scholarly journals Partners not for life? on the determinants of marriage dissolution in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 10019
Author(s):  
Husni Vici Handalusia ◽  
Nuryakin Chaikal ◽  
Massie Natanael Waraney Gerald

While there have been numerous studies exploring the determinants of divorce in social science, economic studies on such marriage dissolution are scarce. Our study aims to examine the cause of divorce in Indonesia, exploring the socio-economic and demographic determinants including risk preference as to why couples choose whether to divorce or stay married. This study utilizes the data on married men and women from Indonesian Family Life Survey 2007 and 2014. In relation to husband-wife working composition, we find a very specific condition leading to marriage dissolution: when the wife is the only working, the main source of income of the family. The result indicates that there is a clash between the traditional family structures, especially a man as the househusband and the demographic change in the labor market for the sustainability of marriage. Furthermore, variables such as age, whether the marriage is the first marriage or not, and religiosity show considerable predictive validities.

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 300
Author(s):  
Iana Bezerra Lima

ABSTRACTDescriptive study, update, aiming to identify the family social changes, the family and its life cycle, rebuilding the family, in your new life cycle to identify the importance of family therapy, this process of re-marriage. This is an issue of timeliness, increasingly frequent, though little discussed in the academic world. In the traditional family, where the couple and children living and paternalism commands, is no longer the only model of relations between people. With this process of change biopsychosocial, economic, the difficulties faced by families have become increasingly constant and conflicting. The family groups disrupted and restructured created new family structures where these new relationships and new roles are more complex than in the traditional family model. The difficulties encountered by families restructured are different, if the assumption that there is a link parent/son before the marriage. In the first marriage, the couple goes through the process of adaptation and creates a bond before dealing with their children, which does not occur in the family rebuilt. Moreover, previous marital experiences can influence poorly resolved in this new reconstruction marriage. Descriptors: family; marriage; divorce; family restructured.RESUMOEstudo descritivo, de atualização, com o objetivo de identificar as mudanças sociais da família, da família e do seu ciclo vital, reconstruindo a família, no seu novo ciclo de vida para identificar a importância da terapia familiar, neste processo de re-casamento. Trata-se de uma temática da contemporaneidade, cada vez mais freqüente, embora pouco discutido no mundo acadêmico. Na família tradicional, na qual o casal e filhos vivem e o paternalismo comanda, deixou de ser o único modelo de inter-relações. Com esse processo de mudança biopsicossocial, econômico, as dificuldades enfrentadas pelas famílias também se tornaram cada vez mais constantes e conflituosas. Os núcleos familiares desfeitos e refeitos criaram novas estruturas familiares onde estão presentes novos relacionamentos e os novos papéis mais complexos do que no modelo de família tradicional. As dificuldades encontradas pelas famílias reconstruídas são diferentes, se partimos do princípio que existe um vínculo progenitor/filho que antecede o vínculo conjugal. No primeiro casamento, o casal passa pela fase de adaptação e cria um vínculo antes de lidar com os filhos, o que não ocorre na família reconstruída. Além disso, experiências conjugais anteriores mal resolvidas podem influenciar nesta nova reconstrução conjugal. Descritores: família; casamento; divórcio; família reconstruída.RESUMENEstudio descriptivo, de atualización, con el objetivo de identificar los cambios sociales de la familia, de la familia y su ciclo de vida, de la reconstrucción de la familia, en su nuevo ciclo de vida para identificar la importancia de la terapia familiar, este proceso de volver a contraer matrimonio. Se trata de una cuestión de oportunidad, cada vez más frecuentes, aunque poco debatido en el mundo académico. En la familia tradicional, donde la pareja y los niños que viven y el paternalismo comandos, ya no es el único modelo de las relaciones entre las personas. Con este proceso de cambio biopsicosocial, económicas, las dificultades que enfrentan las familias se han convertido en constante y cada vez más conflictiva. Los grupos familiares perturbadas y reestructurado creado nuevas estructuras familiares que son estas nuevas relaciones y nuevas funciones más complejas que en el modelo de familia tradicional. Las dificultades encontradas por las familias reestructuradas son hijo antes del-diferentes, si la hipótesis de que existe un vínculo padre/hijo. En el primer matrimonio, la pareja pasa por el proceso de adaptación y crea un bono antes de hacer frente a sus hijos, lo que no ocurre en la familia reconstruida. Por otra parte, las experiencias matrimoniales anteriores pueden influir en mal resueltas en esta nueva reconstrucción del matrimonio. Descriptores: familia; matrimonio; divorcio; familia reestructurada.


