OBJECTIVES The purpose here is to identify those processes that account for the more active and supportive kinship networks among Black oldest old than found among their White age peers. METHODS Focused interviews were conducted with 122 Blacks 85 years and older. Both open-ended and semistructured questions were asked in order to determine how Blacks defined family and kinship membership, th...

This paper studies the network effects of kinship-based informal insurance on fertility and child health. Using demographic data from Malawi and exploiting differences between the patrilineal and matrilineal kinship in the composition of family network groups, this paper finds that the death of an adult in an insurance network significantly reduces fertility. While we find no evidence of intrah...

An exploratory case study design using three sources of data-interviews with kinship caregivers, interviews with social workers, and file reviews-was used to identify the needs of kinship caregivers in northern British Columbia. The research found that kinship caregivers identified many needs that must be addressed if kinship caregiving is to be a viable and sustainable option for children in n...

Structural open adoption has been beneficial to adoptees in integrating their birth heritage and identity. Adoptive parents also may sometimes seek out others who are neither related biologically nor through partnership support child developing an integrated sense of To what extent do these intentional kinship relationships become incorporated within the adoptive family network how view role ch...

The article features the macro-concept of kin and its symbolic signs. idea is embedded in many concepts Russian culture, directly or indirectly indicating mental schemes they have common. However, has received no comprehensive analysis associative-figurative layer. author described signs behind motivation using proverbs from V. I. Dahl’s dictionary that contain national-cultural layer figurativ...

In 2005 four outstanding multiple burials were discovered near Eulau, Germany. The 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other. Skeletal and artifactual evidence and the simultaneous interment of the individuals suggest the supposed families fell victim to a violent event. In a multidisciplinary approach, archaeological, anthropological, geochemical (r...

Juvenile hemochromatosis is an early-onset form of iron storage disease characterized by hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism and cardiomyopathy. Recently, the putative causative gene (LOC148738) encoding a protein designated hemojuvelin was cloned. The previously proposed designation of this gene as HFE2 is contrary to established convention, because it is not a member of the HFE family. We suggest ...

The purpose of the article is to analyze lexemes that denote kinship in artistic discourse O. Kobylyanska. relevance study motivated by need for an in-depth analysis Olga Kobylyanskaya order form cognitive-pragmatic concept writer. novelty scientific research due fact linguistic units denoting family ties are studied first time. uses general methods and synthesis, as well - descriptive, structu...