Tag: GENERAL

If most of us thought about the conditions in which chickens used for meat and eggs are raised and slaughtered,…

Many people reject eating pork and other meats derived from pigs for religious reasons or for health reasons. When people…

Many people think if they just eliminate red meat and poultry from their diets, their eating healthier. This is partly…

Many people think of vegetarians as one homogeneous group that just doesn’t eat meat. But nothing could be further from…

The consumption of turkeys in the U.S. has escalated through the years. It’s no longer eaten primarily at Thanksgiving and…

What are the reasons we eat food? That might seem like a silly question, because we eat to feed our…

Differences between family structures may be a function of selection on socio-demographic characteristics such as parental income and education, for…

A shift toward engaging evolutionary theories has come in the wake of concerns about sociology’s general inattention to other sciences….

Contemporary legal and scholarly debates emphasize the importance of biological parents for children’s well-being. Scholarship in this vein often relies…

Sociological work on family structure often focuses on the shortcomings of alternative families. Some of this work is framed explicitly…

Adoption in its current form is sometimes explained as the confusion of evolutionary impulses that once worked in a different…

Several predominant social scientific theories predict that the absence of biological parents or the presence of a non-biological parent is…

The analyses presented in this paper are based on sample survey data and focus group data. The survey data analysis…

Although sociological arguments about alter-native family structures suggest that challenges to adoptive parents’ fitness as parents should result in lower…

In Southern Africa, contemporary sexual relationships are associated with high levels of pregnancy-related school dropouts, abortions, and HIV-transmission. It is…

Throughout Southern Africa, there is a growing concern about the risks associated with adolescent sexual activity, particularly regarding unwanted pregnancy…

Although most of the research on adolescents’ family relationships has focused on relationships with parents, interest in adolescents’ relationships with…

The view that framed early research was that peer culture provides a negative and divergent source of influence from parents….

The nature and quality of adolescents’ relationships with parents continues to be one of the most heavily researched topics on…

There has been surprisingly little research on adolescents’ relationships with relatives other than parents or siblings. In their primarily European…

As we move into the twenty-first century, significant progress has been made in understanding adolescent development in different interpersonal and…

As we move into the twenty-first century, significant progress has been made in understanding adolescent development in different interpersonal and…

Most researchers have parsed adolescence into three developmental periods, entailing early adolescence (typically ages 10–13), middle adolescence (ages 14–17), and…

Adolescents’ sexuality behaviour in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa is seriously going through transformation from what it used to be in…