Miner Dianne Cooney
Decker School of Nursing, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, USA.
Holist Nurs Pract. 2003 Jan-Feb;17(1):27-35. doi: 10.1097/00004650-200301000-00007.
The study of the family in the Caribbean originated with European scholars who assumed the universality of the patriarchal nuclear family and the primacy of this structure to the healthy functioning of society. Matrifocal Caribbean families thus were seen as chaotic and disorganized and inadequate to perform the essential tasks of the social system. This article provides a more current discussion of the Jamaican family. It argues that its structure is the result of the agency and adaptation of its members and not the root cause of the increasing marginalization of peoples in the developing world. The article focuses on families living in poverty and how the family structure supports essential family functions, adaptations, and survival.
对加勒比地区家庭的研究始于欧洲学者，他们假定父权制核心家庭具有普遍性，且这种结构对社会的健康运转至关重要。因此，以女性为中心的加勒比家庭被视为混乱无序，无法履行社会系统的基本任务。本文对牙买加家庭进行了更具时效性的探讨。文章认为，其家庭结构是家庭成员能动性和适应性的结果，而非发展中国家人民日益边缘化的根本原因。本文重点关注贫困家庭，以及家庭结构如何支持家庭的基本功能、适应性和生存。
