Sociology: family, kinship and relationships Books

Book SynopsisShoshana Grossbard, a leading scholar in this field, has selected the most influential classic and recent articles which highlight the economic importance of marriage and related institutions. The volume first considers marriage and related outcomes, including cohabitation, matching, brideprice and dowry, and law and economic questions relating to divorce. It then investigates the consequences of marriage and marriage markets for labour supply, household production, wages, consumption, household finance, education and fertility. A clear original introduction by the editor provides an illuminating guide to the selected articles and to their place within the economic and demographic literature.36 articles, dating from 1971 to 2015Contributors include: G.A. Akerlof, G.S. Becker, B.R. Bergmann, P.-A. Chiappori, W. Darity, S. Lundberg, M.B. McElroy, B. Stevenson, J. Wolfers, J.L. YellenTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Shoshana A. Grossbard PART I EXPLAINING MARRIAGE AND RELATED OUTCOMES A . Marriage and Cohabitation 1. Gary S. Becker (1973), ‘A Theory of Marriage: Part I’, Journal of Political Economy, 81 (4), July–August, 813–46 2. Gary S. Becker (1974), ‘A Theory of Marriage: Part II’, Journal of Political Economy, 82 (2, Part 2), March–April, S11–S26 3. Michael C. Keeley (1977), ‘The Economics of Family Formation’, Economic Inquiry, XV (2), April, 238–50 4. Darrick Hamilton, Arthur H. Goldsmith and William Darity Jr. (2009), ‘Shedding “Light” on Marriage: The Influence of Skin Shade on Marriage for Black Females’, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 72 (1), October, 30–50 5. Kerwin Kofi Charles and Ming Ching Luoh (2010), ‘Male Incarceration, the Marriage Market, and Female Outcomes’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 92 (3), August, 614–27 6. M.V. Lee Badgett, Gary J. Gates and Natalya C. Maisel (2008), ‘Registered Domestic Partnerships among Gay Men and Lesbians: The Role of Economic Factors’, Review of Economics of the Household, 6 (4), December, 327–46 [ B. Matching Patterns 7. Amyra Grossbard (1976), ‘An Economic Analysis of Polygyny: The Case of Maiduguri’, Current Anthropology, 17 (4), December, 701–7 8. Eugene Choo and Aloysius Siow (2006), ‘Who Marries Whom and Why’, Journal of Political Economy, 114 (1), February, 175–201 9. Günter J. Hitsch, Ali Hortaçsu and Dan Ariely (2010), ‘Matching and Sorting in Online Dating’, American Economic Review, 100 (1), March, 130–63 10. Pierre-André Chiappori, Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque (2012), ‘Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market’, Journal of Political Economy, 120 (4), August, 659–95 C. Brideprice and Dowry 11. Martin Bronfenbrenner (1971), ‘A Note on the Economics of the Marriage Market’, Journal of Political Economy, 79 (6), November–December, 1424–25 12. Siwan Anderson (2007), ‘The Economics of Dowry and Brideprice’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21 (4), Fall, 151–74 D. Divorce and Divorce-Related Laws 13. Anne Laferrère (2001), ‘Marriage Settlements’, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 103 (3), September, 485–504 14. Evelyn L. Lehrer (2003), ‘The Economics of Divorce’, in Shoshana A. Grossbard-Shechtman (ed.), Marriage and the Economy: Theory and Evidence from Advanced Industrial Societies, Chapter 3, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 55–74 15. Justin Wolfers (2006), ‘Did Unilateral Divorce Laws Raise Divorce Rates? A Reconciliation and New Results’, American Economic Review, 96 (5), December, 1802–820 E. Who Benefits from Polygamy? 16. Barbara R. Bergmann (1995), ‘Becker’s Theory of the Family: Preposterous Conclusions’, Feminist Economics, 1 (1), 141–50 17. Eric D. Gould, Omer Moav and Avi Simhon (2008), ‘The Mystery of Monogamy’, American Economic Review, 98 (1), March, 333–57 PART II CONSEQUENCES OF MARRIAGE AND MARRIAGE MARKET CONDITIONS A. Marriage and Labor Supply 18. Shoshana A. Grossbard-Shechtman and Shoshana Neuman (1988), ‘Women’s Labor Supply and Marital Choice’, Journal of Political Economy, 96 (6), December, 1294–302 19. P.F. Apps and R. Rees (1996), ‘Labour Supply, Household Production and Intra-family Welfare Distribution’, Journal of Public Economics, 60 (2), May, 199–219 20. Pierre-André Chiappori, Bernard Fortin and Guy Lacroix (2002), ‘Marriage Market, Divorce Legislation, and Household Labor Supply’, Journal of Political Economy, 110 (1), February, 37–72 21. Shoshana Grossbard and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (2007), ‘Cohort-level Sex Ratio Effects on Women’s Labor Force Participation’, Review of Economics of the Household, 5 (3), September, 249–78 B. Marriage and Household Production 22. Shoshana Amyra Grossbard, J. Ignacio Gimenez Nadal and José Alberto Molina (2014), ‘Racial Intermarriage and Household Production’, Review of Behavioral Economics, 1 (4), 295–347 23. Luise Görges (2015), ‘The Power of Love: A Subtle Driving-Force for Unegalitarian Labor Division?’, Review of Economics of the Household, 13 (1), March, 163–92 C. Marriage and Wages 24. Sanders Korenman and David Neumark (1991), ‘Does Marriage Really Make Men More Productive?’, Journal of Human Resources, 26 (2), Spring, 282–307 25. Avner Ahituv and Robert I. Lerman (2011), ‘Job Turnover, Wage Rates, and Marital Stability: How Are They Related?’, Review of Economics of the Household, 9 (2), June, 221–49 D. Marriage, Consumption and Wellbeing 26. Marjorie B. McElroy (1990), ‘The Empirical Content of Nash-Bargained Household Behavior’, Journal of Human Resources, XXV (4), Autumn, 559–83 27. Duncan Thomas (1990), ‘Intra-Household Resource Allocation: An Inferential Approach’, Journal of Human Resources, XXV (4), Autumn, 635–64 28. Shelly J. Lundberg, Robert A. Pollak and Terence J. Wales (1997), ‘Do Husbands and Wives Pool Their Resources? Evidence from the United Kingdom Child Benefit’, Journal of Human Resources, XXXII (3), 463–80 29. Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers (2006), ‘Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: Divorce Laws and Family Distress’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121 (1), February, 267–88 30. Masanori Kuroki (2014), ‘The Effect of Sex Ratios on Suicide’, Health Economics, 23 (12), December, 1502–10 E. Marriage, Household Finances and Savings 31. Frances Woolley (2003), ‘Control over Money in Marriage’, in Shoshana A. Grossbard-Shechtman (ed.), Marriage and the Economy: Theory and Evidence from Advanced Industrial Societies, Chapter 5, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 105–28 32. Michèle Tertilt (2005), ‘Polygyny, Fertility, and Savings’, Journal of Political Economy, 113 (6), December, 1341–71 33. Wataru Kureishi and Midori Wakabayashi (2013), ‘What Motivates Single Women to Save? The Case of Japan’, Review of Economics of the Household, 11 (4), December, 681–704 34. Julie M. Zissimopoulos, Benjamin R. Karney and Amy J. Rauer (2015), ‘Marriage and Economic Well-being at Older Ages’, Review of Economics of the Household, 13 (1), March, 1–35 F. Marriage and Education 35. Jeanne Lafortune (2013), ‘Making Yourself Attractive: Pre-Marital Investments and the Returns to Education in the Marriage Market’, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5 (2), April, 151–78 G. Marriage and Fertility 36. George A. Akerlof, Janet L. Yellen and Michael L. Katz (1996), ‘An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in the United States’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXI (2), May, 277–317 Index

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Book SynopsisThe demographic future of Asia is a global issue. As the biggest driver of population growth, an understanding of patterns and trends in fertility throughout Asia is critical to understand our shared demographic future. This is the first book to comprehensively and systematically analyse fertility across the continent through the perspective of individuals themselves rather than as a consequence of top-down government policies. Special introductory chapters provide context to the key themes of 'son preference' and the relationship between fertility preferences and broader theories of fertility transition. Exploring fertility through the lens of preferences, international researchers and leading academics discuss themes relating to family size, contraception use, and the roles of indicators such as education and income, as well as sub-national variation. Covering the experiences of more than one-third of the global population over 22 territories, this book explores the heterogeneous experience of Asia, home to some of the highest and lowest fertility rates in the world. Understudied countries such as Brunei, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste have new and revealing fertility data examined. This is the go-to reference guide for scholars, students and policymakers who are concerned with Asia's demographic future. Scholars of demography, reproductive health and family planning will find this a comprehensive insight into the future demography of Asia.Contributors include: N. Ahmad, A.A. Ajayi, N. Alam, J. Anson, A.A. Aziz, S. Barkat, Barkat-e-Khuda, E. Byambaa, J. Casterline, M. Channon, M.K. Choe, C.J.P. Cruz, G.T. Cruz, G.L. Dasvarma, S. Devarapalli, S. Dubuc, M.A. Eryurt, W. Fadila, N. Fukuda, C. Gee, P.A. Ghani, S. Gietel-Basten, J. Gouda, B. Gu, M.R. Haque, M.S. Hasan, R. Herartri, T. Hull, N. Ismail, Y. Karki, S. Kosal, E. Lavu, H. Lina, A. Mahmud, S. Masdar, P. McDonald, S. Naresh, N. Nyi, S. Parera, K.T. Park, S.H. Rachmad, N.R. Rao, S.A. Rashid, U. Saikia, J.M.I. Salas, O.B. Samosir, T.T. Saotome, C. Shekhar, M. Singh, K.K. Soe, T. Spoorenberg, A. Utomo, M.A. Wazir, M.T. Yap, Z. ZhengTrade Review‘The publication is a very interesting tool for demographers interested in the situation in Asia. It really offers a comprehensive view of fertility on this continent. Reading this book is very useful for getting to know this issue.’ -- Filip Hon, Review for Population Research‘The collection of such a broad variety of evidence on national fertility preferences is unique, making the book a work of reference for future regional studies on fertility behavior in Asia.’ -- Barbara E. Fulda, European Journal of PopulationTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction John Casterline 2. Son Preference Sylvie Dubuc 3. Fertility Preferences in Bangladesh Barkat-e-Khuda, Md. Rabiul Haque, Mohammad Sazzad Hasan, Nurul Alam and Samiha Barkat 4. The Socioeconomic Context of Fertility Decline and Preferences in Brunei Norainie Ahmad, Universiti Brunei Darussalam and Brunei Darussalam 5. Fertility Preferences in Cambodia 2000-2014 Gouranga Lal Dasvarma, Hang Lina, Sok Kosal and Nott Rama Rao 6. Fertility Preferences in Central Asia Thomas Spoorenberg 7. Fertility Preferences in China Zhenzhen Zheng, Baochang Gu and Stuart Gietel-Basten 8. Fertility Preferences in India Chander Shekhar, Siddhardha Devarapalli, Mohan Singh, Sudhaveni Narsh and Jitendra Gouda 9. Fertility Preferences in Indonesia Omas Bulan Samosir, Peter McDonald, Ariane Utomo, Terry Hull, Runa Herartri, Wisnu Fadila, Sopyan Masdar and Sri Hartini Rachmad 10. Israel’s Fertility: A continuing enigma Jon Anson and Alex Akinade Ajayi 11. Fertility Preferences in Japan Nobutaka Fukuda and Tomoko T. Saotome 12. Fertility Preferences in Malaysia Saharani Abdul Rashid, Puzziawati Ab Ghani, Adzmel Mahmud, Najihah Ismail and Azlan Abd. Aziz 13. Fertility Preferences in Mongolia Enkhetsetseg Byambaa 14. Fertility Preferences in Myanmar Khaing Khaing Soe, Nyi Nyi and Thomas Spoorenberg 15. Fertility Preferences in Nepal Melanie Channon and Yagya Karki 16. Fertility Preferences in Pakistan Muhammad Asif Wazir 17. Fertility Preferences in Papua New Guinea 1996-2006 Esther Lavu and Gouranga Lal Dasvarma 18. Fertility Preferences in The Philippines Christian Joy P. Cruz, J.M. Ian Salas and Grace T. Cruz 19. Fertility Preferences in Singapore Christopher Gee and Mui Teng Yap 20. How is the Decline of Fertility Related to Fertility Preference in South Korea? Minja Kim Choe and Ki Tae Park 21. Fertility trends, patterns and preferences in Sri Lanka E. L. Sunethra J. Perera 22. Fertility Preferences in Taiwan Stuart Gietel-Basten 23. The cultural and historical context of fertility preference in Timor-Leste Udoy Saikia 24. Fertility Transition and Fertility Preferences in Turkey Mehmet Ali Eryurt Index

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Book SynopsisWhether considered from an American or a European perspective, the past four decades have seen family life become increasingly complex. Changing Family Dynamics and Demographic Evolution examines the various stages of change through the image of a kaleidoscope, providing new insights into the field of family dynamics and diversity.Contributions from both eminent and contemporary scholars provide a comprehensive and multidisciplinary perspective encompassing over five decades and two continents. This is the kaleidoscope, showing the diversity and complexity of contemporary families. Each chapter is a new turn with the built in mirrors reflecting new insights into the colored glass and beads. Through this analogy, this book explores family transitions in the US and Europe, gender dimensions of family transitions, children in new families, intersectional approaches of demographic processes and policy perspectives as well as offering thoughts on a future outlook.Unique and accessible, this book will appeal to students and researchers in a variety of fields including demography, the sociology of the family, gender studies and family law. It will also be of value to policy makers for children and families as well as those involved in family social care.Contributors include: E. Alofs, T. Brouckaert, C. Defever, D. De Wachter, K. Featherstone, F.F. Furstenberg Jr., T. Kil, K. Matthijs, P. Meier, D. Mortelmans, L. Murinkó, K. Neels, J. Scott, B. Segaert, W. Sigle, I. Szalma, L. Toulemon, J. Vergauwen, J. WoodTrade Review'Very elegantly, the editors use the image of a kaleidoscope to portray the necessity for new research perspectives to enhance understanding of the field of family dynamics in a time of change and increased family diversity - which is exactly what this book contributes. In bringing together a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, quantitative and qualitative methods, international comparative studies as well as in-depth case studies, this book offers new and sobering insights to family studies.' --Trude Lappegard, Statistics Norway, Oslo, Norway'Gender issues and the position of the child in the family are conventional issues reflected through the prism of unconventionality: this is a strength of this book. Gender issues; genetic risk, motherhood and fatherhood are diversely explored through an international comparative analysis, intersectionality, and ethnography, utilising reviews of recent changes in American and European family dynamics. Challenges to theory and policies are the end points in the book but starting points for further multifaceted research.' --Dimiter Philipov, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austria'Overall, The Family Kaleidoscope is a very insightful and inspiring volume, which provides the reader with a well-balanced mix of new and needed evidence, innovative topics and approaches, and much stimulating discussion provoking a large array of thoughts for future research.' --European Journal of PopulationTable of ContentsContents: INTRODUCTION a view through the family kaleidoscope PART I. LOOKING BACK AT FAMILIES 1. The Changing American Family: An Overview From 1965 To 2015 Frank F. Furstenberg Jr. 2. Fifty Years of Family Change in Europe: Diversifying Partnerships Laurent Toulemon PART II. LOOKING AT GENDER 3. Gender Inequality in the Division of Housework Over the Life Course: A European Comparative Perspective Tine Kil, Karel Neels and Jorik Vergauwen 4. Intersectionality in Young Adults’ Households: A Quantitative Perspective Dimitri Mortelmans, Petra Meier and Christine Defever 5. From the Kitchen Table to the Other: Results of Ethnographic Research on Undocumented Mothers’ Parenting Practices Creating Feelings at Home Tine Brouckaert PART III. LOOKING AT CHILDREN 6. What is Family in the Context of Genetic Risk? Katie Featherstone 7. The Educational Gradient of Maternal Employment Patterns in 11 European Countries David De Wachter, Karel Neels, Jonas Wood and Jorik Vergauwen 8. Fatherhood and Men’s Second Union Formation: Norway, France and Hungary, 1980s-2000s Lívia Murinkó and Ivett Szalma PART IV. LOOKING FORWARD 9. Why Demography Needs (New) Theories Wendy Sigle 10. Conflicting Family Interests: A Challenge for Family Policy Jacqueline Scott Index

