scholarly journals Economic Poverty: Does the Break-Up of Families Matter?

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 224
Author(s):  
Maria Alessandra Antonelli ◽  
Valeria De Bonis
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Divorce Rate ◽  
Marriage Rate ◽  
Econometric Analysis ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Extended Families ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Oecd Data

In this paper we investigate the relationship between family structure and poverty for European countries using Eurostat and OECD data. In particular, we focus on the change in living arrangements, with the traditional type of household—couple with children—being partially replaced by single and extended families. The results of our econometric analysis show that the decline in the traditional family type affects individual poverty: the marriage rate and the share of couples, both with and without children, are inversely related to poverty; the divorce rate, the shares of extended families and singles with children are, instead, positively related to poverty.

Family Disruption, Violent Victimization and Protest Masculinity

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy L. Austin ◽  
John Arthur
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Violent Victimization ◽  
Family Disruption ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Harmful Effects

Americans show great concern over the likely harmful effects of father-absent families on children, especially when families are black. Little or no concern is shown over step-families although these are expected to be the predominant family form by the year 2000. Our study finds the emphasis on female-based black households to be misplaced when violent victimization is the harm of interest. Data for 1973, 1976, 1980 and 1984 from national samples of Americans indicate that persons reared in both father-absent and step-father families were more likely to be victims of violence (being punched or beaten) than persons reared by both natural parents. The relationship was stronger for step-father families. Also, the only significant interaction between race and family structure (family type, family composition) showed a stronger relationship between family structure and violent victimization among whites. In addition, adverse effects of family structure occurred when family disruption was due to divorce or separation but not to death of the father. The emphasis in protest masculinity theory on involvement in violence as an expression of exaggerated masculinity is inconsistent with the finding of no relationship when the father is dead and the relatively strong relationship when a step-father is present.

The Effects of Polygyny and Domicility on Offspring Sex Ratio in Ghana

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-456
Author(s):  
Adansi Amankwaa
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Demographic And Health Surveys ◽  
Offspring Sex Ratio ◽  
Ratio Bias ◽  
Sex Ratio Bias ◽  
Offspring Sex ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article explores how family structure and domicility influences offspring sex ratio bias, specifically living arrangements of husband in polygynous unions. Data from three Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys were used to examine the relationship between family structure and offspring sex ratio at birth, something that previous studies have not been able to do. This study estimate models of sex ratio offspring if the wives live together with husband present and wives live in separate dwellings and are visited by husband in turn. The results suggest that within polygynous marriages there are more male births, especially when husbands reside in the same dwelling as wives, than when husbands reside in separate dwellings from their wives. The analyses show that offspring sex ratio is related to the structure of living arrangement of husbands in polygynous unions. Indeed, the findings suggest that living arrangements and family structure among humans are important factors in predicting offspring sex ratio bias.

Association of Selected Area-Level Indicators With Suicide Mortality in Slovenian Municipalities

Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Saška Roškar ◽  
Nataša Sedlar ◽  
Lucija Furman ◽  
Maja Roškar ◽  
Anja Podlesek
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Divorce Rate ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Marriage Rate ◽  
Suicide Mortality ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Background: With an average suicide rate of 20 per 100,000 in the last decade, Slovenia is above the EU average. There are considerable regional differences in suicide mortality within the country. Aim: We aimed to investigate the relationship between selected indicators at area level and the suicide rate in Slovenian municipalities. Method: Sociodemographic, socioeconomic, and (mental) health data in the years 2012–2016 were analyzed for 212 municipalities. Robust correlation and regression analyses were performed to determine the relationship between different variables and the suicide rate. Results: The suicide rate was positively associated with the percentage of male inhabitants, the high social cohesion in the neighborhood, and the number of sick leave days per capita. It was negatively related to the net income per capita, the marriage rate, the divorce rate, and the availability of professional mental healthcare services. Limitations: The small suicide frequencies within municipalities constitute a limitation of the study. Conclusion: Factors at local, municipal level can be linked to the risk of suicide. In Slovenia, neighborhood cohesion is one of the factors that should be considered when designing suicide prevention measures in a community.

scholarly journals The family as a capital asset

Sociologija ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andjelka Milic
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Extended Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
The Relationship

