25 Questions

1.      What are the Cultural differences between the US and Brazil in relation to the family?

2.      Climate theory and its effect on culture and family? (hotter climate = more aggressive and more active sexually)

3.      Brazil as a mainly catholic country and the US being a protestant one.

4.      Latin culture and work ethic

5.      What other factors contribute?

6.      Treatment of children

7.      Smaller middle class compared to US. What effect does that have on socioeconomic classes and interrelations

8.      Until recently people in Brail were much less likely to move, stayed in one town for generations

9.      Having more extended family nearby?

10.  What kinds of questions need to be asked?

11.  Is family more or less important there?

12.  Is media’s effect on family greater or not?

13.  Would a scale of importance of family members in different situations help?

14.  With advances of feminism in the United states how does the distribution of power and responsibilities differ in Brazilian homes?

15.  In Brazil things like sexual harassment and racism are very different. How does this effect family life?

16.  Mixed race families more or less common?

17.  Do families in Brazil have more or less children on average than in the US

18.  At first glance it appears that many couples in Brazil do not get married because of the costs, is the number of cohabitating non married couples with children higher or lower in Brazil?

19.  In the United states people list health as primary concern and family

20.  the satisfaction of family relationships, as perceived by adolescents and adults in two independent samples, is positively correlated with a sense of togetherness and negatively related to strict rules. – Is Brazil the same?

21.  How much more or less strict are rules?

22.  What 3 factors do I want to focus on? Religiosity? Strictness and enforcement of rules? Influences of and severity of media? All as related to satisfaction