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Book SynopsisIt is common for European couples living fairly egalitarian lives to adopt a traditional division of labour at the transition to parenthood. Based on in-depth interviews with 332 parents-to-be in eight European countries, this book explores the implications of family policies and gender culture from the perspective of couples who are expecting their first child. Couples' Transitions to Parenthood: Analysing Gender and Work in Europe is the first comparative, qualitative study that explicitly locates couples' parenting ideals and plans in the wider context of national institutions.This unique analysis of transitions to parenthood in contemporary Europe focuses on Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic and Poland. It explores how parents' agency varies along with policy-culture gaps in their countries and provides evidence of their struggle to adapt to, or resist, socially desired paths and patterns of change. In fact, the ways in which institutional structures limit possible choices and beliefs about motherhood and fatherhood are linked in ways that often go unnoticed by social scientists, policy makers and parents themselves.This cutting-edge book will be of interest to social scientists, political scientists, journalists and policy-makers. Parents-to-be will also find value in this analysis of gender in parenthood.Contributors include: P. Abril, J. Alsarve, P. Amigot, S. Bertolini, C. Botía-Morillas, K. Boye, F. Bühlmann, A. Dechant, M. Domínguez Folgueras, M. Evertsson, N. Girardin, D. Grunow, M.J. González, D. Hanappi, T. Jurado-Guerrero, I. Lapuerta, J.-M. Le Goff, T. Martín-García, J. Monferrer, R. Musumeci, M. Naldini, O. Nesporová, M. Reimann, A. Rinklake, C. Roman, M. Seiz, R. Stuchlá, P.M. Torrioni, I. Valarino, G. Veltkamp, M. VerweijTrade Review'The birth of a first child is a major event for modern, employed couples. Babies need so much and couples must find ways to divide childcare and yet protect the time each needs for their careers and their own relationships. European couples confront these challenges in very different ways, depending on the extent of job-protected family leave and the quality, availability and affordability of childcare. And of course there is always the gender dimension, which seems to favour mothers over fathers in some countries more than others. These in-depth interview studies of couples experiencing new parenthood in eight countries provide engaging and dramatic views of how much can differ (or be taken for granted).' --Frances Goldscheider, Brown University'How do couples about to have a child think about gender, work and family? What do they expect from their employers, the state and each other? This cross-national research team has created something absolutely unique-a study that uses rich qualitative data gathered from interviewing over 150 couples across eight European societies. Their approach allows the authors to delve into the interplay between constraints set by governments' and employers' policies, gender ideologies and the concrete plans that couples envision.' --Paula England, New York UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I Conceptual framework, comparative overview and methodology 1. Institutions as reference points for parents-to-be in European societies: a theoretical and analytical framework Daniela Grunow and Gerlieke Veltkamp 2. Institutional context, family policies and women’s and men’s work outcomes in eight European welfare states Marie Evertsson 3. Comparing couples’ narratives within and across countries. Research design, sampling and analysis Daniela Grunow PART II The Scandinavian ‘Role Model’? 4. The crossroads of equality and biology. The child’s best interest and constructions of motherhood and fatherhood in Sweden Jenny Alsarve, Katarina Boye and Christine Roman PART III Conservative welfare states transforming the breadwinner-homemaker model 5. Anticipating motherhood and fatherhood – German couples’ plans for childcare and paid work Anna Dechant and Annika Rinklake 6. Dutch couples at the life-course transition to parenthood Mirjam Verweij and Maria Reimann 7. The transition to parenthood in Switzerland: between institutional constraints and gender ideologies Nadia Girardin, Felix Bühlmann, Doris Hanappi, Jean-Marie Le Goff, Isabel Valarino PART IV Unsupportive familialism in crisis 8. The best for the baby: future fathers in the shadow of maternal care in Italy Sonia Bertolini, Rosy Musumeci, Manuela Naldini, Paola Maria Torrioni 9. The transition to parenthood in Spain: Adaptations to ideals Paco Abril, Patricia Amigot, Carmen Botía-Morillas, Marta Domínguez-Folgueras, María José González, Teresa Jurado-Guerrero, Irene Lapuerta, Teresa Martín-García, Jordi Monferrer and Marta Seiz PART V Drifting apart: Post-socialist legacy in new welfare states 10. Searching for egalitarian divisions of care. Polish couples at the life course transition to parenthood Maria Reimann 11. Constructions of parenthood in the Czech Republic: maternal care and paternal help Olga Nešporová and Růžena Stuchlá PART VI Conclusions in comparative perspective 12. Narratives on the transition to parenthood in eight European countries. The importance of gender culture and welfare regime Marie Evertsson and Daniela Grunow Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a first-class repository of new knowledge on how media and family routines intertwine in daily interactions. The multi-method approach reveals how varying forms of media affect the interaction between children and their parents. Avoiding criticism of these interactions, the contributors instead offer an impartial view of the natural occurrences in media-related family life. The first section of the book maps contemporary family life by providing methodological, theoretical and time-use reflections on media use and family communication. It goes on to reach into the private zone of family interaction through video-documented episodes, providing the reader with detailed interactional analyses. This exposes how the boundaries between virtual interaction and face-to-face interaction have become blurred. Offering a comprehensive picture of the complexity of digital family life, this book exposes the challenges and opportunities of modern parenting. Discussing largely unexplored phenomena that are applicable internationally, this book will appeal to a wide range of researchers and students in the fields of social sciences. Professionals such as psychologists, therapists and social workers will also benefit from the impartial insight this work gives into the media's impact on modern family interaction.Contributors include: I. Arminen, S. Danby, A. Kallio, A.R. Lahikainen, T. Mälkiä, E. Mantere, J. Marsh, P. Nikken, S. Raudaskoski, K. Repo, E. Suoninen, S. Tiilikainen, S. ValkonenTrade Review'This innovative book breaks new ground methodologically and theoretically as it examines the diversity and complexity of media use within the daily interactions of 26 Finnish families. Extensive video recording was used to capture both spatial and temporal diversity of media use within the home. An original and important contribution to our understanding of how new media changes and organizes interaction within the daily lives of contemporary families. A nuanced view of both the positive and negative aspects of media use is richly documented.' --Marjorie Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction. Media and family interaction Anja Riitta Lahikainen, Tiina Mälkiä and Katja Repo PART I CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES AND MEDIA 2. New media, family interaction and socialization Anja Riitta Lahikainen 3. Social interactional understandings in investigating family practices of digital media use Susan Danby 4. Performative family life Tiina Mälkiä 5. Children’s media use – the perspective of time use Katja Repo and Satu Valkonen PART II MEDIA RELATED PRACTICES AND FAMILY INTERACTION 6. Practices of parental mediation in television viewing Aku Kallio 7. Masculine and feminine aspects of interaction in the context of watching TV Eero Suoninen 8. When a computer dominates a child's attention Eero Suoninen 9. Sticky media device Eerik Mantere and Sanna Raudaskoski 10. Together individually Sanna Tiilikainen and Ilkka Arminen PART III CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION 11. The influence of parental smartphone use, eye contact and ‘bystander ignorance’ on child development Sanna Raudaskoski, Eerik Mantere and Satu Valkonen 12. Family, media, and the digitalization of childhood Anja Riitta Lahikainen and Ilkka Arminen 13. Commentary: The need for evidence based parenting support Peter Nikken 14. Afterword Jackie Marsh Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook advances research on the family and marriage in China by providing readers with a multidisciplinary and multifaceted coverage of major issues in one single volume. It addresses the major conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues of marriage and family in China and offers critical reflections on both the history and likely progression of the field. By examining the traditional ideas of marriage and family in China against new concepts, state policy changes and market reforms, the Handbook exposes the impact these changes are having on familial structures, traditional institutions and marital ideals. The eminent contributors include established scholars and emerging stars in this area of research, ranging from Australia, China, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the UK and the US. Working as a comprehensive and convenient reference for future research, this Handbook provides an extensive overview of the key issues in the field. An excellent reference tool for researchers and students of sociology, anthropology, public policy, family studies and China studies, this Handbook provides the knowledge for further research to flourish.Contributors include: I. Attané, H. Chiang, A. Chow, W. Ding, M. Dowling, L. Eklund, M.W. Feldman, X.-T. Feng, Z. Feng, C. Frazier, A.M. Gaetano, S. Gietel-Basten, W. Jankowiak, Q. Jiang, M.-H. Lee, L. Li, S. Li, D. Miller, A. Phoenix, D.L Poston, J. Ribbens McCarthy, R. Skaggs, J. Song, L. Song, K.F. Ting, P. Wang, X. Wang, Y.R. Xia, A. Xu, X. Xu, X. Xu, W.-S. Yang, G. Yu, X. Zang, L. Zhao, J. Zhang, W. Zhang, L. Zhao, H. Zhu, J. ZuoTrade Review'This comprehensive Handbook draws together reviews of the literature and historically and theoretically informed cutting edge research in what is sure to be the definitive text on marriage and family in China in the early twenty-first century. The editors have assembled a global dream team that addresses virtually every topic in the field, including sensitive issues such as globalization of marriage, family dynamics, intimacy, sexuality and transgender marriage. Family and marriage in Taiwan and Hong Kong are also addressed.' --Thomas Gold, University of California, Berkeley, US'This is a masterly work. The two editors, brilliant and experienced experts and scholars on Chinese society, have drawn together a superb team that includes some of the foremost international specialists in their respective fields. The number of relevant topics covered is truly breath-taking. The result is a brilliant, balanced, beautifully integrated, insightful, humane and readable specialist work, which is unsurpassed in its field, and likely to remain so for a long time. I recommend it very strongly indeed.' --Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. State of the field: The family and marriage in China Xiaowei Zang and Lucy Xia Zhao 2. The effects of demographic change on marriage and the family in China Dudley L. Poston 3. Changes in Chinese urban family structure Yan Ruth Xia and Anqi Xu 4. Mate selection, intimacy, and marital love in Chinese Society William Jankowiak 5. Mate selection in rural China Jing Song and Lulu Li 6. Foreign-related marriages in contemporary China, 1979-2013 Pan Wang 7. Educational homogamy Lijun Song, Rachel Skaggs, and Cleothia Frazier 8. China’s ‘Leftover Women’: Myths and realities Arianne M. Gaetano 9. Son preference and the marriage squeeze in China Shuzhuo Li, Quanbao Jiang, and Marcus Feldman 10. Marriage squeeze and mate selection in China Lisa Eklund and Isabelle Attané 11. China’s one-child policy and the changing family Xiaotian Feng, Dudley L. Poston, and Xiaotao Wang 12. Family planning and fertility transition in China Stuart Gietel-Basten 13. Fertility patterns on family finance in rural China Weili Ding 14. Parental investment in children’s schooling in China Ming-Hsuan Lee 15. Childlessness and the well-being of Chinese seniors Weiguo Zhang 16. Gender patterns in financial support to parents in China Haiyan Zhu 17. Filial piety and old-age support in China: tradition, continuity, and change Zhanlian Feng 18. Childhood, children, and family lives in China Jane Ribbens McCarthy and Ann Phoenix, with Guo Yu and Xiaoli Xu 19. Globalisation and international adoption from China Monica Dowling 20. Marital construction of family decision-making power Jiping Zuo 21. Marital instability in post-reform China Xiaohe Xu and Donna Miller 22. Marriage and suicide among women in rural China Jie Zhang 23. Death in the family – Bereavement and mourning in contemporary China Amy Y.M. Chow 24. Transgender in China Howard Chiang 25. Family and marriage in contemporary Taiwan Wen-Shan Yang 26. The marriage institution in Hong Kong: Past and present Kwok-fai Ting Index

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Book SynopsisAs a theory, sociobiology is opposed to socio-ecology, a discipline hampered since its birth. The indictment of the ideological intentions of the first has obscured the notion that the growing domination of the image of the “selfish gene” has obstructed the necessary rise of the second. For 40 years, a terrible force of inertia has thus frozen the global analysis of socio-ecological interactions outside the theoretical bias externally imposed on social sciences by so-called “behavioral ecology”, which amounts to a simple emanation of sociobiology. This book summarizes the methodological abuses and the illusory legitimations of a school whose sterility can no longer be concealed, but which is preparing to reinvent itself by cynically replacing its faltering laws by hijacking the recent advances in epigenetics. The authors shed light on unjustly sacrificed paths in the study of socio-ecological interactions.Table of ContentsIntroduction ix Chapter 1 From Altruism to Sociobiology: Historical and Epistemological Summary 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 The “social Darwinism” of the 19th Century 2 1.3 Reconquest of the quest: 20th Century social neo-Darwinism 9 1.4 Expansion, disintegration signs and recent defections 18 1.5 Missing or extra squares on the chessboard 23 1.5.1 Wilson's initial epistemological traffic: sociobiology and behavioral ecology 24 1.5.2 Communicating evasiveness: behavior, altruism, society, culture 26 1.5.3 Cut-short dispute and perverted controversy 34 1.6 Temporary theory and permanent fantasy: will sociobiology soon be superseded? 38 Chapter 2 The Illusory Endorsement of Insects: Omissions and Arbitrary Choices 41 2.1 Entomologic stronghold and the place of social insects 41 2.1.1 Natural advantages of social entomology 42 2.1.2 A rival society, accessible to experimentation 44 2.1.3 The extent of “societies” in insects 46 2.2 Organicism, superorganism and monospecific society 48 2.3 The beacon built by Wilson 50 2.3.1 Classification and social ranks 51 2.3.2 The enumeration of social births 54 2.4 Missing questions 56 2.5 Stigmergy versus haplodiploidy: a “choice of society”? 61 2.5.1 Stigmergy: from problematic to theory 62 2.5.2 Socioecological stigmergy versus sociobiological haplodiploidy 65 2.6 Subsequently emerged information 68 2.6.1 Thrips 69 2.6.2 Aphids 71 2.6.3 Termites, again 72 2.7 Polyethism, polyphenism and monomania 74 Chapter 3 Gray Langur Society and Chimpanzee Culture 77 3.1 Gray langur society shrunk to infanticide 78 3.1.1 Practical and theoretical parameters of the “case” 79 3.1.2 Strategic obsession and fact selection 82 3.1.3 From scorned comparison to repressed anthropology 86 3.2 Culture and chimpanzees 91 3.2.1 Bric-a-brac and difference in degrees 91 3.2.2 Distinction criterion and the surprise from chimpanzees 95 3.3 Non-natural selection of comparisons 100 Chapter 4 On the Specificity of Human Sociality 103 4.1 Logic of inbreeding avoidance in non-human primates 104 4.1.1 Facts 104 4.1.2 Westermarck effect: difficulties in the face of simian facts 107 4.1.3 Sexual avoidance as a social fact 110 4.2 Logic of the incest prohibition in humans 116 4.2.1 Kinship: a form of intersubjectivity specific to humans 117 4.2.2 Birth is a metaphor, and also incest 120 4.2.3 Incest prohibition as a struggle for recognition 125 4.3 Regarding sexual division of labor and food sharing 129 4.3.1 Sexual division of labor as struggle for recognition 130 4.3.2 Sharing and recognition 133 4.3.3 Failure of sociobiological explanations 135 4.4 Outline of a socioecological explanation 142 4.4.1 Forgotten issue: ownership 143 4.4.2 Ecological efficacy of the hunting-gathering regime 147 4.4.3 Evolutionary pertinence of the hunting-gathering regime 151 Chapter 5 The Sociobiological Force of Inertia and Socioecology Challenges: Conclusion 157 5.1 The meltdown of the debate 158 5.1.1 The disastrous confusion between the modes of discussion 159 5.1.2 The failure of sociobiology, demonstrated by Wilson 161 5.2 The epistemological obstacle behind the force of inertia 162 5.2.1 Ariadne's thread against history 164 5.2.2 Beanbag against interdependence 166 5.2.3 “All other things being equal” 168 5.2.4 Diagnosis on the force of inertia of sociobiology 169 5.3 Interaction, ecology and social sciences 171 5.4 Mutual respect, a condition of interdisciplinarity 174 5.5 Conclusion 176 Bibliography 179 Index 195

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Book SynopsisIn the first major work to take the home as a center of analysis for global social problems, experts from a variety of fields reveal the multidimensional reality of the home and its role in societies worldwide. This unique book serves as a basis for action by proposing global legislative, political and institutional initiatives with the home in mind. The multidisciplinary and integrative approach taken by this book avoids simplistic accounts of the home, studies the value of the home, the service it offers, and its contribution to the wellbeing and prosperity of communities. Reviewing its internal functions and external relationships, the authors connect the themes of family, housing, income and wealth, community, relationships, family policies, socioeconomic setting, culture and history from across the world. Academics studying issues such as family, housing, public and social policy, sociology, urban studies and poverty will benefit from the range of insights this book offers into what the home means worldwide. Policymakers, social organizations and specialized networks working in the areas of family, education, poverty and housing will greatly benefit from the insight and breadth of this research.Contributors include: A. Argandoña, M. Bertolaso, H. Burns, A. d'Entremont, M. do Ceu Patrão Neves, E.P. Davis, R. Lastra, A. Marcos, M. Regnerus, S. ZamagniTrade Review'The home is an institution at the base of society which impacts individuals' outcomes and decisions across the life course, from child developmental outcomes to work and retirement decisions. This book is a collection of contributions explaining the role that the home plays in modern society. Its multidisciplinary perspective will enable readers to enlarge their views on the concept of home wearing the hat of a geographer, economist, philosopher, sociologist and medical scientist.' --Cheti Nicoletti, University of York, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Bryan Sanderson, Home Renaissance Foundation Foreword Carlos Cavallé, Social Trends Institute Introduction Antonio Argandoña 1. The home: Multidisciplinary reflections Antonio Argandoña PART I Philosophy 2. What is a home? On the intrinsic nature of a home Alfredo Marcos and Marta Bertolaso 3. Self and others: Home as a cradle of a non-violent relationship Maria do Céu Patrão Neves Part II Health Sciences 4. The impact of the home environment on children’s health and cognitive and social development Sir Harry Burns PART III Sociology 5. Reproducing homes: Intergenerational transmission of marriage and relationship legacy Mark Regnerus PART IV Economics 6. The family and economic theorizing Stefano Zamagni 7. Pension provision, lifetime financial sustainability, care and dignity in old age: Legal and economic issues E. Philip Davis and Rosa M. Lastra PART V Geography 8. Spatial relationality and domesticity: Reality and functions of the home from a human geography perspective Alban d’Entremont Index

