The problem and politics of wholeness in family studies

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Wholeness in family studies is related to the contentious issue of the politics of inclusion which advocates diversity. However, shifts in the political center if the family has impelled a narrow focus that has created splits in the wholeness of the family realm. The contradictory worlds of family transcendence and the nonfamily are superimposed on the wholeness of family studies. While it is argued that shifts to parts of the whole helps to focus on neglected areas of family studies, scholars need to re-establish their unique vision within a more inclusive framework of wholeness.

Usage, Whole and parts, Whole and parts (Philosophy)

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Sex preferences, family planning, and fertility: an Israeli subpopulation in transition

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Socio-economic conditions in Israel significantly affect patterns of family planning, fertility, and sex preference among Jewish immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East. Conflict between demands of a modern society and that of a patriarchal culture has led to behavioral adjustments. Better education of the immigrated Asian African women has helped in reducing their preference for male children. Change in attitude of the immigrant Asian and African women with regard to fertility levels and sex preferences points to the high level of assimilation process amongst them.

Psychological aspects, Israel, Immigrants, Emigration and immigration, Jews, Jews in Israel

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The "paradigm of family transcendence": not a paradigm, questionably transcendent, but valuable, nonetheless

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The transcendental and paradigmatic attributes of family transcendence is questionable although it remains relevant to the evolving multidisciplinary study of interpersonal relationships. Kin ties constitute a significant factor in classifying relationships. Kin relationships are different from nonkin relationships on the basis of blood ties, but in the social context these differences become magnified. As societies prescribe differential norms for kin and nonkin ties, it is doubtful whether individual kinship relationships can always attain a degree of transcendence.

Social aspects, Interpersonal relations, Kinship, Transcendentalism

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