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This open access book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, psychological, family sociological and demographical insights. It describes how, despite the long evolution of broken families, only the last decade has seen a radical shift in custody arrangements for children in divorced families and the gender revolution in parenting which is taking place. The chapters have a national or cross-national perspective and address topics like prevalence and types of shared physical custody, legal frames regulating custody arrangements, stability and changes in arrangements across the life course of children, socio‐economic, psychological, social well-being of various family members involved in different custody arrangements. With the book being an interdisciplinary collaboration, it is interesting read for social scientists in demography, sociology, psychology, law and policy makers with an interest family studies and custody arrangements.

Population & demography --- Central government policies --- Social work --- Psychiatry --- Demography --- Social Policy --- Politics of the Welfare State --- Social Work and Community Development --- Comparative Social Policy --- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry --- Population and Demography --- Child and Adolescence Psychology --- Family Law --- Children well-being --- Consequences of divorce and separation --- Parents-children relationships --- Child support --- Family Demography --- Divorce rates --- Union formation --- Child living arrangements --- Non-intact family setting --- Co-parenthood --- Child support and shared care --- Open access --- New family forms --- Law on parental responsibilities --- Father-Child relationship --- Post-divorce families --- Shared parenting after divorce --- Legal frameworks of child support --- Central / national / federal government policies

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Over the past decades Europe has witnessed fundamental changes of its population dynamics and population structure. Fertility has fallen below replacement level in almost all European countries, while childbearing behavior and family formation have become more diverse. Life expectancy has increased in Western Europe for both females and males, but has been declining for men in some Eastern European countries. Immigration from non-European countries has increased substantially, as has mobility within Europe. These changes pose major challenges to population studies, as conventional theoretical assumptions regarding demographic behavior and demographic development seem unfit to provide convincing explanations of the recent demographic changes.   This book, derived from the symposium on “The Demography of Europe” held at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany in November 2007 in honor of Professor Jan M. Hoem, brings together leading population researchers in the area of fertility, family, migration, life-expectancy, and mortality. The contributions present key issues of the new demography of Europe and discuss key research advances to understand the continent’s demographic development at the turn of the 21st century.

Demography -- Europe -- History. --- Europe -- Population -- History. --- Population -- Europe. --- Population density -- Europe. --- Business & Economics --- Demography --- Micration, Internal --- Europe. --- Europe --- Population. --- Social sciences. --- Aging. --- Sociology. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Demography. --- Families. --- Families --- Social Sciences. --- Sociology, general. --- Family. --- Methodology of the Social Sciences. --- Migration. --- Social aspects. --- Aging --- Social sciences --- Research. --- Methodology. --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Gerontology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Historical demography --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Physiological effect --- Families—Social aspects. --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Social theory --- Social aspects --- Social conditions

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This open access wide-ranging collation of papers examines a host of issues in studying second-generation immigrants, their life courses, and their relations with older generations. Tightly focused on methodological aspects, both quantitative and qualitative, the volume features the work of authors from numerous countries, from differing disciplines, and approaches. A key addition in a corpus of literature which has until now been restricted to studying the childhood, adolescence and youth of the children of immigrants, the material includes analysis of longitudinal and transnational efforts to address challenges such as defining the population to be studied, and the difficulties of follow-up research that spans both time and geographic space.   In addition to perceptive reviews of extant literature, chapters also detail work in surveying the children of immigrants in Europe, the USA, and elsewhere. Authors address key questions such as the complexities of surveying each generation in families where parents have migrated and left children in their country of origin, and the epistemological advances in methodology which now challenge assumptions based on the Westphalian nation-state paradigm. The book is in part an outgrowth of temporal factors (immigrants’ children are now reaching adulthood in more significant numbers), but also reflects the added sophistication and sensitivity of social science surveys. In linking theoretical and methodological factors, it shows just how much the study of these second generations, and their families, can be enriched by evolving methodologies. This book is open access under a CC BY license.  This is the best book we have about the methodology to conduct research on the second generation or the children of immigrants and their integration in the countries they reside. Claudio Bolzman, Laura Bernardi and Jean-Marie Le Goff have convened a large number of renowned scholars from different countries to reflect on the life course perspective, the use of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods and the transnational approach. Prof. Rafael Alarcón Acosta, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. .

Social sciences (general) --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Demography --- Migration. Refugees --- sociologie --- demografie --- sociale wetenschappen --- gezin --- migratie (mensen) --- familie --- methodologieën

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