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Book SynopsisWith research into the lives of global families becoming an increasing focus worldwide, this Research Handbook is a timely compendium of contemporary scholarship. It aptly describes the work-family interface, delving into the unique dimensions of global family life. This carefully designed Research Handbook offers a resource of nuanced discussions on some familiar topics as well as often-overlooked topics including global rainbow families, expatriate children and FIFO family life. While providing an essential theoretical understanding, each chapter also offers clear agendas for future research with theoretical insight. With a focus on insider perspectives, it successfully frames today’s family challenges in a clear and concise way. The Research Handbook of Global Families will be useful for students and academics of such disciplines as global politics, human resource management, migration theory and sociology. It will also be an important reference point for researchers seeking up-to-date information about the nature of global family life.Trade Review‘This excellent book illustrates the value of bridging disciplinary boundaries when it comes to studying global families. Including chapters that describe the full gamut of diverse global family experiences, and covering both traditional (e.g., expatriate family adjustment) and emerging (e.g., migrant and transnational families) topics, it highlights rigorous academic research with very real implications for individuals, families, and organizations. The volume is a must read to everyone interested in global mobility.’ -- Mila Lazarova, Simon Fraser University, Canada‘Enacting family life across two or more countries? If this question gives you pause, put this must-read Handbook on your list. Edited by Yvonne Kallane, Joanne Mutter and Heidi Collins, the Research Handbook is a rich and timely resource for anyone interested in researching the experiences of families where one or more members relocated abroad for work.’ -- Maike Andresen, coordinator of the Horizon 2020 project GLOMO on global mobility of employees, University of Bamberg, Germany‘Integrating global mobility and the work-family interface, this Research Handbook brings to life the diversity, complexities, and realities of global families. It is a compelling, thought-provoking, and interdisciplinary collection of chapters by leading scholars, and it is a valuable resource for anyone doing research on this important topic.’ -- Margaret Shaffer, University of Oklahoma, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xvii Ruth Van Reken 1 Global families: an evolving concept 1 Yvonne Kallane, Joanne Mutter and Heidi Collins PART I EXPATRIATE FAMILIES 2 Expatriate families: historic development of the research field and future outlook 29 Jan Selmer and Sebastian Stoermer 3 Adjustment of expatriate families: a holistic approach 46 Arno Haslberger and Thomas Hippler 4 The trailing spouse: an evolving global phenomenon 72 Yvonne Kallane and Betty Jane Punnett 5 Dual-career expatriation: definitions and concepts 126 Joanne Mutter and Yvonne Kallane PART II MIGRANT FAMILIES 6 African female migrants, family-planning decision-making and work–family balance: the influence of culture and religion 162 Lovanirina Ramboarison-Lalao, Allane Madanamoothoo, Jean-Luc Cerdin and Chris Brewster 7 Migrants and transnational family life in South America: between new families and old practices 183 Roberto Rodolfo Georg Uebel PART III MOBILITY COMMUNITIES 8 Missionary families: a case study of expatriation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 204 Charles Vance, Mark E. Mendenhall and Fred E. Woods 9 Expatriate children: lessons learned from missionary kids (MKs) 232 Cheryl Doss and Braam Oberholster 10 Global families in transnational education 260 Jodie Trembath 11 Global families in sport: the case of the international yachting fraternity 281 Joanne Mutter PART IV EMERGING FORMS OF GLOBAL FAMILY MOBILITY 12 Global rainbow families 304 Varina Michaels and Georg Tamm 13 Split family expatriation: perspectives from expatriates and their career spouses 329 Kate Hutchings and Yvonne Kallane 14 Long-distance commuting ‘FIFO’ families: the work–family interface 358 Libby Brook and Graeme Ditchburn Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book reveals how policies of childcare and early childhood education influence children's circumstances and the daily lives of families with children. Examining how these policies are approached, it focuses particularly on the issues and pitfalls related to equal access. Chapters explore early childhood education and care policies in different social and geographical contexts, highlighting the different ways in which stakeholders - including parents, administrators and policy makers - approach issues of equality. The book further analyses what is meant by, and expected of, early childhood education and care in society and how this varies between nations. Key case studies in the context of liberal, conservative and universal approaches to welfare are used to show the broad differences between them, problematizing the notion of equal access. Social policy, family studies and sociology scholars will appreciate the new insights into the question of the equality of societies offered in this book. It will also prove incisive for researchers looking at the family and early childhood education, as well as for politicians and administrators working in the field.Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction 1 Katja Repo, Maarit Alasuutari, Kirsti Karila and Johanna Lammi-Taskula 2 Governable spaces of early childhood education and care: the Canadian case 6 Rianne Mahon 3 For all, for free! Why do parents have to pay for early childhood education but not for primary education? 22 Jorma Sipilä 4 The paradox of universal access: alleviating or perpetuating inequity for children in New South Wales, Australia 40 Zsuzsa Millei and Jannelle Gallagher 5 The long-term effects of full-time childcare on family lives in Japan 60 Takayuki Sasaki 6 Childcare, education, protection and prevention: the transformation of early childhood policies in Germany since 2000 73 Helga Kelle and Johanna Mierendorff 7 Parents as objects of interventions: what they have to say about early childhood education and schoolification 92 Michel Vandenbroeck and Katrien Van Laere 8 Early childhood education and care in times of transition: the role of policy reforms and advocacy processes in improving the accessibility of services for young children and their families 108 Arianna Lazzari and Lucia Balduzzi 9 Home care and early childhood education in Finland: policies and practices of childcare 133 Johanna Närvi, Minna Salmi and Johanna Lammi-Taskula 10 Rationalizing early childhood education and care in the local context: a case study of Finnish municipalities 152 Petteri Eerola, Maarit Alasuutari, Kirsti Karila, Anu Kuukka and Anna Siippainen 11 Epilogue: contradictory equal access 172 Maarit Alasuutari, Kirsti Karila, Johanna Lammi-Taskula and Katja Repo Index 177

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book explores the different ways in which dual-earner couples in contemporary welfare states plan for, realize and justify their divisions of work and care during the transition to parenthood. Providing a unique comparative, longitudinal and qualitative analysis of new parents in eight European countries, this timely book explicitly locates couples' beliefs and negotiations in the wider context of national institutional structures. Compelling evidence is provided, demonstrating that the ways and degrees to which new parents can realize their work-care plans and ideals systematically relate to the support structures and resources available from employers, families and the state. A key focus is on couples that act in a non-normative way compared to their national, gender cultural context. New Parents in Europe will be of great value to sociology, political science and economics scholars alike and, with its use of cutting-edge methodology, will prove to be a valuable resource for policy makers.Contributors include: J. Alsarve, S. Bertolini, K. Boye, S. Buchler, A. Dechant, M. Evertsson, N. Girardin, D. Grunow, D. Hanappi, M.J. González, T. Jurado-Guerrero, I. Lapuerta, J.-M. Le Goff, T. Martín-García, R. Musumeci, M. Naldini, O. Nesporová, M. Reimann, A. Rinklake, C. Roman, E.-M. Schmidt, M, Seiz, P.M. Torrioni, S. Vogl, U. ZartlerTrade ReviewNew Parents in Europe is a long-desired book for everyone who wants to understand how today's work-care practices, parenting norms, and the impact of social policies are changing the lives of new parents in Europe today. The book is a masterpiece of cross-national research with longitudinal data that is sensitive to different gender ideologies of parents in various countries, their equity patterns in the division of paid and unpaid work, the gender norms over the adult life course, and the creation and maintenance of gender identities.' --Hans-Peter Blossfeld, University of Bamberg, Germany'Transition to parenthood can be imagined, but it is only following the arrival of a baby that the impact it will have dawns. It is these early years of parenthood, which are addressed in this excellent, comparative collection. Across the eight countries included, the ways in which caring and paid work are managed is explored. This includes considering non-normative care and paid work arrangements at the individual/couple level, set against national comparisons of cultural commitments to gender equality and structural features such as welfare regimes. Across the chapters, possibilities of undoing gender are glimpsed, but so too is a continued conflation at various levels, of mothers and primary caring 'obligations'. The sensitive analysis reveals how gendered 'choices' and individual practices, related to caring and paid work, come to be organised. This collection makes a timely and significant contribution to the parenthood literature and is highly recommended.' --Tina Miller, Oxford Brookes University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND COMPARATIVE OVERVIEW 1. Resisting or embracing institutional models of parenthood: an analytical framework Daniela Grunow 2. Comparing couples’ narratives over time: Data and methods Daniela Grunow 3. Couples in their national context: Gender ideology and maternal labour force attachment Sandra Buchler PART II THE SCANDINAVIAN MODEL OF DUAL-EARNING AND DUAL-CARING 4. Realized plans or revised dreams? Swedish parents’ experiences of care, parental leave and paid work after childbirth Jenny Alsarve, Katarina Boye and Christine Roman PART III VARIETIES OF EARNING AND CARING IN CONSERVATIVE WELFARE STATES 5. Working and caring: German couples’ realizations of non-normative work-care plans Anna Dechant and Annika Rinklake 6. Swimming against the tide? Austrian couples’ non-normative work-care arrangements in a traditional environment Eva-Maria Schmidt, Ulrike Zartler and Susanne Vogl 7. Couples’ alignment of pre-birth plans and post-birth realities in Switzerland: Non-normative adaptation to the one and a half earner model Nadia Girardin, Doris Hanappi and Jean-Marie Le Goff PART IV EARNING AND CARING UNDER CONDITIONS OF UNSUPPORTIVE FAMILIALISM 8. Transition to parenthood in Italy: the reasons for non-normativity Sonia Bertolini, Rosy Musumeci, Manuela Naldini and Paola Maria Torrioni 9. Non-normative couples in Spain: Mothers’ career commitment, fathers’ work arrangements, and egalitarian ideology Marta Seiz, María José González, Teresa Jurado-Guerrero, Irene Lapuerta and Teresa Martín-García PART V NEW WELFARE STATES’ RESPONSES TO DUAL EARNING AND CARING 10. ‘It is not something we consciously do’: Polish couples’ struggles to maintain gender equality after the birth of their first child Maria Reimann 11. Non-normative parents in the gender traditional Czech Republic Olga Nešporová PART VI DRAWING CONCLUSIONS: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON NEW PARENTHOOD IN EUROPE 12. Swimming against the tide or going with the flow? Stories on work-care practices, parenting norms and the importance of policies in a changing Europe Marie Evertsson and Daniela Grunow Index

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Book SynopsisExploring how family life has radically changed in recent decades, this comprehensive Research Handbook tracks the latest developments and trends in scholarly work on the family. With a particular focus on the European context, it addresses current debates and offers insights into key topics including: the division of housework, family forms and living arrangements, intergenerational relationships, partner choice, divorce and fertility behaviour. Bringing together contributions from leading family sociologists, the Research Handbook examines important questions: have family patterns across different countries become more similar, or have differences between countries and social groups increased over time? How diverse are family forms across different countries? How do conventional theories explain these patterns? And what are the major innovations in theorising and describing family behaviour? In order to resolve these key points, the chapters provide an overview of past and present developments in scholarly work on European families. They also present concise overviews of theories, methods, critical debates, empirical findings and pathways for future research. Its analysis of important areas of research in the field will make this Research Handbook a valuable resource for scholars and students of sociology, demography, and family and gender policy. It will also be beneficial for policy experts in these fields.Trade Review'The Research Handbook brings together contributions from leading international experts within the field of the sociology of the family, drawing on disciplinary backgrounds in theoretical and empirical sociology, demography, economics, political science and wider social sciences. By providing a comprehensive overview of the key issues and debates within contemporary European family sociology, ranging from the gendered division of work within families, intimate and intergenerational relationships, through to the role of family policies and different welfare regimes, it will be critical reading for all scholars interested in how families are coping and how they are evolving. The list of contributors reads like a ''who’s who'' and the book will rightly gain a place on the bookshelves of family researchers, practitioners and policy makers across the globe.' -- Jane Falkingham, University of Southampton, UK'The contributors to this book are an impressive group of scholars who have conducted leading research on European families. Individual chapters provide clear and comprehensive roadmaps to an extensive variety of topics in family research. Especially impressive are several thoughtful discussions of classic and emerging theory that should be required reading for anyone embarking on a sociological study of family life. A particular strength of the theoretical discussions and research reviews is their engagement with innovative understandings of gender in families and societies.' -- Elizabeth Thomson, Stockholm University, Sweden and University of Wisconsin-Madison, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xv PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction: The sociology of the family – towards a European perspective 2 Norbert F. Schneider and Michaela Kreyenfeld PART II THEORETICAL ADVANCES IN FAMILY RESEARCH 2 Welfare state regimes, family policies, and family behaviour 22 Gerda Neyer 3 Cross-cultural perspectives in family research 42 Bernhard Nauck 4 Family diversity in a configurational perspective 60 Eric D. Widmer 5 Life course sociology: Key concepts and applications in family sociology 73 Dirk Konietzka and Michaela Kreyenfeld PART III NEW PERSPECTIVES IN FAMILY RESEARCH 6 Digital family research 89 Nicolas M. Legewie and Anette E. Fasang 7 Qualitative longitudinal research in family sociology 107 Laura Bernardi 8 Families from a network perspective 125 Gil Viry and Andreas Herz PART IV FAMILY DIVERSITY AND FAMILY CHANGE 9 A historical perspective on family change in Europe 143 Josef Ehmer 10 Demography of family change in Europe 162 Tomáš Sobotka and Caroline Berghammer 11 Living arrangements across households in Europe 187 Chia Liu and Albert Esteve 12 Living arrangements in later life 205 Pearl A. Dykstra PART V FAMILY TRANSITIONS IN THE LIFE COURSE 13 Partner choice and partner markets 219 Jan Van Bavel 14 Causes and consequences of family dissolution in Europe and post-divorce families 232 Dimitri Mortelmans 15 Fertility desires, intentions, and behaviour 248 Ann Berrington 16 Family behaviour of migrants 263 Gunnar Andersson PART VI INTIMATE AND INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS 17 Grandparent status and multigenerational relationships 278 Jan Skopek 18 Children and parents after separation 300 Ulrike Zartler 19 Emotions, love, and sexuality in committed relationships 314 Karl Lenz and Marina A. Adler PART VII NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE DIVISION OF WORK IN FAMILIES 20 Gender and labour market outcomes 329 Anna Matysiak and Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska 21 The gender division of housework and child care 342 Oriel Sullivan 22 Couples’ transitions to parenthood: Why the female partner’s earnings advantage fails to predict efficient specialisation 355 Daniela Grunow 23 Family sociological theories questioned: Same-sex parent families sharing work and care 373 Marie Evertsson, Madeleine Eriksson Kirsch, and Allison Geerts 24 ‘Plus ça change’? The gendered legacies of mid-twentieth-century conceptualisations of the form and function of the family 386 Wendy Sigle 25 Poverty and the family in Europe 400 Jonathan Bradshaw and Rense Nieuwenhuis 26 Medically assisted reproduction in developed countries: Overview and societal challenges 417 Jasmin Passet-Wittig and Martin Bujard 27 Key developments and future prospects in the study of transnational families 439 Laura Merla, Majella Kilkey, Raelene Wilding, and Loretta Baldassar Index

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary book provides a sociological view of the contemporary experiences of children in Southern Europe. Focusing on regions deeply affected by the 2008 economic crisis, it offers a detailed investigation into the impact of economic downturn and austerity on the lives of children. Established childhood studies and sociology researchers unpack recent changes in the quality of children's lives and our understanding of children's rights in the modern world. Focusing first on contemporary changes to children's forms of living, the book then turns to the prevalence of poverty in Southern Europe, before scrutinising the experiences of migrant and highly mobile children. Illustrating these experiences with key case studies from across Southern Europe, this book presents a powerful critique of the promises and pitfalls of structural changes to children-centred public policy. This informative book is essential reading for academics and higher-level students of childhood studies. Policy makers and practitioners in education, law, health, social services and children's rights organizations in need of strong, empirical research into childhood experiences will appreciate the thorough case studies analysed in the book. Contributors include: G. Argento, R. Barn, E. Brey, R.T. Di Rosa, M. Domínguez-Serrano, N. Fernándes, L. Gaitán, A. Kiliari, F. Kougioumoutzaki, S. Mateus, L. del Moral-Espín, A. Nunes de Almeida, S. Pantazidis, Y. Pechtelidis, V. Ramos, M. Sánchez-Domínguez, M.J. Sarmento, C. Satta, T. Seabra, A.G. Stamou, M.T. Tagliaventi, C. Tomás, G. de Pina TrevisanTrade Review'Children's Lives in Southern Europe is an insightful, well-written, and timely volume focusing on a neglected but radically changing region of Europe. The diverse chapters provide comprehensive discussion of children's lives and agency at the macro and micro level with important insights for social policy. A ground-breaking work in childhood studies.' --William A. Corsaro, Author of The Sociology of Childhood and We're Friends, Right?: Inside Kids' Culture'This book offers an essential contribution to understanding the challenges faced by children in Southern Europe through the years of ''austerity'' and the ''refugee crisis''. The four editors combine a deep understanding of their own countries with a powerful theoretical orientation to taking children seriously as social actors and as citizens. The combination of detailed contextual information with vivid case studies is a real strength. For anyone with an interest in the reality of childhood, and the prospects for children's lives, in Southern Europe this will be an invaluable source of information and ideas.' --Nigel Patrick Thomas, University of Central Lancashire, UK'This book presents a rich and stimulating collection of contributions on a neglected focus in the English speaking world. The chapters provide a fresh and rewarding exploration of children's lives in Southern Europe; especially children's well-being, experiences of migration and poverty. The book draws on theory, primary and secondary data and will be an invaluable resource for students wishing to understand childhood in the Mediterranean arena.' --Tom Cockburn, Edge Hill University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: childhood and social exclusion – a sociology of the south? xiii Manuel Jacinto Sarmento 1 Introduction 1 Lourdes Gaitán PART I CURRENT CHANGES IN CHILDREN’S FORMS OF LIVING 2 Introduction to Part I 11 Catarina Tomás 3 Family and childhood: the impact of the crisis in the case of Greece 14 Foteini Kougioumoutzaki 4 Institutionalization and familization of childhood through leisure/sport activities in Italy 30 Caterina Satta 5 Changes to children’s forms of living in contemporary Portugal 47 Ana Nunes de Almeida and Vasco Ramos 6 Intergenerational solidarity in times of crisis: new relationships between children and grandparents in Spain 62 Lourdes Gaitán and María Sánchez-Domínguez PART II CHILD POVERTY AND CHILDREN’S WELL-BEING IN SOUTHERN EUROPE 7 Introduction to Part II 84 Natália Fernandes 8 Poverty, well-being and educational opportunities for children in contemporary Greece: the cases of two after-school programmes 88 Yannis Pechtelidis and Stelios Pantazidis 9 Poorest of all: a case study of Roma children in Italy 104 Maria Teresa Tagliaventi 10 Child poverty in Portugal: the crisis from children’s perspectives 121 Manuel Jacinto Sarmento and Gabriela de Pina Trevisan 11 Austerity and children’s well-being in Spain: a capability approach perspective 141 Lucía del Moral-Espín and Mónica Domínguez-Serrano PART III MIGRANT CHILDREN AND CHILDREN ON THE MOVE 12 Introduction to Part III 161 Yannis Pechtelidis 13 Language education policy discourses on refugee children: evidence from the Greek context 164 Anastasia G. Stamou and Angeliki Kiliari 14 Unaccompanied minors in Sicily: promoting conceptualizations of child well-being through children’s own subjective realities 181 Ravinder Barn, Roberta T. Di Rosa and Gabriella Argento 15 Migrant children in Portuguese schools: the case of Brazilian pupils 196 Teresa Seabra and Sandra Mateus 16 Migrant children and local policies regarding reunified children in Spain 213 Elisa Brey PART IV CONCLUSIONS 17 Conclusions 232 Lourdes Gaitán, Yannis Pechtelidis, Catarina Tomás and Natália Fernandes Index 237

