Clashes of common sense: on the previous child care experience of teenage mothers-to-be
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The common notion that out-of-wedlock teenage childbearing is an individual misbehavior that threatens the well-being of children and families is debunked. A survey of 21 southern rural and northeastern metropolitan teenage mothers suggests that early fertility, when situated in an extended kin network family structure, may be a collectively patterned solution to the social dilemmas posed by raising children in poverty. The teenage mothers report extensive previous child care experience through family and work responsibilities, implying that they do have an idea of what an infant's needs are.
Publication Name: Human Organization
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0018-7259
Year: 1992
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Community types and social indicator rates
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An improved method is introduced for identifying community types, which relate them to disability rates and problematic pregnancies, by a factor analysis of Mapquest data for 283 villages in western New York State to examine the Durkheimian proposition that social morphology determines communities' social indicator levels. Results from this refined cross-cultural method, illustrates the untapped potential of what is often considered an esoteric anthropological method.
Publication Name: Cross-Cultural Research
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 1069-3971
Year: 2006
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One Nation, Many Cultures
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The article relates the study of personal cultural values and commitment in role performance and organizational behavior.
Publication Name: Cross-Cultural Research
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 1069-3971
Year: 2007
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