Solidarity Between Parents And Their Adult Children In Europe

Author : Tineke Fokkema,Susan ter Bekke,Pearl A. Dykstra
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789069845494

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Solidarity Between Parents and Their Adult Children in Europe by Tineke Fokkema,Susan ter Bekke,Pearl A. Dykstra Pdf

At present, our knowledge of the current state of solidarity between parents and their adult children in Europe is limited. Insight into contemporary intergenerational solidarity is not only important for the well-being of individuals but is also of great interest to policy makers. Patterns of intergenerational solidarity are not only affected by social policies and services but also reveal a number of important social policy issues and dilemmas. Will encouraging labour force participation among women and older workers mean they have less time to care for their dependents? Should formal care services be further expanded to relieve the burden faced by family members with the risk that they start to replace informal care? This report aims to contribute to this insight by providing a more differentiated picture of the strength, nature and direction of solidarity between parents and their adult children, its variation among European countries and its determinants. Our findings indicate that parent-child ties are quite strong. The majority of Europeans aged 50 and over live in close proximity and are in frequent contact with at least one of the children. Moreover, strong family care obligations still exist and a substantial amount of support is being exchanged between parents and their non-co resident children. Interesting differences, however, emerge between individuals and countries. While fathers are more inclined to assist their children financially, mothers have more frequent contact and exchange more help in kind with their children. Being religious and having a large family have a positive impact on several dimensions of intergenerational solidarity. Parental divorce and a better socioeconomic position of parents and children, on the other hand, lead to a weakening of parent-child ties in many respects. Contrary to common belief, employed children show solidarity with their parents as much as those without a paid job. Differences in the nature of intergenerational solidarity between the European countries tend to follow the general division into an individualistic north and a familistic south.

Author : Vida Cesnuityte,Gerardo Meil
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839090738

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Families in Economically Hard Times by Vida Cesnuityte,Gerardo Meil Pdf

The purpose of the edited collection Families in Economically Hard Times: Experiences and Coping Strategies in Europe is to provide readers with unique sociological knowledge on European families' experiences and behavioural strategies a decade after economic crisis of the 21st century.

Author : Marc Szydlik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317297635

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Sharing Lives by Marc Szydlik Pdf

Sharing Lives explores the most important human relationships which last for the longest period of our lives: those between adult children and their parents. Offering a new reference point for studies on the sociology of family, the book focuses on the reasons and results of lifelong intergenerational solidarity by looking at individuals, families and societies. This monograph combines theoretical reasoning with empirical research, based on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The book focuses on the following areas: ● Adult family generations, from young adulthood to the end of life, and beyond ● Contact, conflict, coresidence, money, time, inheritance ● Consequences of lifelong solidarity ● Family generations and the relationship of family and the welfare state ● Connections between family cohesion and social inequality. Sharing Lives offers reliable findings on the basis of state-of-the-art methods and the best available data, and presents these findings in an accessible manner. This book will appeal to researchers, policymakers and graduate students in the areas of sociology, political science, psychology and economics. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315647319, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Isabelle Albert,Mirza Emirhafizovic,Carmit-Noa Shpigelman,Ursula Trummer
Publisher : IAP
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781648024351

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Families and Family Values in Society and Culture by Isabelle Albert,Mirza Emirhafizovic,Carmit-Noa Shpigelman,Ursula Trummer Pdf

This book which has been created in the framework of the EU-funded COST Action INTERFASOL brings together researchers from 22 INTERFASOL countries, who frame intergenerational family solidarity in the specific historical, cultural, social and economic context of their own country. Integrating different perspectives from social and political sciences, economics, communication, health and psychology, the book offers country-specific knowledge and new insights into family relations, family values and family policies across Europe. Praise for Families and Family Values in Society and Culture: "This comprehensive study of families in Europe reveals the strength and variation in family solidarity and values. By drawing together detailed descriptions of continuity and change, Families and Family Values in Society and Culture provides a fascinating account of the social and cultural contexts that shape European family life. The case studies of families in different European countries compare demographic and welfare regimes to consider the challenges facing generations in Europe and responses to these. The book is an invaluable resource for researchers studying family life and inter-generational solidarity." Clare Holdsworth Professor of Social Geography Keele University "This book is based on the testimony of experts, each of them proposing analyses which are specific to their own society. It provides an opportunity for the reader to take a new look at the evolution of intergenerational solidarity in 22 countries, whose wealth, welfare systems, and demographic situations, as well as recent events (wars, migratory movements, …) offer specific challenges. It adopts the perspective of the insider to shed light not only on culture and values in each country, but also on conflicts between tradition and modernity, and between subcultures in the same society. The book thus allows better understanding of changes in intergenerational and gender relations, and the variety of solutions implemented or suggested to promote more satisfactory expressions of intergenerational solidarity for the next decade. Families and Family Values in Society and Culture provides an invaluable contribution for cross-cultural and social sciences researchers interested in understanding how different forms of solidarity arise from family and social dynamics." Anne Marie Fontaine Professor of Psychology University of Porto

