Essays about: "mothers and children"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 159 essays containing the words mothers and children.
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1. Childhood family structure in 16 European countries
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionenAbstract : At the end of the 20th century we saw great changes in family dynamics with rates ofseparation and re-partnerning increasing across Europe. Previous research has primarilyfocused on adults but less is known about how these family demographic changes haveaffected children's family structure. READ MORE
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2. "Not your darlings – but their mother's!" : Interpretative Difficulties with "Love" in Euripides' Medea
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och retorikAbstract : The aim of this Master’s thesis is to achieve philosophical clarity on an interpretative problem I have been struggle with in Euripides’ Medea: That Medea murders her own children, while claimingto love them. Situated within the philosophical and literary tradition of ordinary language philosophy and ordinary language criticism, the thesis draws on ideas, theoretical discussions, and concepts from Ludwig Wittgenstein, Toril Moi, Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond, and Niklas Forsberg – but also Søren Kierkegaard. READ MORE
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3. South Korean Birthmothers Negotiate Everyday Violence and Child Loss Through Storytelling
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudierAbstract : Adoption scholars have dismantled the story of adoption as a humanitarian effort to save destitute children and framed adoption as a transnational issue underpinned by neo-colonial and patriarchal structures governing the relations between the West and ‘the rest’. This thesis builds on those insights and thus contributes to a growing body of literature within critical adoption studies. READ MORE
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4. The Role of Language of Instruction: The Case of Morocco
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : This paper explores the differential and intergenerational effects of Morocco's 1983 language policy that changed the language of instruction for most subjects in grades 6 to 12 from French to Classical Arabic. Although the policy has faced ongoing criticism over four decades, the plausible heterogeneous effects of the policy on marginalized groups and its intergenerational impact have yet to be investigated in the literature. READ MORE
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5. Unconditional cash transfers to single mothers effective for child education? – Using a historical policy experiment
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : In this thesis, I examine whether unconditional cash transfers to poor femaleheaded households have an effect on children’s educational attainment. Using a historical Swedish child allowance policy that targeted unconditional cash transfers to widow mothers with an income below a poverty threshold, I lay out a credible identification strategy, to test the hypothesis with a regression kink design. READ MORE
