Sharon K Houseknecht
Biographic Data
| ID | 124675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon K Houseknecht |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon K |
| FAMILY NAME | Houseknecht |
| SIGNATURE | HOUSEKNECHT S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 178 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Impact of Marital Conflict and Disruption on Children's Health
This article investigates the effect of inconsistency between parental marital conflict and disruption on children's health. Inconsistent situations arise when minimal marital conflict precedes disruption or when marital conflict is high but there is no disruption. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, two alternative hypotheses, the stress vulnerable hypothesis and the stress resistant hypothesis, are tested. The latter hypo…
Marital Disruption and Accidents/Injuries Among Children
A vast literature has examined the effects of marital disruption on child well-being, however medically attended childhood accidents/injuries have not been considered as an outcome. This article investigates this association as well as possible intervening pathways using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-linked mother-child file. Findings reveal that marital disruption decreases girls' accidents/injuries. Boys are not directly a…
Family, Religion, and Social Change in Diverse Societies
INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 The Implications of the Religion - Family Linkage for Social Change I: SOCIETAL CONFLICT AND ACCOMODATION Chapter 2 Religion and Family in Modern American Culture Chapter 3 Social Change in Egypt: The Roles of Religion and Family Chapter 4 Family and Religion in Sweden Chapter 5 Religion and Family Formation in Taiwan: The Decline of Ancestral Authority II: DRAMATIC SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION Chapter 6 Belarus on the Cusp of C…
Cohabiting and Married Couples' Income Organization
Using 1994 International Social Survey Program (ISSP) data, we examine the effect that cohabitation versus marriage has on couples' income organization approaches in Sweden and the United States, two legally and normatively different contexts. Previous research on this topic has focused almost exclusively on married couples, so our inclusion of both married and cohabiting couples helps fill a gap in the literature. The effects of ever having been…
Family, Religion, and Social Change in Diverse Societies
Journal Article Family, Religion, and Social Change in Diverse Societies, Sharon K. Houseknecht and Jerry G. Pankhurst (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 395pp. $45 (cloth), $27.50 (paper) Get access Gail E. Murphy-Geiss Gail E. Murphy-Geiss Iliff School of Theology & University of Denver Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 2, Summer 2001, Pages 268–269, ht…
Forins of Economic Security And The Family
This work stresses differences between two forms of economic security. one is fonnal and is provided by coverage through public programs. The other is informal and the family is its major source. Our primary concern is with the processes involved in the transformation of the family economic security system and family culture and social structures. To this end, we test the influence of two major hypotheses, one emphasizing the importance of econom…
Black and White Differences in the Effect of Women's Educational Attainment on Age at First Marriage
There has been relatively little research linking age at first marriage and educational attainment. This study uses data from the June 1992 Current Population Survey to examine the effect of educational attainment on age at first marriage among Black and White women in the United States. The results both support and modify claims stemming from previous research. There is evidence for the contention that educational attainment delays age at first …
Family "Decline" and Child Well-Being
Two contrasting interpretations of the consequences of change in the modern family have polarized scholars of the family. David Blankenhorn (1990) has appropriately nicknamed the debate optimism versus pessimism. Some optimists point out that with changing family patterns women have been able to move beyond the confines of the traditional nuclear family, and the concomitant result is that their status has risen dramatically (e.g., Schroeder, 1989…
Barren in the Promised Land
In the first book to explore the experience of being childless throughout our country's history, the author of Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era chronicles the astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward every aspect of childlessness, from voluntary childlessness to compulsory sterilization, infertility, and adoption. Photos
Private Voluntary Organizations in Egypt
The author examines the role of Islamic, Christian and secular private voluntary organizations in Egypt's socio-economic development. Using case studies of individual organizations, he also documents government efforts to undermine and control the private voluntary organisations
Single Women
The Transition to Parenthood
The Impact of Singlehood on the Career Patterns of Professional Women
This study investigates the impact of singlehood on the career patterns of professional women. 2 types of singlehood--never-married and divorced/separated--are compared. Length of singlehood and timing of marriage in relation to graduate school are also considered. The study sample consists of 663 professional women who received high-level degrees from a large midwestern university between 1964 and 1974. Some findings of this research follow. 1) …
