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Cruz, Joe Michael. "Domestic Violence in Same-Sex Relationships." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277865/.
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The purpose of this study is to examine domestic violence as it occurs in same-sex male relationships. Data were collected by in-depth interviews with twenty-five gay males, who were between the ages of 23 and 43, and who had previous experience being in a homosexual relationship where domestic violence was present. The major findings of this study include the respondents': 1) definitions of domestic violence and abuse; 2) the type of domestic violence or abuse personally experienced; and 3) reasons they believe domestic violence or abuse occurs in these types of relationships. This study illustrates the need for further research in this area of domestic violence and for programs or services targeted for this specific population.
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Keezhangatte, James Joseph. "Transnational migration, resilience and family relationships : Indian household workers in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35760382.
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McCuaig, Erin. "Doing time on the outside: Managing relationships with imprisoned men." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28006.
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Traditionally criminological inquiry has excluded the voices of female partners of imprisoned men, leaving their lived experiences and impacts of incarceration unacknowledged. This is a disturbing oversight in light of the stigmatization of this group both by the correctional system and in society. This thesis is an exploratory study that seeks to capture some of the experiences and challenges faced by female partners of male prisoners to shed light on their lived realities. In order to do so, this study has built upon symbolic interactionism, by drawing on Goffman's concept of stigma, the more recent theorizing around this concept as well as the issue of resistance. This theoretical framework has provided a useful lens through which to examine how structural stigma and interpersonal stigma are experienced by female partners of prisoners.
The research is a qualitative study. Five female partners of male prisoners were interviewed regarding their experiences, challenges, and negotiations in the correctional and social spheres. The findings were analyzed and ultimately broken down into four sections: the challenges experienced in corrections and in the social realm, the hardships of intimate relations related to incarceration and the positive side to enforced separation.
The analysis revealed that the experiences and coping strategies of women partners of prisoners are diverse. Further, structural stigma and interpersonal stigma (in particular the use of search technologies) were significantly present. In response to these challenges the study highlights that the women engaged in numerous tactics of overt and covert resistance. The findings, while recognizing the agency of these women also speaks to the imperative need for Corrections to humanize their policies and practices.
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Pederson, Harold. "The influence of fathers on men's later relationships." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/897476.
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Many authorities believe that our relationship with our parents has an effect on later relationships. Attachment theory and the more recent "men's movement" have focused on parents and their role in the development of the child. To study fathers' influence, 122 male undergraduate students were surveyed at a mid-sized Indiana university regarding their relationships with their father, friend, and romantic partner. The average age of the participants was 20.7 years, and the majority of the students were either Black (11.5%) or White (85.2%). Although 70.5% of the participants had married parents and 23.8% had divorced parents, most men (89.3%) referred to their biological father in completing the survey.The present study found that closeness to fathers while growing up did not predict closeness within the men's friendships. Father closeness was predictive of romantic relationship closeness but did not predict whether or not the men would be involved in such a relationship. Individual differences prevail, however, as information obtained from personal interviews indicated that some men believed their father influenced both their friendships and their romantic relationships.Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
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Close, Alan. "A Bachelor's Family A memoir of relationship and childlessness." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2005. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16013/1/Alan_Close_Thesis.pdf.
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A Bachelor's Family is a memoir of relationship, exploring --from a male point of view--my trajectory to a 'circumstantially childless' middle age. The thesis argues for this memoir and my concurrently written magazine column In The Male, to be read in the context of 'masculinity politics', specifically as a site of what Bob Connell terms 'masculinity therapy'. As a writer heretofore of fiction, the fact that I should find myself working in these forms of creative non-fiction--both attempts to discuss aspects of contemporary masculinity in the public sphere--reflects not only recent
industry and reader interest in the form but, with its emphasis on the 'healing possibilities' of truthfulness and personal disclosure, embraces the essence of 'masculinity therapy'.
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Close, Alan. "A Bachelor's Family A memoir of relationship and childlessness." Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16013/.
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A Bachelor's Family is a memoir of relationship, exploring --from a male point of view--my trajectory to a 'circumstantially childless' middle age. The thesis argues for this memoir and my concurrently written magazine column In The Male, to be read in the context of 'masculinity politics', specifically as a site of what Bob Connell terms 'masculinity therapy'. As a writer heretofore of fiction, the fact that I should find myself working in these forms of creative non-fiction--both attempts to discuss aspects of contemporary masculinity in the public sphere--reflects not only recent industry and reader interest in the form but, with its emphasis on the 'healing possibilities' of truthfulness and personal disclosure, embraces the essence of 'masculinity therapy'.
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Vira, Rohini. "Cross-cultural study on hiv-positive Indian and American men on disclosure, perceived social support and psychological well-being: implications for marriage and family therapists." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1069337688.
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Kellams, Diana D. "Perceived familial support and self-esteem in gay and bisexual men infected with the AIDS virus." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/834143.
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This study explored the relationship between perceived familial support to self-esteem in gay and bisexual men along a continuum of infection with the AIDS virus. Subjects were primarily obtained from two HIV/AIDS care coordination, education and social support centers. All participants completed the Coopersmith (1967) Self-Esteem Inventory, the Perceived Social Support-Family (PSS-Fa) questionnaire by Procidano and Heller (1983) and a demographic questionnaire. Two hypotheses were proposed: 1) Self-esteem will increase with strength of perceived Perceived Familial Support familial support. 2) Self-esteem will decrease as the stage of HIV infection worsens. Significant support was found for the first hypothesis. The second hypothesis was not supported; however, some reasons are postulated. The continuum of HIV infection and self-esteem as it relates to stages of death and dying are discussed. Implications and suggestions for counseling HIV-infected persons are addressed.Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
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Lueken, Melissa A. "Partner violence among collge women a comparison of women who stay in violent relationships to those who leave." Ohio : Ohio University, 2002. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1029179722.
