Greer Litton Fox
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 77594 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Greer Litton Fox |
| PRENOMES | Greer Litton |
| SOBRENOME | Fox |
| ASSINATURA | FOX G L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 386 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
The Correlation between Race and Domestic Violence is Confounded with Community Context
Why do African Americans appear to have a higher likelihood of engaging in domestic violence than whites? To address this question, we draw on insights from social disorganization theory and recent research on urban poverty. We argue that the apparent correlation between race and domestic violence is confounded with the different ecological contexts typically occupied by African Americans and whites. Using data from wave 2 of the National Survey …
Detangling Individual-, Partner-, and Community-level Correlates of Partner Violence
This article attempted to identify neighborhood- partner- and individual-level factors that may lead to male-to-female partner violence. The relevant dimensions of community context were derived from social disorganization theory that indicates that disorganized areas lack formal and informal controls that inhibit street violence. Social disorganization theory predicts that there is a higher rate of violence and social isolation in disorganized a…
Neighborhood Disadvantage, Individual Economic Distress and Violence Against Women in Intimate Relationships
Distal and Proximal Factors in Domestic Violence
We employed 4,095 couples from both waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to test a model of couple violence drawn from several theoretical perspectives. The outcome distinguishes among nonviolent couples and those experiencing either physical aggression or intense male violence. According to the model, background characteristics of couples are related to relationship stressors, which affect the risk of violence via their…
Beyond Bravado
Studies of men who batter their partners seldom consider that many of these men are also fathers or stepfathers of children. This study draws upon several weeks of observations of group sessions with men court-mandated into group counseling due to their violence in relationships with intimate partners. Subsequent intensive interviews were conducted with eight fathers from among the group participants. Our focus was on their experiences with and r…
Economic Distress and Intimate Violence
Hypotheses shaped by family stress and resource theories about the impact of household economic indicators on the risk of violence against women in intimate relationships are tested with a data set built from the initial two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) and the 1990 U.S. Census. Measures of employment status, job conditions, and economic well-being for male and female partners are examined with logistic regressio…
Living the Literature
Key Words: Autobiographyresearchfamily studiesgenderdemography
Conditional Fatherhood
Two alternative theoretical models of parenting, identity theory and parental investment theory, are investigated as sources of explanation of men's fathering attitudes and behaviors. Four dimensions of fathering are explored: responsivity, harshness, behavioral engagement, and affective involvement. Concepts from identity theory operationalized as predictors include father role salience, role satisfaction, and reflected appraisals. From parental…
Gender and Families
This review provides a selective overview of scholarship on gender and families over the past decade. First, we discuss four characteristics of feminist perspectives to theoretical and methodological issues in social science. Then we describe briefly how feminist sensibility has been reflected in family scholarship over the past decade. We conclude with brief observations on the disjuncture between academic work on gender and the feminist backlas…
Risk for child maltreatment
Families in the Media
come by a variety of pathways to be families in the media, and each provides the setting or opportunity for the public scrutiny of private behaviors. This address discerns underlying connections between the disparate experiences of families who have come to be in the public eye and reasons toward some deeper truths about the interweave of our public life and private selves. The address is organized around three themes: the family as the proper do…
The Anticipation of Single Parenthood
Current demographic patterns indicate that a significant number of children are living apart from their biological fathers, suggesting a structural fragility or vulnerability of men's connections with their children. In this article, we first explore whether fathers have concerns about possible disruptions of their relationships with their children and identify the nature of these concerns. Next, we identify those characteristics that distinguish…
Accounting for Patterns of Father Involvement
This study examines the extent to which fathers are involved in parenting their children under several conditions, using a multivariate regression model. The model includes the age of the child, father role salience, and the father and child's coresidential status as predictors of father involvement. Although nonresidential fathers tend to be less involved than residential fathers under most conditions, this is not the case for fathers of adolesc…
