Family Formation and Dissolution in an Aegean Island

Gavalas, Vasilis S.

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“…Similar results have been found in smaller, geographically localized populations. Gavalas (2005) found that the relevant figures for Naoussa and Kostos (Paros Island) were around 2% at the beginning, and 0.3% by the end of the 20 th century. Hionidou (1993) found the rate of illegitimate births in Mykonos to be below 2% (mid-19 th until mid-20 th centuries).…”

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“…Zafeiris (2010) studied several aspects of the marriage system based on marriage cohorts in a large sample from the Department of Rhodopi (Greek Thrace). From the point of view of historical demography, apart from some papers concerning island populations, such as for example those of Hionidou (1993) and Gavalas (2002Gavalas ( , 2005Gavalas ( , 2008, other approaches, though not strictly demographic, focused on mainland Greece, including for example those of Bournova (1995) for Rapsani andCaftanzoglou (1994, 1997) for Syrrako.…”

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Completed Fertility During the Twentieth Century: An Example From Six Settlements in Northern Greece

Zafeiris

Kaklamani

2018

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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This study aimed to delineate temporal trends and differentials of completed fertility and their relationship with some characteristics of the marriage system in specific anthropological populations of northern Greece. The analysis was based on the life history of quinquennial and decennial birth cohorts of married women born in the 20th century who reproduced solely within the settlements studied. The variables studied were: children ever born, mean age of mother at first marriage, mean age of mother at first child (live birth), mean age of mother at last child and reproductive span. The results indicated that there were significant differences in the demographic characteristics of marriage and that there was an ongoing fertility transition in the 20th century in the populations studied. The mechanism of fertility decline was connected with the gradual reduction of the mean age of the mother at last child, the parallel decrease in the mean age at childbearing and a shortening of the reproductive span. Fertility levels at all times maintained a dynamic character imposed by local cultural, economic and social structures, which, in turn, were part of broader national and international structures, in all the populations studied. A strong trend of convergence of fertility levels was observed among the populations studied.

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Completed Fertility During the Twentieth Century: An Example From Six Settlements in Northern Greece

Zafeiris

Kaklamani

2018

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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“…According to observations, the woman most often organically and easily perceives new responsibilities -wife, mother, housewife (Zerle, Cornelißen and Bien 2012). The man continues to search for the meaning of life, the formation of his personality lasts longer (Gavalas 2005). For a woman, marriage is, first of all, a safe, secure home and everything connected with it (Keim, Klärner and Bernardi 2013): material well-being, protection, romantic appeal, affection and the opportunity to become a mother; for a man, marriage is sexual satisfaction, a woman's care, and only then the need to provide for a family and support the mother of his children.…”

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Social Portrait of the Family in the Light of New Socio-Political Trends

Tkacheva¹,

Mehrishvili²,

Gabisheva³

2022

Int. J. Criminol. Sociol.

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The issue regarding formation of a values-based attitude towards creating a family among modern youth is acquiring special relevance, since changes in moral guidelines have led to the intensification of negative phenomena such as: liberalisation of sexual morality, an increased number of divorces, illegitimate births, single-parent families, and the spread of social orphanhood. Due to the fact that the family is currently perceived as a structural component of the development of individual socio-economic trends, the purpose of the paper is to assess the levels of values-based attitudes towards family creation among students. In the course of the study, the following methods were used: diagnostic (questionnaires, the method of sentence completion, testing), that made it possible to identify the levels of formation of the attitude towards family creation among students; a theoretical method of analysis that allows a comprehensive study of the reasons that complicate the process of forming a values-based attitude regarding family creation. The novelty of the study is determined by the fact that a student family is understood as a family in which both spouses are full-time students of a higher education institution, that is, homogeneous in social status of a man and a woman. This is a young family in which the spouses are no more than 28 years old, and the length of family life does not exceed 5 years. The paper indicates that student families are the most progressive, since spouses are ready to accept everything new -in the organisation of life, in the arrangement of the family structure, and the like. Material motives in choosing a spouse in such families play a secondary role, especially in relation to the requirements from a woman to a man. The materials of the paper are of practical value for experimental verification of pedagogical conditions for the family creation among students in extracurricular activities.

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Marriage patterns in Greece during the twentieth century

Gavalas

2008

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Typologies of marriage patterns in early modern Europe have been formulated by John Hajnal and Peter Laslett. However, demographic and anthropological studies have noticed that marriage patterns in the Balkan area have exhibited such great variability that it is difficult to classify them in any of the categories proposed by Laslett. This article examines the marriage patterns in Greece and some of her island populations in the time-span of the twentieth century. Although the marriage patterns examined do not conform to any pre-defined typology, it seems that up to the first half of the twentieth century the pattern of mainland Greece constituted an intermediate case between the West and the East European marriage patterns but that that on the islands was totally different. The marriage patterns on the Ionian Islands had more features in common with the West European pattern, while the marriage pattern of the Cyclades reveals certain characteristics (but not all) of the Mediterranean pattern.

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Family Formation and Dissolution in an Aegean Island

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Completed Fertility During the Twentieth Century: An Example From Six Settlements in Northern Greece

Completed Fertility During the Twentieth Century: An Example From Six Settlements in Northern Greece

Social Portrait of the Family in the Light of New Socio-Political Trends

Marriage patterns in Greece during the twentieth century

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