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Isolation, Function, and Beyond: American Kinship in the 1960's.
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This article is published in Journal of Marriage and Family.The article was published on 1970-11-01. It has received 91 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Kinship.read more
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Family Ties after Divorce: The Relationship between Visiting and Paying Child Support.
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Extended Kinship Relations in Black and White Families.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare and explain the differences in extended family cohesion of black and white families and find that the extended kin network is a more salient structure for black families than it is for white families.
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Kinship and Social Support of the Elderly: The Case of the United States
TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which older persons who require some assistance in the tasks of or resources needed for daily living actually receive such assistance from informal networks was investigated, and the consequences of the receipt of this assistance for the older person.
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Managing To Make It Afterthoughts
TL;DR: The authors examined the residential contexts of children ages 11 to 15 and their resulting developmental outcomes and found that neighborhoods with greater social cohesion, better institutional resources, or even higher levels of problem behavior were significantly related to well-being outcomes for the family or individual.
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Grandparents as Support and Socialization Agents
Barbara R. Tinsley,Ross D. Parke +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the impact of variations in the amount and the quality of contact on family functioning and child development, including the role of the mother-child dyad in the development of infants.
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The changing American grandparent.
TL;DR: In this article, each member of 70 pairs of middle-class grandparents was interviewed at length regarding relations to grandchildren, and the data were analyzed for degree of comfort in the grandparent role, significance of the role, and style with which the role is enacted.
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Geographic mobility and extended family cohesion
TL;DR: The hypothesis that extended family relations can be maintained in an industrial, bureaucratized society despite differential rates of geographical mobility is presented in this article. But the authors do not consider the effect of geographical distance on families.
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Naming Children in Middle-Class Families
TL;DR: This paper analyzed data on the relatives children were named after as an empirical index to the subjectively salient inner core of kin in a sample of 347 urban middle-class mothers and found that boys are more apt to be named for kin than girls, and kin-naming declines sharply with each higher order of birth.