Starting the first family

Oinonen, Eriikka

doi:10.1080/1461669042000231447

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“…In Europe, these demographic trends are present but considerable differences exist in a cross-national level, as indicated in several past (Dixon, 1971) and present comparative studies (Oinonen, 2004, Kalmijn, 2007. Recent research shows that, in more traditional societies, such as in southeastern European countries, people get married and bear children or live as singles with no children.…”

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confidence: 86%

Demographic Trends, Young People's Attitudes towards Marriage and Socio-economic Changes Related to Family Formation in Greece and in the European Union: A Comparative Analysis Based on Official and Survey Research Data

Ρόντος¹

2015

IJEBA

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The study is dealing with the evolution and the current patterns on marriage and family formation in Greece, as well as the related young population matters, by analyzing the demographic trends during the Post World War II, the temporary attitudes and behavior, especially of young people and the socioeconomic factors associated with these trends. To meet these tasks, secondary and survey data are employed, demographic indicators are constructed and descriptive plus non parametric statistics are used. The similarities and differences across Europe are identified as Greece is partly following the southeastern demographic pattern and attitudes towards marriage and family formation, but also the particularities even from the other Mediterranean-Southern countries. The demographic and attitudinal differences among societies are due to the different time period that each of these passed through the certain phases of social and economic transformations.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Demographic Trends, Young People's Attitudes towards Marriage and Socio-economic Changes Related to Family Formation in Greece and in the European Union: A Comparative Analysis Based on Official and Survey Research Data

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2015

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“…This change has been explained based on Scandinavian countries' closer attention to promoting policies that might enable women to have children without having to lose their job attachments (ibid. ; Oinonen 2004).…”

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Women, Gender, and Work: The Portuguese Case in the Context of the European Union

Torres

2008

International Journal of Sociology

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In this article we discuss changes in the relationships among gender, paid work, and unpaid work in Portugal in the context of the European Union. Based on a research program developed since 1997 on the relationship between family and work, and exploring data from several national and international surveys, such as the European Social Survey, the analyses focus on several topics: changes in demographic indicators; the substantial growth of women's participation, especially mothers, in the labor market; paid work, unpaid work, the welfare state, and existing policies; care solutions and arrangements and social networks; the relationship between women's activity rates and fertility rates, women's attachment to work, and finally, values and attitudes about work and family life. The main goal was to understand and explain specific features of the Portuguese case in a European comparative perspective.

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“…Of equal significance is the presence or absence of policies that make employment, independence and the starting of a family simultaneously possible (Saracens, Olagnero and Torrioni 2005;Oinonen 2004). Of equal significance is the presence or absence of policies that make employment, independence and the starting of a family simultaneously possible (Saracens, Olagnero and Torrioni 2005;Oinonen 2004).…”

Section: Figure 4: Respondents Who Live With Their Parents (%)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Kaufmann (1993) suggests, it often appears as a stage in the selection of partners, with marriage taking place when there are guarantees of stability, when the decision is taken to have a family or when it already exists, as Oinonen (2004) indicates. Furthermore, cohabitation does not arise as an alternative to marriage or a choice against it.…”

Section: Marriage: the Main Form Of Conjugalisation Throughout Europementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In effect, in a practically unequivocal manner, these are the results of various examples of research work that compare groups of European countries against the same indicators or others related to them (Del Boca and Locatelli 2003;Oinonen 2004;Klement and Rudolph 2004). Studies have shown that the development of policies aimed at increasing women's participation in the labour market and, simultaneously, a set of measures to improve maternity and infancy/childhood support may be the basis of both the relative recovery in fertility and the retention of mothers in the labour market.…”

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Families in Europe

Torres¹,

Mendes²,

Lapa³

2007

Portuguese Journal of Social Science

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Analysing data from European Social Survey in this article we try to capture the main features of the European families. Accounting for the changing trends of the last 40 years in family arrangements, practices and values we discuss some theoretical and methodological issues raised by the exercise of comparing countries also. General configurations like family's size, composition of the households, living arrangements and marital status are identified and analysed clustering European countries. The insertion of men and women on the labour market, fertility rates and the hours of work of parents are also other central focus of discussion. Our results tend to contradict some stereotypes. The majority of Europeans are formally married or living together, conjugal disruption being transitory for divorced and the separated tend to return to conjugality. With modern ideals, family is, for all European countries and with very similar averages, the most valued dimension of personal life. 97 Keywords family marriage gender values work and family European families PJSS 6 (2) 97-133

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Starting the first family

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

Demographic Trends, Young People's Attitudes towards Marriage and Socio-economic Changes Related to Family Formation in Greece and in the European Union: A Comparative Analysis Based on Official and Survey Research Data

Demographic Trends, Young People's Attitudes towards Marriage and Socio-economic Changes Related to Family Formation in Greece and in the European Union: A Comparative Analysis Based on Official and Survey Research Data

Women, Gender, and Work: The Portuguese Case in the Context of the European Union

Families in Europe

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