2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn A. Kapinus ◽  
Michael P. Johnson

Using data from a 1980 national sample of married men and women, the analysis examines the utility of the family life cycle concept, employing as dependent variables constructs from Johnson’s conceptualization of commitment. They argue, in disagreement with two classic critiques of the family life cycle concept, that the predictive power of family life cycle is, for many dependent variables, quite independent of age or length of marriage. Their analyses demonstrate that, when using dependent variables one would expect to be related to the presence and ages of children, family life cycle remains a useful predictive tool.


Author(s):  
Laura Heins

This chapter examines the domestic melodrama and argues that it was used by the Nazis in a genre-contradictory manner to effect a departure from the nuclear family, in accordance with the antibourgeois antipathies of the regime's leadership. It contends that Nazi films, far from universally reinforcing traditional family structures, actually profit from an undermining of sexual taboos—the ultimate goal being an increased level of efficiency of production and reproduction. Seemingly prohibited desires actually formed the core of Nazi film melodramas; just as fascist Germany's “leading man” found the family largely unattractive, so did the imaginary of its cinema. Filmmakers in the Third Reich preferred to offer images of the dissolution of the family rather than images of harmonious familial units, and the domestic melodrama in particular reveals the highly conflicted attitude of Nazi ideology and policy regarding bourgeois morality, marriage, and motherhood.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M.Sc. Albana Metaj-Stojanova

The right to family life is a fundamental human right, recognized by a series of international and European acts, which not only define and ensure its protection, but also emphasize the social importance of the family unit and the institution of marriage. The right to family life has evolved rapidly, since it was first introduced as an international human right by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The family structure and the concept of family life have changed dramatically over the last few decades, influenced by the everchanging social reality of our time and the decline of the institution of marriage. Aside from the traditional European nuclear family composed of two married persons of opposite sex and their marital children, new forms of family structures have arisen. LGTB families are at the centre of the ongoing debate on re-defining marriage and the concept of family life. The aim of this paper is to analyse the degree of protection accorded to family life and to the right to marry, which has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the pursuit of happiness by free men by both, international acts ratified by the Republic of Macedonia and the legal system of the country. The methodology applied is qualitative research and use of the analytical, historical and comparative methods. The paper concludes that in general Republic of Macedonia has a solid legal framework, in compliance with the international law, that protects and promotes the right to family life.


2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Ulrike Zartler

Against the backdrop of high divorce rates and changing concepts in the social sciences, the issue is addressed as to how children and families construct divorce and patterns of family life prior and subsequent to divorce. Based on an Austrian qualitative survey of 50 ten-year old children and their respective parents (n=71), it can be shown that divorce is predominantly constructed as a disintegration of the family. Based upon the dimensions of normalcy, complementarity and stability, nuclear families are being perceived as the most advantageous form of living together as a family. Whereas single-parent families are constructed as being both deficient and disadvantaged, stepfamilies are seen in a more positive light which, in turn, is due to the everyday presence of two parents in those families. These findings indicate that the interviewees orientate themselves along the lines of the model of disorganization, hierarchized ways of family life, and family concepts that are household-centered and focus primarily on family structures. Finally, the implications and repercussions of these findings for family policies and family research are being discussed. Zusammenfassung Vor dem Hintergrund hoher Scheidungsraten und veränderter sozialwissenschaftlicher Konzepte wird die Frage gestellt, wie Kinder und Eltern Scheidungen sowie familiale Lebensformen vor und nach einer Scheidung konstruieren. Basierend auf einer österreichischen qualitativen Befragung von 50 zehnjährigen Kindern und ihren Eltern (n= 71) zeigt sich, dass Scheidung überwiegend als Auflösung der Familie konstruiert wird. Kernfamilien werden, basierend auf den Aspekten Normalität, Komplementarität und Stabilität, als vorteilhafteste Lebensform wahrgenommen. Ein-Eltern-Familien werden als defizitär und benachteiligt konstruiert, während Stieffamilien aufgrund der alltäglichen Präsenz von zwei Elternpersonen positiver betrachtet werden. Die Ergebnisse verweisen auf eine Orientierung am Desorganisationsmodell, eine Hierarchisierung von Lebensformen sowie haushaltszentrierte und familienstrukturell fokussierte Konzeptionen. Auswirkungen und Implikationen dieser Ergebnisse für Sozialpolitik und Familienforschung werden diskutiert.


