Charles Nuckolls

Keywords public behavior, Ecuadorian orphans, mental and physical handicaps, child interactions College Family, Home, and Social Sciences Abstract Identity within a social structure is easily analyzed when found in a culturally traditional setting. However, when physical and mental handicaps, parental figure transience, and varying levels of familial contact become factors the social structure and the roles within that structure are not as easily defined.

women, graduate studies, Vishakhapatnam, India, educating women, higher education Family, Home, and Social Sciences McDermott, Colleen and Nuckolls, Dr. Charles (2013) "To Stand on Their Own Legs: Independence and Other Motivations for Women’s Pursuit of Post- Graduate Studies, and Their Parents’ Influence on Them, in Vishakhapatnam India," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 163. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/163

Keywords families growing smaller, paradox, India, infertile females College Family, Home, and Social Sciences Abstract As is the case with most research projects, I also had to make alterations to my project. Originally I was going to be researching with some contacts in New Zealand. Unfortunately, my contacts there had to postpone this project. I therefore, had to change my location and slightly alter the focus of my research.