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Van, Somer William Jared. "A hint of pink : the realities of being queer from the perspective of a mother and a son." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81256.
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This paper explores the reality of a queer individuals life and the reality of a mother of a queer individual, where the author himself and his mother are the subjects. The paper seeks to explore these person's experiences/realities using both an autoethnographic approach and a life history approach. Coming from a postmodern and feminist position the author delves into such issues as power, oppression, social construction, personal voice, and identity. Personal narratives and academic literature within this paper are going to display queer realities and the broad range of oppression (such as heterosexism, homophobia and gendering) that they face (in educational, familial, and religious settings) and the experiences of a mother who has a queer child (such as emotional reactions, lack of resources/information).The methodologies used within this paper also seek to explore and expand the use of alternative forms of academic research, focusing on the autoethnographic approach. Personal narratives, emotions and experiences take center stage within the body of this paper and seek to represent the realities of queer youth and their families to the reader, and hopefully, expose the need for more queer awareness, education, and advocacy.
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Gomez, Gabriela Patricia. "The relationship between the level of alcohol consumption and the incidence of spousal abuse in Euro-American and Hispanic male populations." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1168.
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Landolt, Monica A. "The associations between childhood factors and adult attachment : a study of gay men." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0016/NQ46370.pdf.
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Carastathis, Geoffrey S. "Rejected by the family for being lesbian and gay : exploring and testing factors that contribute to resilience." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2013. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/699.
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Research indicates that experiencing rejection from family for being gay significantly increases the risk of suffering various mental health and behavioural problems. However, research was not clear on what constitutes rejection and the focus was also on initial rather than current family rejection. Furthermore, research is needed on risk and protective factors that influence a person’s ability to successfully cope with such a stressful event. Therefore, this research investigated factors that contributed to the resilience of gay men and lesbians who experience current family rejection. Interviews in the initial research phase explored factors that fostered or inhibited a gay or lesbian person’s ability to cope with this challenge. Subsequently, a questionnaire was created and was administered to numerous gay men and lesbians to test the identified risk and protective factors that emerged in the initial phase. These factors were also profiled within a sample of gay men and lesbians who did not report such rejection.
The phenomenological approach adopted in the initial phase allowed exploration of: portrayals and perceptions of this rejection; its consequences; and factors that assisted or impeded the ability to cope with it. Data was gathered through individual semi-structured in-depth interviews with 11 gay men and 10 lesbians (M age = 26.19 years; M age of disclosure to family = 20.14). Four main themes emerged: Reasons for disclosure; The nature of family rejection; Negative impact of family rejection; and Resilience: Coping with rejection. Factors that appeared to contribute to a person’s ability to cope with family rejection were strategic concealment, social support, connecting with other gay people, and accepting oneself and others’ unacceptance. Some participants also coped through self-destructive means such as self-harm and substance use.
The questionnaire was informed by findings from both previous research and the qualitative study within the initial phase of this research. Eleven variables were investigated for their ability to predict resilience: self-esteem, support from family, support from friends and significant others, sense of belonging to the general community, sense of belonging to the gay community, strategic concealment, internalised heterosexism, self-acceptance, behavioural disengagement, substance use, and acceptance of stressful events. Through convenience and snowball sampling, a total of 759 participants completed the questionnaire and, of those, 550 (335 gay men, 215 lesbians; M age = 32.42 years) reported experiencing some level of current family rejection. Those who reported such rejection scored significantly higher on depression, anxiety, stress, and internalised heterosexism, while lower on self-esteem and self-acceptance. Resilience scores were also lower among gay men and lesbians who reported this adverse experience. Rejection levels were significantly higher when participants first disclosed their sexuality but current family rejection had the most influence on depression scores. Higher resilience levels significantly lowered depression, anxiety, and stress. Using a standard multiple regression analysis, the combined effect of the 11 variables accounted for 52% of the variance in resilience scores. Only two variables, sense of belonging to the gay community and substance use, did not make significant contributions. Support from family and behavioural disengagement negatively predicted resilience. Greater scores on each of the remaining seven variables were associated with higher levels of resilience.
The generalisability of the 11 variables for predicting resilience was then examined among a sample of gay men and lesbians who did not report current family rejection (n = 209; M age = 32.95 years). The model accounted for 44% of the variability in resilience scores. In contrast to the gay men and lesbians who experienced current family rejection, support from family was found to positively influence resilience while substance use emerged as a significant inhibitor. Support from friends and significant others, strategic concealment, and internalised heterosexism were not influencers for predicting resilience among the gay men and lesbians who did not report currently experiencing family rejection. The remaining six variables were relatively consistent in their influence across the two study groups.
This research contributes to theory and clinical practice, and provides greater insight into the nature of experiencing family rejection for being gay or lesbian and how one copes with it, as well as how rejection may be perceived. These findings can provide a basis for developing individual and community level interventions which could facilitate the ability to cope with family rejection and thus reduce the significant risk it poses to the well-being of gay men and lesbians.
