ABSTRACTS OF ARTICLES (English).

This article presents summary of articles, related to family studies. As international contacts increase, more and more people find themselves living temporarily or even permanently outside their own societies. Taking two samples of foreign women married to Nigerian and Japanese men who have returned to live in their husband's countries, this paper explores several propositions on marginality and its reduction. This article presents an intervention for couples who come from two different cultural backgrounds. The approach emphasizes that the therapist have knowledge of culture-specific strategies, general knowledge of the cultures involved. This article seeks to improve the understanding of the relationship between intermarriage and religio/ethnic identity by examining the differences between competing sets of sociological theories of intermarriage. One set of theories equates intermarriage with assimilation, a case of homogenization versus pluralism. The second set of theories sees intermarriage as a function of tolerances for pluralism and heterogeneity. Mixed married couples whose children were enrolled in an unique Jewish religious school were surveyed in the light of the competing sets of theories.