BACKGROUND Over generations, government policies have impacted upon the lives of Indigenous peoples of Canada in unique and often devastating ways. In this context, Indigenous women who struggle with poverty, mental illness, trauma and substance abuse are among the most vulnerable, as are Indigenous children involved in child welfare systems. OBJECTIVE By examining the life history of Wanda, ...

al contours of American social inequality have been transformed by the rapid growth in the prison and jail population.1 America’s prisons and jails have produced a new social group, a group of social outcasts who are joined by the shared experience of incarceration, crime, poverty, racial minority, and low education. As an outcast group, the men and women in our penal institutions have little a...

Using data on adults ages 55 and over from the second wave of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH-2), this study models the main and interactive effects of religious involvement and race/ethnicity on four items of attitudes towards intergenerational assistance. Results indicate that African Americans and Hispanics tend to express stronger support for intergenerational assistanc...

there is a long tradition in economics about the question of whether intergenerational discounting is fair or not. ramsey (1928) was the first economist that criticized the discounting and mentioned that the just rate of discounting is zero.  in this paper it was tried to calculate the just rate of discounting for iran with respect to islamic thoughts. according to islam, intergenerational just...

A large literature has measured the regression to the mean in earnings and occupational status. One conclusion of this literature is that earnings regress to the mean more rapidly than status. This paper provides a theoretical model for intergenerational mobility in both status and earnings and examines its implications empirically. We consider the theoretical implications of parental investmen...

This article aimed to analyze empirically the parental transmission of education workers employed in labor market according socioeconomic status Brazil. For this, Logit models were applied based on microdata from 2014 Brazilian Household Sample Survey. The intergenerational reproduction for and heterogeneity between positions validated. Among poor, there is persistence lower low educational upw...

BACKGROUND Keeping older adults healthy and active is an emerging challenge of an aging society. Despite the importance of personal relationships to their health and well-being, changes in family structure have resulted in a lower frequency of intergenerational interactions. Limited studies have been conducted to compare different interaction style of intergenerational interaction. The present ...

CONTEXT The familial nature of childhood conduct problems has been well documented, but few genetically informed studies have explicitly explored the processes through which parental conduct problems influence an offspring's behavior problems. OBJECTIVE To delineate the genetic and environmental processes underlying the intergenerational transmission of childhood conduct problems. DESIGN We...