Changing Patterns of European Family Life: A Comparative Analysis of 14 Countries (Routledge Library Editions: Family) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032536306 ISBN 13: 9781032536309

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

Originally published in 1989, this cross-national study investigates the role and pattern of family life in fourteen countries in contemporary Europe. Providing a wealth of information on European families, it is a key source for anyone wishing to understand the changes in the family at that time.

The contributors argue that, far from withering away, the family remained a very important social unit which continued to have considerable influence on other social institutions such as the state and the labour market. The central theme is the interrelation between changes in production and working life on one hand, and changes in family life and reproduction on the other. The contributors focus on the pressures and contradictions produced by the division of functions between family and work, and on problems which have arisen as a consequence of the sometimes incompatible and even conflicting demands of the two institutions. They show that the evolution of the nuclear family model in Europe had led to a great diversity of family patterns, and conclude that the family in modern European societies still had a contribution to make which no other institution could provide.

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Katja Boh, Maren Bak, Cristine Clason, Maja Pankratova, Jens Qvortrup, Giovanni B. Sgritta and Kari Waerness

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032536306
• ISBN 13: 9781032536309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 334
• Editor: Boh Katja, Bak Maren, Clason Cristine, Pankratova Maja, Qvortrup Jens, Sgritta Giovanni B., Waerness Kari