Author : Christian Lennartz,Richard Ronald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000021745

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Housing Careers, Intergenerational Support and Family Relations by Christian Lennartz,Richard Ronald Pdf

In this comprehensive volume, authors from across the social sciences explore how housing wealth transfers have impacted the integration of families, society and the economy, with a focus on the (re)negotiation of the ‘generational contract’. While housing has always been central to the realization and reproduction of families, more recently, the mutual embedding of home and family has become more obvious as realignments in housing markets, employment and welfare states have worked together to undermine housing access for new households, enhancing intergenerational interdependencies. More families have thus become involved in smoothening the routes of younger adult members into and up the ‘housing ladder’. While intergenerational support appears to have become much more widespread, it remains highly differentiated across countries, cities and regions, as well as uneven between social and income classes. This book addresses the increasing role that family support, and intergenerational transfers in particular, are playing in sustaining the formation of new households and the transition of young adults towards social and economic autonomy. The authors draw on diverse international cases and a variety of methodologies in order to advance our understanding of housing as a key driver of contemporary social relations and inequalities. Chapters 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license (Chapters 1, 6, 8, and 9) and a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license (Chapters 4 and 7).

Author : Anna-Maija Castrén,Vida Česnuitytė,Isabella Crespi,Jacques-Antoine Gauthier,Rita Gouveia,Claude Martin,Almudena Moreno Mínguez,Katarzyna Suwada
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030733063

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The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe by Anna-Maija Castrén,Vida Česnuitytė,Isabella Crespi,Jacques-Antoine Gauthier,Rita Gouveia,Claude Martin,Almudena Moreno Mínguez,Katarzyna Suwada Pdf

This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe. More than sixty prominent European scholars’ original texts present the field’s main theoretical and methodological approaches in addition to issues such as families as relationships, parental arrangements, parenting practices and child well-being, family policies in welfare state regimes, family lives in migration, and family trajectories. Presenting cutting-edge research on findings, theoretical interpretations, and solutions to methodological challenges, it is a timely tool for researchers, teachers, students, and family practitioners who wish to familiarise themselves with the state of family sociology in Europe.

Author : Marc Szydlik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317297642

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Sharing Lives by Marc Szydlik Pdf

Sharing Lives explores the most important human relationships which last for the longest period of our lives: those between adult children and their parents. Offering a new reference point for studies on the sociology of family, the book focuses on the reasons and results of lifelong intergenerational solidarity by looking at individuals, families and societies. This monograph combines theoretical reasoning with empirical research, based on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The book focuses on the following areas: ● Adult family generations, from young adulthood to the end of life, and beyond ● Contact, conflict, coresidence, money, time, inheritance ● Consequences of lifelong solidarity ● Family generations and the relationship of family and the welfare state ● Connections between family cohesion and social inequality. Sharing Lives offers reliable findings on the basis of state-of-the-art methods and the best available data, and presents these findings in an accessible manner. This book will appeal to researchers, policymakers and graduate students in the areas of sociology, political science, psychology and economics.

Author : Tatiana Ferreira,Marzia Grassi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443889650

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Mobility and Family in Transnational Space by Tatiana Ferreira,Marzia Grassi Pdf

This book brings together a range of papers on transnational lives, mobility and gender studies from various disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, including European, African and American countries. The thirteen contributions to the volume provide insights into transnational migration and family issues, offering a renewed theoretical approach to the differing conditions in migration access in origin societies and the scope of social inclusion in the receiving countries. The diversity of the authors’ backgrounds and the range of geographical contexts allow a wider understanding of the family in the transnational space, one that considers mobility as a developmental opportunity for individuals, whose consequences in the contemporary world have not yet been sufficiently studied.

Author : Lans Bovenberg,Asghar Zaidi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230307346

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Ageing, Health and Pensions in Europe by Lans Bovenberg,Asghar Zaidi Pdf

Providing an overview of the future research challenges for economists and social scientists concerning population ageing, pensions, health and social care in Europe, this book examines how scientific research can provide cutting-edge evidence on income security and well-being of the elderly, and labour markets and older workers.