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Vira, Rohini. "Cross-Cultural study on HIV-positive Indian and American men on disclosure, perceived social support and psychological well-being implications for marriage and family therapists /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1069337688.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains p.; also includes graphics. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Julianne Serovich, Dept. of Human Ecology. Includes bibliographical references.
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Dunbar, M. Jean, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education. "Past experience, present discoveries, future hope : a journey for fathers." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 1999, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/110.
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The father's role in families where there has been domestic violence is now known to have significance impact on future intergenerational abuse (Dutton, 1998). Fathers who shame and physically abuse their sons are putting these young boys at risk for becoming potential abusers. However, even though this risk factor is known, the literature review conducted through this study shows the absence of information on the father/child relationship. Also absent was a knowledge on parenting groups available for these men. In attempting to address this gap in the research and to gain a better understanding of how these fathers experienced the parenting group, I realized I first needed to understand how these men experienced their lives. Using interpretive inquiry, three men were interviewed about their understanding of their life experiences.
The men chosen for the research had a history of domestic abuse within the family. Data collection included observations made during the parenting group, profiles gathered from intake files, and transcripts from the interviews. The data were analyzed for themes, patterns, confirmations, and contradictions, and then interpreted to reconstruct the men's stories. The findings of the study indicate several topics common to all three men: custody, visitation, the role of the father, emotional functioning, and past and present relationships. Interwoven among the topics were the themes of inefficacy, personal care, emotional nurturance and attachment, and awareness of the way they use language. Their stories echo the same message: they love their children and want to be with them.ix, 151 leaves ; 29 cm.
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Gibby, Jordan Grant. "The Relationship Experiences of Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse: A Qualitative Analysis." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2021. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9152.
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Although the experience of sexual abuse is quite common among men, particularly among those in clinical populations, relatively little research has been done specifically with male survivors and the impact of abuse in their lives. More specifically, the impact of sexual abuse on male survivors' relationship dynamics has been underdeveloped in the research literature. Untapped online data can help illuminate these relationship dynamics, providing insight to clinicians for improved couple and family treatment. Through qualitative analysis of data from online discussion boards at MaleSurvivor.org, the present study examined the ways in which male survivors of sexual abuse described dynamics of their interpersonal relationships. Findings revealed impacts from the abuse on male survivors' relationships as well as impacts of their relationships on abuse recovery. Significant others of male survivors were influential, both positively and negatively, in regard to disclosure, companionship, conversation, modeling relationships, and help-seeking and recovery behaviors. Impacts of the abuse on relationships were reported in emotional, sexual, and relational domains. Further, results gave preliminary insight into how online forums themselves provide opportunities for support-seeking in online relationships and how male sexual abuse survivors approach these online relationships.
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Bagnall, Kate. "Golden shadows on a white land: An exploration of the lives of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia, 1855-1915." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1412.
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This thesis explores the experiences of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has been based on a wide range of sources, including newspapers, government reports, birth and marriage records, personal reminiscences and family lore, and highlights the contradictory images and representations of Chinese-European couples and their families which exist in those sources. It reveals that in spite of the hostility towards intimate interracial relationships so strongly expressed in discourse, hundreds of white women and Chinese men in colonial Australia came together for reasons of love, companionship, security, sexual fulfilment and the formation of family. They lived, worked and loved in and between two very different communities and cultures, each of which could be disapproving and critical of their crossing of racial boundaries. As part of this exploration of lives across and between cultures, the thesis further considers those families who spent time in Hong Kong and China. The lives of these couples and their Anglo-Chinese families are largely missing from the history of the Chinese in Australia and of migration and colonial race relations more generally. They are historical subjects whose experiences have remained in the shadows and on the margins. This thesis aims to throw light on those shadows, contributing to our knowledge not only of interactions between individual Chinese men and white women, but also of the way mixed race couples and their children interacted with their extended families and communities in Australia and China. This thesis demonstrates that their lives were complex negotiations across race, culture and geography which challenged strict racial and social categorisation.
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Bagnall, Kate. "Golden shadows on a white land an exploration of the lives of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia, 1855-1915 /." University of Sydney. Arts. Department of History, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1412.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This thesis explores the experiences of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has been based on a wide range of sources, including newspapers, government reports, birth and marriage records, personal reminiscences and family lore, and highlights the contradictory images and representations of Chinese-European couples and their families which exist in those sources. It reveals that in spite of the hostility towards intimate interracial relationships so strongly expressed in discourse, hundreds of white women and Chinese men in colonial Australia came together for reasons of love, companionship, security, sexual fulfilment and the formation of family. They lived, worked and loved in and between two very different communities and cultures, each of which could be disapproving and critical of their crossing of racial boundaries. As part of this exploration of lives across and between cultures, the thesis further considers those families who spent time in Hong Kong and China. The lives of these couples and their Anglo-Chinese families are largely missing from the history of the Chinese in Australia and of migration and colonial race relations more generally. They are historical subjects whose experiences have remained in the shadows and on the margins. This thesis aims to throw light on those shadows, contributing to our knowledge not only of interactions between individual Chinese men and white women, but also of the way mixed race couples and their children interacted with their extended families and communities in Australia and China. This thesis demonstrates that their lives were complex negotiations across race, culture and geography which challenged strict racial and social categorisation.
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Townsend, Monique. "African American males' attitudes toward marriage." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1695.
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This study presents the results from an exploratory study that measured 71 African American males' attitudes toward marriage, their ideal marriage partner, and their attitudes toward African American women.
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Glover, Geraldine J. "Filial Therapy with Native Americans on the Flathead Reservation." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278741/.