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook is a timely and critical intervention into debates on changing family dynamics in the face of globalization, population migration and uneven mobilities. By capturing the diversity of family ‘types’, ‘arrangements’ and ‘strategies’ across a global setting, the volume highlights how migration is inextricably linked to complex familial relationships, often in supportive and nurturing ways, but also violent and oppressive at other times.Featuring state-of-the-art reviews from leading scholars, the Handbook attends to cross-cutting themes such as gender relations, intergenerational relationships, social inequalities and social mobility. The chapters cover a wide range of subjects, from forced migration and displacement, to expatriatism, labour migration, transnational marriage, education, LGBTQI families, digital technology and mobility regimes.By highlighting the complexity of the migration-family nexus, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for researchers, scholars and students in the fields of human geography, sociology, anthropology and social policy. Policymakers and practitioners working on family relations and gender policy will also benefit from reading this Handbook.Trade Review‘The past few decades have witnessed important theoretical advances to previous understandings of how families weather and are central to engagement in global migration processes. At the same time, the world has changed in fundamental ways, including the introduction of new communication technologies and increasingly bifurcated possibilities for mobility between those with and without social and financial capital. Taking these changes as their starting point, the chapters in this handbook provide important insight for understanding contemporary transnational family life. Covering topics ranging from intimacy and home-making to professional and educational migratory flows to left-behind youth and temporalities and the life-cycle, this comprehensive volume highlights key intersections to pay attention to and continue exploring in order to better understand the complex social processes involved at the intersection of family life and global mobility regimes.’ -- Nicole Newendorp, Harvard University, US‘Few things are more central to migration projects than the family, yet rarely in simple ways. This Handbook presents the transnational family in all of its complexity and multiplicity, tracing its diverse meanings over time, across space and generations. Inequalities and power dynamics are deeply woven into family relations, yet migration also generates novel familial arrangements and subjectivities. The rich contributions span a range of geographical contexts and adopt feminist, agency-centred and grounded approaches to crucially overturn long-standing normative assumptions about transnational families. The Handbook will be an essential resource for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the personal and societal impacts of migration on families, and of families on migration.’ -- Megha Amrith, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Migration and the Family 1 Johanna L. Waters and Brenda S.A. Yeoh PART I GENDER RELATIONS AND GENDER SUBJECTIVITIES 2 Nanny families and the making of gender (in)equality 20 Rosie Cox, Terese Anving and Sara Eldén 3 Transnational marriage migration: agency, structures and intimate gendered governmentality 42 Neil Amber Judge and Margaret Walton-Roberts 4 Nation, gender and location: understanding transnational families in the face of violence 65 Biftu Yousuf and Jennifer Hyndman 5 Vietnamese masculinities in transition: negotiating manhood in the context of female labour migration 86 Lan Anh Hoang 6 The transnationalisation of intimacy: family relations and changes in an age of global mobility and digital media 107 Earvin Charles Cabalquinto and Yang Hu PART II AGE AND INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS 7 Mobility and intergenerational transfers of capital: narrating expatriate and globally mobile children’s perspectives 130 Sin Yee Koh and I Lin Sin 8 Young people, intergenerationality and the familial reproduction of transnational migrations and im/mobilities 151 Caitríona Ní Laoire 9 Split households and migration in the Global South: gender and intergenerational perspectives 173 C. Cindy Fan 10 Negotiating long-distance caring relations: migrants in the UK and their families in Poland 197 Weronika Kloc-Nowak and Louise Ryan 11 Analysing youth migrations through the lens of generation 218 Rhondeni Kikon and Roy Huijsmans 12 Unaccompanied child migrants and family relationships 236 Katie Willis, Sue Clayton and Anna Gupta PART III POWER, SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL MOBILITY 13 Families in educational migration: strategies, investments and emotions 257 Johanna L. Waters and Zhe Wang 14 Privileged migration and the family: family matters in corporate expatriation 279 Sophie Cranston and George Tan 15 Not as safe as houses: experiences of domestic violence among international migrant women 298 Cathy McIlwaine 16 Academic mobility and the family 320 Yanbo Hao and Maggi W.H. Leung 17 The heterosexual family ideal and its limitations for bi-national same-sex family formations 340 Claire Fletcher PART IV SPATIALITIES AND TEMPORALITIES 18 Migrant family separation, reunification and recalibration 366 Denise L. Spitzer and Sara Torres 19 ‘Maybe in the future I’ll have two homes’: temporalities of migration and family life among Vietnamese people in London 385 Annabelle Wilkins20 Offshoring social reproduction: low-wage labour circulation and the separation of work and family life 403 Thomas Saetre Jakobsen, Sam Scott and Johan Fredrik Rye 21 Growing over time: left-behind children in the past three decades 425 Theodora Lam 22 Transnational families and mobility regimes 445 Franchesca Morais and Brenda S.A. Yeoh Index 466

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Book SynopsisAt no time in U.S. history have young people been confronted by such an array of positive and negative influences and opportunities. The recent coronavirus pandemic, in particular, has adversely impacted the behavioural health of young people by disrupting normal school, family, interpersonal, and social norms. In this text, the authors respond to recent calls from practitioners, policymakers, and the public to increase the use of effective prevention approaches for child and adolescent behavioural health challenges.This book reviews evidence and identifies practice and policy issues pertaining to the prevention of common child and adolescent behavioural health problems: 1) substance use/misuse; 2) delinquent conduct; 3) violence, including the perpetration and victimisation of bullying, sexual violence, and dating violence; and 4) school dropout. The authors identify effective prevention approaches and discuss the challenges associated with developing, implementing, and testing prevention strategies. The applied nature of the book offers readers detailed program and intervention examples.All eight chapters in this new edition have been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest scholarship and thinking in the field. A key highlight of the book is the accompanying Active Learning resources for students.This is a must-have text for clinical and community practice, social policy, and youth and human development courses in social work, family studies, public health, psychology, and other human services programs.

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Book SynopsisTaking a novel approach to child support policy analysis, Single Parents and Child Support Systems locates the transfer of payments between separated parents within a wider social policy ecosystem and compares the political, institutional and administrative dimensions of child support policy enactment across the globe. Featuring contributions from an interdisciplinary collective of researchers in social policy, social work, sociology, economics and law, the book assesses how child support policies align conceptually with other social policies. Single Parents and Child Support Systems begins by setting out how children’s and single parents’ economic welfare is conceived across countries in relation to the triple burden of financial, caring and administrative responsibilities faced by single mothers. Chapters map how post-separation child support policy reinforces or breaks from the gender and family logics that underpin welfare and family policies in 10 different countries spanning corporatist, liberal and Nordic welfare regimes. Offering extensive coverage of a diverse range of international legal provisions and social policies, this stimulating book will be an essential resource for academics and researchers of social policy, social work, family law and gender studies. Its practical insights and suggested avenues for reform will also benefit policy makers, child support administrators and legal professionals.Trade Review‘For years, policy makers have been trying to design child support systems which help separated parents yet encourage them to take fiscal responsibility for their children. This illuminating book examines ten countries’ child support policies across six continents and provides fascinating insight into the different systems adopted. It digs deep and also considers the socio-economic and political contexts shaping those policies. The authors use this analysis to pinpoint potential changes to address “the triple bind” single parents face. An invaluable resource for scholars, students, policy makers, and anyone using child support systems. As an international family lawyer tackling international and national child support issues, I found it hugely enlightening.’ -- Lucy Greenwood, Partner, International Family Law Group LLP, UK‘This is a fascinating foray into the intersection of state, market, and family policies relating to child support programs in ten different countries. Positioning child support as a means of operationalizing the opportunity costs of children’s care is indeed a novel way of examining the child support program. The authors, all experts in child support and other socioeconomic interventions, make the strong case that child support is in fact falling short of meeting the needs of the moms who are relying on assistance. To potentially remedy this situation, the authors ask us what is the fundamental purpose of child support?’ -- Steven J. Golightly, Ph.D, Retired Director of the Los Angeles Child Support Program, US‘Designing policy for separating families is thorny yet consequential. This book not only provides an excellent overview of current policy but also addresses new policy dilemmas and explores ideas for dramatic change. The authors achieve an excellent balance between policy specifics within countries and thoughtful discussion of the broader and enduring issues that emerge when comparing different contexts. Read it!’ -- Daniel R. Meyer, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Single Parents and Child Support Systems xi Kay Cook, Thomas Meysen, and Adrienne Byrt 1 Poverty, gender and child support systems in comparative perspective 1 Adedayo Adelakun, Olanike S. Adelakun, Marisa Lo Bartolo, Christina Boll, Rhonda Breitkreuz, Adrienne Byrt, Yiyoon Chung, Kay Cook, Laura Cuesta, Alisha Griffin, Angela Guarin, Mari Haapanen, Mia Hakovirta, Yoonkyung Kim, Eric Lee, Thomas Meysen, Zarina Md Nor, Hannah Roots, Sarah Sinclair, and Christine Skinner 2 The tensions embedded within parents’ access to and the administration of child support: A cross-country conceptual framework 20 Adrienne Byrt, Kay Cook, and Thomas Meysen 3 Australia’s child support system in the context of the welfare system and demographic change 32 Kay Cook and Sarah Sinclair 4 The child support system in Canada: An overview 50 Hannah Roots and Rhonda Breitkreuz 5 The Colombian child support system: A hybrid approach in a challenging social and economic context 70 Laura Cuesta and Angela Guarin 6 Single mothers and the child support system in Finland 92 Mari Haapanen and Mia Hakovirta 7 Child support as part of a multifaceted but fragmented system in Germany 109 Christina Boll and Thomas Meysen 8 Single parent families and the child support system in South Korea 128 Yiyoon Chung, Yoonkyung Kim, and Eric Lee 9 The child support system in Malaysia 144 Zarina Md Nor 10 The child support system and women’s access to child support in Nigeria 161 Olanike S. Adelakun and Adedayo Adelakun 11 United Kingdom and the child support system 177 Christine Skinner 12 The child support system in the United States of America 194 Alisha Griffin 13 Sticking points, blind spots and ways forward 211 Kay Cook, Adrienne Byrt, and Thomas Meysen Index 221

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Book SynopsisThis dynamic Handbook unpacks the entanglements between the two notions of home and migration, which illuminate the lived experiences of (in)voluntary mobilities and the contested terrain of inclusion and belonging.Drawing on cross-disciplinary contributions from leading international scholars, the Handbook advances research on the social study of home in relation to migration, refugee, displacement, and diaspora studies. It investigates the interplay between the notions of house and home, examining the relevance of home as a category of both analysis and practice. With a global and comparative range of case studies and examples, chapters bridge disciplines in unprecedented ways, exploring the existential, epistemological, and political implications of home for those struggling for it from afar and from the margins.Synthesising and systematising state-of-the-art research on home and migration, this groundbreaking Handbook will prove an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and researchers of sociology, anthropology, geography, and architecture. Practitioners and volunteers involved in social welfare, housing, informal social support, and mobilisations, for or by migrants and refugees, will also find this book of importance.Trade Review‘By focusing on home and its mutual entanglements with migration, this book brings fresh eyes to migration studies. What do voluntary and forced migrants lose with respect to home and how do they rebuild and transform it along their way? How does the ability to recreate the emotional, sensorial, and cultural dimensions of home vary across groups and what impact does this have on migrants’ ability to achieve some measure of inclusion and belonging? Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of eminent scholars from around the world, this book provides valuable insights and nuances our understanding of contemporary migration.’ -- Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, US‘The home can seem so solid and fixed. But seen from the perspective of migration it is suddenly set in motion as the vehicle that might take the paths of homing or displacement, home making and unmaking, security and fragility, memory and affectivity. At the same time, a focus on the home as the point of reference for all these dynamic processes provides an ideal position from which to gain an empathetic grounding in the lived experience of migrants. With over fifty chapters, this volume is able to provide an unprecedented sense of the diversity of these experiences and the multiple contexts that need to be considered for a more comprehensive assessment of this relationship between migration and home.’ -- Daniel Miller, University College London, UK‘This impressive and comprehensive Handbook is the culmination of extensive work on the meaning of home directed by the editor. For migrants and refugees, feeling at home is a pressing and sometimes existential issue but, as the rich array of contributors show, creating a reassuring home in our crisis-ridden world is a problem we all face.’ -- Robin Cohen, University of Oxford, UK‘This exceptionally rich book about home and the activity of homing among migrants, empirically and theoretically wide-ranging, is bound to establish itself as the standard reference in the field. It also points ahead towards new conceptualisations of the home, certainly with respect to people on the move, but also in a general sense. Through its focus on people to whom the home is a precarious resource which has to be created, sometimes from scratch, the book raises fundamental questions about social life and belonging.’ -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo, Norway‘This comprehensive, insightful, beautiful collection opens a window into the multiple, everyday meanings of “home” under conditions of migration and displacement. Exceptionally well-integrated, the collection invites us to a fascinating conversation about home across vast geographies, disciplines, and methods. Indispensable reading for anyone who cares about home.’ -- Cecilia Menjivar, University of California, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: home and migration – setting the terms of belonging and place-making on the move 1 Paolo Boccagni PART I BACKGROUNDS 2 Migrants of identity: cosmopolitan actors at home in the world 30 Nigel Rapport and Andrew Dawson 3 Home and forced migration 42 Giorgia Donà, Cathrine Brun and Anita Fábos 4 Housing studies, migration and home 55 Keith Jacobs 5 The migrant house: the meaning of its architecture and materiality 66 Iris Levin 6 Towards a social history of home and migration 77 Rosa Salzberg 7 Moving toward home away from home: a cultural psychology perspective on home and migration 90 Mariann Märtsin and Annela Samuel 8 Between longing and belonging: home, homemaking and diasporas 100 Jayani Bonnerjee 9 The paradox of home: an interview with Les Back 112 PART II QUESTIONS 10 Senses of home in the modern world 121 Gordon Mathews 11 Temporalities of migration and homemaking 131 Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Franchesca Morais 12 Governing the state as a home: domopolitics and migration 145 William Walters 13 Settler colonialism and home 158 Ariel Handel and Hagar Kotef 14 Home and the politics of location and displacement 170 Halleh Ghorashi 15 On the biopsychosocial impacts of extreme domicide 183 Bree Akesson 16 Home, nativism and migration 195 Jan Willem Duyvendak 17 Moving from home to accommodation – a conceptual alternative for the historical manipulation of home for violent and exclusionary ends: an interview with Barak Kalir 206 PART III LIVED EXPERIENCE 18 Home and homemaking in local and transnational family lives 215 Angelie Marilla and Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot 19 Feeling at home: migrant homemaking through the senses 228 Diana Mata-Codesal 20 Making home through memories and ritualised social practices 239 Anastasia Christou 21 Moving bricks: strategies for a genealogy of housing, migration, and social movements 252 Araceli Masterson-Algar and Edward Jackiewicz 22 Home and homemaking during refugee journeys 265 Elina Paju, Lena Näre and Paula Merikoski 23 Migration, home, and homemaking in contemporary visual art 279 Helen Underhill 24 Fictions of home: contemporary Palestinian narratives of migration 291 Yasmine Shamma 25 Religion, immigration, and homemaking: an interview with Peter Kivisto 304 PART IV SCALES AND MATERIALITIES 26 The importance of the housing market for the housing opportunities of immigrants 313 Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen and Hans Skifter Andersen 27 Diasporic housing and the ‘valuing’ of home 328 Lauren Wagner 28 Migrants’ homemaking practices in shared housing 338 Zahra Nasreen 29 Refugee housing and homing: negotiating self and humanity 350 Anne Sigfrid Grønseth 30 The works of homemaking: migration, domestic materiality, and everyday life 365 Marta Vilar Rosales 31 Scaling down migrant homemaking: home possessions and the embodied experience of home 377 Anna Pechurina 32 A (dis)connected homescape: the promise, limits, and paradox of migrants’ homemaking practices in the digital age 388 Earvin Charles Cabalquinto and Xinyu Zhao PART V DIFFERENCES AND INEQUALITIES 33 Gendering home and migration 400 Annabelle Wilkins 34 Migration and home in research with children and young people: story, participation, agency 411 Marta Moskal 35 Homemaking and cohousing by postcolonial migrants in later life 426 Louise Meijering and Ajay Bailey 36 Making home at the borders of citizenship: migrants, home, and (il)legality 438 Paola Bonizzoni, Enrico Gargiulo, and Maurizio Artero 37 Home and homemaking practices among skilled Indian migrants 453 Ajay Bailey 38 Polish multiple migrants and their narratives of home and homemaking over time 466 Aleksandra Winiarska, Justyna Salamońska, Marta Kluszczyńska and Aneta Krzyworzeka-Jelinowska 39 Home, migration, and Roma people in Europe 481 Stefano Piemontese and Gaja Maestri 40 Why (and how) home matters in the “stay-at-home” order and beyond 493 Tasoulla Hadjiyanni 41 Homemaking and mobilities among LGBT people: an interview with Andrew Gorman-Murray 507 PART VI METHODS 42 Unveiling the (trans)national in the home space: an auto-ethnography 515 Magdalena Nowicka 43 Narrating home: oral histories as documents and practices of homing 529 Alexander Freund 44 Visual research and participatory research methods 543 Charishma Ratnam 45 Researching home through the narratives of displaced people 554 Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia 46 Exploring home and migration through quantitative research: enlarging scales, unsettling questions 567 Paolo Boccagni, Cristiano Santinello and Bernardo Armanni PART VII BEYOND THE WEST 47 Between home and accommodation: migration and housing in the Arab region between circular ideals and diasporic lives 581 Samuli Schielke 48 Migrant homemaking in Sub-Saharan Africa: from self-help housing to conspicuous construction 595 Julia Pauli 49 Norms and forms of the remittance landscape in Latin America 609 Christien Klaufus 50 House, home, and homemaking in post-Soviet migratory contexts: insights from research in Russia and Japan 621 Ksenia Golovina, Anna Pechurina, Anna Rocheva, and Evgeni Varshaver 51 Making sense of family and home: multi-generational immigrant families from China to New Zealand 635 Liangni Sally Liu and Guanyu Jason Ran 52 Remittances and transnational housing among the Indian diaspora: home as a project 647 S. Irudaya Rajan and Anand P. Cherian 53 Conclusion: on the futures of home and migration 660 Paolo Boccagni Index

