Family Change in Global Perspective: How and Why Family Systems Change

Developmental Idealism and the Proposal of a Theoretical Model for Family Change in Iran

This research examines dynamics and change in the Iranian family during the recent half- century especially subsequent to the Islamic revolution in 1979. Developmental positions and changes are discussed and consideration is given to the extent to which family dynamics and change have been influenced by structural changes or ideational forces. We will focus on ideational forces based on a new a...

Family Change and Implications for Family Solidarity and Social Cohesion

Social cohesion can be viewed in terms of common projects and networks of social relations that characterize families, communities and society. In the past decades, the basis for family cohesion has shifted from organic to mechanical or from breadwinner to collaborative model. As in many Western countries, data on family change in Canada point to a greater flexibility in the entry and exit from...

Explaining Family Change and Variation: Challenges for Family Demographers.

Twenty years ago, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) issued a request for proposals that resulted in the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), a unique survey valuable to a wide range of family scholars. This paper describes the efforts of an interdisciplinary group of family demographers to build on the progress enabled by the NSFH and many other ...

Necessary change in family medicine: entering adulthood.

Types of psychiatric treatment. Change the family, change the child?

The psychological health and the normal course of development of a child are closely determined by the nature of the security, predictability, and appropriateness of the immediate social environment. For most children, in Western postindustrial culture, this environment centres upon the nuclear family. Over the last four decades there has evolved a psychotherapeutic intervention that takes fami...