The New Diversity of Family Life in Europe

The New Diversity of Family Life in Europe
Author: Banu Çitlak
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2017-04-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3658178574

The authors focus on families who organize their lives in transnational social spaces within and at the outer borders of Europe, to offer a new perspective on transnational family life and to advance the knowledge on borders drawn by social inequality, discrimination and political exclusion. They also discuss social mobility as inheriting different life worlds, while crossing borders. The research on the socialization of children, raised in different societies provides a better understanding of the new generations in Europe from the beginning of the XXI c. The variety of methods presented in this book is also a contribution to link Western and Eastern European perspectives as well as sociology and anthropology in order to capture a wider spectrum of social reality.

Unequal Family Lives

Unequal Family Lives
Author: Naomi R. Cahn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2018-08-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108415954

This volume explores the causes and consequences of family inequality in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

Changing Family Dynamics and Demographic Evolution

Changing Family Dynamics and Demographic Evolution
Author: Dimitri Mortelmans
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1785364987

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.

Family, Religion and Law

Family, Religion and Law
Author: Dr Prakash Shah
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2014-06-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1472433173

This collection discusses how official legal systems do and should respond to the reality of a plurality of family types and origins within their jurisdictions. It further examines the challenges that arise for practitioners, including lawyers and judges, when faced with such plurality. Focussing on empirical research, the volume presents legal and sociological data of unprecedented comparative depth. It also includes a discussion of how members of minority families respond to the need to organise their legal relationships, and to resolve their disputes in the shadow of official legal systems which differ from those of their familial and communal traditions. The work invites reflection, and demonstrates the urgency and complexity of the questions regarding the search for justice in the field of family life in Europe today.

Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Family

Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Family
Author: Norbert F. Schneider
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788975545

Exploring how family life has radically changed in recent decades, this comprehensive Research Handbook tracks the latest developments and trends in scholarly work on the family. With a particular focus on the European context, it addresses current debates and offers insights into key topics including: the division of housework, family forms and living arrangements, intergenerational relationships, partner choice, divorce and fertility behaviour.

Family Law and Culture in Europe

Family Law and Culture in Europe
Author: Katharina Boele-Woelki
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Conflict of laws
ISBN: 9781780681597

Proceedings of the fifth conference of the Commission on European Family Law on "Family Law and Culture in Europe: Developments, Challenges and Opportunities" held in Bonn, Germany in August of 2013.

Changing Patterns of European Family Life

Changing Patterns of European Family Life
Author: Katja Boh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2023-08-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000920178

Originally published in 1989, this cross-national study investigates the role and pattern of family life in fourteen countries in contemporary Europe. Providing a wealth of information on European families, it is a key source for anyone wishing to understand the changes in the family at that time. The contributors argue that, far from withering away, the family remained a very important social unit which continued to have considerable influence on other social institutions such as the state and the labour market. The central theme is the interrelation between changes in production and working life on one hand, and changes in family life and reproduction on the other. The contributors focus on the pressures and contradictions produced by the division of functions between family and work, and on problems which have arisen as a consequence of the sometimes incompatible and even conflicting demands of the two institutions. They show that the evolution of the nuclear family model in Europe had led to a great diversity of family patterns, and conclude that the family in modern European societies still had a contribution to make which no other institution could provide.

Transitions to parenthood in Europe

Transitions to parenthood in Europe
Author: Ann Nilsen
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1847428630

This collaborative study provides a subtle and multi-layered understanding of the transition to parenthood within a cross-national comparative framework.