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Book SynopsisForeword by Timothy M. (Tim) Smeeding, Founding Director of the Luxembourg Income Study and Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, University of Wisconsin, USThis insightful book addresses the urgent need for robust evidence on recent trends and factors contributing to poverty and inequality in East Asia. Using data from international projects, including the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), as well as national data, expert contributors monitor trends in poverty and inequality within and between countries, while also identifying the factors that are driving them, both nationally and regionally. Chapters explore labour market and demographic developments, changes in family and household structures and roles, and changes in policy settings. Investigating how these factors act both independently and interactively to generate nationally and regionally unique features of poverty and inequality, the book highlights how inequality has been rising on a global scale and suggests how welfare states should respond. Poverty and Inequality in East Asia will be a valuable resource for researchers and students studying Asian development and social policy, comparative social policy, labour policy and family policy. Drawing on state of the art data to compare experiences in selected Western economies against those in East Asia, the book will also be a useful resource for policy makers.Trade Review‘This volume offers both insight into how East Asian societies are changing, while issuing a warning on how and why their welfare states need further change to adapt to these new realities as the characteristics of inequality and differential prosperity found in rich western nations have come to roost in East Asia.’ -- From the foreword by Timothy Smeeding‘In this engaging volume, leading experts utilize high-quality datasets to assess social policies in contemporary East Asia. These excellent and nuanced studies analyze interactions among multiple changes currently underway – including policy reforms, economic shifts, and demographic upheavals. This illuminating collection broadens and deepens cross-national scholarship on poverty and inequality.’ -- Janet C. Gornick, City University of New York, Graduate Center, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xiv Acknowledgements xvi 1 Introduction to Poverty and Inequality in East Asia: Work, Family and Policy 1 Peter Saunders and Inhoe Ku 2 Working poverty and anti-poverty policy in four East Asian societies 14 Aya Abe, Yu-Ling Chang, Ji Young Kang, Jennifer Romich, and Julia Shu-Huah Wang 3 Income packaging and social safety nets for low-income families with children in East Asia 38 Julia Shu-Huah Wang, Irene Y.H. Ng, Inhoe Ku, Ji Young Kang, Xi Zhao, Chenhong Peng, Aya Abe, and Yinan Yao 4 Childlessness and social support in four East Asian societies 63 Aya Abe 5 Married women’s employment and the motherhood employment penalty by couple’s educational attainment across ten countries 86 Ji Young Kang, Wonjin Lee, Sunyu Ham, and Julia Shu-Huah Wang 6 Adult, child and sibling deprivation in Hong Kong 109 Peter Saunders, Hung Wong, and Vera Mun Yu Tang 7 Explaining the child poverty outcomes of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan 129 Bruce Bradbury, Aya Abe, Markus Jäntti, Inhoe Ku, and Julia Shu-Huah Wang 8 Poverty among young adults in East Asia – a comparative study 153 Geumsun Byun, Mihee Park, and Hyejin Ko 9 Old-age poverty in rural China in the new century 176 Shi Li and Mengbing Zhu 10 What makes old-age poverty in East Asian societies so high? 196 Inhoe Ku, Wonjin Lee, Aya Abe, Mengbing Zhu, Shi Li, Chungyang Yeh, and Dongjin Kim 11 Conclusion 221 Inhoe Ku and Peter Saunders Index 231

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This cross-disciplinary Research Agenda offers an in-depth exploration into financial resources within households, focussing specifically on how they are managed, how they are distributed and with what results.Bringing together an array of leading experts from the Global South and North, this Research Agenda examines the challenges facing researchers in this area, investigates developments in the field and analyses how research interacts with current public policy. This book shines a crucial light on multiple underexplored topics including economic abuse, financial resources within multigenerational households, ageing and cognitive decline, and the role of children in relation to resources within households. Offering key recommendations for future policy and research, A Research Agenda for Financial Resources within the Household makes an invaluable contribution to this highly topical area.This book will be a vital read for students, early career researchers and established academics interested in economics, sociology and social policy, amongst other disciplines. It will also prove highly beneficial for professionals working in NGOs, third sector organisations and think tanks who focus on the issues surrounding intra-household resources.Trade Review‘This edited collection provides an invaluable guide for researchers at all career stages, and a wider audience, to key issues relating to the intra-household use, management and distribution of resources. Chapters cover methodological challenges, latest research and policy implications in the Global South and North, written by leading authors.’ -- Karen Rowlingson, University of York, UK‘This exciting new book brings together insights on household financial resources by bridging disciplinary, methodological, and geographical boundaries. Chapters use both qualitative and quantitative approaches and include analyses of both the Global South and the Global North. They challenge us to think differently about finances across a wide range of types of households.’ -- Cheryl Doss, Tufts University, US‘This book is a long overdue and important contribution to the literature on the intra-household allocation of resources. The chapters in the book provide a thorough and well-written introduction to the topic for students who are new to it. However, it will also be important reading for those researchers familiar with the topic.Scholars interested in the intra-household allocation of resources will recognise many of the themes and questions that are addressed in the chapters of this comprehensive book. Familiar and well-researched questions are addressed from new theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. The chapters in the book take up, in fresh and innovative ways, familiar questions such as assumptions about the sharing of resources that underlie beliefs about sharing in households and families, the connection to policy, issues of power and the (sometimes) conflicting priorities between individual and family interests and well-being.But the book does not stop there. It also expands the scope of research on intra-household resource allocation by including under-researched geographical areas and new topics that mirror the times we live in. For instance, it looks more closely at financial allocation and practices in the global south and in elderly couples, the role of children in resource allocation, complex migrant households and economic abuse in couples.I highly recommend this book to all those interested in opening up the lid of the ”black box” of household and family finances and taking a peek inside.’ -- Charlott Nyman, Umeå University, Sweden‘How resources are distributed within households is notoriously difficult to analyse. The 15 chapters of this book offer a remarkable review of the conceptual and methodological challenges faced and the advances in research on intra-household management and allocation of resources, the importance of the issues raised and their implications for the assessment of individual economic well-being, autonomy and living conditions, and for public policies. This is essential reading.’ -- Sophie Ponthieux, formerly Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), FranceTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xv Jan Pahl Acknowledgements xix Introduction to A Research Agenda for Financial Resources within the Household 1 Fran Bennett, Silvia Avram and Siobhan Austen PART I CONCEPTS, TOOLS, MEASURES AND CHALLENGES 1 How much, and why? A critical introduction to the theory and quantitative analysis of intra-household resource distribution 17 Frances Woolley 2 Resources, roles and relationships: What qualitative research can reveal about resources within the household 33 Fran Bennett 3 Barriers to opening the ‘black box’ of intra-household sharing of resources 49 Satomi Maruyama 4 Data about money within the household: Exploring the challenges and gaps 63 Sara Cantillon and Anne-Catherine Guio 5 Peering into the black box: Using microsimulation methods to evaluate the gendered impact of taxes and transfers 79 Silvia Avram and Daria Popova PART II RECENT RESEARCH INTO RESOURCES WITHIN THE HOUSEHOLD: NEW DIRECTIONS TAKEN 6 Many mouths under one roof: Multigenerational families in Europe sharing resources within households 97 Tania Burchardt and Eleni Karagiannaki 7 Individualising wealth and asset measures in the Global South: Challenges and new directions for research 113 Abena D. Oduro and Hema Swaminathan 8 Control ‘of’ resources or control ‘over’ individuals? Exploring the management and distribution of resources within the household and economic abuse 129 Marilyn Howard and Nicola Sharp-Jeffs 9 Intra-household resources in complex migrant households 145 Supriya Singh 10 Who counts in intra-household sharing? Children as active agents in the household economy 161 Gill Main PART III THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESOURCES WITHIN THE HOUSEHOLD AND POLICY 11 Understanding the role of social grants as resources in multi-generational households: Examples from South Africa and Lesotho 179 Elena Moore and Thandie Hlabana 12 Ageing populations, financial capability and household financial decision-making in the context of neoliberal social policy systems 193 Debora Price 13 Negotiating assets in a financialised retirement income system: Evidence from older mixed-sex couple households in Australia 209 Siobhan Austen, Susan Himmelweit, Rhonda Sharp and Monica Costa 14 The gendered effects of joint assessment for couples claiming means-tested benefits 225 Rita Griffiths 15 Temporality and the meaning of social security money within households 241 Kate Summers and David Young Index 255

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Book SynopsisThis insightful book provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of the formation and evolution of Nordic earner-carer policies over five decades. Spanning parental leave, father quotas, daycare services, and cash for childcare allowances, it explores the key roles that ideas and political parties play in the policy reform process.Examining earner-carer politics across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, Anne Lise Ellingsæter summarises and advances existing family policy literature by adopting a long historical perspective on policy reform. Highlighting how political processes shape policy trajectories, the book focuses on interpretative struggles in political discourses and reform processes, reflecting on the highly politicised and value-laden nature of family policy. It argues that bloc politics – the left against the centre-right – have been a central driving force, energised by differing ideas about relationships between state, family and individual, and between state and market. Ellingsæter also explores gender equality and parental choice, two strong and at times competing ideas influencing family policy.Drawing on and furthering extensive theoretical and empirical research on family policy and welfare state change, Nordic Earner-Carer Politics will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of social policy, sociology, political science, and gender studies.Trade Review‘In tracing 50 years of the history of earner-carer models in the five Nordic countries, this important book provides new insights into one of the defining features of the welfare state. Its compelling analysis of both the politics and policies associated with earner-carer models is a major contribution to scholarship.’ -- Mary Daly, University of Oxford, UK‘Anne Lise Ellingsæter has long been an influential scholar of Nordic social policies, keenly analyzing policy architectures and their effects on gendered divisions of labor. In this ground-breaking book, she turns her experienced eye to policy formation. Focusing on the role of ideas and partisan political dynamics, and applying a comparative and historical lens, she skillfully unwinds complex policy trajectories.’ -- – Janet C. Gornick, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I PROBLEMS, PERSPECTIVES AND CONTEXTS 1 Introduction: Placing Nordic earner-carer politics in time 2 The politics of policy formation: modes of change, ideas and parties 3 The contexts: Nordic welfare states PART II EARNER-CARER POLICY PATHS 4 Shifting leave path: from mother to parent right 5 Politicising fatherhood: Struggles over quota politics 6 Going public: Towards universal childcare and beyond 7 Cash for childcare: Choice controversies PART III TEMPORALITY AND POLICY IMPACT 8 Earner-carer policy outcomes: The longer term PART IV CONCLUSIONS 9 The era of Nordic earner-carer politics

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Book SynopsisAddressing a gap in social science research to explore the meanings, understandings, and experiences of time at life's most critical point, this book takes a thoughtful sociological approach to questions about how humans use and experience time in relation to when someone dies.

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Book SynopsisAt a time of significant local, national, and international change, in which children are already actively involved, it seems not only right but necessary that we should be seeking to further our knowledge and understanding of what informs and shapes meaningful and effective practice for and with children. Such research has implications across the spaces that children and adults share whether that is at school, at home, in the law courts, in health care through to local, national, and international platforms for social action. Establishing Child Centred Practice in a Changing World, Part B extends the conversation to connect research and practices in a changing world. This edition examines children’s voices in relation to research methodologies, in particular co-production, as well as extending conversations around child centred practice from forest schools to the home through to community change initiatives that further understandings of what it means to be a learner and an advocate. Authors from around the world offer a range of perspectives to advance transformational practice in a changing world. Furthering dialogues around the applied relevance of key principles in childhood studies, this diverse edited collection is an important contribution to the fields of education, sociology, childcare and youth policy and practice.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Extending the Conversation; Sam Frankel Chapter 2. Children's Voices in Early Childhood Education and Care; Nadine Correia and Cecília Aguiar Chapter 3. Children’s Voice in Praxiological Transformation; Cristina Mesquita Chapter 4. Using Pupil Views Templates to Explore Children’s Experiences of Teaching and Learning; Kirstin Mulholland Chapter 5. Engaging Authentic Pupil Voice in Schools; David Littlefair Chapter 6. Hearing Children’s Voices in the Forest; Joanna Hume Chapter 7. Young Children’s Participation in Homeschooling During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Reflective Case Study from England; Fengling Tang Chapter 8. Reclaiming Agency: A Social Pedagogical Orientation to Child Centred Practice; Daniel Nester Chapter 9. Co-production in Creative Design to Amplify Childhood Voices of Parental Separation; Susan Kay-Flowers Chapter 10. Children’s Perceptions of Participation Within their Families: Listening to Children of Bolivian Families Living in Madrid; Rossana Perez-del-Aguila, Patricia Rodriguez Aguirre, and Jimena Cuba Blanco Chapter 11. Children and Negotiation of Family Rules in Ibadan, Nigeria; Ewajesu Okeewumi and Olayinka Akanale Chapter 12. Shared Decision-Making Processes in a Contemporary Urban Art Project and its Impact on Children; Joana Campos Louçã Chapter 13. The 'Added Value' of the Youth Contribution and the Call of Young People for Intergenerational Partnerships: Reflections from the 2021 World Congress for Justice WITH Children; Walt Burkard, Alexandra-Maria Dan, Macholi Chris Benard, Iliana Pujols, and Anas Darouichi Chapter 14. Youth Political Participation in the Canadian Senate: Discussions with the Vote 16 Steering Group; Gabrielle Gooch Chapter 15. Childhood Participation in Chile: Debts and Opportunities from Child Protagonism; Paulina Jara-Osorio

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Book SynopsisMilne provides a comprehensive analysis of conviction outcomes through court transcripts of 14 criminal cases in England and Wales during 2010 to 2019. Drawing on feminist theories of responsibilisation and 'gendered harm', she critically reflects on the gendered nature of criminal justice's responses to suspected infanticide.

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Written by eminent scholar Chiara Saraceno, this Advanced Introduction offers a synthetic overview of the core theoretical and policy issues involved in family policy, currently the most dynamic sector of social policies in both developed and developing countries. It discusses the three primary areas of family policy in contemporary society: financial support for the cost of children, short and long term care for children and dependent people, and work-family conciliation.Key features include: An engaging and accessible style exploration of the roles of civil law and feminist studies a comparative, global perspective including analysis of the Global South presentation of the core conceptual and methodological debates in the field. Providing a compact and concise introduction to the rich scholarship of the field, the Advanced Introduction to Family Policy will be a key resource for students and scholars of family policy, social policy and sociological theory.Trade Review‘Chiara Saraceno has given us an engaging and concise analysis of the significance of family policy, hallmarked by her characteristic deep knowledge and critical approach.' -- Mary Daly, University of Oxford, UK’Chiara Saraceno, one of the world's leading scholars of family policy through a gendered lens, covers a remarkable amount of terrain in this concise volume. The book provides an advanced but accessible introduction to family policy – clarifying components and boundaries, identifying an array of goals, and assessing diverse policy drivers. Saraceno deftly tells the story of family policy in historical and cross-national perspective, offering her readers a nuanced portrait of commonalities and variation across both time and space.' -- Janet C. Gornick, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to family policy 2. Regulating families through law 3. Family policy: identifying a policy field 4. Drivers, goals and actors of family policy 5. Family policies within welfare state studies 6. Family policy profiles 7. Supporting the cost of children: the child benefits package 8. Policies of care 9 Reconciling work and family responsibilities 10. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Written by eminent scholar Chiara Saraceno, this Advanced Introduction offers a synthetic overview of the core theoretical and policy issues involved in family policy, currently the most dynamic sector of social policies in both developed and developing countries. It discusses the three primary areas of family policy in contemporary society: financial support for the cost of children, short and long term care for children and dependent people, and work-family conciliation.Key features include: An engaging and accessible style exploration of the roles of civil law and feminist studies a comparative, global perspective including analysis of the Global South presentation of the core conceptual and methodological debates in the field. Providing a compact and concise introduction to the rich scholarship of the field, the Advanced Introduction to Family Policy will be a key resource for students and scholars of family policy, social policy and sociological theory.Trade Review‘Chiara Saraceno has given us an engaging and concise analysis of the significance of family policy, hallmarked by her characteristic deep knowledge and critical approach.' -- Mary Daly, University of Oxford, UK’Chiara Saraceno, one of the world's leading scholars of family policy through a gendered lens, covers a remarkable amount of terrain in this concise volume. The book provides an advanced but accessible introduction to family policy – clarifying components and boundaries, identifying an array of goals, and assessing diverse policy drivers. Saraceno deftly tells the story of family policy in historical and cross-national perspective, offering her readers a nuanced portrait of commonalities and variation across both time and space.' -- Janet C. Gornick, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to family policy 2. Regulating families through law 3. Family policy: identifying a policy field 4. Drivers, goals and actors of family policy 5. Family policies within welfare state studies 6. Family policy profiles 7. Supporting the cost of children: the child benefits package 8. Policies of care 9 Reconciling work and family responsibilities 10. Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and innovative book demonstrates the dynamics of welfare policies in different socioeconomic settings by providing comparative analyses of the Baltic and Nordic welfare state systems. The book contributes to finding and reflecting upon innovative solutions to common challenges in European welfare states. Challenging conventional welfare state research, the authors compare the Nordic countries with the welfare states of the market-oriented democracies of the Baltic area, discussing welfare state theories, family policy regimes and welfare state models. Top international contributors provide a better understanding of the complex inequalities that families and individuals are facing in the 21st century, and cover important topics such as poverty, social insurance and family policy in the Nordic and Baltic areas. Challenges to the Welfare State will be of great interest to social policy scholars and policy makers, particularly those with an interest in the Baltic and Nordic countries. It will also be a welcome addition to the literature for students interested in family policy and pension protection reforms, and those with a general interest in the contemporary welfare state studies in Europe.Trade Review‘In this important book, the authors offer a rich and multifaceted comparative analysis of family policies and pension protection systems in the Baltic and Nordic countries. By exploring two rarely contrasted socioeconomic settings, the authors brilliantly uncover not only similarities and differences in welfare provision but also lay bare the changes and challenges now taking place in them.’ -- Åsa Lundqvist, Lund University, Sweden‘Baltic countries are underrepresented in comparative welfare state studies and this volume addresses this unfortunate situation by addressing contemporary social policy challenges facing both Baltic and Nordic countries in the areas of family policy and pension protection. Featuring an excellent line-up of scholars, this unique volume makes a distinguished contribution to the comparative social policy literature and it offers unique insights for scholars and practitioners alike.’ -- Daniel Béland, McGill University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface xii 1 Introduction: Baltic and Nordic countries from a comparative perspective – family policies and pensions in the era of ageing 1 Jolanta Aidukaite, Sven E. O. Hort and Stein Kuhnle PART I PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILY POLICY 2 Family support systems in the Baltic and Nordic countries: an explorative overview 11 Jolanta Aidukaite 3 Demographic challenges of Europe in the new millennium: Swedish family policies as an answer to them 33 Livia Sz. Oláh and Gerda Neyer 4 Nordic family policy in the 2000s: from a ‘transfer-based’ towards a ‘service-based’ family policy? 52 Mia Hakovirta and Mikael Nygård 5 Family policy support for the earner-carer and traditional-family models in Lithuania and Sweden1 72 Katharina Wesolowski, Sunnee Billingsley and Gerda Neyer 6 The sustainability of family support systems in the 21st century: comparing Sweden and Lithuania 94 Jolanta Aidukaite and Kristina Senkuviene 7 Cost of childcare: evolution of regional diversity in Estonia 119 Mare Ainsaar and Mona Sõukand PART II PERSPECTIVES ON PENSION PROTECTION IN THE ERA OF AGEING 8 Ageing and the welfare state: welfare policies and attitudes in the Baltic and Nordic countries 137 Jolanta Aidukaite, Sven E. O. Hort and Mare Ainsaar 9 Gender inequalities in family leaves, employment and pensions in Finland 160 Kati Kuitto and Susan Kuivalainen 10 Approaches to minimum-income protection in old age: comparing the three Scandinavian countries 180 Axel West Pedersen 11 Pension systems as risk management: a case of the Baltic states 202 Olga Rajevska 12 Looking for an adequate and sustainable old-age pension system: comparing Sweden and Lithuania 224 Teodoras Medaiskis and Šarūnas Eirošius 13 The inequality of public pension benefits for the elderly using Estonian data 248 Magnus Piirits 14 Stretching the canvas: beyond welfare state typologies to capability and agency 267 Barbara Hobson Index

