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Changing families in the European Union: trends and policy implications
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Sz, Livia |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | Family patterns have changed substantially in Europe over the past fifty years. The early-/mid-1960s marked the end of the “Golden Age of the Family” with high marriage and birth rates at relatively young ages, and low prevalence of divorce and of non-traditional family forms. By the late 20 –early 21 century, a wide variety of family forms and relationships emerged along the married nuclear family with children, as young women and men have increasingly refrained from long-term commitments with respect to partnerships and childbearing. Fertility rates declined well below the level necessary for population replacement, that is 2.1 children per woman on average; marriage and parenthood have been delayed to more mature ages, if entered at all; and couple relationships – both marital and non-marital ones have become more fragile even among couples with children (Neyer, 2013; Frejka et al., 2008). The increasing family diversity, which was the result of the new partnership and childbearing trends, has been viewed as indication of a de-standardization of the family life-course (Jokinen & Kuronen, 2011; Brückner, & Mayer, 2005), which may nevertheless lead to a re-standardization of family patterns in the long run (Huinink, 2013). |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.familiesandsocieties.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/WP44Olah2015.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/family/docs/egm15/Olahpaper.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
