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Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1990.

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1990. / Also available in print.

The number of single-parent families has increased dramatically in the world. In South Africa, this increase has partly been due to the increased number of deaths as a result of the AIDS pandemic. The purpose of this study is to explore experiences of widowers as single parents. The study proposes to elevate the view of single-parent families, which classes them as stereotypes of victimization, to where such families come to represent responsible archetypes. Unstructured in-depth interviews were used to obtain data from two Black and two White widowed single fathers. Thematic content analysis was utilized to identify emerging themes from the fathers' stories. Fathers in this study challenged the deficit model's view of single parenting which claims that these families are broken. As far as its applicability is concerned, this study may be beneficial to psychotherapists, single parents and society as a whole. / Psychology / M.A.(Clinical Psychology)

The social problem under investigation is that of widespread poverty amongst households comprising minor chidren and a lone parent, whether this household has arisen due to a birth outside a stable union, separation, divorce or widowhood. The scale and features of this poverty are identified with reference to demographic data from Canada and the United Kingdom. Possible policies for reform are identified through a thorough review of literature from the Commonwealth and the United States. Special attention is paid to empirical investigations and the relationship between public and private support of single parent families. Whilst none of the four hypothetical reforms proposed - a system of insurance, rigorous enforcement of court orders, constraining judicial discretion, expanded rights to public support - is unconditionally accepted, only insurance is rejected as offering nothing of value. The conclusion is that the non-custodial parent's responsibility for his or her children must continue to be emphasised but that public resources should be expended with a view to assisting the single parent to obtain, enforce and periodically vary orders in favour of the children. For the single parent himself or herself, the aim must be to reverse the current process of marginalisation within society and this independence can best be achieved by reforms of the labour market rather than by reforms of the legal process. / Law, Peter A. Allard School of / Graduate

My diploma work focuses on the issues of single-parent families in the Czech Republic and selected countries of the European Union from the perspective of social policy. I have selected those countries that border the Czech Republic, i.e. Slovakia, Germany, Austria and Poland. In the theoretical part of my diploma work I define family as an institution, its main functions, its historical development and its present changes. Further, I address the problems of single-parent and divorced parents from the psychosocial view, touching also on the subject from the perspective of the church. In conclusion to the theoretical part I address the social policies of individual countries. The practical part involves two pieces of research. The objective of the first piece of research has been to evaluate and compare statistical data from the social environments of the above mentioned countries with that of the Czech Republic. In the second part of research, by means of a questionnaire, I have sought the opinions and views of future family founders with regard to the issues of single-parents families.

Master of Science / Family Studies and Human Services / Karen S. Myers-Bowman / Single parenting has become a part of American society, yet it seems that through stereotyping and shaming these parents are looked down upon. Often times, single parents do not have the same resources as two parent homes, but single parents can still be effective and raise well-rounded children. This is a qualitative study that sought to provide a different perspective of single never-married parents by interviewing their young adult children. This study focused on the experiences of the young adult children and used Family Stress Theory to help understand and capture specific moments in their lives.

