... in general, changes in Russian society. De facto marriages should be introduced into the legal field, they should be given a normative definition and outline the general legal framework of the rights of de facto spouses and their children. As for sham marriages, it is proposed to consider the lack...

...Danielle Xiaodan Morales Among all bullying victims included in this study, only 32% were recognized by both parents and teachers. Bullied children who had only foreign-born parent/s were more likely to be unnoticed by adults than those who had only US-born parent/s. Among all bullied children...

...Aramide Kazeem Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the associations of gender, ethnicity, urban‐rural residence, and poverty, on children's unpaid work. It examines whether the Nigerian experience parallels previous research in India and Latin America, which finds an ethnic gap...

... to the institutional care provision for young children. The aim of this paper is to investigate the changes to the institutional care since 1980, with particular emphasis on the most recent years from mid‐1990s, and explore how the institutional care has changed over the recent decades without a clear institutional...

... profound social and demographic transformations and is thus faced with significant challenges around care. However, care in Asian countries is a relatively less studied topic. There is an urgent need for a comparative study on recent policy and practice changes in care for the elderly and young children...

... social roles; and second, this socially constructed identity has a positive impact on the families of intellectually disabled children. Research limitations/implications The first finding concerning the local social construction of intellectual disability corresponds to previous research on how...

... in the continuing of violent conflict, rather than supporting its ending. It shows how teachers' pleas for peace are overruled by political conflict, partly as a result of children's engagement with politics. The paper argues for grounding educational interventions in children's lived realities so as to optimise...

...Madeleine Leonard; Martina McKnight; Spyros Spyrou; Spyros Spyrou Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a situated, theoretically informed account of national identity construction by exploring children's engagement with nationalism in the context of the classroom in divided Cyprus...

...John Barker; Susie Weller Over the past ten years, geographers have contributed to the growing body of interdisciplinary research developing new ways of undertaking research with children. Traditional research methods which do not directly involve working with children, such as the large scale...

...Ruth A. Waibel Identifies the factors associated with the over utilisation of emergency services or the under utilisation of primary care services. Uses a two year abstraction of medical records containing 2035 visits across 253 children under the age of two. Shows that parents who used less...

...María E. Reyes‐Blanes Compares family sources of support perceived by 55 Puerto Rican mothers of young children with disabilities residing in Puerto Rico with 39 of their counterparts living in Florida. Uses the Family Support Scale in the interview process to measure perception. Indicates...

...B. Grant Hayes Suggests taht group counselling in schools can be a valuable experience for children. Argues that it allows them to develop social skills and practise behaviours with peers as well as receiving feedback. Examines the literature on the effectiveness of group counselling in schools...

...Ranjita Misra; Sandra Aguillon Considers the need for school aged children to develop their own health behaviours as often both parents have to work. Outlines the findings of a survey of 14 to 19 year olds in a small rural town in northeastern Missouri. Measures qualities such as self esteem...

... in both arguments. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Abortion Children Individual behaviour Volum e 19 N umber 3/ 4 1999 POWER AN D ACT: N otes Towards Engaging in a D iscussion of O n e of the Underlying Q u estions in the Abortion D ebate by John Walker In listening to the debate over abortion, I...

... Rights issues Responsibility Children Abortion Ethics International Journal of Sociology and Social P o licy WHY PAREN TAL O B LIG A TIO N ? by John Walker A m ajor debate among libertarian s is over parental obligation. D o p arents owe their dependent children care and support? O r do...

... UP Limited 1999 Abortion Children Rights issues International Journal of Sociology and Social P o licy ABORTION AND THE QUESTION OF THE PERSON by John Walker So o n er or later in the debate about abortion, the question of the perso n must arise. Is the fetus, the preborn child...

.... Describes the methodology used and forms of data analysis – path modelling via LISREL. Analyses the findings – that as the woman’s age increases so does the number of children ever born, women who have not completed primary education have more children than women who have completed secondary or higher...

...Magdalena C. Cabaraban Reports on a survey conducted to investigate acute respiratory infections (ARI) in children in developing countries, looking particularly at the Philippines. Explores the role of the National Committee for Acute Respiratory Infections and states its objectives...

...Barbara A. Haley Discusses prevention of lead poisoning among US children, claiming that it is entirely preventable yet is the most common environmentally induced disease in children. Outlines the extent of the problem then focuses on legislation, what the various acts were meant to achieve...

...Cornelius Riordan; Jaya Sarkar Describes Childreach – a US child‐focuses development organization which sponsors children and their families in developing countries – and a recent project in development education, “Buffalo banks and borewells: Childreach makes sense of development”, which involved...