The Professional Involvement of Highly Educated Women
The purpose of this article is to examine factors related to the professional involvement of highly educated women. Three indicators of involvement are considered: nonemployment, part-time work, employment not making use of highest degree. The sample consists of 663 women who received high-level degrees from a large midwestern university between 1964 and 1974. Results indicate that both family role position and role bargaining outcomes play a maj…
Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
Marital Disruption among Professional Women
This paper looks at why highly educated women in the United States have a high rate of separation and divorce, and at what point in their careers their marriages break up. We asked 663 women graduates about the timing of their career and family events and found: marriages usually break up after, not before, women begin graduate school; women who marry before graduate school are more likely to divorce or separate than those who marry after; and wo…
The Family, Politics, and Religion in the 1980s
The major objective of this article is to examine the process of the politicization of the family and to provide a sociological interpretation. Major social changes have led to the definition of the family as a social problem. Because old patterns have been disrupted, a 'normative reaction to normlessness' has set in providing the motivation for the profamily social movement on both the religious and the political level. New Right familism can be…
Voluntary Childlessness in the 1980s
No abstract available for this article
Voluntary Childlessness
Despite the recent proliferation of research on the topic of voluntary childlessness, a substantive theory has yet to be developed. A major objective of this article is to undertake such a theoretical formulation. A focus on social structural variables, that is, female education and employment, has led demographers and others to predict a phenomenal increase in voluntary childlessness. That this macro-level theory is incomplete is evidenced by th…
Childless by Choice
Combining Marriage and Career
By.focusing on very highly educated women, the present study serves to further test the comprehensiveness of role theory as an explanation of the complex relationship between female employment and marital adjustment. The data are from a sample of 663 women who received high-level graduate degrees from a large midwestern university between 1964 and 1974. Because females with high-level degrees expected to make use of their training and pursue thei…
Marital Disruption and Higher Education Among Women in the United States
The general inverse relationship between marital disruption (separation and divorce) and educational status, commonly assumed by family sociologists, is demonstrated for both men and women using the 1/1000 sample of the 1970 United States Census. A minor, but interesting exception to this generally inverse relationship is noted for males with six or more years of college. This paper, however, focuses on a more dramatic and particularly significan…
Timing of the Decision To Remain Voluntarily Childless
This study contrasts different types of voluntary childlessness. Women who decided to remain childless relatively early in life, before marriage ( early articulators) were compared with women who did not decide until after they had married and developed a preferred life style that did not include children ( postponers). The comparison centered on a previously formulated model that explained the decision to remain childless in terms of family back…
Childlessness and Marital Adjustment
A number of researchers have found that individuals report a higher level of marital adjustment/satisfaction than do people with children. Unfortunately, the category childless in these studies included voluntarily and involuntarily individuals as well as people who were simply postponing childbearing. The purpose of this study was: (1) to examine the relationship between voluntary childlessness and marital adjustment and (2) to eliminate the pos…
Reference Group Support for Voluntary Childlessness
The purpose of this study was to test four hypotheses in an attempt to demonstrate that reference group support is an influential factor in deciding not to have children. The results show that the majority of women who wished to remain childless had reference group support for that decision although they characteristically had fewer reference groups than those females who looked forward to having children. The data further demonstrate that even t…
Cohabiting and Married Couples' Income Organization
Using 1994 International Social Survey Program (ISSP) data, we examine the effect that cohabitation versus marriage has on couples' income organization approaches in Sweden and the United States, two legally and normatively different contexts. Previous research on this topic has focused almost exclusively on married couples, so our inclusion of both married and cohabiting couples helps fill a gap in the literature. The effects of ever having been…
The Transition to Parenthood
Timing of the Decision To Remain Voluntarily Childless
