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This book presents the results of the first major study to examine people's attitudes to family formation and childbearing in Ireland. Based on a nationwide representative sample of 1,404 men and women in the childbearing age group, the study was carried out against a backdrop of changing gender role attitudes and behaviour as well as significant demographic change.

Table of Contents

1. Changing gender roles and family formation: overview of key issues and previous research
2. Method
3. Attitudes to gender roles
4. Family formation: attitudes and behaviour
5. Attitudes to having children and childlessness
6. People's priorities and values
7. Attitudes to social policies relevant to family formation
8. Predictors of family status
9. Predictors of ideal and expected family size
10. The effect of family status on well-being
11. Summary and discussion
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 08/07/2016
      ISBN13: 9780719096969, 978-0719096969
      ISBN10: 719096960
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      European history Sociology: family, kinship and relationships

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book presents the results of the first major study to examine people's attitudes to family formation and childbearing in Ireland. Based on a nationwide representative sample of 1,404 men and women in the childbearing age group, the study was carried out against a backdrop of changing gender role attitudes and behaviour as well as significant demographic change.

      Table of Contents

      1. Changing gender roles and family formation: overview of key issues and previous research
      2. Method
      3. Attitudes to gender roles
      4. Family formation: attitudes and behaviour
      5. Attitudes to having children and childlessness
      6. People's priorities and values
      7. Attitudes to social policies relevant to family formation
      8. Predictors of family status
      9. Predictors of ideal and expected family size
      10. The effect of family status on well-being
      11. Summary and discussion
      Index

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