A representative sample survey of families/households in Serbia at the beginning of the third millennium (2003), carried out by the Institute for Sociological Research, has shown the percentage of extended families to be unexpectedly high (30%). Earlier surveys, however, led to the belief that they were almost disappearing as a model and part of the reality of family life. Further analysis of data has convinced us that a revival of a family type, which emerged as a result of the transformation of the traditional zadruga or joint family, is underway. Throughout the socialist period characterized by the discouragement of agricultural development and industrialization, this family type survived and took the form of a hybrid or mixed household consisting of farmers-workers, which has been on a steady decline since the mid 1960s. In contemporary circumstances, marked by a decade-long social crisis and economic decline, an expansion of the extended family model takes place. It is distinguished by completely new morphological, structural, socioeconomic and functional features, which indicate the existence of strategies applied by individual families with the aim of adapting to the blocked, postponed and belated socioeconomic transformation, namely, avoiding the risks it brings. On the basis of the produced empirical evidence, the existence of two types of extension have been determined: horizontally (lateral descent) and vertically extended family type (blood relationship, patrilinearity). It has also been determined that these two types differ in the ways of their emergence and maintenance, as well as in essential inner relations. Vertically extended families are characterized by the elements of the traditional patriarchal order, while horizontal extension is a result of modernizing trends that have never fully developed (especially as far as the relationship between spouses is concerned).

scholarly journals Long-run Social and Economic Responses of Fertility in the United States

1988 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiannis P. Venieris ◽  
Douglas B. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Dynamic Response ◽  
Divorce Rate ◽  
Marriage Rate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Econometric Analysis ◽  
Marriage Rates ◽  
Fertility Behaviour ◽  
Long Run

Based on the results of an econometric analysis, the paper looks into the dynamic response of fertility behaviour in the United States, to changes in some of its determinants. Specifically, the effect of current and past marriage rates on fertility has been studied. In doing so, the role of permanent income and the divorce rate on the marriage rate, and through it, on fertility, has also been examined.

The Relationship Between the Testamentary Disposition and the Belief in the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico Van Blerk
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
The Relationship

This study discusses the importance of the belief in the afterlife, sustenance after death, family structure and literature from ancient Egypt and submits that the first signs of the testamentary disposition can be deduced. The belief in the afterlife necessitated sustenance of the deceased by the immediate family complemented by provisions made by the deceased prior to death, effectively laying the foundation of the testamentary disposition in ancient Egypt. One must, however, be careful about conclusions of definite testate and intestate succession law from our sources as these are later terminology. It does, however, appear that the first signs of succession law, in particular the testamentary disposition, is present very early in ancient Egypt.

The Relationship between Human Development and Economic Growth

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Stewart ◽  
Gustav Ranis ◽  
Emma Samman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Econometric Analysis ◽  
Complementary Relationship ◽  
Development Index ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Intervening Variables

This chapter explores the interactions between economic growth and human development, as measured by the Human Development Index, theoretically and empirically. Drawing on many studies it explores the links in two chains, from economic growth to human development, and from human development to growth. Econometric analysis establishes strong links between economic growth and human development, and intervening variables influencing the strength of the chains. Because of the complementary relationship, putting emphasis on economic growth alone is not a long-term viable strategy, as growth is likely to be impeded by failure on human development. The chapter classifies country performance in four ways: virtuous cycles where both growth and human development are successful; vicious cycles where both are weak; and lopsided ones where the economy is strong but human development is weak, or conversely ones where human development is strong but the economy is weak.

The Relationship of Family Type to Social Participation

1956 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 224 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Frank Schmidt ◽  
Wayne C. Rohrer
Keyword(s):  
Social Participation ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The Fertile Fields of Policy? Examining Fertility Decision-Making and Policy Settings

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Maree Maher
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Fertility Decision ◽  
Individual Choices ◽  
Fertility Choices ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Oecd Data

OECD data suggest a significant gap between desired fertility rates and the total fertility rate achieved in developed industrial nations. In a qualitative study conducted in Australia in 2002 and 2003, people were asked how family policies influenced their decisions to have children. Participants did not clearly associate their fertility choices and prevailing policy settings. But their decision-making was grounded in commonplace accounts of incompatibility in balancing work and family. This article considers how individual choices may be shaped by such social and policy discourses and what implications this has for our understanding of the relationship between fertility choices and policy settings.

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