Catherine S Chilman
Biographic Data
| ID | 108760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine S Chilman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine S |
| FAMILY NAME | Chilman |
| SIGNATURE | CHILMAN C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Neighborhood Poverty
Neighborhood Poverty: Context and Consequences for Children, Volume I, and Neighborhood Poverty: Policy Implications in Studying Neighborhoods, Volume II. Jeanne BrooksGunn, Greg J. Duncan, & J. Lawrence Aber (Eds.). New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 1997. 334 pp. and 238 pp. ISBNs 0-8154-145-9 and 0-87154-146-7. $49.95 and $39.95 cloth. This two-volume study of the effects of poor urban neighborhoods on families makes a stimulating contribution…
Poor Policy
Programs and Policies for Working Poor Families
Major welfare reform proposals focus on moving recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) from economic dependency to self-sufficiency through employment. Success in reaching this goal depends on whether recipients can secure adequately paying, permanent employment. This seems unlikely for many in that, even if they find jobs, they may well join the ranks of the working poor. This article provides a critical overview of studies …
Family Policies and Family Well-Being
Introduction Mapping the Book PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS Family Policy and Families Their Intersections The Goal of Family Policy Individual and Family Well-Being Political Culture Definitions and Variations in the 50 States PART TWO: EMPIRICAL STUDIES Attitudes Toward Government and Families The Role of Political Culture States' Policy Approaches to Families The Role of Political Culture Family Policies and Family Well-Being The Role of Po…
Welfare Reform or Revision? The Family Support Act of 1988
In this article, the chief provisions of the 1988 Family Support Act are outlined. Its background, implementation, especially its Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS) program and child-care components, and plans for evaluation are discussed. In addition, the child-care earned income tax credit and expanded Medicaid assistance provisions of the 1990 Budget Reconciliation Act are briefly summarized since these provisions may affect im…
Employment and Economic Problems
Low-Income Families and Public Welfare Organizations
No abstract available for this article
The Background of the Present Abortion Controversy
The present conflicting attitudes, values, and belief systems regarding public policies on abortion have long roots in the past. A greater understanding of these roots, especially of their variety and complexity in the nineteenth century in this country, can promote a clearer view of current issues. It is particularly illuminating to examine changing abortion policies in the context of religious, economic, medical, social, and political trends in…
Risking the future
Children as parents
Private Crisis, Public Cost
Private Crisis, Public Cost: Policy Perspectives on Teenage Childbearing. By Kristin A. Moore and Martha R. Burt. Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 1982 and Pregnancy in Adolescence: Needs, Problems, and Management. Edited by Irving R. Stuart and Carl F. Wells. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1982 Get access Private Crisis, Public Cost: Policy Perspectives on Teenage Childbearing. By Moore Kristin A. and Burt Martha R.. Washington, DC: Urban …
Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing
Patterns of Adolescent Sexuality
Children and Youth Services Review
Illegitimate Births to Adolescents
No abstract available for this article
Adolescent Sexuality in a Changing American Society. Social and Psychological Perspectives
Social and Psychological Research concerning Adolescent Childbearing
Social and psychological research in the U.S. concerning the apparent causes and consequences of adolescent childbearing increased enormously during the 1970s. Most was funded by the federal government espeially the Center for Population Research NICHD. Among the major research findings: the prevalence of nonmarital intercourse among teenagers rose markedly during the early 1970s. A cluster of interacting biological social and psychological varia…
Teenage pregnancy
On the assumption that public policy should be based on knowledge, the author presents a brief analytic summary of all readily available social and psychological research concerning the apparent causes and consequences of adolescent childbearing. Existing federal programs addressed to this problem are listed with recommendations for further development of public policies and programs.
