Books and Reports: European Policy Brief: Parental Separation, Child Well-Being And Family Policies In Europe

European Policy Brief: Parental Separation, Child Well-Being And Family Policies In Europe

It is well-known that family configurations have become more and more diverse over the last decades. Single-parent families, cohabiting families of the opposite or same sex, and intergenerational households are only examples of the current diversity. In Europe, family structures still vary substantially among countries. For instance, in 2011 the number of live births outside marriage ranged from 7.4% in Greece to 65% in Iceland. However, trends over time have substantially increased everywhere.
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Aassve
Arnstein
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Ageing and Life Expectancy
Person: Mencarini
Mencarini
Letizia
Family and Children
Society and Solidarity
Working Life
Person: Macmillan
Macmillan
Ross
Ageing and Life Expectancy
Family and Children
Society and Solidarity
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Person: MacInnes
MacInnes
John
Ageing and Life Expectancy
Family and Children
Working Life
Person: Vitali
Vitali
Agnese
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Family is Closely Concerned With All of The EU’s Headline Targets

Family is Closely Concerned With All of The EU’s Headline Targets

Interview with Marc Goffart
Population Europe: What is the EU’s interest in research on families?   Marc Goffart: The EU’s research interest in families dates back to the late ‘80s, but actual policy developments (at the EU and international level, such as the OECD) are of more recent nature, which have initially centred around the demographic developments in Europe.
The Benefit Of Having A Wife

The Benefit Of Having A Wife

To what extent are partners and adult children substitutes for unskilled public care?*
Public expenditure on care for older people has been rising along with the increasing number of senior citizens, and is expected to rise even more as population ageing continues. Attempts to constrain expenditures have largely focused on enabling older people to live independently longer and stressing the importance of informal caregivers as an alternative to public care. But to what extent and under which conditions can this idea actually be feasible? This question is examined in a new study by Niels Schenk and colleagues, who use the Netherlands as an example.
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