{"title":"Second Time Around: A Preventive Intervention for Remarried Couples","authors":"Amanda J. Ellis","doi":"10.1080/01591487.1984.11004286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01591487.1984.11004286","url":null,"abstract":"SynopsisRecent research has shown that in Australia divorce rates for second marriages are higher than those for first marriages. Second marriage families have been identified as a high risk group which lack effective role models and societal norms. The Marriage Guidance Council of New South Wales introduced a pilot group program to help these couples deal with some of the issues they face in second marriages. At the conclusion of the group, all members stated that their relationships had improved since joining the program and 75% reported that the group had helped them cope better with parenting. All members said they would recommend the program to others. This program is an important intervention in the prevention of second marriage breakdown.","PeriodicalId":404699,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of sex, marriage, and family","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126047976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Me! Go to a Marriage Counsellor! You’re Joking!’: A Survey of Public Attitudes to and Knowledge of Marriage Counselling","authors":"C. Sharpley, H. Rogers, N. Evans","doi":"10.1080/01591487.1984.11004285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01591487.1984.11004285","url":null,"abstract":"SynopsisWhile services have increased and data have been collected regarding the effectiveness of these to clients, little is known about the knowledge of and attitudes to marriage counselling by the general public, particularly those who have not previously consulted a marriage counsellor. Data from 658 married, single, living together, widowed, divorced and separated persons indicated that there was a relatively high level of accurate information and appraisal of marriage counselling services. The issue of client payment received support, as did the suggestion of increasing the number of services in this field. Relationships of responses to marital adjustment are discussed and several suggestions made for agencies and policy makers concerned with this service to the public.","PeriodicalId":404699,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of sex, marriage, and family","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134340053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Influence of Power and Dependency on Role-taking Accuracy in Three-generational Families","authors":"C. Barber","doi":"10.1080/01591487.1984.11004278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01591487.1984.11004278","url":null,"abstract":"SynopsisResearch on nuclear families has reported support for an hypothesized inverse relationship between power and role-taking accuracy. Family members who are in subordinate or dependent power positions are better able to predict attitudes and behavior of other family members than are those in relatively more powerful and independent positions. The present study tested this hypothesis within the context of the multigeneration family. This is seen as a significant shift in focus from previous research, given the alleged role reversal between adult children and their parents during the latter part of the family life cycle. Six persons representing 3 generations in each of 47 extended family units responded to a mailed questionnaire. Findings provided some support for the hypothesis. Support was found when the independent variable was operationalized in terms of perceived power or perceived emotional dependency. Support for the hypothesis was also found in family dyads where the role-taker was a female si...","PeriodicalId":404699,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of sex, marriage, and family","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123658761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relief of Sexual Problems through Pornography","authors":"J. Court","doi":"10.1080/01591487.1984.11004280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01591487.1984.11004280","url":null,"abstract":"SynopsisAs sexually explicit materials circulate widely and are recommended for use in sex therapy, it is important to examine the scientific foundations for claimed efficacy. The term pornography is examined first in order to establish important distinctions between different materials. The case for pornography, as advanced by Wilson (1978) is then examined critically. It appears that the case for pornography in treating marital and sexual problems has not been made.","PeriodicalId":404699,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of sex, marriage, and family","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128438168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family Cohesiveness and Adolescent Autonomy in Decision-making","authors":"M. Poole, Amanda J. Gelder","doi":"10.1080/01591487.1984.11004277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01591487.1984.11004277","url":null,"abstract":"SynopsisUsing a Family Questionnaire, family cohesiveness and adolescent autonomy in decision-making were explored for a sample of 520 fifteen year olds, differing on the basis of sex, social class, and ethnicity. All adolescents in the study saw themselves as making most of the decisions influencing their lives. Yet the influence of the family was still evident and differed depending on sex, class and ethnicity. Family cohesiveness and autonomy emerged as 2 independent factors, with girls higher on both dimensions and adolescents o f ethnic origin higher on cohesiveness. A family focus on social networks was more evident for adolescents of ethnic