The Cuban Family: Custom and Change in an Era of Hardship

by Rosemarie Skaine

Overview

This work explores how relationships of blood, marriage, sex, and residence work in each type of Cuban family, particularly as it is affected by Cuba's struggle to transform its economy. It also examines historical perspectives on the contemporary Cuban family, ethnicity and race, marriage, the extended family, family rights, the emigrating family, United States' citizenship issues, religion and the Cuban-American family.

Tables list such details as population numbers, age, life expectancy, growth, birth, and death rates, immigration and mortality rates, HIV rates and literacy. The book also includes narratives of childhood memories from pre-revolutionary Cuba to the late 20th century, providing fresh insights into the cultural value attached to the family.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786416776
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	12/26/2003
Edition description:	ALT
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.46(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

The late Rosemarie Skaine was a sociologist and lived in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Her writing interests included families and women’s issues.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     
Preface     

1. Historical Perspectives on the Cuban Family     
2. Influences on Today’'s Cuban Family     
3. The Impact of Society on the Cuban Family     
4. Cuban Family Rights and Forms     
5. Politics, Emigration and Families     
6. Emigration to the United States     
7. Cuban American Families     
8. Family Narratives of Life in Cuba     
9. Family Narratives of Life in the United States     
10. Looking Forward     

Appendix 1: Selected Provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba     
Appendix 2: The Family Code of Cuba     
Notes     
Bibliography     
Index     

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