Parent Satisfactions-Dissatisfactions and Their Correlates
A structured interview study of a random sample of white, middle-class mothers and fathers in two Milwaukee suburbs revealed that the majority reported high satisfactions with parenthood and family life and the belief that their families were of central importance to them. Variables that differentiated satisfied mothers from dissatisfied mothers suggest that these dissatisfactions were either (a) in the realm of general psychological depression o…
Habitat and American Families
A review of the available and far too scanty social and psychological research concerning the effects of housing, neighborhood and community (the habitat) on families fails to support many commonly held assumptions. Improved housing or other habitat features fail, by themselves, to promote increased social interaction, educational achievement, lower delinquency rates, or better family relationships. Habitat aspirations and housing satisfactions v…
Families in Poverty in the Early 1970's
Analyses of recent Census data reveal that at least 12 per cent of the country's population was below the poverty line in 1970. This figure rises to 20 per cent when more realistic poverty measurements are used. It can be estimated that over onefourth of the nation's children-over one-half qf its black ones-are living in poverty. Factors most highly associated with poverty are female-headed families, large family size, minority group status, age …
Some Psychosocial Aspects of Female Sexuality
Public Social Policy and Population Problems in the United States
Although the birthrate has dropped sharply in the United States over the past five years, the danger of further rapid population growth remains because of the extremely large youth population in their prime reproductive years. At present, the nation's population policy is mostly limited to partial federal support for family-planning programs for poor people. This approach is too narrow. Ideally, population policy should be tied to a larger social…
A Philosophy and Some Principles Proposed for Family Planning Programs
This paper is most centrally concerned with a suggested underlying philosophy and some general principles related to family planning programs. While much of it derives from research findings in social and psychological sciences they are touched on only lightly. A case is presented for relating family planning programs to common human needs and for conducting them with regard for individual feelings and goals. Family planning is seem as a concern …
Families in Development at Mid-Stage of the Family Life Cycle
Social and Psychological Research concerning Adolescent Childbearing
Social and psychological research in the U.S. concerning the apparent causes and consequences of adolescent childbearing increased enormously during the 1970s. Most was funded by the federal government espeially the Center for Population Research NICHD. Among the major research findings: the prevalence of nonmarital intercourse among teenagers rose markedly during the early 1970s. A cluster of interacting biological social and psychological varia…
Welfare Reform or Revision? The Family Support Act of 1988
In this article, the chief provisions of the 1988 Family Support Act are outlined. Its background, implementation, especially its Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS) program and child-care components, and plans for evaluation are discussed. In addition, the child-care earned income tax credit and expanded Medicaid assistance provisions of the 1990 Budget Reconciliation Act are briefly summarized since these provisions may affect im…
Some Psychosocial Aspects of Female Sexuality
Fertility and Poverty in the United States
This survey of the literature finds that large family size is most likely to occur when family income is less than $2000 a year when the woman is not employed outside the home when the family lives in a rural area or has rural origins and when educational level of the wife is 8th grade or less. When urbanized low-income families are less likely to have unusually large families they are more likely to marry sooner and have their children closer to…
Programs and Policies for Working Poor Families
Major welfare reform proposals focus on moving recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) from economic dependency to self-sufficiency through employment. Success in reaching this goal depends on whether recipients can secure adequately paying, permanent employment. This seems unlikely for many in that, even if they find jobs, they may well join the ranks of the working poor. This article provides a critical overview of studies …
Habitat and American Families
A review of the available and far too scanty social and psychological research concerning the effects of housing, neighborhood and community (the habitat) on families fails to support many commonly held assumptions. Improved housing or other habitat features fail, by themselves, to promote increased social interaction, educational achievement, lower delinquency rates, or better family relationships. Habitat aspirations and housing satisfactions v…
Families in Poverty in the Early 1970's
Analyses of recent Census data reveal that at least 12 per cent of the country's population was below the poverty line in 1970. This figure rises to 20 per cent when more realistic poverty measurements are used. It can be estimated that over onefourth of the nation's children-over one-half qf its black ones-are living in poverty. Factors most highly associated with poverty are female-headed families, large family size, minority group status, age …
