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Read more about Shared Custody Equals Less Stress for Children Image 16/06/2017 How does Family Change affect Children? By Juho Härkönen Recent decades of family change have seen increases in cohabitation rather than marriage, family dissolution, step-family formation and joint residential custody. Children are involved in many of these increasingly common family transitions and family forms. Read more about How does Family Change affect Children? Image 12/04/2017 How can Parental Disadvantages be Compensated? By Jani Erola and Elina Kilpi-Jakonen Drawing conclusions of what promotes intergenerational mobility, thus promoting more equal societies, has turned out to be rather difficult. In our edited volume, we argue that an important factor that previous studies have overlooked is compensation. This means that when resources are lacking or have suddenly been lost, some attempts are made to access other resources. These attempts may come from the children, the parents themselves, or other persons nearby, such as grandparents, other extended or new family members, or even neighbours. Read more about How can Parental Disadvantages be Compensated? Image 20/12/2016 Early, but also Often. Early childhood education is essential, but secondary education must play a role in achieving equality By Daniela Vono de Vilhena In 2001, a secondary education policy debate left German society rattled. In December of that year, the OECD published its first Programme for International Student Assessment report. PISA revealed Germany, the economic engine of Europe, to be lagging behind its OECD counterparts in both performance and equality among 15-year-olds. Read more about Early, but also Often. Early childhood education is essential, but secondary education must play a role in achieving equality Image 16/12/2016 Legal support is essential to foster social inclusion of same-sex couples Interview with Dimitri Mortelmans and Ariane Pailhé What are the two most important findings of your research for FamiliesAndSocieties? Read more about Legal support is essential to foster social inclusion of same-sex couples Image 13/12/2016 For This to Work Freelancers, social security, and the future of work in an increasingly equal, diverse, and ageing society. by Patrick I. Dick Read more about For This to Work Image 07/12/2016 Nurture and Nature Genes may have a say in when we have children and how many we end up with - Interview with Professor Melinda Mills, Oxford “Loci”? “GWAS”? “NEB”? All in a day’s work for Melinda Mills, Nicola Barban, Harold Sneider, Marcel den Hoed, and their colleagues, who recently published a ground-breaking study on the genetic dimension of human reproductive behaviour. Read more about Nurture and Nature Image 01/12/2016 Services Over Cash To reconcile work and family is to improve gender and socioeconomic equality. This means the type of intervention will be just as important as its generosity. Take cash benefits for care services. Intended to provide families with flexibility, evidence suggests they subtly incentivise families to fall back on traditional divisions of household labour. Given cash, families, especially poorer families, tend to engage in more home care for their children. Read more about Services Over Cash Image 02/11/2016 When in Rome Similarities, rather than differences, characterise parent-child support among migrants and non-migrants by Helga de Valk and Valeria Bordone As our societies age, adult sons and daughters must increasingly balance their own lives with the needs of their ageing parents. They must reconcile the preferences of their parents with their institutional setting—that junction between policies and cultural expectations. A quick look at our own lives, and it’s easy to see that always making the “right” decisions can quickly get complicated for anyone. Read more about When in Rome Image 18/10/2016 Turning the Tables: Policy and politics in an age of ageing An index of generational power reveals the impact of one of societies’ budding political cleavages by Harald Wilkoszewski, Elke Loichinger, and Patrick I. 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Image 05/09/2017 Shared Custody Equals Less Stress for Children By Jani Turunen Children who live full time with one parent are more likely to feel stressed than children in shared custody situations. The benefit holds regardless of the level of conflict between the parents or between parent and child. These are the results of a new study from Stockholm University’s Demography Unit. Read more about Shared Custody Equals Less Stress for Children
Image 16/06/2017 How does Family Change affect Children? By Juho Härkönen Recent decades of family change have seen increases in cohabitation rather than marriage, family dissolution, step-family formation and joint residential custody. Children are involved in many of these increasingly common family transitions and family forms. Read more about How does Family Change affect Children?
Image 12/04/2017 How can Parental Disadvantages be Compensated? By Jani Erola and Elina Kilpi-Jakonen Drawing conclusions of what promotes intergenerational mobility, thus promoting more equal societies, has turned out to be rather difficult. In our edited volume, we argue that an important factor that previous studies have overlooked is compensation. This means that when resources are lacking or have suddenly been lost, some attempts are made to access other resources. These attempts may come from the children, the parents themselves, or other persons nearby, such as grandparents, other extended or new family members, or even neighbours. Read more about How can Parental Disadvantages be Compensated?
Image 20/12/2016 Early, but also Often. Early childhood education is essential, but secondary education must play a role in achieving equality By Daniela Vono de Vilhena In 2001, a secondary education policy debate left German society rattled. In December of that year, the OECD published its first Programme for International Student Assessment report. PISA revealed Germany, the economic engine of Europe, to be lagging behind its OECD counterparts in both performance and equality among 15-year-olds. Read more about Early, but also Often. Early childhood education is essential, but secondary education must play a role in achieving equality
Image 16/12/2016 Legal support is essential to foster social inclusion of same-sex couples Interview with Dimitri Mortelmans and Ariane Pailhé What are the two most important findings of your research for FamiliesAndSocieties? Read more about Legal support is essential to foster social inclusion of same-sex couples
Image 13/12/2016 For This to Work Freelancers, social security, and the future of work in an increasingly equal, diverse, and ageing society. by Patrick I. Dick Read more about For This to Work
Image 07/12/2016 Nurture and Nature Genes may have a say in when we have children and how many we end up with - Interview with Professor Melinda Mills, Oxford “Loci”? “GWAS”? “NEB”? All in a day’s work for Melinda Mills, Nicola Barban, Harold Sneider, Marcel den Hoed, and their colleagues, who recently published a ground-breaking study on the genetic dimension of human reproductive behaviour. Read more about Nurture and Nature
Image 01/12/2016 Services Over Cash To reconcile work and family is to improve gender and socioeconomic equality. This means the type of intervention will be just as important as its generosity. Take cash benefits for care services. Intended to provide families with flexibility, evidence suggests they subtly incentivise families to fall back on traditional divisions of household labour. Given cash, families, especially poorer families, tend to engage in more home care for their children. Read more about Services Over Cash
Image 02/11/2016 When in Rome Similarities, rather than differences, characterise parent-child support among migrants and non-migrants by Helga de Valk and Valeria Bordone As our societies age, adult sons and daughters must increasingly balance their own lives with the needs of their ageing parents. They must reconcile the preferences of their parents with their institutional setting—that junction between policies and cultural expectations. A quick look at our own lives, and it’s easy to see that always making the “right” decisions can quickly get complicated for anyone. Read more about When in Rome
Image 18/10/2016 Turning the Tables: Policy and politics in an age of ageing An index of generational power reveals the impact of one of societies’ budding political cleavages by Harald Wilkoszewski, Elke Loichinger, and Patrick I. Dick Read more about Turning the Tables: Policy and politics in an age of ageing