This study contrasts different types of voluntary childlessness. Women who decided to remain childless relatively early in life, before marriage ( early articulators) were compared with women who did not decide until after they had married and developed a preferred life style that did not include children ( postponers). The comparison centered on a previously formulated model that explained the decision to remain childless in terms of family back…
Childlessness and Marital Adjustment
A number of researchers have found that individuals report a higher level of marital adjustment/satisfaction than do people with children. Unfortunately, the category childless in these studies included voluntarily and involuntarily individuals as well as people who were simply postponing childbearing. The purpose of this study was: (1) to examine the relationship between voluntary childlessness and marital adjustment and (2) to eliminate the pos…
Marital Disruption and Accidents/Injuries Among Children
A vast literature has examined the effects of marital disruption on child well-being, however medically attended childhood accidents/injuries have not been considered as an outcome. This article investigates this association as well as possible intervening pathways using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-linked mother-child file. Findings reveal that marital disruption decreases girls' accidents/injuries. Boys are not directly a…
Marital Disruption and Higher Education Among Women in the United States
The general inverse relationship between marital disruption (separation and divorce) and educational status, commonly assumed by family sociologists, is demonstrated for both men and women using the 1/1000 sample of the 1970 United States Census. A minor, but interesting exception to this generally inverse relationship is noted for males with six or more years of college. This paper, however, focuses on a more dramatic and particularly significan…
Combining Marriage and Career
By.focusing on very highly educated women, the present study serves to further test the comprehensiveness of role theory as an explanation of the complex relationship between female employment and marital adjustment. The data are from a sample of 663 women who received high-level graduate degrees from a large midwestern university between 1964 and 1974. Because females with high-level degrees expected to make use of their training and pursue thei…
Reference Group Support for Voluntary Childlessness
The purpose of this study was to test four hypotheses in an attempt to demonstrate that reference group support is an influential factor in deciding not to have children. The results show that the majority of women who wished to remain childless had reference group support for that decision although they characteristically had fewer reference groups than those females who looked forward to having children. The data further demonstrate that even t…
Voluntary Childlessness
Despite the recent proliferation of research on the topic of voluntary childlessness, a substantive theory has yet to be developed. A major objective of this article is to undertake such a theoretical formulation. A focus on social structural variables, that is, female education and employment, has led demographers and others to predict a phenomenal increase in voluntary childlessness. That this macro-level theory is incomplete is evidenced by th…
Marital Disruption among Professional Women
This paper looks at why highly educated women in the United States have a high rate of separation and divorce, and at what point in their careers their marriages break up. We asked 663 women graduates about the timing of their career and family events and found: marriages usually break up after, not before, women begin graduate school; women who marry before graduate school are more likely to divorce or separate than those who marry after; and wo…
Family "Decline" and Child Well-Being
Two contrasting interpretations of the consequences of change in the modern family have polarized scholars of the family. David Blankenhorn (1990) has appropriately nicknamed the debate optimism versus pessimism. Some optimists point out that with changing family patterns women have been able to move beyond the confines of the traditional nuclear family, and the concomitant result is that their status has risen dramatically (e.g., Schroeder, 1989…
The Impact of Singlehood on the Career Patterns of Professional Women
This study investigates the impact of singlehood on the career patterns of professional women. 2 types of singlehood--never-married and divorced/separated--are compared. Length of singlehood and timing of marriage in relation to graduate school are also considered. The study sample consists of 663 professional women who received high-level degrees from a large midwestern university between 1964 and 1974. Some findings of this research follow. 1) …
The Family, Politics, and Religion in the 1980s
The major objective of this article is to examine the process of the politicization of the family and to provide a sociological interpretation. Major social changes have led to the definition of the family as a social problem. Because old patterns have been disrupted, a 'normative reaction to normlessness' has set in providing the motivation for the profamily social movement on both the religious and the political level. New Right familism can be…
Voluntary Childlessness in the 1980s
No abstract available for this article
Black and White Differences in the Effect of Women's Educational Attainment on Age at First Marriage
