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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"grandfathers"”.
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Perceptions of Intergenerational Bonds: The Comparison Between Grandfathers and their Adult Grandchildren
… study was to explore the perceptions held by grandfathers and their adult grandchildren and to compare their perceptions of bonding within their intergenerational relationships. The sample consisted of 8 Latter-Day Saint grandfathers residing in Virginia and West Virginia who were between 62 …
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Exploring the Influence of Intergenerational Relations on the Construction and Performance of Contemporary Grandfather Identities.
… years, few studies have focused specifically on grandfathers. Existing knowledge is informed by uncritical and dated theoretical approaches or based on gender and generational biased data from women and grandchildren. As a result little is known about how men experience being a grandfather and …
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Men and Masculinities in the Changing Japanese Family
… relations as husbands, fathers, sons-in-law, and grandfathers. I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the summers of 2013 and 2014 in Hyogo, through narrative interviews and participant-observation. I find husbands’ view of their wives transitioning from having a culturally prescribed duty to …
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Grandparents as Interaction and Social Support Agents in Infancy
… grandchild. Grandparents (30 grandmothers and 20 grandfathers) and parents (30 mothers and 30 fathers) of 7-month-old infants were observed in individual 5-minute dyadic play sessions with the infant in the parents' homes, yielding 20 minutes of agent-infant interaction. The observations were …
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Learning and healing: a wellness pedagogy for Aboriginal teacher education /
… mothers and the fathers, the grandmothers and grandfathers, the aunties and uncles that are the first teachers of the next generation and the nature of these relationships replicates the culture of unwellness in each subsequent generation through those teachers. There are few examples in the …
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Indigenous Language Reclamation: The Learners Perspective
… were combined with the lessons of the seven Grandfathers to provide a methodological basis for conducting ethical research with and for the benefit of First Nations people. Within the context of our relationships with self, community, spirit and environment, the pairing of Indigenous theory …
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Parent socialization practices of immigrant Sikhs towards ethno-religious identity formation in their children
… protection from discrimination. The fathers and grandfathers were more vigilant about any delinquent and substance abuse behaviors of their sons and other youth in the community. The Sikh community, as a whole, played a major role in raising and socializing children in cultural and religious …
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New Men for New Women: Male Characters in American Women's Writing, 1794--1878
… In Stowe's idealized early Republic, fathers and grandfathers who respect independent women, invest themselves in the well-being of children, and privilege communal good over self-interest are the norm. In this setting younger generation males are approved as they resist the values represented by …
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The Development of the Doctrine of the Church and Religious Toleration among English Presbyterians, 1643-1705
… whose spiritual (and in some cases, literal) grandfathers had drafted the Westminster standards in the Jerusalem chamber, slowly began to dispense with the confession and imposition of such documents upon the church, on the basis that these were merely human formulations. This loss of …
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Teenage Pregnancy in St. Kitts-Nevis: Psychosocial and Familial Factors
… as did childhood sexual abuse in which case grandfathers and fathers were the least likely perpetrators and uncles and brothers were the main perpetrators. The nonpregnant group placed higher value on their religious experience, but levels of self-esteem were comparable for both groups.</p>
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Intergenerational Transmission of Convictions: Family Factors as Mediators
… for some increased risk of convictions from G1 grandfathers to G3 grandsons and from G1 grandmothers and to G3 granddaughters was also found. The degree of intergenerational transmission of convictions decreased after controlling for family, socio-economic, and individual risk factors, but some …
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The Eastern Seaboard community-junior college president
… had an above average education. Their paternal grandfathers were farmers or professional men and their fathers were business or professional men. Most presidents had earned an Ed.D. degree from a public college or university. Nearly all began their careers in education, assumed office at age 44, …
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El ocio ambiental-ecológico en el marco de las relaciones intergeneracionales
… questions about the relationships between grandfathers, grandmothers, and their grandchildren regarding leisure practices. The research's general objective was to analyze the experiences of environmental-ecological leisure shared by grandparents and their grandchildren aged between 6 and 12 …