Lebens- und Familienformen

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Konietzka, Dirk; Heintz-Martin, Valerie

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-04255-4_15-1

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“…For people in a new union, second birth risks increase by 47% compared to people in an ongoing union. This result mirrors those of prior studies, showing a high degree of family diversity in eastern Germany (Kreyenfeld, Konietzka, and Heintz-Martin 2016). Although Germany is a familialistic regime, eastern Germans behave more like Finns, for whom separation and divorce are not a great hindrance to entering a new partnership and having a child with a new partner.…”

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Social policies, separation, and second birth spacing in Western Europe

Kreyenfeld

Geisler

Castro-Martín

et al. 2017

DemRes

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This paper studies postseparation fertility behavior. The aim is to investigate whether, and if so how, separation affects second birth spacing in Western European countries.\ud This analysis makes use of rich survey data from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom, as well as from Finnish register data. We thus cover the behavior of a large proportion of the population of Western Europe. We also use descriptive measures, such as Kaplan‒Meier survival functions and cumulative incidence curves. In the multivariate analysis, we employ event history modeling to show how education relates to postseparation fertility behavior. There are large differences in postseparation fertility behavior across European countries. For Spain and Italy, we find that only a negligibly small proportion of the population have a second child after separating from the other parent of the firstborn child. The countries with the highest proportion of second children with a new partner are the United Kingdom, Germany, and Finland. In all countries, separation after first birth leads to a sharp increase in the birth interval between first and second births. \ud Our study is a contribution to the demographic literature that aims at understanding birth spacing patterns in Western Europe. Furthermore, we draw attention to the role of postseparation policies in explaining country differences in fertility behavior in contemporary societies

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Section: Multivariate Resultssupporting

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Social policies, separation, and second birth spacing in Western Europe

Kreyenfeld

Geisler

Castro-Martín

et al. 2017

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“…The landscape of families and living arrangements with and without children has changed rapidly in Germany similar to the trends in many other Western nations over the last decades (e.g., Kreyenfeld, Konietzka, & Heintz-Martin, 2016;Mortelmans, 2020;Raley & Sweeney, 2020). Steady increases in divorce rates and non-marital childbirth across many European countries have, among other reasons, led to growing numbers of single-parent households, who tend to be female-headed, and stepfamilies (Bernardi et al, 2018;Härkönen, 2014).…”

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Mothers’ Well-Being in Families and Family Structure: Examining Constellations of Stressors Across Life Domains

Recksiedler

Bernhardt

Heintz-Martin

2021

Journal of Family Issues

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Identifying conditions under which parents thrive is a key concern of family research. Prior research often focused on mothers’ well-being in single life domains, yet it is more likely to be shaped by stressors that stem directly from the parenting role and related stressors emerging from spillover processes into other domains. We therefore examine how stressors concerning mothers’ subjective, relational, and financial well-being accumulate and combine within subgroups of mothers and whether the likelihood to belong to these multidimensional subgroups varies by family structure. Using representative German data ( N = 11,242), latent class analysis revealed four distinct subgroups of maternal well-being with varying exposure to financial, psychological, and relational stressors. Regression models showed that particularly single mothers were at risk to belong to the most vulnerable group with exposure to multiple stressors. Findings are discussed in light of persisting disparities among post-separation families despite demographic trends toward growing family diversity.

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Lebens- und Familienformen

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Social policies, separation, and second birth spacing in Western Europe

Social policies, separation, and second birth spacing in Western Europe

Mothers’ Well-Being in Families and Family Structure: Examining Constellations of Stressors Across Life Domains

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