This qualitative study explored how 36 initially female-partnered mothers defined their own, and their children's, relationships with families who share their unknown sperm donor (i.e., "linked" families). Shared genetics among children were sometimes sufficient to describe relationships among linked families as familial, especially from the children's perspectives. Most women described their o...

BACKGROUND Health worker retention in rural and underserved areas remains a persisting problem in many low and middle income countries, and this directly affects the quality of health services offered. OBJECTIVE This paper explores the drivers of long-term retention and describes health worker coping mechanisms in rural Uganda. METHODS A descriptive qualitative study explored the factors th...

This paper leverages the repressive turn in U.S. migration policy to understand how a cross-border perspective can illuminate experiences of two different, but contemporaneous second-generation populations: Those whose lives have unfurled United States, all while growing up internationalized families with ongoing homeland ties; and those childhoods began were disrupted as part ‘Great Expulsion’...

This study contributes to research on race and family ties by exploring racial differences in the direct effects of family support exchanges on daily well-being and the extent to which family support buffers/exacerbates stressor reactivity. African Americans and European Americans aged 34 to 84 (N = 1,931) from the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE) reported on family support exchanges ...

attachment to the neighborhood represents a positive mental feeling toward the residential place that links associated with residential location and causing the residents’ commitment to habitat and their desire to maintain a relationship with it over the time and at different stages of life. present research examines neighborhood attachment and the effect of personal networks and modern communi...

Family firms show specific behavior in their internationalization because of the affective ties derived from family’s influence business. The desire to achieve business and family objectives determines strategic decision making members governance management, affecting strategy. This research intends determine factors related firms. Thus, using a sample 254 Spanish small- medium-sized firms, we ...

Ties and social bonds are considered as social capital and assets of the person and the person can be accessed at these links from the resources and support has great importance in sociology. The overall goal of this research was to study social networks and social ties of women and their husbands, living in Babol. Types of social networks(formal relationships, informal relationships) and the s...