Poverty in the United States in the Mid-Sixties
Neighborhood Poverty
Neighborhood Poverty: Context and Consequences for Children, Volume I, and Neighborhood Poverty: Policy Implications in Studying Neighborhoods, Volume II. Jeanne BrooksGunn, Greg J. Duncan, & J. Lawrence Aber (Eds.). New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 1997. 334 pp. and 238 pp. ISBNs 0-8154-145-9 and 0-87154-146-7. $49.95 and $39.95 cloth. This two-volume study of the effects of poor urban neighborhoods on families makes a stimulating contribution…
The Background of the Present Abortion Controversy
The present conflicting attitudes, values, and belief systems regarding public policies on abortion have long roots in the past. A greater understanding of these roots, especially of their variety and complexity in the nineteenth century in this country, can promote a clearer view of current issues. It is particularly illuminating to examine changing abortion policies in the context of religious, economic, medical, social, and political trends in…
Parent Satisfactions-Dissatisfactions and Their Correlates
A structured interview study of a random sample of white, middle-class mothers and fathers in two Milwaukee suburbs revealed that the majority reported high satisfactions with parenthood and family life and the belief that their families were of central importance to them. Variables that differentiated satisfied mothers from dissatisfied mothers suggest that these dissatisfactions were either (a) in the realm of general psychological depression o…
Public Social Policy and Population Problems in the United States
Although the birthrate has dropped sharply in the United States over the past five years, the danger of further rapid population growth remains because of the extremely large youth population in their prime reproductive years. At present, the nation's population policy is mostly limited to partial federal support for family-planning programs for poor people. This approach is too narrow. Ideally, population policy should be tied to a larger social…
A Philosophy and Some Principles Proposed for Family Planning Programs
This paper is most centrally concerned with a suggested underlying philosophy and some general principles related to family planning programs. While much of it derives from research findings in social and psychological sciences they are touched on only lightly. A case is presented for relating family planning programs to common human needs and for conducting them with regard for individual feelings and goals. Family planning is seem as a concern …
Families in Development at Mid-Stage of the Family Life Cycle
Single and Married Undergraduates' Measured Personality Needs and Self-Rated Happiness
Undergraduate married and single students were compared on measured personality needs, selfrated happiness, and perceived problems. The married males and females were found to have significantly higher personality scores for needs associated with intellectualism and academic achievement, the single groups for activities associated with impulsive self-expression and emotional dependence. Few married males or females said that they had ever withdra…
The Crisis and Challenge of Low-Income Families in the 1960's
American poverty is still widespread, seriously affecting from one-fifth to two-fifths of our population. A socio-economic split continues to grow between the advantaged and disadvantaged; this split is associated with automation, sluggish economy, rural-urban migration, an expanded youth population, gray area blight, problems related to urban-renewal and public-housing projects, and cultural maladaptation to urban, predominantly middle-class lif…
Economic and Social Deprivation
The Crisis and Challenge of Low-Income Families in the 1960's
American poverty is still widespread, seriously affecting from one-fifth to two-fifths of our population. A socio-economic split continues to grow between the advantaged and disadvantaged; this split is associated with automation, sluggish economy, rural-urban migration, an expanded youth population, gray area blight, problems related to urban-renewal and public-housing projects, and cultural maladaptation to urban, predominantly middle-class lif…
Economic and Social Deprivation
Poverty in the United States in the Mid-Sixties
"Marital Stability and Patterns of Status Variables"
First, although Dr. Bernard explains at thie outset that her census-related definition of a stable is hedged with cautions, she then proceeds, in the rest of the paper, to talk incautiously about stability. After all, this is deduced from census data which is gathered at one point in time and on self-reports of persons interviewed. Although there are sound reasons for choosing the 45to 54-year-old group of males in their (reported) first marriage…
Single and Married Undergraduates' Measured Personality Needs and Self-Rated Happiness
Undergraduate married and single students were compared on measured personality needs, selfrated happiness, and perceived problems. The married males and females were found to have significantly higher personality scores for needs associated with intellectualism and academic achievement, the single groups for activities associated with impulsive self-expression and emotional dependence. Few married males or females said that they had ever withdra…
Families in Development at Mid-Stage of the Family Life Cycle