Sources of Economic Distress
Examined in this article are relationships between six measures of economic stress-financial adequacy, perceived economic well-being, respondent's and partner's job instability, and respondent's and partner's job insecurity-and seven measures of individual and family well-being. Presented are descriptive and regression analyses of social survey data drawn from telephone interviews with 366 householders ages 18 to 65 residing in a southeastern U.S…
Stepfamilies
Managing Murder
This investigation is a case study of the responses of children and their parents to a murder in their neighborhood. Through participant observation and intensive interviews with parents, the authors describe how parents took action both collectively and individually to manage their children's fears and to find meaning in an act of unusual brutality and deceit. The authors anticipated correctly that this study could provide an opportunity to exam…
Determinants of Child Custody Arrangements at Divorce
Among the most difficult decisions made at divorce are those concerning child custody. Emotional attachments, fairness, and the economic consequences for children and parents are among the issues involved in arriving at a custody disposition. Given the difficulty of these issues, as well as the significant transformations in divorce law related to custody that took place in the 1970s and 1980s, it is not surprising that substantial and often-heat…
Noncustodial Fathers Following Divorce
Noncustodial fathers are men whose parental rights and obligations have been altered through judicial action, usually accompanying marital separation and divorce. In the majority of divorces, physical and legal custody of children is taken from fathers and reassigned to mothers only. Despite the curtailment of their decision-making authority and despite the limitations imposed on their day-to-day presence in their children’s lives, in the majorit…
Domestic Violence
Introduction History of the Response to Domestic Violence The Development of Social Attitudes Toward Spousal Abuse by Arnold Binder and James Meeker Battering and the Criminal Justice System: A Feminist View by Demie Kurz Police Intervention Screening Calls by Peter K. Manning Identifying Households at Risk of Domestic Violence by Glenn L. Pierce and Susan Spaar The Courts' Response to Police Intervention in Domestic Violence by Marvin Zalman Arr…
Gender, Family, and Economy
Parental Division of Labor in Adolescent Sexual Socialization
How parents describe their responsibility for sexual socialization of their teenage children is explored in this article. This analysis relies upon intensive interview data with black and white mothers and fathers from a larger qualitative study of intergenerational patterns of sexual communication. It was possible to identify four different patterns that couples used to divide responsibility for this aspect of parenting. Additionally, four disti…
Theories of Adolescent Heterosexual Behavior
Although some of the research on adolescent heterosexual behavior links empirical results to existing theories, many studies appear to be the-oretically barren and uninformed. Two of the major paradigms on sexuality-that it is both inner driven and socially shaped-are used to organize theoretical strands in previous work. This paper reviews research and theoretical perspectives that seem to be most useful in understanding adolescent sexual behavi…
The Childbearing Decision
The Childbearing Decision
The Influence of Mother's Marital History on the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Black and White Households
Greer Litton Fox, Judith K. Inazu, The Influence of Mother's Marital History on the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Black and White Households, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Feb., 1982), pp. 143-153
Economic Distress and Intimate Violence
Hypotheses shaped by family stress and resource theories about the impact of household economic indicators on the risk of violence against women in intimate relationships are tested with a data set built from the initial two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) and the 1990 U.S. Census. Measures of employment status, job conditions, and economic well-being for male and female partners are examined with logistic regressio…
Nice Girl
Conditional Fatherhood
Two alternative theoretical models of parenting, identity theory and parental investment theory, are investigated as sources of explanation of men's fathering attitudes and behaviors. Four dimensions of fathering are explored: responsivity, harshness, behavioral engagement, and affective involvement. Concepts from identity theory operationalized as predictors include father role salience, role satisfaction, and reflected appraisals. From parental…
The Correlation between Race and Domestic Violence is Confounded with Community Context
Why do African Americans appear to have a higher likelihood of engaging in domestic violence than whites? To address this question, we draw on insights from social disorganization theory and recent research on urban poverty. We argue that the apparent correlation between race and domestic violence is confounded with the different ecological contexts typically occupied by African Americans and whites. Using data from wave 2 of the National Survey …
