Waiting for the right time: how and why young Thai women manage to avoid heterosexual intercourse.

Nineteen young Thai women were purposively selected from networks of nongovernmental organizations involving children and youths in Bangkok. Our grounded theory findings indicated that these young women used the basic social process they called "waiting for the right time" in order to maintain heterosexual abstinence. Waiting for the right time involved one overarching condition, honoring parental love, and included three overlapping properties: learning rules, planning life path, and ways of preserving virginity.

Tactful monitoring: how thai caregivers manage their relative with schizophrenia at home.

Approximately 343,680 individuals in Thailand suffering from schizophrenia are cared for at home by relatives, most of whom have a little knowledge of the disease; therefore they're left to develop their own strategies of care. Data were collected by in-depth interviews and observation involving 17 caregivers of relatives diagnosed with schizophrenia. Data were analyzed using the constant-comparative method of grounded theory.

Changing women: mothers and their adolescent daughters.

Budding fecundity in the female child is a matter of family concern. The authors used the grounded theory method to explore the process of communication between mothers and their adolescent daughters concerning sexuality issues within the context of the age changes of both. A core category of changing women was identified along with three maternal and three daughter processes.

Demands out of context: Tanzanian women combining exclusive breastfeeding with employment.

This research, conducted in Tanzania, involved 6 women and their experiences as they combined exclusive breastfeeding with work outside their home. Additional data were collected at a conference in Tanzania and from women in North America. We found that while public health officials did a spectacular job of convincing the women of the advantages of exclusive breastfeeding in terms of their babies' health and their own, they then left the women to their own devises when it came to solving the practical problems of breastfeeding at the same time as holding down a full-time job.

Out of sync: a generation of first-time mothers over 30.

Increasing numbers of women have delayed childbearing until after they reach their thirties. The researchers who studied early maternal role attainment in women over 30 failed to reflect on the challenges of raising a child to adulthood. The use of grounded theory helped us understand the extended mothering experience from the perspective of women over 30.

Founding and processes of the International Council on Women's Health Issues: attentive partnering. The first 19 years.

I present a theoretical analysis and global influence of the first 19 years of the International Council on Women's Health Issues (ICOWHI). To do so, I analyzed observational, documented, and casual data using the constant comparative method of classical grounded theory. All data bits were analyzed with one another, coded, categorized, and reexamined until I discovered a central category that seemed to explain most of the social scene under study.