After-School Programs as a Prosocial Setting for Bonding Between Peers

This study reports on the longitudinal analysis of a structured after-school arts program for Canadian youth, ages 9 to 15 years, from low-income communities where the relationship of peer social support, family interactions, and psychosocial outcomes is evaluated. Multi-level growth curve analyses suggest an increase in prosocial development with peer social support and a decrease in prosocial development when negative family interactions are present. Comparisons between matched controls, using estimated linear propensity scores, revealed significant improvement in prosocial behaviors for the intervention group. The structured after-school arts program was found to increase prosocial behaviors and bonding with peers for youth from low-income communities.     

Laying Down the Family Burden: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Resilience in the Midst of Family Violence

Questionnaire data from a cross-sectional study of a randomly selected sample of 5,149 middle-school students from four EU countries (Austria, Germany, Slovenia, and Spain) were used to explore the effects of family violence burden level, structural and procedural risk and protective factors, and personal characteristics on adolescents who are resilient to depression and aggression despite being exposed to domestic violence. Using logistic regression to identify resilience characteristics, our results indicate that structural risks like one's sex, migration experience, and socioeconomic status were not predictive of either family violence burden levels or resilience. Rather, nonresilience to family violence is derived from a combination of negative experiences with high levels of family violence in conjunction with inconsistent parenting, verbally aggressive teachers, alcohol and drug misuse and experiences of indirect aggression with peers. Overall, negative factors outweigh positive factors and play a greater role in determining the resilience level that a young person achieves.     

Family and Community Determinants of Educational Attainment in Mexico

Using hierarchical linear modeling, this article investigates the effect of gender, parental capital, and community context on school-age children's educational attainment in Mexico. Data come from the Mexican Migration Project; this study investigates the contribution of various micro- and macro-level determinants. To measure schooling, the amount of education completed by two different age groups of children in Mexico was examined. In sum, male respondents were found to attain fewer years of education than females, contrary to the gender-effect model. But the study lends firm support to the parental capital model which stresses the significance of parental education and household wealth. The community context argument was marginally upheld for younger respondents but exerted a more meaningful impact on older respondents, signaling the need to emphasize age and community ecological factors in assessing educational outcomes in Mexico.     

Chapter IV: Child Welfare Education:

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Finding Identity in Family Work

SUMMARY

The family has always enjoyed an elevated status in Ireland, yet it was not until the mid-1990s that family-based intervention work really found expression in a new division of child and youth care: community child care-workers. This paper introduces readers to an area of child and youth care work in Ireland devoted to an ecological understanding of the child “at risk” and working with the child and the child's family outside of a residential or institutional setting. The paper includes a brief interview with a community child care-worker, observations from a master's student in social care who has also worked in community child care, and concludes by reviewing 12 key areas community child care-workers must address if their status is to be secured in the Irish child and     

Families in multi-problem situations: Backgrounds,characteristics, and care services

The article reviews practical experiences and theoretical reflections from the Dutch child and youth care sector on the provision of care for families with multiple problems. Emphasis is laid upon the complex relations between socioeconomic and psychosocial problems, and subsequent issues that may arise in arranging child and youth care. Furthermore, the current state of discussion in program development for the target group in the Netherlands is introduced. The originally English concept of families with multiple problems has been used only modestly in German-speaking countries. This is remarkable from an international perspective, especially considering the re-emerging prominence of social policies that define families as a site of social work practice in English-speaking countries. We conclude that the themes, as derived from our review open up possibilities for further international comparisons, and can provide valuable reference for the transnational discourse about child and youth care services for families with multiple problems.     

完善中国家族企业公司治理制度的法律思考

改革开放以来,家族企业已经成为推动我国经济发展和社会主义市场经济体制逐步完善的重要力量.但是,由于家族企业公司治理模式的某些天然缺陷,导致其经营规模的发展受到限制.国家虽然先后出台了一些保护、鼓励和规范家族企业发展的政策法规,但相对于现代公司治理而言,有关家族企业公司治理方面的立法仍显得空虚和滞后.因此,加强家族企业外部治理环境建设,构建市场主体平等竞争的政策法规体系;完善家族企业内部治理规制-促进家族治理向现代公司治理转变,已经成为我国法制建设的亟待解决的问题.     

分家与分家单研究

在中国分家是有其特定含义的,仅指兄弟之间以及兄弟与父母之间的分家,而不包括女儿在内.分家行为是属于民事行为,主要属于处分行为.分家行为本身也是一项法律事实.从本质上看,分家单不具有合同的根本属性,不是合同,只是一般的民事协议.分家单只要有主体、客体和内容三要素就能成立.分家单的效力表现在三个方面:从财产的归属方面看,有权利证明的效力.对当事人而言,产生约束力.依法成立并生效的分家单,对于在其上签名的当事人有约束力,应当自觉遵守.从诉讼过程来看,有证据效力.对于分家单中记载的对父母赡养义务的分配,原则上有效.     

日常生活向度的家庭意识形态考量

本文着眼日常生活向度的家庭意识形态,把马克思主义哲学在家庭教化中的担当从学理和现实层面进行剖析。作为当下中国建设的指导性思想,作为一种意识形态话语样态,马克思主义哲学观照日常生活,关照普通大众的日常生活,因此,立足马克思哲学经典文本及其精神实质,科学揭示当下马克思主义哲学在日常生活中、家庭中的传播、指导功效机能,凸显马克思主义哲学实践精神、主体精神、人文精神,推进马克思主义哲学大众化、生活化。     

论生活伦理的伦理价值

生活伦理是以自然伦理实体—家庭为主体的＂神的规律＂的产物,但它却孕育了＂人的规律＂的伦理可能。生活伦理的合法性不仅是来自于非课题的伦常生活有效积习的自明性,还表现为生活伦理对家庭及一般社群的伦理奠基性。生活伦理维系了家庭秩序化,构成一般社群伦理的先决价值。