Distal and Proximal Factors in Domestic Violence
We employed 4,095 couples from both waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to test a model of couple violence drawn from several theoretical perspectives. The outcome distinguishes among nonviolent couples and those experiencing either physical aggression or intense male violence. According to the model, background characteristics of couples are related to relationship stressors, which affect the risk of violence via their…
Maternal Influence on the Sexual Behavior of Teen-Age Daughters
449 girls in Detroit between the ages of 14 and 16 years, and their mothers were interviewed. Sampling took into account factors of race and social class. The objective of the study was to examine the relationship between the type of maternal involvement in the sexual socialization of daughters and the sexual behaviour of these girls during adolescence. Measures of early and current communication between mother and daughter regarding sexual issue…
Patterns and Outcomes of Mother‐Daughter Communication About Sexuality
Drawing from a sample survey of 449 black and white mother‐teenage daughter dyads, this study examines patterns, correlates, and consequences of direct verbal communication about sex between mother and daughter. Findings suggest that while mothers and daughters reported frequent discussions of sex‐related topics, they differed in terms of how comfortable they felt talking with each other, what roles each played in initiating discussions, and whet…
Theories of Adolescent Heterosexual Behavior
Although some of the research on adolescent heterosexual behavior links empirical results to existing theories, many studies appear to be the-oretically barren and uninformed. Two of the major paradigms on sexuality-that it is both inner driven and socially shaped-are used to organize theoretical strands in previous work. This paper reviews research and theoretical perspectives that seem to be most useful in understanding adolescent sexual behavi…
Determinants of Child Custody Arrangements at Divorce
Among the most difficult decisions made at divorce are those concerning child custody. Emotional attachments, fairness, and the economic consequences for children and parents are among the issues involved in arriving at a custody disposition. Given the difficulty of these issues, as well as the significant transformations in divorce law related to custody that took place in the 1970s and 1980s, it is not surprising that substantial and often-heat…
Sex Roles, Family and Society
The decade literature is divided into studies of children and preteens, adolescents and young adults, and marrieds. The amorphous nature of the term is discussed, and a model of gender-based decision making, applicable at both macro and micro levels, is offered as one way to specify relations between the sexes. Existing literature is then subsumed within the model; while suggestions are made to increase the sophistication of the next decade's sex…
Love Match and Arranged Marriage in a Modernizing Nation
This paper examines three questions relative to mate selection in contemporary Turkey: Among which population segments are love match versus traditional arranged marriages found? What impact does self-selection of mate have on conjugal homogamy? and, What impact does the type of marriage arrangement have on marriage behavior? Sample survey data from Ankara, Turkey, were utilized in the analysis. Results suggest that the adoption of innovation in …
Sources of Economic Distress
Examined in this article are relationships between six measures of economic stress-financial adequacy, perceived economic well-being, respondent's and partner's job instability, and respondent's and partner's job insecurity-and seven measures of individual and family well-being. Presented are descriptive and regression analyses of social survey data drawn from telephone interviews with 366 householders ages 18 to 65 residing in a southeastern U.S…
Beyond Bravado
Studies of men who batter their partners seldom consider that many of these men are also fathers or stepfathers of children. This study draws upon several weeks of observations of group sessions with men court-mandated into group counseling due to their violence in relationships with intimate partners. Subsequent intensive interviews were conducted with eight fathers from among the group participants. Our focus was on their experiences with and r…
Accounting for Patterns of Father Involvement
This study examines the extent to which fathers are involved in parenting their children under several conditions, using a multivariate regression model. The model includes the age of the child, father role salience, and the father and child's coresidential status as predictors of father involvement. Although nonresidential fathers tend to be less involved than residential fathers under most conditions, this is not the case for fathers of adolesc…
Sex-role attitudes as predictors of contraceptive use among unmarried university students
Another Look at the Comparative Resources Model