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Book SynopsisThe modern day sees fewer marriages than before, and cohabitation is a major driver of family change. Jane Lewis questions whether this is - as many commentators argue and fear - a sign of ever-increasing individualism. Just as the order in which sex, marriage, cohabitation and childbirth occur can no longer be assumed, nor can the pattern of contributions that men and women make to the household. The End of Marriage? explores both the way in which the old rules have been eroded and what happens as a result. While there may certainly be something of a vacuum, Jane Lewis suggests that in some quarters at least this is being filled by increased negotiation at the household level. This questions the idea that individualism is necessarily selfish and destructive, which in turn raises issues regarding the regulation of the family, an increasingly delicate task for policymakers. The book reviews the debate surrounding the causes of family change, and suggests that the 'cultural variable' has been neglected, and that it is important to look at changes in normative expectations as well as in behaviour. Historical analysis is used to track changes in the major prescriptive frameworks of family law and the male breadwinner model. Contemporary qualitative research is also drawn upon in order to explore relationships in married and cohabiting households.This outstanding volume will fascinate a wide audience, including those interested in sociology and social policy, socio-legal studies and social historyTrade Review'Sociologist Jane Lewis in The End of Marriage? approaches modern marriage from the standpoint of individualism (economists would say individual utility maximization). Lewis includes both marriage and cohabitation in her analyses and offers and intergenerational twist in assessing the success of unions, marital or cohabitational. While her focus is British, the novelty of her approach to marriage and her generational context makes this a must read.' -- Darius Conger, 'Economics and the American Family: A Review of Recent Literature', Choice'This is a very worthwhile book that offers two important things: first, an intellectual history of notions of intimacy between two heterosexual adults and how empirical forms of interaction are informed by a larger cultural context of shifting forms of morality. Second, and equally important, it adds to the scarce literature on cohabiting couples with an intriguing intergenerational component. The discussion is always complex, subtle and illuminating . . . a most welcome addition to the sociology of the family.' -- Margrit Eichler, Labour / Le Travail'Lewis's book is a useful survey of the literature about marriage and divorce in the twentieth century, and the interviews are quite interesting.' -- Ginger S. Frost, Albion'Lewis's subtle and richly documented study demonstrates convincingly that, in Britain at any rate, marriage has not ended, but merely adapted to the zeitgeist, emerging at the end of the twentieth century revitalized and reconfigured.' -- Sonya Michel, Contemporary Sociology'The End of Marriage? goes to the heart of contemporary debates on individualisation, commitment and the significance of marriage in modern society. Jane Lewis applies her encyclopaedic knowledge of the field to produce a book that is both immensely scholarly and also accessible to every potential reader from policymakers to undergraduates.' -- Carol Smart, University of Leeds, UK'In this meticulously argued book, Jane Lewis tackles one of the most fraught and contested issues of our time: the contemporary meanings of marriage. The separation of marriage and sex, she argues, has now been followed by the separation of marriage and parenthood. But that is only part of a great transition in intimate life. Against the cultural pessimists, she clearly shows that while traditional marriage may be in decline, strong relationships of various types are thriving. Against the optimists she demonstrates that while a new norm of partnership equality, both within and outside marriage, is emerging, there is still a long way to go before full equality between men and women is achieved. But her strongest evidence is the most hopeful. Far from individual selfishness corrupting any sense of mutual responsibility, most people seek to balance individuality and commitment, governed by a search for fairness, respect for privacy and above all concern for the welfare of children. This is an important book that clarifies the policy choices we face: either to seek to restore a past that has irretrievably disappeared, or to go with the grain of change, to understand its complexities, and to welcome the creativity of vast numbers of people in working towards honest and open forms of commitment and mutual responsibility.' -- Jeffrey Weeks, South Bank University London, UK'The argument that marriage has been undermined by a growing individualism is widely accepted by both pessimists and optimists. In this much needed book, Jane Lewis combines a formidable range of historical and sociological evidence to challenge this assumption. The longer term historical analysis shows that modern concerns are by no means new while also indicating some of the real changes that have taken place in the erosion of the idea of the male breadwinner and of externally imposed moral codes. Her own qualitative research reinforces these arguments, discovering considerable overlaps between the views of married couples and of co-habitees. She finds a widespread recognition of the importance of commitment in relationships combined with a realistic acknowledgement of the increasing complexities of personal life in modern society. This is a fluent, well-informed and constantly stimulating contribution to recent debates. It will, I predict, be much used across a wide range of disciplines.' -- David H.J. Morgan, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsContents: Part I 1. Introduction: The Debate 2. Changing Patterns: The Decline of Marriage and the Rise of Cohabitation Part II 3. The Male Breadwinner Model Family 4. From Public to Private Morality 5. The Law of Marriage and Divorce: Towards Privatisation and Deregulation? Part III 6. Inside Relationships: The Decision to Marry or Cohabit and the Nature of Commitment 7. Inside Relationships: Individualism and Commitment and the Investment of Time and Money 8. What is to be Done: What Should be the Role of Private Law and Family Policy in Respect of Intimate Relationships? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWork, Family and Childcare studies the joint decisions made by parents regarding the time they allocate to paid employment and childcare. Extensive cross-national data is analysed from three countries that represent the diversity of European households: Belgium, Denmark and Spain. The book compares and contrasts the results and draws out important implications for European social policy.Among Belgian and Danish couples, the author identifies a variety of ways in which the responsibility of childcare is handled. In certain cases both partners will invest considerable time and effort in looking after the child, whereas in other couples one parent will compensate for their partner's lack of time. He also demonstrates that childcare considerations dominate parental decision-making. This is evident not only in a country such as Spain which lacks childcare facilities, but also in Denmark which, relatively speaking, provides an abundance of childcare services. Importantly, the author finds that joint preferences tend to result in either work-centred or care-centred couples, which poses new challenges for policymakers. He argues that future policy initiatives regarding the relationship between 'work and care' should focus on parental diversity and help parents to balance care responsibilities and employment according to their preferencesThis superb new book combines econometric analysis and social policy insights to address an issue of increasing importance to a growing number of people. It will appeal to a broad international audience including economists, sociologists and social policy researchers. It will also be of value to students on a range of courses concerned with family or household economics.Trade Review'What makes this book so special is that the author is well aware of both the policy debates - the economic theory debate on household decision models and the econometric debate on endogeneity and simultaneity in estimations. If only all econometric work could be equally as policy relevant and all policy relevant work could be so well grounded in econometrics. The result is an enlightening, comprehensive and pedagogic account of the link between work, family and childcare, which bridges the gap between the econometric model builders and the policy analysts.' -- Siv Gustafsson, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands'This book serves up a rich blend of modern family economics, econometrics and knowledge of social institutions to shed light on important social policy issues, including equal opportunity and childcare policies. It demonstrates how careful econometric analysis guided by theory can improve our understanding of how spouses interact in allocating their time to paid employment and to caring for children. The importance of social institutions is demonstrated by undertaking comparable analyses for three European countries - Belgium, Denmark and Spain.' -- John Ermisch, University of Essex, UK'Based on economic theory and empirical evidence of European social reality, Joris Ghysels analyses micro-data using up-to-date econometrics. He thereby produces innovative insights and suggestions for policy change which will be of interest to scientists and policymakers alike.' -- Bea Cantillon, University of Antwerp, BelgiumTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Theoretical Models of Household Decision Making 2. The Recent History of Households, Labour and Demography 3. Econometric Considerations 4. An Application to EU Household Decision Making: Young Couples in Denmark, Belgium and Spain 5. Empirical Results for Belgium 6. Empirical Results for Denmark 7. Empirical Results for Spain 8. Household Decision Making and Time Allocation: A Tale of Conflicts and Complementarity 9. Households, Children and Childcare Facilities 10. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a comparative study of family change, parental employment and social policy in the five Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. In all these countries family forms have been profoundly affected by lower fertility rates, lower marriage rates, increased cohabitation, higher risks of relationship breakdown and episodes of lone parenthood. These changes have also been linked to an increase in the proportion of mothers participating in the labour market. The contributors to this book trace these social trends over the last twenty years and analyse how social policy has developed and evolved in response. They argue that while the Nordic countries pioneered efforts to recognise new family forms and reconcile work and family life, there is still considerable variation between them as well as some evidence that the non-Nordic countries are catching up.Social Policy, Employment and Family Change in Comparative Perspective will strongly appeal to academics and researchers of social policy as well as policy makers looking to learn from the experiences of these countries.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction Jonathan Bradshaw and Aksel Hatland 2. Family Change Naomi Finch 3. The Parental Employment Context Emese Mayhew 4. State Recognition of New Family Forms? Cecilie Wehner and Peter Abrahamson 5. Parental Rights and Obligations Aksel Hatland and Emese Mayhew 6. Family Benefit Packages Jonathan Bradshaw and Emese Mayhew 7. Childcare and Parental Leave Naomi Finch 8. Fertility Rates in Europe: The Influence of Policy, Economy and Culture Arieke Rijken 9. First Births: A Comparative Study of the Patterns of Transition to Parenthood in Europe Katja Forssén and Veli-Matti Ritakallio 10. Men and (Their) Families: Comparative Perspectives on Men’s Roles and Attitudes Towards Family Formation Trudie Knijn, Ilona Ostner and Christoph Schmitt 11. Education, Employment and Family Formation: Differing Patterns Ulla Björnberg, Stefán Ólafsson and Guony Björk Eydal 12. Working Their Way Out of Poverty? Lone Mothers in Policies and Labour Markets Anne Skevik 13. Family Poverty in the European Union Veli-Matti Ritakallio and Jonathan Bradshaw 14. Gender Equity and Time Use: How Do Mothers and Fathers Spend Their Time? Naomi Finch 15. Conclusions Ulla Bjornberg and Jonathan Bradshaw Index

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Book SynopsisCompeting claims on time in work and family life have become inherent, unavoidable features of the Western world. As households increasingly juggle competing responsibilities, and as job expectations and parenting standards intensify, many people feel torn between work and family. This book aims to deepen our understanding of a variety of conditions that influence the successes and difficulties experienced in attempting to equally accommodate both work and private lives. The contributors argue that conditions which create competing claims on time can originate from the organization, from the household, or from both; a multi-level and multi-actor approach is thus applied to the problem. Paying detailed attention to time use and time pressures, the contributors focus not only on the causes of disturbed balances between work and care, but also on solutions to these competing claims. The conclusions reached provide policymakers and implementers with evidence that certain elements of the organization and the household can be seen as parameters that are susceptible to directed policy-based intervention. This comprehensive, multinational and multi-disciplinary study encompasses sociology, economics, geography and urban science perspectives from across Europe, US, and Australia. It will prove essential reading for students of social scientific disciplines, including family and organizational sociology and economics, and for policymakers and researchers focusing on work-family issues.Trade Review'. . . this book is an interesting contribution to the theory and practice of a major concern for a more balanced working life and a less stress-related health problems, particularly in the context of a shrinking labour force in the coming decades and population ageing. It will be valuable to policy makers, employers, human resources managers, trade unions and labour market specialists.' -- Hedva Sarfati, Industrial Relations'. . . this book presents a valuable contribution to existing literature. The fact that the different contributions are rather short has the advantage of making the reading process highly enjoyable.' -- Sile O'Dorchai, Transfer'. . . this book, well-structured and written by highly-qualified contributors, is a valuable contribution to the better understanding of the variables which impact on the interplay between work and private life and successfully provides a medium through which students in sociology and human resource management will be able to chart the shifting boundaries of their respective disciplines.' -- Jeanne Fagnani, British Journal of Industrial RelationsTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Finding Time Tanja van der Lippe and Pascale Peters PART I: TRENDS IN TIME USE AND TIME PRESSURE 2. Time Pressure and Quality of Life Manfred Garhammer 3. More Work for Mothers? Trends and Gender Differences in Multitasking Liana C. Sayer 4. Odd Working Hours and Time Pressure Koen Breedveld 5. Under Pressure: Time and Time Pressure in Flanders Maarten Moens PART II: WORKPLACE AND HOUSEHOLD RELATED CAUSES 6. Trading off or Having it all? Workers’ Preferences for Work and Family Time Judith Treas and Christin Hilgeman 7. Employees’ Preferences for Longer or Shorter Working Hours Kea G. Tijdens 8. The Puzzle of Unpaid Overtime: Can the Time Greediness of Post-Fordist Work be Explained? Patricia van Echtelt, Arie C. Glebbeek, Rudi Wielers and Siegwart Lindenberg 9. Working Time, Client Time and Family Time: Accounting for Time in the Accountancy Profession Suzan Lewis 10. Labour Supply: The Effects of Employer Demands and Household Governance Philip Wotschack, Jacques Siegers, Babette Pouwels and Rafael Wittek PART III: ORGANIZATIONAL AND HOUSEHOLD SOLUTIONS TO TIME PRESSURE 11. Trading Time and Money: Explaining Employee Participation and Leave Choices in a Flexible Benefit Plan Carlien Hillebrink, Joop Schippers, Pascale Peters and Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes 12. Household Outsourcing: A Transaction Cost Approach Esther de Ruijter and Tanja van der Lippe 13. Time Competition in Home-Based Telework: A Theoretical Framework Peter Standen 14. Access to Home-Based Telework: A Multi-Level and Multi-Actor Perspective Pascale Peters and Tanja van der Lippe 15. Does Telecommuting Really Save Commute Time? Time, Distance, and Speed Evidence from State of California Workers David T. Ory and Patricia L. Mokhtarian Index

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Book SynopsisThis important book offers valuable insights into the way in which social policies and welfare state arrangements interact with family and gender models. It presents the most up-to-date research in the field, based on a variety of national and comparative sources and using different theoretical and methodological approaches. The authors address different forms of support (care, financial, emotional) and employ a bi-directional perspective, exploring both giving and receiving across generations. They illustrate that understanding how generations interact in families helps to reformulate the way issues of intergenerational equity are discussed when addressing the redistributive impact of the welfare state through pensions and health services.Encompassing a wide number of European countries as well as migrant groups, this book will greatly appeal to graduate students interested in sociology, social policy and social psychology. Researchers and policy makers in the fields of demography and sociology will also find the book an invaluable resource.Trade Review‘Families, Ageing and Social Policy overflows with fascinating facts about modern families. . . anyone with an interest in the role of the family in ageing societies should consult this volume.' -- Gemma Carney, International Journal of Ageing and Later Life'. . . this book encapsulates the state-of-the-art in the European intergenerational solidarity discourse. Scholars and students alike will find it very informative. For those new to the subject, the development of scholarly work on intergenerational solidarity in Europe is clearly sketched in the introduction. Those already familiar will appreciate the combination of innovative empirical chapters and thought-provoking theoretical chapters.' -- Niels Schenk, Ageing & Society'This book is a welcome contribution to the study of population ageing, social policies and intergenerational relationships in European families. Edited by a leading family sociologist this book offers fresh updates and clear, insightful analyses of demographic development, family arrangements and intergenerational solidarity. Highlighting continuity as well as complexity and change in intergenerational relationships, this timely book is essential reading for all scholars and students interested in the interplay of ageing, family change and policy reform.' -- Arnlaug Leira, University of Oslo, Norway'Families, Ageing and Social Policy is unique in that it uses a generational lens - at the micro-level of individual family members and at the macro-level of cohorts - as a mechanism for capturing the relational dynamics of lives at different points in the life course. It offers a valuable comparative analytic approach, considering both within-family generational ties and cross-cohort linkages as played out within different cultural and social welfare regimes. This book is ostensibly about Europe, but should be required reading for everyone interested in understanding the real-life relationships across generations within families and across population cohorts, as both play out on a moving platform of global transformation in ageing, fertility, immigration, gender roles, and social policy.' -- Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: Intergenerational Relations in Families – A Micro-Macro Perspective Chiara Saraceno 1. The Book-ends: Emerging Perspectives on Children and Old People Gunhild O. Hagestad 2. The Family as a Source of Support for Adult Children’s Own Family Projects: European Varieties Martin Kohli and Marco Albertini 3. The Intergenerational Transmission of Home Ownership and the Reproduction of the Familialistic Welfare Regime Teresio Poggio 4. ‘When will I see you again?’ Intergenerational Contacts in Germany Anja Steinbach and Johannes Kopp 5. Intergenerational Relations Within the Family and the State Harald Künemund 6. Personal and Household Caregiving from Adult Children to Parents and Social Stratification Sebastian Sarasa and Sunnee Billingsley 7. The Relationship between Children and their Frail Elderly Parents in Different Care Regimes Wolfgang Keck 8. The Effects of Separation and Divorce on Parent–Child Relationships in Ten European Countries Matthijs Kalmijn 9. Intergenerational Contact and Support: The Long-Term Effects of Marital Instability in Italy Marco Albertini and Chiara Saraceno 10. The Intergenerational Care Potential of Dutch Older Adults in 1992 and 2002 Theo van Tilburg and Suzan van der Pas 11. Intergenerational Solidarity and Social Structures in Sweden: Class, Ethnicity and Gender in Public and Private Support Patterns Ulla Björnberg and Hans Ekbrand 12. Patterns of Intergenerational Transfers Among Immigrants in France: A Comparative Perspective Claudine Attias-Donfut and François-Charles Wolff 13. Reliable Bonds? A Comparative Perspective of Intergenerational Support Patterns Among Migrant Families in Germany Helen Baykara-Krumme Index

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Book SynopsisThere is no shortage of political and moral commentary on family life. Frequently the underlying theme of these commentaries is the decline of contemporary family commitment, particularly when older people's family experiences are the focus. "Family Practices in Later Life" challenges many common stereotypes about the nature of family involvement as people age. The book explores diversity and change in the family relationships older people maintain, looking at how family relationships are constructed and organised in later life. It recognises that the emerging patterns are a consequence of the choices and decisions negotiated within family networks, emphasising older people's agency in the construction of their family practices. In exploring such themes as long-term marriage, sibling ties in later life and grandparenthood, the book highlights the continued significance of family connection and solidarity in later life, while recognizing that family relationships are inevitably modified over time as people's social and material circumstances alter. "Family Practices in Later Life" will be of interest to students, researchers and academics in the fields of social policy, family studies and social gerontology. It provides a valuable contribution to the developing field of critical social gerontology as well as to an understanding of family process.Trade Review"As both an academic social gerontologist and great-grandfather I can thoroughly recommend this ground-breaking book. It opens up a much needed new perspective by confronting outdated stereotypes, revealing a world where family doesn't simply mean parents and young children." Professor John Vincent, Department of Sociology and Philosophy, University of ExeterTable of ContentsIntroduction; Family practices and family relationships; Families in later life; Older parents and their adult children; Long-lasting relationships; Brothers and sisters; Grandparenting; Later life widow(er)hood; Globalisation and transnational communities: implications for family life in old age; Changing times: older people and family ties.