Author : Linden Farrer
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781447516606

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Spotlights on Contemporary Family Life - FAMILYPLATFORM - Families in Europe Vol. 2 by Linden Farrer Pdf

Author : Ine Van Hoyweghen,Valeria Pulignano,Gert Meyers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030440626

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Shifting Solidarities by Ine Van Hoyweghen,Valeria Pulignano,Gert Meyers Pdf

Shifting Solidarities offers a comprehensive analysis of solidarity at a time when major social transformations have penetrated the heart of European societies, disrupting markets and labour relations, transforming social practices, and affecting the moral infrastructure of European welfare states. Factors such as the economic crisis, migration, digitalisation, and climate change all contribute to a sense of emergency. This volume considers how, in times of crisis, there are calls for solidarity by various new social and political actors and movements. The contributions present a broad array of empirical work and critical scholarship, zooming in on shifting solidarities in various domains of social life, including work, social policy, health care, religion, family, gender and migration. This compelling volume provides a unique resource for understanding solidarity in contemporary Europe, and will be a vital text for students and scholars across sociology, social policy, cultural studies, employment/labour markets and organisation studies, migration studies and European studies.

Author : Amandine J. Masuy
Publisher : Presses univ. de Louvain
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782874632877

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How Does Elderly Family Care Evolve Over Time ? by Amandine J. Masuy Pdf

This thesis focuses on the care provided by the spouse and children and tries to answer 3 questions : Who is receiving family care ? What are the characteristics of the received care ? How do they evolve over time...

Author : José Alberto Molina
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030997809

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Mothers in the Labor Market by José Alberto Molina Pdf

This book describes the social and economic issues that emerge from mothers in labor markets. It provides insight in what the quantitative effect of motherhood on the decline in mothers’ earnings is, and how things differ for mothers with lower income and lower levels of education. It also sheds light on how this effect varies for different countries and/or cultural areas, and what the impact of socio-economic policies on mothers’ labor supply is and how it changes in different family contexts. The book covers topics such as labor participation and hours of work, paid-work and home production, flexibility and work from home, self-employment and entrepreneurship, fertility and maternity leave, wage-penalty and career interruption, labor supply and childcare, gender norms and cultural issues, intra-household wage inequality and much more. This book provides an interesting read to economists, social scientists, policy makers and HR managers and all those interested in the subject.

Author : Albert, Isabelle,Ferring, Dieter
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447300991

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Intergenerational relations by Albert, Isabelle,Ferring, Dieter Pdf

Population ageing today affects most industrialised countries, and it will have an impact on many facets of the social system. Intergenerational relationships will play a key role in dealing with the demographical and societal change. This book provides innovative views in the multidisciplinary research field of intergenerational family relations in society, with a focus on Europe. Different, but complementary, perspectives are integrated in one volume bringing together international scholars from sociology, psychology and economics. The book's chapters are grouped into three thematic sections which cover conceptual issues, multigenerational and cross-cultural perspectives, as well as applied issues. Implications for research, policy and practice are addressed and suggestions for future directions are discussed. By raising recent discussions on controversial issues, this book will stimulate the current discourse at various levels. Intergenerational relations in society and family will be equally interesting for researchers, advanced-level students and stakeholders in the fields of social policy, population ageing and intergenerational family relationships.

Author : Chambers, Pat,Allan, Graham
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847427335

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Family practices in later life by Chambers, Pat,Allan, Graham Pdf

There is no shortage of political and moral commentary on family life. Frequently the underlying theme of these commentaries is the decline of contemporary family commitment, particularly when older people's family experiences are the focus. Family Practices in Later Life challenges many common stereotypes about the nature of family involvement as people age. The book explores diversity and change in the family relationships older people maintain, looking at how family relationships are constructed and organised in later life. It recognises that the emerging patterns are a consequence of the choices and decisions negotiated within family networks, emphasising older people's agency in the construction of their family practices. In exploring such themes as long-term marriage, sibling ties in later life and grandparenthood, the book highlights the continued significance of family connection and solidarity in later life, while recognizing that family relationships are inevitably modified over time as people's social and material circumstances alter. Family Practices in Later Life will be of interest to students, researchers and academics in the fields of social policy, family studies and social gerontology. It provides a valuable contribution to the developing field of critical social gerontology as well as to an understanding of family process.