Multiple classification analysis is used with data on Turkish families to examine how spouses' comparative resources are balanced in the determination of conjugal power. The bulk of the impact of each spouse's resources on power overlapped with the impact of the other spouse. However, whether assessed in terms of net increments to variance explained in power or as net category effects, the contributions of the wife had greater independent impact …
Noncustodial Fathers Following Divorce
Noncustodial fathers are men whose parental rights and obligations have been altered through judicial action, usually accompanying marital separation and divorce. In the majority of divorces, physical and legal custody of children is taken from fathers and reassigned to mothers only. Despite the curtailment of their decision-making authority and despite the limitations imposed on their day-to-day presence in their children’s lives, in the majorit…
Some Observations and Data on the Availability of Same-Sex Role Models as a Factor in Undergraduate Career Choice
The Anticipation of Single Parenthood
Current demographic patterns indicate that a significant number of children are living apart from their biological fathers, suggesting a structural fragility or vulnerability of men's connections with their children. In this article, we first explore whether fathers have concerns about possible disruptions of their relationships with their children and identify the nature of these concerns. Next, we identify those characteristics that distinguish…
The Influence of Mother's Marital History on the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Black and White Households
Greer Litton Fox, Judith K. Inazu, The Influence of Mother's Marital History on the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Black and White Households, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Feb., 1982), pp. 143-153
Managing Murder
This investigation is a case study of the responses of children and their parents to a murder in their neighborhood. Through participant observation and intensive interviews with parents, the authors describe how parents took action both collectively and individually to manage their children's fears and to find meaning in an act of unusual brutality and deceit. The authors anticipated correctly that this study could provide an opportunity to exam…
Risk for child maltreatment
Families in the Media
come by a variety of pathways to be families in the media, and each provides the setting or opportunity for the public scrutiny of private behaviors. This address discerns underlying connections between the disparate experiences of families who have come to be in the public eye and reasons toward some deeper truths about the interweave of our public life and private selves. The address is organized around three themes: the family as the proper do…
Parental Division of Labor in Adolescent Sexual Socialization
How parents describe their responsibility for sexual socialization of their teenage children is explored in this article. This analysis relies upon intensive interview data with black and white mothers and fathers from a larger qualitative study of intergenerational patterns of sexual communication. It was possible to identify four different patterns that couples used to divide responsibility for this aspect of parenting. Additionally, four disti…
Family Research, Theory, and Politics
Another Look at the Comparative Resources Model
Multiple classification analysis is used with data on Turkish families to examine how spouses' comparative resources are balanced in the determination of conjugal power. The bulk of the impact of each spouse's resources on power overlapped with the impact of the other spouse. However, whether assessed in terms of net increments to variance explained in power or as net category effects, the contributions of the wife had greater independent impact …
Some Determinants of Modernism among Women in Ankara, Turkey
Greer Litton Fox, Some Determinants of Modernism among Women in Ankara, Turkey, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 35, No. 3, Special Section: New Social History of the Family (Aug., 1973), pp. 520-529
Some Observations and Data on the Availability of Same-Sex Role Models as a Factor in Undergraduate Career Choice
Love Match and Arranged Marriage in a Modernizing Nation
This paper examines three questions relative to mate selection in contemporary Turkey: Among which population segments are love match versus traditional arranged marriages found? What impact does self-selection of mate have on conjugal homogamy? and, What impact does the type of marriage arrangement have on marriage behavior? Sample survey data from Ankara, Turkey, were utilized in the analysis. Results suggest that the adoption of innovation in …
The Effects of Income on Fertility
Sex-role attitudes as predictors of contraceptive use among unmarried university students
Nice Girl
Patterns and Outcomes of Mother‐Daughter Communication About Sexuality
Drawing from a sample survey of 449 black and white mother‐teenage daughter dyads, this study examines patterns, correlates, and consequences of direct verbal communication about sex between mother and daughter. Findings suggest that while mothers and daughters reported frequent discussions of sex‐related topics, they differed in terms of how comfortable they felt talking with each other, what roles each played in initiating discussions, and whet…
Sex Roles, Family and Society