There has been relatively little research linking age at first marriage and educational attainment. This study uses data from the June 1992 Current Population Survey to examine the effect of educational attainment on age at first marriage among Black and White women in the United States. The results both support and modify claims stemming from previous research. There is evidence for the contention that educational attainment delays age at first …
The Professional Involvement of Highly Educated Women
The purpose of this article is to examine factors related to the professional involvement of highly educated women. Three indicators of involvement are considered: nonemployment, part-time work, employment not making use of highest degree. The sample consists of 663 women who received high-level degrees from a large midwestern university between 1964 and 1974. Results indicate that both family role position and role bargaining outcomes play a maj…
Childless by Choice
Reference Group Support for Voluntary Childlessness
The purpose of this study was to test four hypotheses in an attempt to demonstrate that reference group support is an influential factor in deciding not to have children. The results show that the majority of women who wished to remain childless had reference group support for that decision although they characteristically had fewer reference groups than those females who looked forward to having children. The data further demonstrate that even t…
Timing of the Decision To Remain Voluntarily Childless
This study contrasts different types of voluntary childlessness. Women who decided to remain childless relatively early in life, before marriage ( early articulators) were compared with women who did not decide until after they had married and developed a preferred life style that did not include children ( postponers). The comparison centered on a previously formulated model that explained the decision to remain childless in terms of family back…
Childlessness and Marital Adjustment
A number of researchers have found that individuals report a higher level of marital adjustment/satisfaction than do people with children. Unfortunately, the category childless in these studies included voluntarily and involuntarily individuals as well as people who were simply postponing childbearing. The purpose of this study was: (1) to examine the relationship between voluntary childlessness and marital adjustment and (2) to eliminate the pos…
Marital Disruption and Higher Education Among Women in the United States
The general inverse relationship between marital disruption (separation and divorce) and educational status, commonly assumed by family sociologists, is demonstrated for both men and women using the 1/1000 sample of the 1970 United States Census. A minor, but interesting exception to this generally inverse relationship is noted for males with six or more years of college. This paper, however, focuses on a more dramatic and particularly significan…
Childless by Choice
Combining Marriage and Career
By.focusing on very highly educated women, the present study serves to further test the comprehensiveness of role theory as an explanation of the complex relationship between female employment and marital adjustment. The data are from a sample of 663 women who received high-level graduate degrees from a large midwestern university between 1964 and 1974. Because females with high-level degrees expected to make use of their training and pursue thei…
Voluntary Childlessness in the 1980s
No abstract available for this article
Voluntary Childlessness
Despite the recent proliferation of research on the topic of voluntary childlessness, a substantive theory has yet to be developed. A major objective of this article is to undertake such a theoretical formulation. A focus on social structural variables, that is, female education and employment, has led demographers and others to predict a phenomenal increase in voluntary childlessness. That this macro-level theory is incomplete is evidenced by th…
The Family, Politics, and Religion in the 1980s
The major objective of this article is to examine the process of the politicization of the family and to provide a sociological interpretation. Major social changes have led to the definition of the family as a social problem. Because old patterns have been disrupted, a 'normative reaction to normlessness' has set in providing the motivation for the profamily social movement on both the religious and the political level. New Right familism can be…
Marital Disruption among Professional Women
This paper looks at why highly educated women in the United States have a high rate of separation and divorce, and at what point in their careers their marriages break up. We asked 663 women graduates about the timing of their career and family events and found: marriages usually break up after, not before, women begin graduate school; women who marry before graduate school are more likely to divorce or separate than those who marry after; and wo…
Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
The Impact of Singlehood on the Career Patterns of Professional Women
This study investigates the impact of singlehood on the career patterns of professional women. 2 types of singlehood--never-married and divorced/separated--are compared. Length of singlehood and timing of marriage in relation to graduate school are also considered. The study sample consists of 663 professional women who received high-level degrees from a large midwestern university between 1964 and 1974. Some findings of this research follow. 1) …