and lower socioeconomic status origin. Overall, the results suggest that in the transition from adolescence to adulthood, different values are placed on the maintenance of family cohesiveness, the focus of social networks, and autonomy, depending on sex, social class and ethnic origin.","PeriodicalId":404699,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of sex, marriage, and family","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121237030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Permissiveness, More or Less: Sexual Attitudes in the General Public","authors":"Sung-Mook Hong","doi":"10.1080/01591487.1984.11004279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01591487.1984.11004279","url":null,"abstract":"SynopsisResponses on sexual permissiveness from 657 members of the general public were analysed in terms of age, church attendance, sex and education variables. While age and church attendance were found to significantly affect attitudes toward both premarital and extramarital relations, sex and education influenced only attitudes toward premarital permissiveness. When compared with college students, the results also revealed more conservative attitudes on the part of the general public toward both premarital and extramarital relations. For all categories of analysis, prevailing attitudes toward premarital relations were liberal, while the attitudes toward extramarital relations remained uniformly restrictive. Results were compared with previous Australian and overseas studies. It was noted that permissiveness does not appear to be a generalized concept, and should be discussed in terms of the differing effects of social background characteristics.","PeriodicalId":404699,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of sex, marriage, and family","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128960182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: Motherhood in Australia","authors":"B. Wearing","doi":"10.1080/01591487.1984.11004276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01591487.1984.11004276","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404699,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of sex, marriage, and family","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129611378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Access Disputes in the Context of the Family Structure after Marital Separation","authors":"G. Preston, M. Madison","doi":"10.1080/01591487.1984.11004272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01591487.1984.11004272","url":null,"abstract":"SynopsisThe interactional structure of a family is altered by the experience and process of marital separation. Access disputes can be conceptualised as both a cause and a consequence of the structural changes that need to occur for the development of a functional post-separation family. The paper discusses the separated family in relation to a number of characteristics identified as necessary for a functional family, and how these are involved in the issues of access. A structural analysis of the family after separation can assist the worker to decide whether an access dispute should result in the modification, suspension or termination of access. Two case examples illustrate the connection between access disputes and the structure of the post-separation family.","PeriodicalId":404699,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of sex, marriage, and family","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131314463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiple Role Women","authors":"Barbra Zuck Locker","doi":"10.1080/01591487.1984.11004269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01591487.1984.11004269","url":null,"abstract":"SynopsisOver the past 2 decades there has been a steady increase in women’s participation in the labour force and in activities outside of the home. This has greatly increased the numbers of multiple role women who attempt to combine traditional roles of wife and/or mother with employment. Societal changes that have contributed to this phenomenon are reviewed. Role strain, role conflict, and role overload resulting from the negotiation of multiple roles by females are explored. The positive value of role expansion is recognized.","PeriodicalId":404699,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of sex, marriage, and family","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129296044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Changing Patterns of Family Living on Identity Formation in Late Adolescence","authors":"B. Wearing","doi":"10.1080/01591487.1984.11004270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01591487.1984.11004270","url":null,"abstract":"SynopsisIn our society many adolescents are asking the questions ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Where am I going?’. Thus we have learned, claims Erikson, ‘to ascribe a normative identity crisis to the age of adolescence and young adulthood’. This paper examines some of the difficulties contemporary adolescents are facing in the formation of identity in the light of changes within and without the nuclear family. Demographic and substantive data suggest that adolescents today are facing an identity crisis of a more diffuse nature than that envisaged by Erikson. As a consequence there is a need to challenge and redefine the tasks of autonomy from parents, fixed sex role and occupational identity, and internalised morality which developmental theorists have prescribed for this stage of the life cycle.","PeriodicalId":404699,"journal":{"name":"Australian journal of sex, marriage, and family","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127103641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}