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-54
Author(s):  
Tatiana A. Gurko

The transformation of the institutions of marriage, family and parenthood in recent decades in the context of rapid social, economic, cultural and technological innovations worldwide encourages theorists to look for explanations of the nature and direction of the processes that are taking place. American sociologists of the family Stan Knapp and Greg Wurm present a rather promising systematization of the theoretical approaches to changes in the institution of the family. The criteria of approaches according to the authors’ typology: relationality – vertical / horizontal, and dimensionality – single / multidimensional. This article’s purpose is to reflect on this typology so that Russian researchers go beyond theorizing in the framework of “opposing paradigms of crisis – modernization of the institution of family” disputes, which are more ideological than scientific. The institutional approach is widely represented in the works of classics of foreign and Russian sociology of the family. The classic institutional approach is expanded upon by the works of representatives of the new institutional approach. In the approach of deinstitutionalization, the main emphasis is placed on increasing individual needs, with “family” being a “pure relationship”. The diversification approach, which was mentioned among others by the author of this very article in the mid-1990’s, seems to be the most constructive from an empirical point of view. The article shows the diversification of the family institution, the spread of new family structures in many countries with references to empirical studies and statistical sources. Knapp and Wurm, the authors of the presented typology, consider the approach of institutional logic in relation to the family to be promising. The main problems of its application are discussed in article. The application of the classical theory of family development, as it was formulated in the 20th century when normative family paths were dominant, is also problematized, together with the lack of Russian longitudinal studies and works that describe modern family life paths. What western sociologists agree on, and what the analysis of Russian studies confirms, are the differences in the models of organizing private life in different social groups, at least among educated and uneducated citizens. Analysis of trends in the prevalence of alternative forms of family life in different social groups allows us to assess the nature of changes in the institutions of marriage and family, either as evolutionary or transformational.


2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-77
Author(s):  
Irene Maffi

Abstract Postcolonial Tunisia has gone through substantial transformations of its legal and socio-economic structures. Habib Bourguiba began the work of social and juridical engineering aimed to make the independent state a modern country, contributing to profound changes in family structures. In this article, I intend to investigate the family life of two women and two men with whom I established friendships during the fieldwork I carried out in Tunisia between 2013 and 2014. Examining the relationships of my interlocutors with their family members, I will depict an ethnographic portrait of a few Tunisian families. While they are not representative of Tunisian society, they nevertheless allow insight into a specific sector of it and help understand the effects of the revolution of 2011 on family structures.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 411
Author(s):  
Frendi Prayogo ◽  
Noven Suprayogi

Marriage is worship that exemplified by Rasulullah PBUH. The purpose of marriage is making a happy family. However, economic barriers are commonly used to delay marriage even though God promises wealth for married people. The purpose of this study was to analyze the ratio of income levels between single men and married men in Indonesia based on the Islamic perspective. Subjects in this study were individuals in households aged 15 years or older who were individuals in the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) study of 24 provinces in Indonesia. This research is a quantitative research by using Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon test. The sampling used is the documentation technique. The data used are taken from the IFLS-4 data in 2007 and IFLS-5 in 2014. The results showed that there was a significant difference in income level between a group of single men and a group of married men and there was a significant difference in income level between before and after marriage in the same sample.Keywords: Single, Married, Income Level, Islamic Perspective


2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Kille ◽  
Crystal T. Tse

As family structures diversify, attitudes towards “nontraditional” families (e.g., same-sex-parent and cross-race families) appear to be becoming more favorable. Despite more favorable attitudes, we propose that explicitly and implicitly people view nontraditional families as less family-like than traditional (i.e., heterosexual, same-race) families. We also propose that people will hold the behavior of nontraditional (vs. traditional) families to higher standards. In Study 1, participants explicitly rated nontraditional (vs. traditional) family photos as less family-like and as less loving. In Study 2, using a reaction-time measure, participants took longer to correctly categorize nontraditional (vs. traditional) families into the family category, suggesting that at an implicit level people have greater difficulty recognizing nontraditional families as “family.” In Studies 3 and 4, ambiguous (i.e., positive and negative) behavior licensed more harsh evaluations of a nontraditional family—but did not affect evaluations of a traditional family—relative to learning only positive family behavior. Despite survey data that suggest that people’s views of nontraditional families are becoming more favorable, our evidence indicates that people nonetheless harbor prejudice against certain family structures. Beyond documenting two biases against nontraditional families, this work highlights the need for prejudice researchers to examine meaningful levels of social identity, such as family units, that are intermediate between individuals and broad social classes.


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