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This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of the 10-week filial therapy model as an intervention for Native American parents and their children residing on the Flathead Reservation in Montana. Filial therapy is an approach used by play therapists to train parents to be therapeutic agents with their own children. Parents are taught basic child-centered play therapy skills and practice those skills during weekly play sessions with their children. The purpose of this study was to determine if filial therapy is effective in: 1) increasing parental acceptance of Native Americans residing on the Flathead Reservation of their children; 2) reducing the stress level of those parents; 3) improving empathic behaviors of those parents toward their children; 4) changing the play behaviors of children with their parents who participated in the training; and, 5) enhancing the self-concept of those children. The experimental group parents (N=11) received 10 weekly 2-hour filial therapy training sessions and participated in weekly 30-minute play sessions with one of their children. The control group (N=10) received no treatment during the 10 weeks. All adult participants completed the Porter Parental Acceptance Scale and the Parenting Stress Index. Child participants completed the Joseph Pre-school and Primary Self Concept Screening Test. Parent and child participants were videotaped playing together in 20-minute videotaped play sessions before and after the training to measure empathic behavior in parent-child interactions and desirable play behaviors in children. Analyses of Covariance revealed that the Native American parents in the experimental group significantly increased their level of empathy in their interactions with their children. Experimental group children significantly increased their level of desirable play behaviors with their parents. Although parental acceptance, parental stress, and children's self concept did not improve significantly, all measures indicated positive trends. In addition, this study gives rise to questions regarding the suitability of current self concept measurement instruments for Native American children and possible cultural differences in parent stress and parental acceptance.
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Colt, Sharie Lee. "Impact of parental attachment on identity and self-acceptance in homosexual males." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2051.
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Malherbe, Helena Dorathea. "Emotional abuse in close relationships analysis of women's experiences as expressed in a therapeutic setting /." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11032006-131428.
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Lam, Chi-wai Michael, and 林智偉. "Domestic and Cohabitation Relationships Violence Ordinance: a piece of work in progress or the ultimatesolution for gay victims?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B5053421X.
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1 January 2010 was a milestone for the survivors and victims of same-sex domestic violence in Hong Kong. After a hard fought legislative battle, the Domestic and Cohabitation Relationships Violence Ordinance (DCRVO) was extended to cover cohabitation relationships irrespective of sexual orientation.
With the inclusion of same-sex cohabitants in the legislation, gay survivors are provided the same legal protection as different sex couples. It is believed that equality has been achieved for gay victims, in theory at least. Indeed, the topic of same-sex domestic violence seemed to vanish from the public sphere as soon as the Ordinance was enacted. Nevertheless, considering the cultural and social obstacles experienced by gay victims of domestic violence, e.g. social perception of homosexuality and the fear of being ‘outed’ by reporting the incidents, coupled with a lack of supplementary support services available to people with alternative sexual orientations, it is uncertain how effective this amendment will be to Hong Kong sexual minorities in practice. Therefore, the primary research question for this thesis is to what extent the DCRVO is effective in protecting in practice.
This research question will be answered by a combination of qualitative and quantitative empirical research methods. This paper focuses on three areas particularly - the awareness amongst the gay community in Hong Kong of the legislation; the availability of same-sex domestic violence support services; and the subsequent complementary policies provided by the government. This study argues that without adequate complementary policies, the DCRVO will always remain to be a piece of work in progress, and not the ultimate solution for gay victims in Hong Kong.published_or_final_version
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Patel, Raakhee Navin. "An Ethnographic Study of Doctor-Patient Communication within Biomedicine and Its Indian Variant in Mumbai." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1619705858186443.
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Williams, Patricia Joanne. "Factors affecting Hispanic adolescent substance abuse." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1137.
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Costa, Juliana Monteiro. "HIV/Aids na velhice : a fala dos idosos soropositivos na cidade do Recife." Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, 2013. http://www.unicap.br/tede//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=892.
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Embora a velhice seja uma realidade biológica, os significados que lhe são atribuídos são construções sociais e históricas. O aumento de casos de HIV/Aids entre pessoas acima de 60
anos tem sido reportado por pesquisadores, pois os dados mostram o crescimento de casos proporcionais de HIV/Aids entre idosos comparado com outras faixas de idade. Entre as razões para essa progressão está a desinformação desse público no que se refere ao autocuidado, a maior oferta de fármacos contra disfunção erétil, o baixo uso de preservativos nessa geração e o atraso no diagnóstico. O objetivo deste trabalho foi compreender as repercussões biopsicossociais de conviver com HIV/Aids para idosos na cidade do Recife. Participaram nove idosos (quatro do sexo feminino e cinco do sexo masculino), na faixa etária compreendida entre 60 e 76 anos, residentes na cidade do Recife, que estavam em tratamento e/ou acompanhamento no SAE (Serviço de Assistência Especializada em HIV/Aids) da Policlínica Lessa de Andrade. Foi realizada uma entrevista conduzida de forma semidirigida e organizada a partir de um roteiro previamente estabelecido, que foi gravada e transcrita. As informações colhidas foram analisadas com base na Técnica de Análise de Conteúdo Temática. Os resultados mais expressivos apontaram: o impacto do diagnóstico de HIV/Aids no paciente, acompanhado de sentimentos de tristeza, revolta, culpa, desespero, aprisionamento e medo; preconceito e abandono por parte de alguns familiares, amigos e vizinhos que fazem parte do cotidiano desses idosos; uma dimensão ontológica da sexualidade, rompendo com o estereótipo da velhice marcada pela assexualidade, recolhimento e passividade; as construções de gênero e a representação social da Aids associadas como a doença do outro como fatores determinantes para a percepção da invulnerabilidade ao HIV/Aids entre pessoas desse grupo etário; a espiritualidade como sustentação, dimensão que serve para apaziguar a dor e o sofrimento diante da sorologia positiva para o HIV; saúde física dos idosos comprometida em virtude da destruição progressiva e gradativa das células de defesa do organismo associada às doenças inerentes à velhice; o despreparo por parte da equipe de saúde para lidar com o HIV/Aids nessa
faixa etária, ocasionando o diagnóstico tardio. Este trabalho teve, portanto, o intuito de contribuir para iluminar o campo de saberes e práticas que têm como horizonte de preocupações
éticas e políticas a diminuição da vulnerabilidade dos idosos ao HIV/Aids.
