Family Systems of the World

Therborn, Göran

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“…The findings may have some limited application for other settings or cultures because of different family structures and relationships. In Western countries one [43], resulting in the situation where each family has its own values, and individualism is highly respected. Meanwhile, Thai families still tend to maintain a stronger tie between parents and their children, and many adult children will live with or nearby the home-family compound, even when they get married, out of respect for, and willingness to care for their parents.…”

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The influence of co-residential and non-co-residential living arrangements on sufficient fruit and vegetable consumption in the aging population in Thailand

2020

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Background Living arrangements have an impact on a family’s health-related behaviors, especially its eating behaviors. However, studies that have examined the association between living arrangements and food intake, especially fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption of older adults, are rare. This study aimed to investigate the association between living arrangements and FV consumption in a population of older adults in Thailand from a national sample of households. Methods This study extracted data on 2048 persons age 60 years or older from a study of a nationally-representative sample of Thai households. The survey asked respondents about FV intake, living arrangements, household size, and socio-demographic characteristics. Binary logistic regression analysis was used to investigate the association between the variables and FV intake. Results The mean age of the respondents was 68.2 ± 6.5 years. Of the total sample, only 31.9% had sufficient FV intake. The group with the lowest possibility of sufficient FV intake was persons who lived alone. Those who lived with at least one child or lived in a skipped-generation household were 2.7 and 2.2 times as likely to have sufficient FV intake as those who lived alone (p < 0.001 and p < 0.01, respectively). Older adults living only with their spouse were 2.1 times as likely to have sufficient FV intake as those who lived alone. FV intake also differed significantly by socio-demographic characteristics (sex, place of residence, educational attainment, occupation and income), self-rated health, FV knowledge, and exposure to a FV promotion campaign in the community. Conclusions The findings from this study suggest that a different approach is required to improve FV consumption in the older population by taking into account their living arrangements, community context, level of FV knowledge, and socio-demographic characteristics. The older adults who live alone, as well as those living in a large household, are at particular risk of inadequate FV intake, and require special attention.

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The influence of co-residential and non-co-residential living arrangements on sufficient fruit and vegetable consumption in the aging population in Thailand

2020

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“…Unlike WEIRD societies that typically emphasize the independent functioning of nuclear families, family lineage is highly valued in traditional Chinese family ethics (Hu & Scott, 2016). Although the importance attached to the extended family and kin network has been a shared feature of many collectivistic societies (Therborn, 2014), the Chinese family was traditionally "characterized by the centrality of the parent-son relationship in family life and its superiority over all other family relations, including conjugal ties" (Yan, 1997, p. 193). Extending the family lineage by giving birth to and cultivating their children, especially sons, forms a core part of Chinese men's familial obligation (Greenhalgh, 2014).…”

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Beyond W.E.I.R.D. (Western, educated, industrial, rich, democratic)‐centric theories and perspectives: masculinity and fathering in Chinese societies

Huang

et al. 2021

J of Family Theo & Revie

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Beyond W.E.I.R.D. (Western, educated, industrial, rich, democratic)-centric theories and perspectives: masculinity and fathering in Chinese societies Fatherhood scholarship has made much theoretical progress over the past decades, yet existing models and concepts continue to draw primarily on western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD)-centric assumptions. This review uses demographically sizeable, culturally significant, yet understudied and undertheorized Chinese fathers as an example to reveal the limitations of applying WEIRD-centric perspectives when studying fathering and fatherhood. Specifically, existing models and concepts of fathering and fatherhood, with an emphasis on father involvement, especially in rough-and-tumble play, are predicated on the assumptions of nuclear family and western hegemonic masculinity. The Chinese cultural tradition, in contrast, endorses a literatus masculinity and emphasizes the family lineage, thereby encouraging fathers' educational involvement and

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“…In his book World revolution and family patterns , first published in 1963, for example, Goode had propounded a more or less ubiquitous convergence from an extended to nuclear household form in the wake of “modernisation” and urbanisation which remained influential for several years subsequently. This is notwithstanding that the “second demographic transition,” driven largely by emancipatory changes in women’s lives and marked, inter alia , by rising divorce, cohabitation, and out‐of‐wedlock births was actually underway soon after its publication (see Buzar et al, 2005; Cherlin, 2012; Cornell, 1990; Therborn, 2014; Zelinsky et al., 1982). Indeed, in its recently‐launched Progress of the world ’ s women report dedicated to “Families in a Changing World,” UN Women notes that while the family “is an institution which has historically been a stronghold of patriarchy and embodied men’s social power and domination over women” (2019, p. 23), and that this has been on the decline during and since the 20th century, it also claims that “Today, there is no ’standard ’ family form, nor has there ever been” (2019, p. 14).…”

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Geography and gender, hindsight and foresight: A feminist development geographer’s reflections on: “How the Other Half Lives: The Geographical Study of Women”

Chant

2020

Area

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Inspired by, and drawing from, Jacqueline Tivers’ early and foundational paper in Area (1978) on the need for dedicated geographical research on women, in this brief paper I offer selected reflections on the progressive “engendering” of geography from the late 1970s to the present from the perspective of a feminist geographer with enduring interests in gender and development (GAD) in the Global South. I concentrate, first, on “hindsight,” tracing some key steps at the beginning of my personal academic journey as an undergraduate at King’s College Cambridge, and subsequently as a PhD student at University College London, when the “geography of gender,” especially in developing regions, was still very much in its birth pangs. In the latter part of the paper I turn to the “foresight” demonstrated by Tivers in her call to redress the absence of attention to women in geographical study, and particularly to problematise assumptions about women as a proxy for “households” (commonly construed as conforming with nuclear units headed by men), and the frequently limited, if not invisibilised, “female” roles within them. Despite the paucity of data and scholarship on women, let alone gender, and “alternative” family forms, 40 years ago, I comment on the prescience of Tivers’ work in identifying challenges which continue to persist as well as to preoccupy feminist geographers on the eve of the third millennial decade.

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Family Systems of the World

Cited by 28 publications

References 33 publications

The influence of co-residential and non-co-residential living arrangements on sufficient fruit and vegetable consumption in the aging population in Thailand

The influence of co-residential and non-co-residential living arrangements on sufficient fruit and vegetable consumption in the aging population in Thailand

Beyond W.E.I.R.D. (Western, educated, industrial, rich, democratic)‐centric theories and perspectives: masculinity and fathering in Chinese societies

Geography and gender, hindsight and foresight: A feminist development geographer’s reflections on: “How the Other Half Lives: The Geographical Study of Women”

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