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'Families in Converging Europe' examines common familial trends and differences between Northern and Southern and Eastern and Western Europe from 1960s to early 2000s and discusses the most common theoretical explanations for convergence and divergence. The interest lies in macro-level social changes and in the interrelationship between the family and other social institutions. In-depth comparison of Finnish and Spanish cases as representatives of North and South Europe provides an example of how macro-level changes affect both family ideology and practices.

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Child development --- Family policy --- Family --- Families --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Families and state --- State and families --- Public welfare --- Social security --- Social policy --- Child study --- Children --- Development, Child --- Developmental biology --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Government policy --- Development --- 316.356.2 <71> --- 316.356.2 <71> Gezinssociologie--Canada --- Gezinssociologie--Canada

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Regardless how you interpret the statistics, the divorce rate in the United States is staggering. But, what if the government could change this? Would families be better off if new public policies made it more difficult for couples to separate? This book explores a movement that emerged over the past fifteen years, which aims to do just that. Guided by certain politicians and religious leaders who herald marriage as a solution to a range of longstanding social problems, a handful of state governments enacted "covenant marriage" laws, which require couples to choose between a conventional and a covenant marriage. While the familiar type of union requires little effort to enter and can be terminated by either party unilaterally, covenant marriage requires premarital counseling, an agreement bound by fault-based rules or lengthy waiting periods to exit, and a legal stipulation that divorce can be granted only after the couple has received counseling. Drawing on interviews with over 700 couples-half of whom have chosen covenant unions-this book not only evaluates the viability of public policy in the intimate affairs of marriage, it also explores how growing public discourse is causing men and women to rethink the meaning of marriage.

Law reform --- Marriage law --- Legal reform --- Law, Marriage --- Marriage --- Domestic relations --- Sex and law --- Husband and wife --- Law and legislation --- Prohibited degrees --- 316.356.2 <73> --- 347.62 <73> --- 316.356.2 <73> Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Gezinssociologie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 347.62 <73> Huwelijksrecht. Huwelijksvoorwaarden. Huwelijksformaliteiten. Nietigheid, aanvechtbaarheid van het huwelijk. Rechten en plichten van echtgenoten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Huwelijksrecht. Huwelijksvoorwaarden. Huwelijksformaliteiten. Nietigheid, aanvechtbaarheid van het huwelijk. Rechten en plichten van echtgenoten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA

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This book examines how new dimensions of diversity and difference, so often debated in the national context, are emerging at the neighbourhood level.

Family. --- Families --- Social change --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- History --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- #SBIB:316.356.2H1130 --- #SBIB:316.356.2H1300 --- 316.356.2 --- 316.356.2 Gezinssociologie --- Gezinssociologie --- Hedendaagse gezinsstudies: algemeen --- Gezin en andere sociale eenheden binnen de samenleving: overheid, school, religie