The Professional Involvement of Highly Educated Women
The purpose of this article is to examine factors related to the professional involvement of highly educated women. Three indicators of involvement are considered: nonemployment, part-time work, employment not making use of highest degree. The sample consists of 663 women who received high-level degrees from a large midwestern university between 1964 and 1974. Results indicate that both family role position and role bargaining outcomes play a maj…
The Transition to Parenthood
Single Women
Private Voluntary Organizations in Egypt
The author examines the role of Islamic, Christian and secular private voluntary organizations in Egypt's socio-economic development. Using case studies of individual organizations, he also documents government efforts to undermine and control the private voluntary organisations
Family "Decline" and Child Well-Being
Two contrasting interpretations of the consequences of change in the modern family have polarized scholars of the family. David Blankenhorn (1990) has appropriately nicknamed the debate optimism versus pessimism. Some optimists point out that with changing family patterns women have been able to move beyond the confines of the traditional nuclear family, and the concomitant result is that their status has risen dramatically (e.g., Schroeder, 1989…
Barren in the Promised Land
In the first book to explore the experience of being childless throughout our country's history, the author of Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era chronicles the astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward every aspect of childlessness, from voluntary childlessness to compulsory sterilization, infertility, and adoption. Photos
Forins of Economic Security And The Family
This work stresses differences between two forms of economic security. one is fonnal and is provided by coverage through public programs. The other is informal and the family is its major source. Our primary concern is with the processes involved in the transformation of the family economic security system and family culture and social structures. To this end, we test the influence of two major hypotheses, one emphasizing the importance of econom…
Black and White Differences in the Effect of Women's Educational Attainment on Age at First Marriage
There has been relatively little research linking age at first marriage and educational attainment. This study uses data from the June 1992 Current Population Survey to examine the effect of educational attainment on age at first marriage among Black and White women in the United States. The results both support and modify claims stemming from previous research. There is evidence for the contention that educational attainment delays age at first …
Family, Religion, and Social Change in Diverse Societies
Journal Article Family, Religion, and Social Change in Diverse Societies, Sharon K. Houseknecht and Jerry G. Pankhurst (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 395pp. $45 (cloth), $27.50 (paper) Get access Gail E. Murphy-Geiss Gail E. Murphy-Geiss Iliff School of Theology & University of Denver Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 2, Summer 2001, Pages 268–269, ht…
Family, Religion, and Social Change in Diverse Societies
INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 The Implications of the Religion - Family Linkage for Social Change I: SOCIETAL CONFLICT AND ACCOMODATION Chapter 2 Religion and Family in Modern American Culture Chapter 3 Social Change in Egypt: The Roles of Religion and Family Chapter 4 Family and Religion in Sweden Chapter 5 Religion and Family Formation in Taiwan: The Decline of Ancestral Authority II: DRAMATIC SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION Chapter 6 Belarus on the Cusp of C…
Cohabiting and Married Couples' Income Organization
Using 1994 International Social Survey Program (ISSP) data, we examine the effect that cohabitation versus marriage has on couples' income organization approaches in Sweden and the United States, two legally and normatively different contexts. Previous research on this topic has focused almost exclusively on married couples, so our inclusion of both married and cohabiting couples helps fill a gap in the literature. The effects of ever having been…
Marital Disruption and Accidents/Injuries Among Children
A vast literature has examined the effects of marital disruption on child well-being, however medically attended childhood accidents/injuries have not been considered as an outcome. This article investigates this association as well as possible intervening pathways using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-linked mother-child file. Findings reveal that marital disruption decreases girls' accidents/injuries. Boys are not directly a…
The Impact of Marital Conflict and Disruption on Children's Health
This article investigates the effect of inconsistency between parental marital conflict and disruption on children's health. Inconsistent situations arise when minimal marital conflict precedes disruption or when marital conflict is high but there is no disruption. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, two alternative hypotheses, the stress vulnerable hypothesis and the stress resistant hypothesis, are tested. The latter hypo…
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