<p>Предмет докторске дисертације је једнородитељска породица. Једнородитељске породице чини један родитељ са својом децом (дететом) и оне представљају један од облика модерне породице. Проблеми и потребе једнородитељских породица су постали веома актуелан предмет социолошког интересовања у свету последњих неколико деценија, када је нуклеарна породица преживела крупне промене. Једнородитељска породица се више не може посматрати као реткост будући да само на територији Републике Србије приближно свако пето дете одрасте у породици са једним родитељем. Разлози њиховог настанка су варирали кроз историју: док су некада једнородитељске породице биле превасходно удовичке, данас све више настају разводом брака и ванбрачним рађањима.<br />Анализа једнородитељских породица се базира на резултатима теренског истраживања које је спроведено током 2012. године на узорку од укупно 200 родитеља који су носиоци једнородитељске породице.<br />Циљ истраживања је био да се покаже каква је унутрашња динамика, као и односи једнородитељских породица са сродничким и најближим социјалним окружењем. Поред наведеног, анализиран је друштвени статус различитих подскупина самохраних родитеља, како би се осветлило да ли су, и колико, ове породице прихваћене од стране социјалне околине. Такође, истраживање је стављено у контекст друштвеног поретка у коме се преламају традиционалне норме са&nbsp;актуелним друштвеним токовима. Почетна претпоставка је била да лоша економска ситуација друштва, као једна од последица транзиционих промена у којима се Србија нашла крајем прошлог и почетком овог миленијума, највећим делом је обележила и најсиромашнију демографску групу &ndash; једнородитељске породице. При том, као што су потврдили и резултати истраживања, још увек традиционално јака породична солидарност на овим просторима, представља значајан извор подршке родитељима који сами одгајају дете. Резултати истраживања су показали и да су највећи проблеми са којима су суочене једнородитељске породице управо финансијске тешкоће. Перцепција односа друштвене средине од стране испитаника је таква да, по њиховом мишљењу, углавном нису били изложени негативним реакцијама, као ни њихова деца. Такође, њихов потенцијал за заснивање прекомбиноване породице није велики.</p> / <p>Predmet doktorske disertacije je jednoroditeljska porodica. Jednoroditeljske porodice čini jedan roditelj sa svojom decom (detetom) i one predstavljaju jedan od oblika moderne porodice. Problemi i potrebe jednoroditeljskih porodica su postali veoma aktuelan predmet sociološkog interesovanja u svetu poslednjih nekoliko decenija, kada je nuklearna porodica preživela krupne promene. Jednoroditeljska porodica se više ne može posmatrati kao retkost budući da samo na teritoriji Republike Srbije približno svako peto dete odraste u porodici sa jednim roditeljem. Razlozi njihovog nastanka su varirali kroz istoriju: dok su nekada jednoroditeljske porodice bile prevashodno udovičke, danas sve više nastaju razvodom braka i vanbračnim rađanjima.<br />Analiza jednoroditeljskih porodica se bazira na rezultatima terenskog istraživanja koje je sprovedeno tokom 2012. godine na uzorku od ukupno 200 roditelja koji su nosioci jednoroditeljske porodice.<br />Cilj istraživanja je bio da se pokaže kakva je unutrašnja dinamika, kao i odnosi jednoroditeljskih porodica sa srodničkim i najbližim socijalnim okruženjem. Pored navedenog, analiziran je društveni status različitih podskupina samohranih roditelja, kako bi se osvetlilo da li su, i koliko, ove porodice prihvaćene od strane socijalne okoline. Takođe, istraživanje je stavljeno u kontekst društvenog poretka u kome se prelamaju tradicionalne norme sa&nbsp;aktuelnim društvenim tokovima. Početna pretpostavka je bila da loša ekonomska situacija društva, kao jedna od posledica tranzicionih promena u kojima se Srbija našla krajem prošlog i početkom ovog milenijuma, najvećim delom je obeležila i najsiromašniju demografsku grupu &ndash; jednoroditeljske porodice. Pri tom, kao što su potvrdili i rezultati istraživanja, još uvek tradicionalno jaka porodična solidarnost na ovim prostorima, predstavlja značajan izvor podrške roditeljima koji sami odgajaju dete. Rezultati istraživanja su pokazali i da su najveći problemi sa kojima su suočene jednoroditeljske porodice upravo finansijske teškoće. Percepcija odnosa društvene sredine od strane ispitanika je takva da, po njihovom mišljenju, uglavnom nisu bili izloženi negativnim reakcijama, kao ni njihova deca. Takođe, njihov potencijal za zasnivanje prekombinovane porodice nije veliki.</p> / <p>The subject of this dissertation is a single-parent<br />family. Single-parent families consist of one parent<br />with his children (child) and they represent a form of<br />modern families. The problems and needs of singleparent<br />families have become very topical subject of<br />sociological interest in the world in the past few<br />decades, when the nuclear family survived major<br />changes. Single-parent families can no longer be<br />regarded as a rarity, since only on the territory of the<br />Republic of Serbia, approximately every fifth child<br />grows up in a family with a single parent. The reasons<br />for their occurrence varied through history: while the<br />former single-parent families were mostly widows,<br />nowadays they increasingly occur through divorce and<br />ilegitimate births.<br />Analysis of single-parent families is based on the<br />results of field research conducted in 2012 on a<br />sample of 200 parents who are carriers of singleparentfamilies.<br />The aim was to show what the internal dynamics, as<br />well as relations of single-parent families with kinship<br />and closest social environment. In addition, we<br />analyzed the social status of different subgroups of<br />single parents, in order to reveal if and how these<br />families were accepted by the social environment.<br />Also, research was done in the context of social order<br />in which occur the break of traditional norms with<br />current social trends. Initial assumption was that the<br />poor economic situation of society, as a consequence<br />of transitional changes in which Serbia found itself at<br />the turn of this millennium, mostly marked the poorest<br />demographic group - single-parent families. In<br />addition, as confirmed by the results of our research, still traditionally strong family solidarity in the region is</p><p>an important source of support for parents who raise a<br />child(ren) alone. The results showed that the biggest<br />problems faced by single-parent families are financial<br />difficulties. The respondents perception of the<br />relationship of the social environment to them,<br />according to their opinion, were generally not<br />negative, as well as regarding to their children. Also,<br />their potential for grounding of the recombined family<br />isn&rsquo;t great.</p>