Fertility and Poverty in the United States
This survey of the literature finds that large family size is most likely to occur when family income is less than $2000 a year when the woman is not employed outside the home when the family lives in a rural area or has rural origins and when educational level of the wife is 8th grade or less. When urbanized low-income families are less likely to have unusually large families they are more likely to marry sooner and have their children closer to…
A Philosophy and Some Principles Proposed for Family Planning Programs
This paper is most centrally concerned with a suggested underlying philosophy and some general principles related to family planning programs. While much of it derives from research findings in social and psychological sciences they are touched on only lightly. A case is presented for relating family planning programs to common human needs and for conducting them with regard for individual feelings and goals. Family planning is seem as a concern …
Public Social Policy and Population Problems in the United States
Although the birthrate has dropped sharply in the United States over the past five years, the danger of further rapid population growth remains because of the extremely large youth population in their prime reproductive years. At present, the nation's population policy is mostly limited to partial federal support for family-planning programs for poor people. This approach is too narrow. Ideally, population policy should be tied to a larger social…
Some Psychosocial Aspects of Female Sexuality
Families in Poverty in the Early 1970's
Analyses of recent Census data reveal that at least 12 per cent of the country's population was below the poverty line in 1970. This figure rises to 20 per cent when more realistic poverty measurements are used. It can be estimated that over onefourth of the nation's children-over one-half qf its black ones-are living in poverty. Factors most highly associated with poverty are female-headed families, large family size, minority group status, age …
Habitat and American Families
A review of the available and far too scanty social and psychological research concerning the effects of housing, neighborhood and community (the habitat) on families fails to support many commonly held assumptions. Improved housing or other habitat features fail, by themselves, to promote increased social interaction, educational achievement, lower delinquency rates, or better family relationships. Habitat aspirations and housing satisfactions v…
Teenage pregnancy
On the assumption that public policy should be based on knowledge, the author presents a brief analytic summary of all readily available social and psychological research concerning the apparent causes and consequences of adolescent childbearing. Existing federal programs addressed to this problem are listed with recommendations for further development of public policies and programs.
Parent Satisfactions-Dissatisfactions and Their Correlates
A structured interview study of a random sample of white, middle-class mothers and fathers in two Milwaukee suburbs revealed that the majority reported high satisfactions with parenthood and family life and the belief that their families were of central importance to them. Variables that differentiated satisfied mothers from dissatisfied mothers suggest that these dissatisfactions were either (a) in the realm of general psychological depression o…
Children and Youth Services Review
Illegitimate Births to Adolescents
No abstract available for this article
Adolescent Sexuality in a Changing American Society. Social and Psychological Perspectives
Social and Psychological Research concerning Adolescent Childbearing
Social and psychological research in the U.S. concerning the apparent causes and consequences of adolescent childbearing increased enormously during the 1970s. Most was funded by the federal government espeially the Center for Population Research NICHD. Among the major research findings: the prevalence of nonmarital intercourse among teenagers rose markedly during the early 1970s. A cluster of interacting biological social and psychological varia…
Patterns of Adolescent Sexuality
Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing
Private Crisis, Public Cost
Private Crisis, Public Cost: Policy Perspectives on Teenage Childbearing. By Kristin A. Moore and Martha R. Burt. Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 1982 and Pregnancy in Adolescence: Needs, Problems, and Management. Edited by Irving R. Stuart and Carl F. Wells. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1982 Get access Private Crisis, Public Cost: Policy Perspectives on Teenage Childbearing. By Moore Kristin A. and Burt Martha R.. Washington, DC: Urban …
Children as parents
The Background of the Present Abortion Controversy
The present conflicting attitudes, values, and belief systems regarding public policies on abortion have long roots in the past. A greater understanding of these roots, especially of their variety and complexity in the nineteenth century in this country, can promote a clearer view of current issues. It is particularly illuminating to examine changing abortion policies in the context of religious, economic, medical, social, and political trends in…
Risking the future
Low-Income Families and Public Welfare Organizations
No abstract available for this article
Sociology (23 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Economics (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Population (9 works)