
Karen A. Polonko- PhD
- Old Dominion University
Karen A. Polonko
- PhD
- Old Dominion University
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Research indicates that over one third of adults in the United States have been victims of child maltreatment including physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, and/or neglect as a child. This entry reviews the definitions and prevalence of child abuse, the multiple connections between less and more severe levels of abuse, and the serious negative co...
Scholars and practitioners stress the need for systematic research on the implementation of the un Convention on the Rights of the Child (crc) and its potential impact on children's rights. Our study focused on one aspect of implementation – law reform. Drawing primarily on reports to the crc Committee for 179 countries, results show for most count...
Peace studies and peace education are multifaceted processes focusing on diverse audiences from children in elementary grades to those involved in political negotiations at the highest levels. This paper addresses the foundational importance of including conflict embedded in adult-child relationships in peace education. It conceptually grounds assi...
This study seeks to contribute to knowledge of the implementation of the U.N Convention on the Rights of the Child ( crc ). Focus was restricted to one of eight General Measures of Implementation – involvement of civil society, in particular, non-government organisations ( ngo s), in the implementation and monitoring of the crc . The study had thre...
Interdisciplinarity at its core involves epistemologically reconceptualizing a problem and challenging discipline/s within which the problem is embedded. This paper attempts to show how research on child maltreatment within disciplines can be integrated within the context of new paradigm that epistemologically challenges the prevailing traditional...
Throughout the world, literally hundreds of millions of children are victims of abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Restricting our focus to the US, over 3 million children are reported to official agencies for severe maltreatment in any given year (English 1998). While approximately 15 percent of children have been reported to agencies for maltreatm...
Research on child neglect is reviewed as it relates to common assumptions in the field, the broader context of research on child maltreatment and trends within the larger society. Overall, while child Research on child neglect is reviewed as it relates to common assumptions in the field, the broader context of research on child maltreatment and tre...
Using a comparative perspective, this paper explores two approaches to child/adult relationships and the practice of corporal punishment: a human rights perspective and a traditional perspective reflected in U.S. law. Source material for our analysis draws on statutes, court decisions, and human rights conventions relating to the status of children...
This paper builds on the foundational work of two great humanists who provide transformative lessons from
confrontations with violence: Elie Wiesel who confronts the death camps of Nazi Germany and Alice Miller who
confronts the 'poisonous pedagogy' of childhood discipline. On this foundation, we explore ways to incorporate
these humanizing process...
In recent years, the demography of families has drawn increasing attention from a number of disciplines, including sociology, history, anthropology, economics, psychology, and family studies. This chapter aims, first, to summarize the major empirical themes of family demography. Second, it aims to place these themes within a conceptual and explanat...
Recent evidence from Canada and Sweden indicates that cohabitation prior to marriage significantly increases the risk of subsequent
marital dissolution. In this article we present results testing the hypothesis that cohabitation increases marital disruption
in the United States. We find that premarital cohabitation increases the risk of subsequent...
As nuclear families have become increasingly less stable over the past quarter of a century, married couples have been faced with the difficult task of negotiating the terms by which marriage is ended. For parents, divorce involves questions revolving around the care and sustenance of children. In this study, we investigate whether observed divorce...
This book addresses different ways of thinking about families and marriages and close relationships. Prior to our collaboration, each author had been struggling alone to discover ways to understand better what is, and is not, actually occurring within those rapidly changing realms. Throughout the past four years we have struggled together to come u...
While much research has documented the delaying effects of education on marriage and parenthood, less research has focused
on the impact of marriage and parenthood on subsequent education and haw this impact may vary between men and women. Using
data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, we find that both marriage a...
In this paper, we explore the determinants of marital timing for males and females, separately by race, using a sequential
model and data from the National longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. Results indicate that background factors
are relatively unimportant in determining directly when marriage will occur. Rather, events and circ...
Family demography, a field increasingly investigated by sociologists, demographers, historians, economists, and family specialists, now contains a growing body of literature dealing with a range of topics that can be treated as elements of family demography. This chapter provides an overview of the field, with specific attention to significant rese...
In this paper we outline a conceptual framework for analyzing first-birth timing and then examine potential determinants using an appropriate multivariate methodology and data from the 1973 National Survey of Family Growth. More specifically, we test for the relative impact of three dimensions on birth timing: historical time, individual or couple...
While it is known that the majority of women with premarital births will eventually marry, very little is known about the amount of time they wait before marriage. Similarly, virtually nothing is known about factors associated with the rapidity with which women make this transition. This paper presents estimates of the time elapsed between premarit...
Utilizing a stratified random sample of respondents married after the age of 21, this article estimates models of marital satisfaction for theoretically relevant groups of women--voluntarily childless wives, undecided wives, postponing wives, and mothers. Results indicate that all three groups of childless wives have higher mean levels of marital s...
Explicit marital negotiation is analyzed in terms of a three-stage model; social context, processes, and outcomes. Context variables consist of at least four clusters. Disparity between partners in the possession of context variables is said to influence bargaining strategies and also degree of bargaining power (capability to achieve position-modif...
After merging data on counties from the 1970 census and data from 1969 family planning programs, we aggregated smaller counties as necessary into statistical areal units (SAU's) of at least 20,000 white or 10,000 Black women aged 15–44. We used multiple regression analysis of 12 white and 12 Black subgroups of wives (divided by age and 1969 family...
Thesis--Indiana University. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 284-299).