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Pollock, Asher W. "Phase Shift." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1492781853322151.
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Somerville, Kara Jean. "Strategic transnational practices: Social implications and family relationships in an Indian community." 2007. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=510548&T=F.
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Kawamoto, Walter T. "Gender and ethnic issues in parenting : a study of some determinants of parenting in American Indian and non-Indian families." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/35757.
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An analysis was conducted to test current theories
regarding education, income, and marital satisfaction as
determinants of parenting in different ways for men and
women. The gender specific issues in parenting to be tested
were: 1) Education is positively related to parental
involvement for both men and women. 2) Marital
dissatisfaction is positively related to maternal
involvement and negatively related to paternal involvement.
3) Income is positively related to parental involvement for
both men and women.
One focus of the test of the above theories was a
sample of twenty-five American Indian families primarily
recruited with the assistance of the Confederated Tribes of
Siletz. Twenty-five non-Indian families with similar
education and income characteristics were matched with the
Siletz sample from the larger Oregon Family Study sample for
comparison/control group purposes.
Significant gender and ethnic differences in the
significance of education, income, and marital satisfaction
on paternal involvement are reported.Graduation date: 1994
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Aponte, Neal. "Present at the creation: The experience of men becoming first-time fathers." 1991. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9207357.
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This dissertation utilizes an object relational framework to explore how prospective fatherhood represents an important transitional moment in a man's normative psychological and emotional development. The interpersonal and intrapsychic changes wrought by this transitional moment are first conceptualized around several related themes: (1) how becoming a father engenders a concurrent identification with and separation from one's father and family of origin; (2) how the process of becoming adult symbolically destroys and transforms the relationship with a parent and how becoming a parent generates an opportunity to make reparation; (3) how the child's birth reverberates against oedipal wishes for omnipotence and immortality yet also presages the limits of generational authority and one's physical mortality; (4) how becoming a father conjures up feelings of envy about a woman's procreative capacity and her relationship with the fetus and resurrects aspects of a man's childhood relationship with his own mother. Twenty men whose partners were in the last trimester of their first pregnancy were interviewed. A qualitative analysis of the interview data was used to illuminate how prospective fatherhood: (1) engendered an internal dialogue between an established and inchoate sense of self; between the self as adolescent and the self as adult; (2) intensified an emotional dependence on their partners, generated a sense of awe and reverence towards their partner's bodies, and produced feelings of helplessness about being responsible for their infants, all of which resurrected aspects of a man's early childhood relationship with his mother. Ten case studies are presented focusing on subjects' relationships with their fathers to demonstrate how prospective fatherhood enables men to engage in three inter-related dimensions of reparative work. Prospective fathers can repair: (1) their own fathers by offering the grandchild as a quid pro quo for the child they have lost and by enabling the father to be idealized anew by the grandchild precisely when the sons become increasingly aware of their fathers' mortality; (2) the father/son relationship as men identify more with their fathers; the experience of prospective fatherhood represents a potential emotional bridge back to their fathers; and (3) themselves as the desire to create a different relationship with their own children and the related identification with the unborn child reflects a need to alleviate the emotional wounds they endured as children.
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Guo, Xinyi (Alison). "Chinese parents with gay or lesbian children : reflections, experiences, and family relationships." Thesis, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:68928.
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The purpose of this study was to examine Chinese parents’ reactions and attitudes towards their child’s same-sex sexual orientation after their child’s coming out. It aimed to amplify the voices from a marginalised and socially oppressed group—Chinese parents of a gay or lesbian child. However, due to Chinese parents of a same-sex attracted adult child being a hard-to-reach population, I endeavoured to gain more information about their experiences by also talking with adult same-sex attracted children and seeking their reflections on their parents’ reactions and attitudes. This research is the first, to my knowledge, to comprehensively explore Chinese parents’ reactions towards their gay or lesbian child’s coming out through a feminist post-structuralist lens by interviewing groups of both Chinese parents and adult child participants. Findings from this work point to the connection between increased societal visibility and recognition of sexuality diversity and an increase in parents’ uncertainty, fear and disappointment within the parent/same-sex attracted adult child relationship. While some narratives communicated stagnant and negative relationships that seemed as if they could not be repaired, others highlighted the growth and change that were possible with increased exposure to affirming information about sexuality diversity. Accordingly, a number of recommendations emerge from this work. First, exposure to and visibility of sexuality diversity in educational institutions should be increased, such as including knowledge of sexuality diversity in school curriculums and textbooks; this will not only improve individuals’ recognition of sexuality diversity, but will also help prevent homophobic language and behaviour. Second, all types of gay “conversion” therapies in the medical and clinical service system should be banned, to clearly address the point that same-sex attraction is neither a disease nor a psychological problem that can be cured. Third, there should be an increase in affirming content related to sexuality diversity in the media. Finally, relevant legislation and policies should be established to acknowledge and protect the social rights of same-sex attracted people within society. Such moves could not only help to normalise same-sex attracted individuals and reduce homophobic discrimination and stigma, but also could improve the well-being and self-esteem of both same-sex attracted individuals and their parents.