張亦農. / 論文(神學碩士) -- 香港中文大學硏究院宗敎及神學學部, 1997. / 參考文獻: leaves 71-74. / Zhang Yinong. / Chapter 第一章 --- 緒論 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二章 --- 香港的單親家庭 --- p.5 / Chapter 第三章 --- 牧養個案探討 --- p.30 / Chapter 第四章 --- 家庭 --- p.49 / Chapter 第五章 --- 單親家庭的牧養 --- p.59 / 參考書目 --- p.70 / 附件

Jag vill undersöka och beskriva tvärkulturell fostran. Syftet med uppsatsen är att studera hur barn formas av att växa upp med två kulturer, det vill säga där barnets/barnens föräldrar kommer från två olika kulturer och den ena kulturen inte är representerad under barnets/barnens uppväxt. Frågeställningarna utifrån detta är; Vad förmedlar föräldern till barnet/barnen av denna kultur? Vilka förhoppningar har föräldern kring innebörd och konsekvenser av den tvärkulturella fostran och uppväxten? Litteraturstudien visar att i en tvärkulturell fostran får man först se vad kulturen bär med sig,vilka kulturtraditioner och förhållningssätt som finns i de respektive kulturerna. Har de exempelvis en grund i grupp- eller individorientering där olika synsätt förespråkas och premieras, och där dessa tar sig olika uttryck i fostran och under uppväxten? Begrepp som innefattar en tvärkulturell fostran är identitet, socialisering, etnicitet och nationalism. Flera studier visar även på språkets betydelse för socialisering och kulturell identitet. Vem man är och vem man blir påverkas av språket och även speglas däri. Resultaten från studiens intervjuundersökning och autoetnografi pekar bland annat på betydelsen av kontakter med familj och släkt genom audiovisuella hjälpmedel via internet, att hålla en positiv bild av den andra föräldern, samt att visualisera kulturen genom fotografier och föremål. / My aim of this study is to investigate and describe cross-cultural upbringing. The purpose of the essay is to study how children are formed by growing up with two cultures, ie where the child's/children's parents come from two different cultures and one culture is not represented during the child's/children's upbringing. The issues from this are; What does the parent convey to the child/children of this culture? What hopes does the parent have regarding the meaning and consequences of the cross-cultural upbringing? The literature study shows that in a cross-cultural upbringing one must first see what the culture carries with it, which cultural traditions and attitudes that exist in the respective cultures. Do they, for example, have a foundation in group or individual orientation where different views are advocated and rewarded, and where these take different forms in parents’ views and during the children’s upbringing? Concepts that involve cross-cultural upbringing are identity, socialization, ethnicity and nationalism. Several studies also show the importance of language for socialization and cultural identity. Who you are and who you become are affected by language and also reflected in the language. The results of the study's interview survey and auto-ethnography point to, among other things, the importance of contacts with family and relatives through audiovisual aids via the internet, to keep a positive image of the other parent, and to visualize the culture through photographs and objects.