Conditions, factors and trends in the transformation of the family, principal types of family households, reduction and socialization of the functions of the family in consumption expenditure and satisfaction of the needs of family members
, transformation of the Kinship structure of the family, changes in the status and role of family members, relationships within the family.
Children ; Czech Republic ; Demographic decline ; Demography ; Family ; Fertility
Complete family households in Czech Republic consitute 62% of the Census Households (1991). Long-term decrease of fertility continued after demographic wave in the the eightieth showing further reduction fo share more-children families. - (MS)
Changes in the family status of elderly women in Korea
Ageing ; Elderly people ; Family ; Living conditions ; Matrimonial status ; Mortality ; South Korea ; Woman
The AA. use family-status life tables to assess the effects of changes in demographic processes (sharp decline in fertility and mortality, aging population) on the family status of elderly women and to project trends in elderly women's family status.
Educational programme ; Family ; Participation ; Teaching of geography ; United States of America
Presents a family night program where parents come to the school to participate in academic lessons with the teacher and their child in that school. Suggestions for creating a successful program. - (DWG)
The family life cycle, leisure activities and residential evaluation
Le cycle familial affecte les aspirations quant à la localisation des aspirations résidentielles. De la même manière, le cylce familial affecte les loisirs. (ALS).
Cohabitation ; Divorce ; Etat matrimonial ; Etats-Unis ; Famille ; Ménage ; Niveau de vie ; Pauvreté ; Revenu familial ; Structure familiale
Cohabitation ; Divorce ; Family ; Family income ; Family structure ; Household ; Living standard ; Matrimonial status ; Poverty ; United States of America
Séparation des parents et transferts entre générations : étude des familles monoparentales dont le chef est âgé, et de leurs enfants. Examen des évolutions dans les caractéristiques de mobilité du revenu familial. Changements dans les définitions de
This article considers a variety of extensions to, and generalizations of, the basic Wilson family of spatial interaction models. The generalizations are unified in a single, extended family in that they are all derived in the common framework
of information theory, and constrained nonlinear optimization. The extended family is very large when the number of possible combinations of model types and constraints is contemplated.
Agricultural production ; Employment structure ; Family farming ; Farming;Agriculture ; Rural change ; Rural economy
The AA. review the recent debate on agrarian change in western society and develop a critique of it in the process. They are focusing on the theory of family farming. The limitations of much recent literature is that it fails to make explicit
the link between the capitalist and state organizations which are transforming agriculture and the family units.
Geographies of family formations : spatial differences and gender cultures in Britain
Family ; Family structure ; Female work ; Gender ; Great Britain ; Household ; Lancashire ; Regional disparities ; Society ; United Kingdom ; Value system ; Woman ; Yorkshire
family, and they use a family conventionality index to describe geographical differences in the social evaluation of marriage. The geography of family formations thus discribed does not follow the better known north-south or urban-rural geographies
of economic performance and prosperity. They use the example of Lancashire and Yorkshire to explore further the socio-economic associations of this family geography.
Family-houses in Ghanaian cities : to be or not to be?
Cost-benefit analysis ; Family structure ; Ghana ; Housing ; Housing occupance ; Legislation ; Poverty ; Rent control
In Kumasi, Ghana's second city, one-quarter of all households occupy free accommodation and the population so housed continues to rise as a result of supply constraints. The paper examines the nature of such « family-housing » and, highlighting
Fertility and family planning among the elderly in Taiwan or integrating the demography of aging in population studies
Birth control ; Demographic structure ; Demography ; Family ; Fertility ; Population ageing
The demography of aging has given major attention to fertility and mortality because of their centrality in determining age structure and their rather direct translation into family-level issues associated with population aging.
The A. maps areas in the USA where family farming is strongest. Only one-third of US counties may be classified as agricultural| two thirds of these are concentrated in the Midwest. Family farming areas have remained quite stable since World War II
Continuous adjustment of family farms versus socialist structural transformation : the case of German agriculture
The text develops eight hypotheses as to why the socialist transformation from small family farms to large socialist farms had disadvantageous effects.―(l'A.).