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Straight, Karen S. "Saris, spouses, and software: Gender and assimilation among South Indian high -tech and homemaker immigrants in Portland, Oregon." 2003. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3078722.
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This dissertation is concerned with the experiences of South Indian male and female immigrants in the Portland. Oregon area, where some—but not all—of the sample has been employed in high-technology. Twenty South Indian high-tech men, 18 South Indian high-tech women, and 20 South Indian homemakers were interviewed to explore the effect of employment on gender role ideology and assimilation. The sample was further confined to South Indian Hindus who have lived in the U.S. between four and 20 years, and are married (but not to each other). The stories of South Indian men and women shed light on the consequences for assimilation of ‘where you start’ in terms of traditional vs. modern values, as well as the consequences of being male or female. Homemakers and men married to homemakers experience the greatest change in comparison with dual professional high-tech couples in terms of gender roles, behavior, and ideology. This is brought about by a transition from a relatively more conservative and restrictive environment into a more open and less restrictive environment. The change is less dramatic for high-tech couples, as their ideas and behaviors in India were more similar to the ideas and behaviors that govern their world today. This research v indicates that immigration brings structural changes in one's environment—greater independence, autonomy, and isolation. The structural changes lead to cultural changes—increased liberalism in regard to gender roles and relations. The significance of these changes and the implications for gender roles, values, and behaviors, is negotiated within the family. Viewing the family as a site of struggle as well as a source of cultural maintenance, allows one to see how gender roles and relations are negotiated over time in the new cultural milieu.
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Larkins, Danielle Canise. "An exploration of family of origin and contextual influences on African American women's perception of men and their experience of romantic relationships." 2004. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/larkins%5Fdanielle%5Fc%5F200412%5Fms.
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Brar, Shakuntla. "Child temperament, parenting styles and externalizing and internalizing behavior of young children of Indian immigrants in Canada." 2003. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3096265.
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Temperament has been found to be consistently and significantly associated with externalizing and internalizing behavior in children. However, this relationship is in modest to moderate range, suggesting that there are some other factors in child's environment contributing to his/her externalizing and internalizing behavior. Moreover, these direct link (correlational) studies do not explain how the relationship between child temperament and externalizing and internalizing behavior is moderated by other factors. Indian immigrants' children have not been represented in studies on externalizing and internalizing behavior of young children in North America. Therefore, the present study was designed to investigate, first, the role of child temperament and mothers' parenting styles in externalizing and internalizing behavior of young children of Indian immigrants, and second, how mothers' parenting styles moderate the relationship between these two variables. The sample comprised 160 first grade and kindergarten children and their Indian immigrant mothers. Child Behavior Checklist, Temperament Assessment Battery for Children-Revised, and Parenting Styles and Dimensions questionnaires were used to collect the data. Descriptive statistics, correlations and hierarchical multiple regression analyses were used to analyze the data. Findings suggest that child impulsivity, negative emotionality, lack of task persistence, and inhibition were associated positively with externalizing and internalizing behavior of children. Activity level was associated positively with externalizing but not with internalizing behavior. Authoritarian and permissive parenting styles were associated positively, whereas, authoritative parenting style was associated negatively with both externalizing and internalizing behavior. The relationship between child temperament and externalizing behavior was moderated by mothers' parenting styles. High authoritative parenting style weakened the relationship between impulsivity and externalizing behavior in children, whereas high authoritarian and permissive parenting styles strengthened this relationship. The relationship of child negative emotionality and lack of task persistence with internalizing behavior of children was not moderated by parenting styles. However, parenting styles made significant contributions in explaining the variance in internalizing behavior of children beyond what was already explained by negative emotionality and lack of task persistence. In terms of relationship between child temperament, parenting styles, and externalizing and internalizing behavior of children, the results of the current study were similar to the findings of the studies conducted on the main stream population in North America.
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Modau, A. B. "The silence of male victims in relation to domestic violence in heterosexual relationships in Makhado Municipality, Limpopo Province, South Africa: An Exploratory study." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/778.
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Klafke, Nadja. "Interpersonal factors impacting the decision to (continue to) use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in men with cancer: a mixed-methods study." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/97249.
