Coparenting Conflict and Parenting Behavior in Economically Disadvantaged Single Parent African American Families: The Role of Maternal Psychological Distress

Substantial research has focused on the negative associations between coparenting conflict, parental psychological functioning, and parenting behavior in European American, middle-income, families. However, less attention has been given to ethnic minority families and to families that are nontraditionally structured. In an effort to address this gap, the current longitudinal study examines the relation between conflict with the mother-identified primary co-caregiver and parenting practices in single parent, economically disadvantaged African American families. Participants included 234 mother–child dyads. It was hypothesized that conflict would relate to less utilization of positive parenting practices and that this association would be mediated, at least in part, by maternal psychological distress. Hypotheses were examined using structural equation modeling (Lisrel 8.3): Conflict with a co-caregiver was significantly related to parenting both directly and indirectly through maternal psychological distress. Implications of the findings are discussed.

No Place Like Home？

IT was in January 1961 that I first fell in love. I had already been traveling for four years by then. Our family preferred the "paquebots," or ocean liners-Ferdinand de Lesseps and Jean Laborde of the French Messageries Maritimes line, and would ride the steamers from Mombasa, through the Suez Canal or round the Cape of Good Hope to Marseille.     

司法改革的目标——使司法成为公平正义的有效防线

我国新一轮司法改革已经启动。党的十八届三中全会为这新一轮司法改革确定了方向、目标及具体任务。对研究者来说,需要在正确认识这一轮司法改革的方向的基础上,首先研究这次司法改革所设定的目标,以便理解和落实司法改革的具体方法、步骤,顺利推进司法改革。基於司法能否成为社会公平正义的有效防线,对司法改革的整体目标的实现,具有十分重要的意义,而这个目标的实现,不仅需要对司法体制进行改革,而且需要其他相关制度的改革与之配套。因此,我们将以正在进行的信访制度改革为重点,探讨这次司法改革,如何进一步保障司法成为我国社会公平正义的有效防线,以切实推进法治中国建设。     

行政复议委员会试点五年情况回顾

自1999年行政复议法颁布实施以来,全国人大常委会於2013年首次检查该法的实施情况。统计结果显示,中国每年受理的行政复议案件数量与行政诉讼的一审案件数量基本持平,部分地方的复议案件还多于一审行政诉讼案件,而多数的行政复议案件涉及土地．房屋拆迁、劳动和社会保障、卫生、城市规划等与群众利益密切相关的领域。作为化解行政争议的第一道防线,国务院在推动行政复议法修改的同时,在实践中也积极探索建立专业、便民、高效、权威的行政复议体制．整合多头行政复议办案机关,部署行政复议委员会试点是其中一项有益探索。本期特选取国务院法制办公室行政复议司副司长方军的文章,全面解读行政复议委员会试点工作开展五年以来的实效及未来走向。     

再次修改《商业银行法》的制度创新

《中华人民共和国商业银行法》於1995年5月10日第八届全国人民代表大会常务委员会第十三次会议通过,2003年12月27日第十届全国人民代表大会常务委员会第六次会议通过了《板於修改〈中华人民共和国商业银行法〉的决定》,对该法进行了部分条款的修正。2013年3月全国人民代表大会期间,多位银行界代表提出再次修改《商业银行法》的议案,《商业银行法》再次修改工作将列入立法机构和银行业有关机构的工作日程。     

齐琦“室内设计奥斯卡”上的丹东面孔

2010年10月29日,上海金茂君悦酒店宴会厅。被誉为“室内设计奥斯卡”的2010亚太室内设计双年大奖赛（1AIAWARDS）颁奖典礼隆重举行,来自全球最权威的设计团体组织核心人物、设计大师、专家、业界精英云集现场,共同见证这一精彩时刻。19时17分,当主持人朗声宣布：“商业空间类银奖,主设计师齐琦,项目为‘印象丹东：婚纱影像体验馆’”时,     

RACING AGAINST TIME

On December 29,2019,seven cases of pneumonia of unknown cause were referred to the Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan,Hubei Province in central China.They were all related to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market As similar cases began to be reported in Wuhan,57-year-old Zhang Dingyu,P resident of the hospital,was on high alert.His decades of clinical experience told him it was not an ordinary infectious disease.     

The Role of Religiosity in the Relationship Between Parents,Peers, and Adolescent Risky Sexual Behavior

Research has documented a negative relationship between religion and risky sexual behavior. Few studies, however, have examined the processes whereby religion exerts this effect. The present study develops and tests a model of various mechanisms whereby parental religiosity reduces the likelihood of adolescents’ participation in risky sexual behavior (early sexual debut, multiple sexual partners, and inconsistent condom use). Structural equation modeling, using longitudinal data from a sample of 612 African American adolescents (55% female), provided support for the model. The results indicated that parental religiosity influenced adolescent risky sexual behavior through its impact on authoritative parenting, adolescent religiosity, and adolescent affiliation with less sexually permissive peers. Some mediating mechanisms differed by the gender of the respondent, suggesting a “double-standard” for daughters but not for sons. Findings also indicated the importance of messages about sexual behavior that are transmitted to adolescents by their peers. Theoretical and policy implications of the findings are discussed.     

維護内地舆香港當事人合法權益的有效制度

中國實行改革開放以來,内地舆香港的經濟往來日益频繁,涉及兩地的民商事爭議也越來越多。如何公正地處理這些爭議,切實維護内地舆香港當事人的合法權益是人民法院的重要職责。由於内地舆香港實行不同的法律制度,訴訟過程中的诸多問题都缺乏统一的程序和標凖,给爭議解決带來了许多困難。1981年,司法部經中央有關主管部門同意,