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Book SynopsisThere is no shortage of political and moral commentary on family life. Frequently the underlying theme of these commentaries is the decline of contemporary family commitment, particularly when older people's family experiences are the focus. "Family Practices in Later Life" challenges many common stereotypes about the nature of family involvement as people age. The book explores diversity and change in the family relationships older people maintain, looking at how family relationships are constructed and organised in later life. It recognises that the emerging patterns are a consequence of the choices and decisions negotiated within family networks, emphasising older people's agency in the construction of their family practices. In exploring such themes as long-term marriage, sibling ties in later life and grandparenthood, the book highlights the continued significance of family connection and solidarity in later life, while recognizing that family relationships are inevitably modified over time as people's social and material circumstances alter. "Family Practices in Later Life" will be of interest to students, researchers and academics in the fields of social policy, family studies and social gerontology. It provides a valuable contribution to the developing field of critical social gerontology as well as to an understanding of family process.Trade Review"As both an academic social gerontologist and great-grandfather I can thoroughly recommend this ground-breaking book. It opens up a much needed new perspective by confronting outdated stereotypes, revealing a world where family doesn't simply mean parents and young children." Professor John Vincent, Department of Sociology and Philosophy, University of ExeterTable of ContentsIntroduction; Family practices and family relationships; Families in later life; Older parents and their adult children; Long-lasting relationships; Brothers and sisters; Grandparenting; Later life widow(er)hood; Globalisation and transnational communities: implications for family life in old age; Changing times: older people and family ties.

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Book SynopsisBased on 115 interviews with Polish mothers in the UK and Poland, as well as a specially-commissioned opinion poll, this topical book discusses recent Polish migration to the UK. In a vivid account of every stage of the migration process, the book explores why so many Poles have migrated since 2004, why more children migrate with their families and how working-class families in the West of England make decisions about whether to stay. With a fully revised introduction for the paperback edition, it covers many broader themes - including livelihoods and migration cultures in Poland, experiences of integration into UK communities and issues surrounding return to Poland. This book is highly relevant to migration policy across Europe and beyond. It will be of interest to policy-makers and the general public as well as students and scholars. Winner of the BASEES George Blazyca Prize 2011.Trade Review"Well referenced and rich in thought-provoking analysis, it makes a significant contribution to academic and policy debates about new immigration in Europe" Housing Studies"This book should be regarded as an important contribution to migration literature, and therefore is highly recommended to those interested in this literature." Europe-Asia Studies, March 2012"The post-enlargement migration of Poles into the UK has struck both the experts and societies by its scale and character. This book explores factors which help determine Polish families’ decisions about how long to stay in the UK and whether to return to Poland or not. It should be required reading for all those seeking to understand the causes of international migration in the enlarged Europe." Krystyna Iglicka, Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw"The scale of migration of Poles to the UK after 2004 took many people by surprise and changed the culture and economy of the UK. If you want to find out what really happened by understanding the perspective of Polish families both in the UK and in Poland, read this authoritative and informative book. An excellent piece of research." Claire Wallace, Professor of Sociology, University of AberdeenTable of ContentsIntroduction; Post-communist Poland: social change and migration; Small-town livelihoods; Local migration cultures: compulsion and sacrifice; Local migration cultures: opportunities and 'pull factors'; Parental migration with and without children; The emotional impact of migration on communities in Poland; Integration into British society; Being Polish in England ; Return to Poland; Conclusions.; Afterword: Polish migration since 2010

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Book SynopsisThis book takes a life course perspective, analysing and comparing the biographies of mothers and fathers in seven European countries in context. Based on an innovative, cross-national EU study, it examines the ways in which working parents negotiate the transition to parenthood and attempt to find a 'work-life balance'. Using in-depth qualitative biographical data, the book offers a deep understanding of working parents' real lives by locating them within diverse national, workplace and family contexts. It provides rich insights into how policies and practices at the institutional level play out in individual and family lives, how they shape the decisions during both transition phases and in parents' daily experiences of juggling work and family life. It highlights some difficult and complex issues about the sustainability of contemporary working practices for bringing up children that are highly relevant in times of economic retrenchment. 'Transitions to parenthood in Europe' will be of interest to an academic readership at all levels of the social sciences, as well as employers, managers, trade unions and policy makers.Trade Review"very insightful book...crucial to understanding the phenomenon of working parenthood...underlines the potential positive effects of the economic downturn" Rosy Musumeci, University of Turin"This collaborative study provides a subtle and multi-layered understanding of the transition to parenthood within a cross-national comparative framework. Here is a study which is heartily recommended not only to researchers and students of family and social policy but also to those interested in the practice and promise of comparative analysis." Emeritus Professor David Morgan, Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Ann Nilsen, Julia Brannen, Suzan Lewis; Cross-national comparisons: the history-biography link ~ Ann Nilsen; Methodological approaches, practice and reflection ~ Julia Brannen, Ann Nilsen; Comparing transitions to motherhood across contexts ~Ann Nilsen, Maria dos Dores Guerreiro, Siyka Kovacheva, Janet Smithson; Comparing transitions to fatherhood across contexts ~Lars Plantin, Margareta Bäck-Wicklund, Siyka Kovacheva and Maria das Dores Guerreiro; Supports and constraints for parents: a gendered cross-national perspective ~ Janet Smithson, Suzan Lewis, Siyka Kovacheva, Laura den Dulk, Bram Peper, Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes; being a working parent in the present: case comparisons in time and place ~ Julia Brannen and Nevenka Sadar Černigoj; Discussion and conclusions ~ Suzan Lewis, Ann Nilsen, Julia Brannen.

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Book SynopsisThis book takes a life course perspective, analysing and comparing the biographies of mothers and fathers in seven European countries in context. Based on an innovative, cross-national EU study, it examines the ways in which working parents negotiate the transition to parenthood and attempt to find a 'work-life balance'. Using in-depth qualitative biographical data, the book offers a deep understanding of working parents' real lives by locating them within diverse national, workplace and family contexts. It provides rich insights into how policies and practices at the institutional level play out in individual and family lives, how they shape the decisions during both transition phases and in parents' daily experiences of juggling work and family life. It highlights some difficult and complex issues about the sustainability of contemporary working practices for bringing up children that are highly relevant in times of economic retrenchment. 'Transitions to parenthood in Europe' will be of interest to an academic readership at all levels of the social sciences, as well as employers, managers, trade unions and policy makers.Trade Review"very insightful book...crucial to understanding the phenomenon of working parenthood...underlines the potential positive effects of the economic downturn" Rosy Musumeci, University of Turin"This collaborative study provides a subtle and multi-layered understanding of the transition to parenthood within a cross-national comparative framework. Here is a study which is heartily recommended not only to researchers and students of family and social policy but also to those interested in the practice and promise of comparative analysis." Emeritus Professor David Morgan, Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Ann Nilsen, Julia Brannen, Suzan Lewis; Cross-national comparisons: the history-biography link ~ Ann Nilsen; Methodological approaches, practice and reflection ~ Julia Brannen, Ann Nilsen; Comparing transitions to motherhood across contexts ~Ann Nilsen, Maria dos Dores Guerreiro, Siyka Kovacheva, Janet Smithson; Comparing transitions to fatherhood across contexts ~Lars Plantin, Margareta Bäck-Wicklund, Siyka Kovacheva and Maria das Dores Guerreiro; Supports and constraints for parents: a gendered cross-national perspective ~ Janet Smithson, Suzan Lewis, Siyka Kovacheva, Laura den Dulk, Bram Peper, Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes; being a working parent in the present: case comparisons in time and place ~ Julia Brannen and Nevenka Sadar Černigoj; Discussion and conclusions ~ Suzan Lewis, Ann Nilsen, Julia Brannen.

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Book SynopsisGrandparenting in the 21st century is at the heart of profound family and societal changes. It is of increasing social and economic significance yet many dimensions of grandparenting are still poorly understood. Contemporary Grandparenting is the first book to take a sociological approach to grandparenting across diverse country contexts and combines new theorising with up-to-date empirical findings to document the changing nature of grandparenting across global contexts. In this highly original book, leading contributors analyse how grandparenting differs according to the nature of the welfare state and the cultural context, how family breakdown influences grandparenting, and explore men's changing roles as grandfathers. Grandparents today face conflicting norms and expectations about their roles, but act with agency to forge new identities within the context of societal and cultural constraints. Contemporary Grandparenting illuminates key issues relevant to students and researchers from sociology and social policy, including in the fields of family, childhood, ageing and gender studies.Trade Review"Will the 21st century be the 'grandparents' century'? We may believe so from reading this collection of contributions by leading scholars from all over the world, showing how grandparents are becoming a 'pivot generation' within families and within society. One of the great qualities of this book is its demonstration of a phenomenon which still remains underestimated." Claudine Attias-Donfut, Associate Senior Researcher, Edgar Morin Centre, Paris (CNRS/EHESS) (National Centre for Scientific Research/School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences)"This insightful and penetrating analysis shows how modern grandparenthood shapes and is shaped by the changing social and economic contexts of family relationships. The skilful integration of contributions from around the globe is a unique strength." Anne Martin-Matthews, Department of Sociology, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsIntroduction: A new look at grandparenting ~ Virpi Timonen and Sara Arber; Section One: Grandparenting responding to economic and family transformations; Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states ~ Katharina Herlofson and Gunhild O Hagestad; The well-being of grandparents caring for grandchildren in rural China and the United States ~ Lindsey Baker and Merril Silverstein; Grandmothers juggling work and grandchildren in the United States ~ Madonna Harrington Meyer; Solidarity, ambivalence and multigenerational co-residence in Hong Kong ~ Lisanne SF Ko; Grandparenting in the context of care for grandchildren by foreign domestic workers ~ Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun; Section Two: Grandparenting indentities and agency; Being there yet not interfering: The paradoxes of grandparenting ~ Vanessa May, Jennifer Mason & Lynda Clarke; Grandparental agency after adult children's divorce ~ Virpi Timonen & Martha Doyle; Grandfathering: The construction of new identities and masculinities ~ Anna Tarrant; Understanding adolescent grandchildren's influence on their grandparents ~ Alice Delerue Matos and Rita Borges Neves; Social contact between grandparents and older grandchildren: A three generation perspective ~ Katharina Mahne & Oliver Huxhold; Grandparenting in the twenty-first century: New directions ~ Sara Arber & Virpi Timonen.

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Book SynopsisGrandparenting in the 21st century is at the heart of profound family and societal changes. It is of increasing social and economic significance yet many dimensions of grandparenting are still poorly understood. Contemporary Grandparenting is the first book to take a sociological approach to grandparenting across diverse country contexts and combines new theorising with up-to-date empirical findings to document the changing nature of grandparenting across global contexts. In this highly original book, leading contributors analyse how grandparenting differs according to the nature of the welfare state and the cultural context, how family breakdown influences grandparenting, and explore men's changing roles as grandfathers. Grandparents today face conflicting norms and expectations about their roles, but act with agency to forge new identities within the context of societal and cultural constraints. Contemporary Grandparenting illuminates key issues relevant to students and researchers from sociology and social policy, including in the fields of family, childhood, ageing and gender studies.Trade Review"Will the 21st century be the 'grandparents' century'? We may believe so from reading this collection of contributions by leading scholars from all over the world, showing how grandparents are becoming a 'pivot generation' within families and within society. One of the great qualities of this book is its demonstration of a phenomenon which still remains underestimated." Claudine Attias-Donfut, Associate Senior Researcher, Edgar Morin Centre, Paris (CNRS/EHESS) (National Centre for Scientific Research/School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences)"This insightful and penetrating analysis shows how modern grandparenthood shapes and is shaped by the changing social and economic contexts of family relationships. The skilful integration of contributions from around the globe is a unique strength." Anne Martin-Matthews, Department of Sociology, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsIntroduction: A new look at grandparenting ~ Virpi Timonen and Sara Arber; Section One: Grandparenting responding to economic and family transformations; Transformations in the role of grandparents across welfare states ~ Katharina Herlofson and Gunhild O Hagestad; The well-being of grandparents caring for grandchildren in rural China and the United States ~ Lindsey Baker and Merril Silverstein; Grandmothers juggling work and grandchildren in the United States ~ Madonna Harrington Meyer; Solidarity, ambivalence and multigenerational co-residence in Hong Kong ~ Lisanne SF Ko; Grandparenting in the context of care for grandchildren by foreign domestic workers ~ Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun; Section Two: Grandparenting indentities and agency; Being there yet not interfering: The paradoxes of grandparenting ~ Vanessa May, Jennifer Mason & Lynda Clarke; Grandparental agency after adult children's divorce ~ Virpi Timonen & Martha Doyle; Grandfathering: The construction of new identities and masculinities ~ Anna Tarrant; Understanding adolescent grandchildren's influence on their grandparents ~ Alice Delerue Matos and Rita Borges Neves; Social contact between grandparents and older grandchildren: A three generation perspective ~ Katharina Mahne & Oliver Huxhold; Grandparenting in the twenty-first century: New directions ~ Sara Arber & Virpi Timonen.

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Book SynopsisFamily life in areas of concentrated poverty and social problems is undermined by surrounding conditions. This timely book, by acclaimed author Anne Power and her team, is based on a unique longitudinal study of over 200 families interviewed annually over the last decade. It examines the initiatives introduced to help such families and the impacts on them, their future prospects and the implications for policy. Accessibly written and with clear data presentation, the book will have wide appeal to people who work with, live in and care about families, children and low-income areas.Trade Review"A very useful book providing a comprehensive account of everyday experiences of people living in difficult circumstances. .. one of the selling points of this book is its qualitative addition, adding vigour and nuance, to existing quantitative evidence. The book provides a beneficial starting point for those wishing to understand how neighbourhoods function, but more importantly how families interact with their surroundings" Housing StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Family roles in community matters; Schools in communities ; Young people, space, facilities and activities; Preventative policing, community safety and community confidence; Family health and neighbourhood conditions; Families move into work: skills, training and tax credits; Housing and regeneration; How the areas are changing.

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Book SynopsisFamily life in areas of concentrated poverty and social problems is undermined by surrounding conditions. This timely book, by acclaimed author Anne Power and her team, is based on a unique longitudinal study of over 200 families interviewed annually over the last decade. It examines the initiatives introduced to help such families and the impacts on them, their future prospects and the implications for policy. Accessibly written and with clear data presentation, the book will have wide appeal to people who work with, live in and care about families, children and low-income areas.Trade Review"A very useful book providing a comprehensive account of everyday experiences of people living in difficult circumstances. .. one of the selling points of this book is its qualitative addition, adding vigour and nuance, to existing quantitative evidence. The book provides a beneficial starting point for those wishing to understand how neighbourhoods function, but more importantly how families interact with their surroundings" Housing StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Family roles in community matters; Schools in communities ; Young people, space, facilities and activities; Preventative policing, community safety and community confidence; Family health and neighbourhood conditions; Families move into work: skills, training and tax credits; Housing and regeneration; How the areas are changing.

