Do Rational Choices Guide Family Formation and Dissolution in Italy?

2016 ◽  
pp. 205-214
Author(s):  
Gustavo De Santis ◽  
Silvana Salvini
Keyword(s):  
Family Formation ◽  
Rational Choices

scholarly journals Chinese–international intimate relations: An Australian case study of migrant marriage and divorce

2020 ◽  
pp. 144078332097870
Author(s):  
Elaine Jeffreys ◽  
Pan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Family Formation ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Asian Country ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Australian Case ◽  
Intimate Relations ◽  
Australian Bureau Of Statistics

This article analyses trends in Chinese–international marriages and divorces, using Australia, a major migrant-receiving country, as a comparative case study. In exploring the recent rise of ‘Chinese–foreign’ marriage in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), we show that Chinese–international marriage within mainland China is a small, gendered phenomenon that largely involves Chinese women marrying men from other Asian societies. By examining unique data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, we reveal that most marriages involving PRC-born people in contemporary Australia are between two people born in China. But the displacement of Chinese intimate relationships to a non-Asian country results in significant behavioural divergences from couples ‘at home’, especially regarding prior cohabitation. Marriages solely involving PRC-born couples in Australia are also typically less enduring than marriages to non-Chinese. We argue that these differences underscore the roles of country-specific immigration policies and labour mobility patterns in shaping unpredicted family formation behaviour.

Pesky Polygamist Women: The Marginalization of Qualitative Data in British Columbia’s Charter Reference on Polygamy

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Nerida Bullock
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Expert Opinion ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Canadian Charter ◽  
Value Neutrality

AbstractThis paper explores the thorny mingling of law with qualitative social science methodologies through the lens of the 2010–11 Supreme Court of British Columbia Charter Reference on polygamy, which was conducted to determine whether the criminalization of polygamy was consistent with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Reference reveals how the marginalization of qualitative research(ers) effectively controlled whose voices were to be heard and whose were to be silenced in the broader project of sovereign intervention into family formation. With specific focus on Professor Angela Campbell, who provided expert opinion testimony in the Reference, this paper reflects on two important questions: when social science is invoked in legal settings, whose knowledge is legitimized, and who benefits from this legitimization? Drawing upon the longstanding feminist project of deconstructing assumptions of value-neutrality in all science, this paper considers how qualitative, feminist research(ers) may be inherently at odds with law’s quest for (rational) “truth.”

scholarly journals Unmarried cohabitation and its fertility in Ireland: Towards post-Catholic family dynamics?

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Benoît Laplante ◽  
Teresa Castro-Martín ◽  
Clara Cortina ◽  
Ana Fostik
Keyword(s):  
Family Formation ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Late Development ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Unmarried Cohabitation ◽  
The Church ◽  
Family Behaviour

Ireland was known for being conservative in family matters. The 2015 referendum that allowed same-sex marriage and the 2018 one that allowed abortion showed this is no longer true. This article aims at better understanding recent family change in Ireland by looking at changes in values on topics related with family behaviour and change in behaviour related with family formation–the rise of unmarried cohabitation, and childbearing within unmarried cohabitation–with a focus on the Catholic dogma and its role in the Irish society. We use data from the 2008 European Value Survey and from the five censuses conducted between 1991 and 2011. We find that the young have been moving away from the teachings of the Church on unmarried cohabitation, but that a few years before the 2018 referendum, they were still close to it on abortion. There is no clear negative relationship between cohabitation or fertility within cohabitation and education, but the use of cohabitation seems to vary according to education. The most enduring legacy of the Church doctrine seems to be the late development of family policies that make motherhood hard to reconcile with work and might explain why cohabiting women have few children.

Bachelorhood and Sexuality in a Context of Female Shortage: Evidence from a Survey in Rural Anhui, China

2013 ◽  
Vol 215 ◽  
pp. 703-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Attané ◽  
Zhang Qunlin ◽  
Li Shuzhuo ◽  
Yang Xueyan ◽  
Christophe Z. Guilmoto
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Rural Society ◽  
General Situation ◽  
Rural County ◽  
Chinese Men ◽  
Married Men ◽  
Exploratory Survey ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Near Future

AbstractTraditionally, marriage is a near universality in China. However, in the coming decades, owing to the growing sex imbalance, millions of men will be unable to marry. As a consequence, bachelorhood is becoming a new demographic concern, particularly affecting men from the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups. In China's cultural context today, heterosexual marriage remains a prerequisite for family formation and, in rural society particularly, the legitimate setting for sexual activity. Under such circumstances, bachelorhood is likely to produce privations on various fronts, the consequences of which for both the individual and the community are still largely unknown. This article focuses on the opinions and sexual behaviour of bachelors, and highlights significant variations from those of married men. It is based on the findings of an exploratory survey conducted in 2008 in selected villages in a rural county in Anhui province, referred to here as JC county. The survey provides insights into the more general situation of rural men unable to marry in a context of female shortage, and indicates the conditions a growing number of Chinese men will face in the near future.

scholarly journals The relationship between a parental conviction and a son’s family formation

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 52-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sytske Besemer ◽  
David P. Farrington ◽  
Delphine Theobald
Keyword(s):  
Family Formation ◽  
The Relationship

Race Differences in Changing Family Demographics in the 1980s

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIM B. HEATON ◽  
CARDELL K. JACOBSON
Keyword(s):  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
White Family ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Black And White ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Small Set ◽  
Timing Of Initiation ◽  
Mother's Educational Level

Traditional demarcators of family formation and dissolution have changed dramatically over the past few decades and Black-White differences have become pronounced. In this article, we explore the degree to which a relatively small set of variables can account for racial difference in timing of initiation of sexual activity, first marriage, first birth, and divorce. The independent variables included in the model are adolescent living arrangements (single-parent vs. two-parent), mother's educational level, religion, region of the country, area of residency (urban, suburban, rural), birth cohort, and year of the survey. Based on hazard models for the rate of occurrence of each event, we estimate how Blacks would differ if they had mean values on covariates equal to White observed means. Although the results differ for the four dependent variables, this particular set of independent variables does not provide a satisfactory explanation of the differences between Black and White family formation and dissolution. Blacks and Whites may be responding to different structural and cultural constraints not easily captured by basic demographic variables.

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