Family "Decline" and Child Well-Being: A Comparative Assessment  

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Sastry, Jaya ; Houseknecht, Sharon K

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 58 no. 03 (Aug. 1996), page 726-739.
Topik: policy; nontraditional family; cross-sociental comparisons; children; wellfare

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: J43 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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David Popenoe (1988; 1993a) argues that family "decline" is associated with serious social consequences for child well-being, but, to date, neither he nor others have carried out a systematic empirical assessment of this linkage. The primary objective of this comparative study is to examine the relationship between family decline and child well-being in four industrialized countries: Sweden, the United States, the former West Germany, and Italy. Family decline is composite of eight variables, and there are six indicators of child well-being. The results, taken as a whole, indicate that family decline is not necessarily associated with the kind of across-the-board deleterious outcomes for child well-being that Popenoe asserted. Although children are better off when they live in a society in which traditional family patterns arc strong, when they do not, there are some things that societies can do to mitigate the negative consequences that nontraditionalism has for them.

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