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Family Factors and Gender Norms as Protective Factors Against Sexual Risk-Taking Behaviors Among Adolescent Girls in Southern Uganda
Adolescent girls and young women are at a higher risk for HIV infection stemming from barriers to accessing comprehensive sexual health education,...
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Parental gender preference in the Balkans and Scandinavia: gender bias or differential costs?
There is much research indicating the presence of a parental preference for a particular gender of children. The main objective of this paper is to...
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Is from ought? A comparison of unsupervised methods for structuring values-based wisdom-of-crowds estimates
Many social and ecological problems require us to consider objectively verifiable phenomena as well as subjective states of knowledge and associated...
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Leaving Home for Marital and Non-marital Reasons in the Netherlands, 1850–1940: The Impact of Parental Death and Parental Remarriage
Previous research shows that parentally bereaved children in north-western Europe in the past left home earlier than children who lived together with...
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A Feminist Sociological Understanding of the Causes of Sex-Selective Abortion: Perspectives from the Field
This chapter examines the social determinants, the social and economic conditions, of sex-selective abortion (SSA). It explores sociological concepts...
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Corruption and Health expenditure: A Cross-National Analysis on Infant and Child Mortality
How does corruption impact a nation’s capacity for well-being? Expanding government services and funding for health may not be effective at...
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Social Welfare Policy and Social Work in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
In Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) since the end of the war (1995), in line with the complex setup of the country (two entities and a district), there...
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Three Decades of Post-Yugoslav Transformation(s) of Social Policy and Social Work in Serbia – Still Between Uncertainty and Failure
This chapter provides contextual insights into the changing nature of social policy and social work as a result of profound societal transitions that...
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Married Daughters’ Contributions to Elderly Parents’ Well-Being: A Review and Evidence from Haryana, India
This chapter reviews the literature and evidence on financial and non-financial support that elderly parents receive from their sons and daughters in...
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Parent-Led Activism and Children with Disabilities in South Africa
Parents and caregivers of children with disabilities often act as representatives, mediators, and advocates for their children, partly out of...
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Education: A Children’s Human Rights Framework Example
Education is a fundamental right for all children. Children’s human rights are universal, indivisible, and inalienable. As shown throughout this...
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The New Way the Holy Spirit Moves: Rhetorical Narration and the Enduring Legacy of the Luddy Case
Civil litigation has become the predominant means through which victims and survivors of clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse (CPSA) seek redress for the...
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Intensive Parenting and the Expansion of Parenting
This chapter outlines an ‘intensification’ of parenting: the process whereby child-rearing has become a much more labour-intensive, demanding task....
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Unlevel Playing Field: Socioeconomic Determinants of Early Childhood Development in Turkiye
We investigate the socioeconomic determinants of early childhood development (ECD) in Türkiye, focusing on maternal education and household wealth,...
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‘Deep Excavations’: In-Depth Interpretive Analysis
In this chapter, we focus on step four in the breadth-and-depth method of working with large amounts of qualitative material. We build on the step...
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Living on the Margin in Geneva Camp: Map** Out Crisis and Co** Strategies of Bihari Refugees in Bangladesh
Bihari refugees from Pakistan who were stranded in Bangladesh during the 1971 liberation war became Pakistani citizens. In 2008, after extensive...
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The Reasons for Sending Remittance Home
Sending remittance among Thai female marriage migrants in Germany has been confirmed by many scholars as an economic support tool for the migrants’...
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Leveraging ICT for Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: A Focus on Women
Information and communication technology (ICT) offers significant support for data gathering, making informed decisions, execution, and assessment in...
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Conceptual Framework
In this chapter, I construct the conceptual framework for this book. I introduce the background of the self-control and social control theories, the...
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A Canadian Neighbourhood Index for Socioeconomic Status Associated with Early Child Development
Neighbourhoods encompass the social, institutional, and environmental determinants that influence the developmental health of the children who reside...