The decade literature is divided into studies of children and preteens, adolescents and young adults, and marrieds. The amorphous nature of the term is discussed, and a model of gender-based decision making, applicable at both macro and micro levels, is offered as one way to specify relations between the sexes. Existing literature is then subsumed within the model; while suggestions are made to increase the sophistication of the next decade's sex…
Maternal Influence on the Sexual Behavior of Teen-Age Daughters
449 girls in Detroit between the ages of 14 and 16 years, and their mothers were interviewed. Sampling took into account factors of race and social class. The objective of the study was to examine the relationship between the type of maternal involvement in the sexual socialization of daughters and the sexual behaviour of these girls during adolescence. Measures of early and current communication between mother and daughter regarding sexual issue…
Family Research, Theory, and Politics
The Female World
The Influence of Mother's Marital History on the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Black and White Households
Greer Litton Fox, Judith K. Inazu, The Influence of Mother's Marital History on the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Black and White Households, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Feb., 1982), pp. 143-153
The Childbearing Decision
The Childbearing Decision
Theories of Adolescent Heterosexual Behavior
Although some of the research on adolescent heterosexual behavior links empirical results to existing theories, many studies appear to be the-oretically barren and uninformed. Two of the major paradigms on sexuality-that it is both inner driven and socially shaped-are used to organize theoretical strands in previous work. This paper reviews research and theoretical perspectives that seem to be most useful in understanding adolescent sexual behavi…
Parental Division of Labor in Adolescent Sexual Socialization
How parents describe their responsibility for sexual socialization of their teenage children is explored in this article. This analysis relies upon intensive interview data with black and white mothers and fathers from a larger qualitative study of intergenerational patterns of sexual communication. It was possible to identify four different patterns that couples used to divide responsibility for this aspect of parenting. Additionally, four disti…
Gender, Family, and Economy
Domestic Violence
Introduction History of the Response to Domestic Violence The Development of Social Attitudes Toward Spousal Abuse by Arnold Binder and James Meeker Battering and the Criminal Justice System: A Feminist View by Demie Kurz Police Intervention Screening Calls by Peter K. Manning Identifying Households at Risk of Domestic Violence by Glenn L. Pierce and Susan Spaar The Courts' Response to Police Intervention in Domestic Violence by Marvin Zalman Arr…
Noncustodial Fathers Following Divorce
Noncustodial fathers are men whose parental rights and obligations have been altered through judicial action, usually accompanying marital separation and divorce. In the majority of divorces, physical and legal custody of children is taken from fathers and reassigned to mothers only. Despite the curtailment of their decision-making authority and despite the limitations imposed on their day-to-day presence in their children’s lives, in the majorit…
Determinants of Child Custody Arrangements at Divorce
Among the most difficult decisions made at divorce are those concerning child custody. Emotional attachments, fairness, and the economic consequences for children and parents are among the issues involved in arriving at a custody disposition. Given the difficulty of these issues, as well as the significant transformations in divorce law related to custody that took place in the 1970s and 1980s, it is not surprising that substantial and often-heat…
Stepfamilies
Managing Murder
This investigation is a case study of the responses of children and their parents to a murder in their neighborhood. Through participant observation and intensive interviews with parents, the authors describe how parents took action both collectively and individually to manage their children's fears and to find meaning in an act of unusual brutality and deceit. The authors anticipated correctly that this study could provide an opportunity to exam…
Sources of Economic Distress
Examined in this article are relationships between six measures of economic stress-financial adequacy, perceived economic well-being, respondent's and partner's job instability, and respondent's and partner's job insecurity-and seven measures of individual and family well-being. Presented are descriptive and regression analyses of social survey data drawn from telephone interviews with 366 householders ages 18 to 65 residing in a southeastern U.S…
Families in the Media
come by a variety of pathways to be families in the media, and each provides the setting or opportunity for the public scrutiny of private behaviors. This address discerns underlying connections between the disparate experiences of families who have come to be in the public eye and reasons toward some deeper truths about the interweave of our public life and private selves. The address is organized around three themes: the family as the proper do…
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