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There has been an increase in the use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in cancer populations, with reported higher prevalence rates in women than in men. Men with a variety of cancers have been understudied in CAM research, as well as the contribution and involvement of their significant others, like close family members or/and close friends. The aim of this thesis was to investigate the use of CAM in men after a diagnosis of cancer. Specifically, the research aimed to explore how significant others impact on men’s decisions to (continue to) use CAM, how they negotiate, talk, and practice CAM in everyday life, and how this affects their interpersonal relationship. A mixed methodological approach with two independent but related studies addressed the research aims: one quantitative study (survey) and one qualitative study (semi-structured interviews). The results are presented in two published and three submitted papers that contribute to our understanding of CAM use in men affected with cancer and how their CAM uptake is shaped by their social networks. Paper one reports the results of an integrative review of the literature, and indicates that significant others of patients with cancer often act as information seekers, advocates, and/or role models in patients’ decision-making about CAM. Despite the limited number of reviewed studies about familial involvement available, the results suggest that there may be important interpersonal consequences following patients’ decision to use or not use CAM, that need to be further explored. Paper two reports the results from the Study 1 survey involving 403 Australian men affected with cancer, a convenience sample of consecutive patients visiting two public and two private outpatient cancer clinics in Metropolitan Adelaide. The results indicate that the majority of male cancer patients (61.5%) have experience with CAM at some point during their cancer treatment, while more than half of the study sample (52.9%) were currently using CAM whilst receiving conventional medical treatment. It was also shown that family were the most frequent providers of information about CAM, and were significantly more often involved in patients’ discussions about CAM use than medical professionals. Papers three, four, and five report the results of Study 2, involving qualitative analysis of 43 semi-structured interviews with 26 men and 24 significant others, thereby exploring in-depth participants’ perceptions and experiences of CAM. Paper three indicates that men with cancer use CAM for individual and social/interpersonal reasons, a unique category augmenting those previously discussed in the literature. Discourse analysis highlighted how the interpersonal dimension impact on men’s decisions to uptake CAM, and how the use of CAM functions to connect the male cancer patient with his social network. Paper four reports on the variations of significant others’ involvement in men’s CAM uptake and maintenance, and indicates that CAM is sometimes practised as a shared and/or private activity in everyday life. The shared practice of CAM was associated with interpersonal benefits, working to strengthen the bond between men and their significant others, but there were instances when men expressed a need to practice CAM as a private activity. It was found that CAM benefited both men and their significant others to reduce uncertainty and to regain control. Paper five reports on how regular and habitual male CAM users integrate CAM routines and CAM rituals in their everyday life. The discursive analysis illustrates how CAM routines provide male cancer patients with certainty and control. By contrast, CAM rituals function for cancer patients and their significant others as a means to create and maintain meaning, thereby working to counter fear and uncertainty consequent upon a diagnosis of cancer. In summary, the results of these studies have shown that the majority of men with a variety of cancers use CAM in addition to conventional cancer care. Family members and/or close friends are a significant source of influence in men’s CAM uptake and maintenance. The interactions about CAM between men and their significant others functioned to help them to connect with each other or strengthen their social bond, and constitute a beneficial effect of CAM use. In addition, it was found that regular CAM use helped men and their significant others to regain control and to reduce uncertainty. These findings may help healthcare professionals to better understand how interpersonal processes impact on men’s CAM decisions. The results might also be translated into clinical practice, for example, in designing supportive cancer care programmes tailored specifically to men affected with cancer, with or without involvement of their significant others.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Psychology, 2014
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Malinga, Mandisa Vallentia. "Precarious employment and fathering practices among African men." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/20283.
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This thesis explored the fathering practices of precariously employed African men with the study objectives including understanding: (1) how precariously employed men construct fatherhood; (2) the fathering practices considered important to them; (3) in what way precarious employment impacts on their fathering practices; and (4) how precariously employed men negotiate between their children’s economic as well as socio-emotional needs.
This research focused particularly on the experiences of roadside work-seekers in Parow, Cape Town, seeking to understand how they construct fatherhood within their precarious working conditions. What these men think about fatherhood is important particularly in South Africa where not only unemployment is high, but also the rates of children growing up without their fathers. An ethnographic study was conducted during which data was collected using both participant observation and semi-structured interview methods. This thesis reports on interviews conducted with 46 men over a period of seventeen weeks.
The findings reveal that the majority of roadside work-seekers are migrants (both internal and cross border) who have families to provide for. This study also revealed having children as one of the main reasons men engage in precarious work activities. Also highlighted is the extent to which precarious work impact the lives of those involved to the extent that it affects their relationships with their children, families and intimate partners. The majority of day labourers, due to being unemployed also do not live with their children, with many being denied access as a result of a breakdown in their relationship with the mother of the child, but also as a result of being unable to fulfil certain traditional requirements expected of men who impregnate women out of wedlock in some African cultures. Finally, this study confirmed the various ways in which men engaged in precarious employment are exposed to high levels of poverty, homelessness, substance abuse, violence and crime, and racism, discrimination and exploitation.Psychology
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Mazibuko, Ronald Patrick. "The effects of migrant labour on the family system." 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18183.
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The migrant labour practice in South Africa played an important role in the country's development and economy. Although it has benefited many native migrant workers by creating job opportunities, it has had adverse effects on the families of migrant workers. The focus of this study is the phenomenon of migrant labouring and its effects on the family. A literature study has shown that migrant labourers, living in overcrowded city
hostels, were subjected to exploitation, malnutrition and crime. The empirical study brought to light the many problems experienced by the families back home: Wives were overburdened by dual roles and responsibilities, lack of support and money, children's development was impeded and academic motivations and performance were low.
The ultimate aim of this study was to design practical guidelines to help families cope with the effects of an absent father due to the migrant labour practice.Psychology of Education
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Naran, Shiela. "Evaluation of a sex education programme for Indian adolescents." Diss., 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/884.
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This study evaluates a sex education programme administered in an Indian high
school. To this end, a literature search, empirical study and qualitative data were used
to measure the effectiveness of the Education for Living programme.
Adolescents are blamed for having pennissive attitudes, or for indulging in amoral
sexual behaviour without considering the consequences. The fact is, sexual
development of young people is affected in a fundamental sense by what is taking
place around them. Many of the taboos, which operated in society years ago, have
disappeared.