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Book SynopsisIn recent decades the probability of divorce and separation among married and cohabiting couples has increased significantly in most European countries. Focusing on both economic and social aspects, this comprehensive volume explores the consequences of partnership dissolution at the individual level. The contributors use personal characteristics, properties of the partnerships and the institutional context to explain coping behaviours.The book comprises reports on eight countries, which have tentatively been classified as: 'the male breadwinner' (Belgium and Germany), 'the dual earner' (Denmark, Finland and Sweden), 'the market' (Great Britain) and 'the family' model (Spain and Greece). It also contains four cross-national comparative studies addressing the wider impacts of divorce, including labour force participation, residential mobility and housing, household income, and poverty and lifestyle deprivation. Complemented by the editors' authoritative introduction, this timely study will prove invaluable to graduate students and researchers interested in the economics and sociology of the family. Legal and public policy practitioners will also find the book an insightful addition to the current literature.Trade Review‘When Marriage Ends offers a comprehensive and insightful contribution to the study of economic effects of divorce and it also contributes to the comparative study of family policies and family law regimes in Europe. The book can be recommended not only to students and researchers interested in family studies but also to legal and public policy practitioners.' -- Jana Chaloupkova, Central European Journal of Public Policy'This is a double-faced book, which should be read by everybody who is concerned about the societal effects of divorce. It shows that divorce has negative economic and social consequences, not only in the Anglo-Saxon countries, but also in the most generous welfare states of Europe, where divorce is widely accepted. Moreover, these effects are more negative for women than for men, even in the most gender-equalitarian welfare state. But it also shows that social policies can mitigate these negative consequences.' -- Jaap Dronkers, European University Institute, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Economic and Social Consequences of Partnership Dissolution – What do we Know and What are we Looking For? Hans-Jürgen Andreß and Dina Hummelsheim PART I: THEORETICAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND MEASUREMENT ISSUES 1. Conceptualization and Measurements of Institutional Contexts: A Review Haya Stier PART II: SINGLE COUNTRY STUDIES 2. Germany: Will the Male Breadwinner Model Survive? Dina Hummelsheim 3. Belgium: Economic Hardship Despite Elaborate Childcare and Leave Time Programmes Dimitri Mortelmans, Laurent Snoeckx and Peter Raeymaeckers 4. New Holes in the Safety Net? Economic and Social Consequences of Divorce in Denmark M. Azhar Hussain and Olli Kangas 5. Divergences in the Nordic Model: Economic Consequences of Partnership Dissolution in Sweden and Finland Heikki Hiilamo 6. Great Britain: ‘Things Can Only Get Better…’ Wendy Sigle-Rushton 7. Marital Disruption in Spain: Class Selectivity and Deterioration of Economic Conditions Lluís Flaquer and Anna Garriga 8. Low Divorce Incidence in Greece: Facts and Figures Haris Symeonidou PART III: COMPARATIVE STUDIES 9. Female-Supportive Policies and Women’s Employment After Divorce Maike van Damme and Wilfred Uunk 10. Divorce and Housing: A European Comparison of the Housing Consequences of Divorce for Men and Women Caroline Dewilde 11. The Economic Consequences of Partnership Dissolution: A Comparative Analysis of Panel Studies from Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Sweden Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Barbara Borgloh, Miriam Bröckel, Marco Gießelmann and Dina Hummelsheim 12. Marital Disruption and Economic Well-being: Poverty, Income and Lifestyle Deprivation Arnstein Aassve, Gianni Betti, Stefano Mazzuco and Letizia Mencarini PART IV: CONCLUSION 13. When Marriage Ends: Results and Conclusions Hans-Jürgen Andreß and Dina Hummelsheim PART V: DATA APPENDIX Index

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Book SynopsisCombining paid work with caring for children has become more difficult for families as women's working hours have increased. Over the past decade the issue of work-family balance has reached a more prominent place on the policy agenda of many Western European countries. However the preoccupations of governments have been largely instrumental, focusing particularly on the goal of increasing female employment rates in order to achieve greater competitiveness and economic growth, and also in many countries on raising fertility rates and promoting children's early learning. This important book looks at the three main components of work-family policy packages - childcare services, flexible working patterns and entitlements to leave from work in order to care - across EU15 Member States, with comparative reference to the US. It also provides an in-depth examination of developments in the UK. Variations in national priorities, policy instruments, established policy orientations and the context for policy making in terms of employment patterns, fertility behaviour and attitudes towards work and care are highlighted. Gender inequalities in the division of paid and unpaid work underpin the whole issue of work-family balance. But what constitutes gender equality in this crucial policy field? Jane Lewis argues that in spite of growing political emphasis on the importance of 'choice', a 'real' choice to engage in either or both the socially necessary activities of paid and unpaid work has remained elusive. Work-Family Balance, Gender and Policy is essential reading for students and scholars who wish to understand the complex challenges facing families and family policy and the opportunities for the future.Trade Review'In this authoritative and beautifully written book, Jane Lewis addresses the vexed question of how societies can ensure that individuals and families are able to both support themselves and to care for their dependants without material disadvantage. . . Lewis combines theoretical and conceptual sophistication with fine-grained empirical description and analysis to compare work and family policies, the way they have evolved and their underlying logic, in the European Union (EU) and the USA. . . This is a nuanced, compassionate and absorbing book. . . It is a unique synthesis of the literature and presents a compelling argument in a new way. It is theoretically sophisticated and full of detailed empirical analysis, yet is highly readable, clear and accessible. It would be very useful in teaching courses on women's studies, public policy and sociology of the family. It would have broad appeal to anyone concerned with work and family issues, and should be essential reading to those with an academic interest in welfare state analysis, social policy and gender.' -- Lyn Craig, Sex Roles'Based on multiple comparative as well as UK sources, this new book by one of the most well-known European social scientists unravels the multiple dimensions and relationships involved in balancing family and paid work demands. Jane Lewis documents persisting, and even increasing cross-country differences. Notwithstanding these, work-family reconciliation policies are more concerned with allowing women to combine paid work and family care than with redistributing care between men and women. This important book should be required reading for everyone interested in social policy and welfare state analysis.' -- Chiara Saraceno, Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), Germany and University of Turin, Italy'This book provides a brilliant synthesis of comparative research on work-family policies with particular relevance to the emerging policy agenda in the UK. Jane Lewis is a profound thinker and graceful writer who leavens her theoretical sophistication with comprehensive attention to practical details.' -- Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US'Jane Lewis is a brilliant conceptual innovator and gifted empirical analyst in the field of social policy. This book expertly illuminates the dramatically changing terrain of social policy with reference to employment, family and gender relations.' -- Ann Orloff, Northwestern University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Part I 2. The Policymaking Context: Behaviour and Attitudes with Mary Campbell 3. Work–Family Balance Policies: Comparisons and Issues 4. Patterns of Development in Work–Family Balance Policies for Parents in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK During the 2000s with Trudie Knijn, Claude Martin and Ilona Ostner Part II 5. Policy Development in the UK, 1997–2007 6. Concluding Reflections on Gender Equality and Work–Family Balance Policies Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a comparative study of family change, parental employment and social policy in the five Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. In all these countries family forms have been profoundly affected by lower fertility rates, lower marriage rates, increased cohabitation, higher risks of relationship breakdown and episodes of lone parenthood. These changes have also been linked to an increase in the proportion of mothers participating in the labour market. The contributors to this book trace these social trends over the last twenty years and analyse how social policy has developed and evolved in response. They argue that while the Nordic countries pioneered efforts to recognise new family forms and reconcile work and family life, there is still considerable variation between them as well as some evidence that the non-Nordic countries are catching up.Social Policy, Employment and Family Change in Comparative Perspective will strongly appeal to academics and researchers of social policy as well as policy makers looking to learn from the experiences of these countries.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Introduction Jonathan Bradshaw and Aksel Hatland 2. Family Change Naomi Finch 3. The Parental Employment Context Emese Mayhew 4. State Recognition of New Family Forms? Cecilie Wehner and Peter Abrahamson 5. Parental Rights and Obligations Aksel Hatland and Emese Mayhew 6. Family Benefit Packages Jonathan Bradshaw and Emese Mayhew 7. Childcare and Parental Leave Naomi Finch 8. Fertility Rates in Europe: The Influence of Policy, Economy and Culture Arieke Rijken 9. First Births: A Comparative Study of the Patterns of Transition to Parenthood in Europe Katja Forssén and Veli-Matti Ritakallio 10. Men and (Their) Families: Comparative Perspectives on Men’s Roles and Attitudes Towards Family Formation Trudie Knijn, Ilona Ostner and Christoph Schmitt 11. Education, Employment and Family Formation: Differing Patterns Ulla Björnberg, Stefán Ólafsson and Guony Björk Eydal 12. Working Their Way Out of Poverty? Lone Mothers in Policies and Labour Markets Anne Skevik 13. Family Poverty in the European Union Veli-Matti Ritakallio and Jonathan Bradshaw 14. Gender Equity and Time Use: How Do Mothers and Fathers Spend Their Time? Naomi Finch 15. Conclusions Ulla Bjornberg and Jonathan Bradshaw Index

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Book SynopsisGovernments have had a longstanding interest in family forms and the behaviour of family members, although their goals and instruments have differed over time and across countries. This timely collection brings together seminal contributions focusing on a number of important topics relating to this field. This research review focuses on the origins and social foundations of family policies, their main actors and drivers; together with consideration of crucial concepts and themes, including gender, intergenerational obligations and care and also deals with the various areas and goals addressed by family policies and their diversity across countries: the politics of reproduction; support for children, policies to reconcile paid work and family obligations; parenthood policies; patterns of care policies and domestic violence. This important title will be of immense value to those working in the field of families and family policies and will be an excellent source of reference to both students and academics.Trade Review‘A genuinely international and hugely valuable collection of papers on one of the most important strands in modern social policy scholarship. It also has a powerful editorial introduction that is likely to become a standard reference point.’ -- Howard Glennester, London School of Economics, UKTable of ContentsContents: Volume I: Definitions. Historical Origins, Actors and Drivers, Concepts and Debates Acknowledgements Introduction: Families and States - Chiara Saraceno, Arnlaug Leira and Jane Lewis PART I WHAT IS FAMILY POLICY? CONCEPTS, INDICATORS, DIMENSIONS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF FAMILY POLICIES 1. Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn (1978), ‘Families and the Idea of Family Policy’ 2. Wilfried Dumon and Joan Aldous (1979), ‘European and United States Political Contexts for Family Policy Research 3. Anne Hélène Gauthier (1996), ‘Conclusion’ 4. Franz-Xaver Kaufmann (2002), ‘Politics and Policies towards the Family in Europe: A Framework and an Inquiry into their Differences and Convergences’ PART II THE SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS OF FAMILY POLICIES 5. Alva Myrdal (1941), ‘In Cash or in Kind’ 6. Seth Koven and Sonya Michel (1990), ‘Womanly Duties: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States, 1880–1920’ 7. Kimberly J. Morgan (2009), ‘The Religious Foundations of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe’ PART III ACTORS AND DRIVERS 8. Sara McLanahan (1985), ‘Family Structure and the Reproduction of Poverty’ 9. Arnlaug Leira (1992), ‘Models of Motherhood’ 10. Göran Therborn (1996), ‘Child Politics: Dimensions and Perspectives’ 11. Chiara Saraceno (1997), ‘Family Change, Family Policies and the Restructuring of Welfare’ 12. Francis G. Castles (2003), ‘The World Turned Upside Down: Below Replacement Fertility, Changing Preferences and Family-Friendly Public Policy in 21 OECD Countries’ 13. Susan Greenhalgh (2003), ‘Planned Births, Unplanned Persons: “Population” in the Making of Chinese Modernity’ 14. Jane Lewis, Mary Campbell and Carmen Huerta (2008), ‘Patterns of Paid and Unpaid Work in Western Europe: Gender, Commodification, Preferences and the Implications for Policy’ PART IV CONCEPTS AND THEMES A Gender 15. Jane Lewis (1992), ‘Gender and the Development of Welfare Regimes’ 16. Ann Shola Orloff (1993), ‘Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: The Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and Welfare States’ 17. Gillian Pascall and Nick Manning (2000), ‘Gender and Social Policy: Comparing Welfare States in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union’ B Intergenerational Obligations 18. Jane Millar and Andrea Warman (1996), ‘Balancing Obligations’ 19. Nancy Folbre (2001), ‘Children as Pets’ 20. Manuela Naldini (2003), ‘A Model for Analysing Social Policy in Mediterranean Countries’ 21. Chiara Saraceno and Wolfgang Keck (2010), ‘Can We Identify Intergenerational Policy Regimes in Europe?’ C Care 22. Jens Alber (1995), ‘A Framework for the Comparative Study of Social Services’ 23. Anneli Anttonen and Jorma Sipilä (1996), ‘European Social Care Services: Is It Possible to Identify Models?’ 24. Trudie Knijn and Monique Kremer (1997), ‘Gender and the Caring Dimension of Welfare States: Toward Inclusive Citizenship’ 25. Sigrid Leitner (2003), ‘Varieties of Familialism: The Caring Function of the Family in Comparative Perspective’ Volume II: Dimensions of Family Policy Acknowledgements Introduction: Families and States Chiara Saraceno, Jane Lewis and Arnlaug Leira PART I THE POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION 1. Jane Jenson (1986), ‘Gender and Reproduction: Or, Babies and the State’ 2. Sten Johansson and Ola Nygren (1991), ‘The Missing Girls of China: A New Demographic Account’ 3. Sheila Shaver (1993/4), ‘Body Rights, Social Rights and the Liberal Welfare State’ PART II SUPPORTING CHILDREN 4. Ben White (1999), ‘Defining the Intolerable: Child Work, Global Standards and Cultural Relativism’ 5. Gøsta Esping-Andersen (2002), ‘A Child-centered Social Investment Strategy’ 6. Jane Waldfogel (2002), ‘Child Care, Women’s Employment and Child Outcomes’ 7. Pavla Miller (2005), ‘Useful and Priceless Children in Contemporary Welfare States’ 8. Jonathan Bradshaw (2006), ‘Child Benefit Packages in 15 Countries in 2004’ 9. Maxine Molyneux (2006), ‘Mothers at the Service of the New Poverty Agenda: Progresa / Oportunidades, Mexico’s Conditional Transfer Programme’ 10. Brenda G. McGowan (2010), ‘An Historical Perspective on Child Welfare’ PART III POLICIES TO RECONCILE PAID WORK AND FAMILY OBLIGATIONS 11. Irene Dingeldey (2001), ‘European Tax Systems and their Impact on Family Employment Patterns’ 12. Janet C. Gornick and Alexandra Heron (2006), ‘The Regulation of Working Time as Work-Family Reconciliation Policy: Comparing Europe, Japan, and the United States’ 13. Rianne Mahon (2006), ‘The OECD and the Work/Family Reconciliation Agenda: Competing Frames’ 14. Anne Revillard (2006), ‘Work/Family Policy in France: From State Familialism to State Feminism?’ 15. Thomas Bahle (2008), ‘Family Policy Patterns in the Enlarged EU’ PART IV PARENTHOOD POLICIES 16. Barbara Hobson (1994), ‘Solo Mothers, Social Policy Regimes and the Logic of Gender’ 17. Trudie Knijn, Claude Martin and Jane Millar (2007), ‘Activation as a Common Framework for Social Policies towards Lone Parents’ 18. Arnlaug Leira (2008), ‘Childcare in Scandinavia: Parental Responsibility and Social Right’ 19. Margaret O’Brien (2009), ‘Fathers, Parental Leave Policies, and Infant Quality of Life: International Perspectives and Policy Impact’ PART V PATTERNS OF CARE POLICIES 20. Mary Daly (2002), ‘Care as a Good for Social Policy’ 21. Clare Ungerson (2004), ‘Whose Empowerment and Independence? A Cross-national Perspective on “Cash for Care” Schemes’ 22. Birgit Pfau-Effinger (2005), ‘Welfare State Policies and the Development of Care Arrangements’ 23. Francesca Bettio, Annamaria Simonazzi and Paola Villa (2006), ‘Change in Care Regimes and Female Migration: The “Care Drain” in the Mediterranean’ 24. Dawn Lyon and Miriam Glucksmann (2008), ‘Comparative Configurations of Care Work across Europe’ 25. Fiona Williams and Anna Gavanas (2008), ‘The Intersection of Childcare Regimes and Migration Regimes: A Three-Country Study’ PART VI DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 26. Darren Hawkins and Melissa Humes (2002), ‘Human Rights and Domestic Violence’

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Book SynopsisCombining paid work with caring for children has become more difficult for families as women's working hours have increased. Over the past decade the issue of work-family balance has reached a more prominent place on the policy agenda of many Western European countries. However the preoccupations of governments have been largely instrumental, focusing particularly on the goal of increasing female employment rates in order to achieve greater competitiveness and economic growth, and also in many countries on raising fertility rates and promoting children's early learning. This important book looks at the three main components of work-family policy packages - childcare services, flexible working patterns and entitlements to leave from work in order to care - across EU15 Member States, with comparative reference to the US. It also provides an in-depth examination of developments in the UK. Variations in national priorities, policy instruments, established policy orientations and the context for policy making in terms of employment patterns, fertility behaviour and attitudes towards work and care are highlighted. Gender inequalities in the division of paid and unpaid work underpin the whole issue of work-family balance. But what constitutes gender equality in this crucial policy field? Jane Lewis argues that in spite of growing political emphasis on the importance of 'choice', a 'real' choice to engage in either or both the socially necessary activities of paid and unpaid work has remained elusive. Work-Family Balance, Gender and Policy is essential reading for students and scholars who wish to understand the complex challenges facing families and family policy and the opportunities for the future.Trade Review'In this authoritative and beautifully written book, Jane Lewis addresses the vexed question of how societies can ensure that individuals and families are able to both support themselves and to care for their dependants without material disadvantage. . . Lewis combines theoretical and conceptual sophistication with fine-grained empirical description and analysis to compare work and family policies, the way they have evolved and their underlying logic, in the European Union (EU) and the USA. . . This is a nuanced, compassionate and absorbing book. . . It is a unique synthesis of the literature and presents a compelling argument in a new way. It is theoretically sophisticated and full of detailed empirical analysis, yet is highly readable, clear and accessible. It would be very useful in teaching courses on women's studies, public policy and sociology of the family. It would have broad appeal to anyone concerned with work and family issues, and should be essential reading to those with an academic interest in welfare state analysis, social policy and gender.' -- Lyn Craig, Sex Roles'Based on multiple comparative as well as UK sources, this new book by one of the most well-known European social scientists unravels the multiple dimensions and relationships involved in balancing family and paid work demands. Jane Lewis documents persisting, and even increasing cross-country differences. Notwithstanding these, work-family reconciliation policies are more concerned with allowing women to combine paid work and family care than with redistributing care between men and women. This important book should be required reading for everyone interested in social policy and welfare state analysis.' -- Chiara Saraceno, Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), Germany and University of Turin, Italy'This book provides a brilliant synthesis of comparative research on work-family policies with particular relevance to the emerging policy agenda in the UK. Jane Lewis is a profound thinker and graceful writer who leavens her theoretical sophistication with comprehensive attention to practical details.' -- Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US'Jane Lewis is a brilliant conceptual innovator and gifted empirical analyst in the field of social policy. This book expertly illuminates the dramatically changing terrain of social policy with reference to employment, family and gender relations.' -- Ann Orloff, Northwestern University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Part I 2. The Policymaking Context: Behaviour and Attitudes with Mary Campbell 3. Work–Family Balance Policies: Comparisons and Issues 4. Patterns of Development in Work–Family Balance Policies for Parents in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK During the 2000s with Trudie Knijn, Claude Martin and Ilona Ostner Part II 5. Policy Development in the UK, 1997–2007 6. Concluding Reflections on Gender Equality and Work–Family Balance Policies Bibliography Index

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