
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The Relationship between a Theological Understanding of Marital Commitment and a Juridical Articulation of Marital Consent in Sacramental Marriages in the United States
… concerns regarding concrete marital and family practices in the United States and ends with practical means and strategies related to the pastoral care of sacramental marriages and all those in the stages of marriage preparation, aftercare, and sadly, family fragmentation. Within this …
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"Being" and "doing" - adoptive parents' experience of parenthood in the context of open adoption : an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… of Looked After Children when their birth family cannot care for them effectively. Adoptive parents are crucial to achieving this aim and this study explores their subjective lived experience with a view to informing adoption policy and practice.<br/><br/>Open communication with the child …
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A Multilevel Exploration of Neighborhood Disorder, Family Management and Antisocial Behavior
… disorder may simultaneously influence family practices and child problem behavior. Using data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) and borrowing from the conceptual framework developed by Furstenberg, Cook, Eccles, Elder and Sameroff (1999), the current …
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Parenting in an Uncertain Future: the experiences of parents in the “PFLAG China” community
… marriage, this thesis analyses these parents’ family practices and further, discusses the experiences of dealing with intergenerational ambivalence. The changing kinship norms viewing marriage based on male-female love, has facilitated the competitive relationship between same-sex love and …
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Equipping Parents to Disciple Their Children at Champion Forest Baptist Church
… personal testimony and other life stories in family settings. In chapter 1 the project goals and church context are discussed. The primary goal was to equip parents to use their personal testimony and other stories in the discipleship process with their children. This topic was chosen to help …
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Words Flying on the Wind: Buriat Mongolian Children in a Chinese Bilingual School
… study explored the language socialization practices four Buriat youth experienced at school in China, and followed some focal children to Buriatia, to document the language socialization practices there. Bakhtin is used to discuss how the focal childrens identities are impacted as a result …
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Pinoys in Aotearoa: Family agency in the doing of family in the context of kapwa and structural migration
… type of agency and its role in (re)constituting family relationality, and in defining, reinforcing or altering understandings of traditional collectivist family norms of intergenerational reciprocity among transnational families and communities. I address this gap in the literature by drawing …
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