This study looks into the history of the South African Indian community. In
particular, this study focuses on the community's values, attitudes and traditional
practices toward sexuality, sex and marriage. It further highlights how the processes
of westemisation and modernisation have eroded many of these aspects of traditional
Indian culture. The study concludes by examining the emergence of new-found
patterns of behaviour and attitudes.
It is not the intention of this study to provide any conclusive documentation on the
subject of the Indian adolescent. However the major findings of this study have been
fommlated as recommendations and implications for further research. Since sexuality
is an ever-changing, life-long experience, there is a need for continuous acquisition of
accurate sexual knowledge. Carefully designed programmes may serve to allay fears,
dispel myths, diminish confusion, enhance communication within families and
promote health and wellbeing across generations.Social Work
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Mosholi, Mpotseng Sina. "The lived experiences of resilient black African men who grew up in absent-father homes." Diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25415.
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Text in EnglishThis study explored the lived experiences of black African men who grew up in absent-father homes. A phenomenological approach and qualitative exploratory design were used. The research participants were recruited in the Pretoria, South Africa through purposive sampling. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyse the information. The findings of this study indicate the following: the participants experienced various challenges in growing up in absent father homes. These included financial challenges, feelings of rejection, lack of guidance and protection. They had to rely on their single mothers for provision as well as the extended family and the community for support. These men were self-reliant, persevered and worked hard to achieve their goals in life. Resilience also played a role in making them thrive. They in turn wanted to be good fathers and husbands to their wives and children. Further research on resilient men who grew up in absent-father homes is recommended.
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Livingston, Jacques Hilton. "The experiences and meanings that shape heterosexual fathers' relationships with their gay sons." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13606.
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Previous research indicates that gay men‟s relationships with their mothers are generally more warm, supportive, and emotional than their relationships with their fathers, and that fathers are less likely to be told, less likely to be told first, and more likely to react negatively to disclosure than mothers would. Most of these findings are derived from asking sons to report on their parental relationships. As such, very little is known about the nature of the father-son relationship before, during, and after disclosure, from the father‟s perspective. The aim of this thesis, therefore, is to uncover and explore first-hand accounts of the experiences and taken-for-granted meanings that potentially shape heterosexual fathers‟ relationships with their gay sons. A sample comprising six Afrikaans-speaking, white fathers, between the ages of 53 and 61 years, from a middle to upper-middle income bracket, and residing in Gauteng, South Africa, were selected purposively through the use of opportunistic or convenience sampling. Utilising an interpretivist approach located within the qualitative research paradigm, an individual in-depth interview strategy was adopted as a means of gathering data. A brief questionnaire probing demographic characteristics was also utilised to further contextualise the data obtained in the interviews. All the interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed for later coding and analysis. Through the use of thematic network analysis, eight organising themes were uncovered, including (a) subliminal awareness prior to coming out; (b) epistemic rupture of internal system of beliefs; (c) personal paradigmatic shifts; (d) acceptance as a complex and ongoing dialectical and reconciliatory process; (e) ambiguous loss; (f) persistent history of thought; (f) wrestling with the reason why; and (g) coming out as a dual experience. Each organising theme contained several basic themes. On the whole, the themes support the view that most parents are neither totally rejecting nor fully accepting of their gay sons. The fathers are seen to navigate their way through a plethora of experiences and meanings that are not only likely to inform the development of their multidimensional identities as men and fathers, but also shape their unique relationships with their gay sons. While the fathers may have attained a level of “loving denial” in their relationships with their gay sons, most continue to struggle with the meaning and expression of same-sex sexuality, and appear to wrestle with the challenge of integrating their understanding of same-sex sexuality with their constructions of traditional Afrikaner masculinity, as well as their meanings associated with having a gay son. However, unlike prior reports of a poor father-son dyad, the fathers reported a general improvement in their relationship with their gay son after he came out. This discrepancy may be attributed to the possibility that the particular group of fathers who volunteered to discuss their father-son relationships willingly were further along in the acceptance process. Recommendations for future research, includes an exploration of the dynamic interaction between heterosexual and gay constructions of masculinity within the father-son dyad before, during and after disclosure, examining the role that mothers play in influencing the quality of the father-son relationship before, during and after disclosure, uncovering the intra- and inter-personal variables that may facilitate the adaptive adjustment processes among fathers over the longer term, and exploring the contexts and processes associated with transitions within fatherhood across the life course of fathers of gay sons.Heterosexual fathers' relationships with their gay sons
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TESAŘOVÁ, Štěpánka. "Problematika nezaměstnanosti v České republice a v Německu z pohledu gender." Master's thesis, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-51228.
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The diploma thesis deals with problems of employment and unemployment policy from the special point of view: the use of equal opportunity of men and women (gender equality) in the Czech Republic, Germany and the European Union. The theoretical part describes employment, unemployment, promotion of women and men at employment market from the gender point of view, and discriminatory differences in the field of financial evaluation of men and women for the same amount and kind of work. The practical part gives the comparison of the employment policy from the gender perspective (rate of employment and unemployment of men and women) on the basis of statistical information of the member states of the European Union {--} the Czech Republic and Germany. The main goal of this work is to show and emphasize the fact, that some aspects of discrimination in the field of gender relationships at work and in private life still exist even in the present modern society. It depends on all of us mainly, in which way and direction these problems of gender equality will develop in the society in future.