Full Description
Whether considered from an American or a European perspective, the past four decades have seen family life become increasingly complex. Changing Family Dynamics and Demographic Evolution examines the various stages of change through the image of a kaleidoscope, providing new insights into the field of family dynamics and diversity.
Contributions from both eminent and contemporary scholars provide a comprehensive and multidisciplinary perspective encompassing over five decades and two continents. This is the kaleidoscope, showing the diversity and complexity of contemporary families. Each chapter is a new turn with the built in mirrors reflecting new insights into the colored glass and beads. Through this analogy, this book explores family transitions in the US and Europe, gender dimensions of family transitions, children in new families, intersectional approaches of demographic processes and policy perspectives as well as offering thoughts on a future outlook.
Unique and accessible, this book will appeal to students and researchers in a variety of fields including demography, the sociology of the family, gender studies and family law. It will also be of value to policy makers for children and families as well as those involved in family social care.
Contributors include: E. Alofs, T. Brouckaert, C. Defever, D. De Wachter, K. Featherstone, F.F. Furstenberg Jr., T. Kil, K. Matthijs, P. Meier, D. Mortelmans, L. Murinkó, K. Neels, J. Scott, B. Segaert, W. Sigle, I. Szalma, L. Toulemon, J. Vergauwen, J. Wood
Contents
Contents:
INTRODUCTION a view through the family kaleidoscope
PART I. LOOKING BACK AT FAMILIES
1. The Changing American Family: An Overview From 1965 To 2015
Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.
2. Fifty Years of Family Change in Europe: Diversifying Partnerships
Laurent Toulemon
PART II. LOOKING AT GENDER
3. Gender Inequality in the Division of Housework Over the Life Course: A European Comparative Perspective
Tine Kil, Karel Neels and Jorik Vergauwen
4. Intersectionality in Young Adults' Households: A Quantitative Perspective
Dimitri Mortelmans, Petra Meier and Christine Defever
5. From the Kitchen Table to the Other: Results of Ethnographic Research on Undocumented Mothers' Parenting Practices Creating Feelings at Home
Tine Brouckaert
PART III. LOOKING AT CHILDREN
6. What is Family in the Context of Genetic Risk?
Katie Featherstone
7. The Educational Gradient of Maternal Employment Patterns in 11 European Countries
David De Wachter, Karel Neels, Jonas Wood and Jorik Vergauwen
8. Fatherhood and Men's Second Union Formation: Norway, France and Hungary, 1980s-2000s
Lívia Murinkó and Ivett Szalma
PART IV. LOOKING FORWARD
9. Why Demography Needs (New) Theories
Wendy Sigle
10. Conflicting Family Interests: A Challenge for Family Policy
Jacqueline Scott
Index
