Puberty and the family formation process in Sudan: Age‐at‐menarche differential fecundity hypothesis revisited

This work is intended as an attempt to illustrate and compare the pattern of fertility in European countries: Belarus, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. It deals with the analysis of fertility trends, with an emphasis on birth by parity. Using data from the Human Fertility Database (HFD) from the year 2016, it has considered the parameters of parity progression ratios (PPR), projected parity progression ratios (PPPR), age‑specific fertility rates (ASFR), age‑order specific fertility rates (AOSFR), and cumulated order‑specific fertility rates accordingly analysed. We have applied indicators known as the projected parity progression ratios to estimate trends of fertility. These offer a more detailed view of the family formation process than the traditional total fertility rate (TFR).

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Gendering Illegality: Undocumented Young Adults’ Negotiation of the Family Formation Process

American Behavioral Scientist ◽

10.1177/0002764217732103 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 61 (10) ◽

pp. 1153-1171 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Laura E. Enriquez

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Formation Process ◽

Family Formation ◽

Immigrant Incorporation ◽

Immigration Status ◽

1.5 Generation ◽

The Family ◽

Gendered Expectations ◽

Depth Interviews

Although previous scholarship demonstrates that gender profoundly affects the immigrant incorporation process, few studies assess the role of gender in the lives of 1.5-generation undocumented young adults. Drawing on 92 in-depth interviews, I examine how gender and immigration status intersect to affect undocumented young adults’ dating, marriage, and parenting experiences. Although all undocumented young adults face the same structural limitations, I argue that their gendered social position leads men and women to experience and negotiate their illegality differently. Gendered expectations make immigration status relevant in different ways throughout of the family formation process, and affect undocumented young adults’ ability to negotiate the limitations associated with their immigration status. As a result, undocumented young men are less likely than women to fully participate in family formation and move toward social incorporation. These findings suggest that gender plays a significant role in shaping experiences of illegality and that navigating gendered expectations is an important micro-level process within immigrant incorporation.

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Family Life Course Trajectories: Results of the Sequence Analysis

Filosofija Sociologija ◽

10.6001/fil-soc.v31i2.4232 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Irma Dirsytė ◽

Aušra Maslauskaitė

Keyword(s):

Sequence Analysis ◽

Life Course ◽

Family Life ◽

Formation Process ◽

Family Formation ◽

Birth Cohorts ◽

Family Demography ◽

Life Trajectories ◽

Analysis Methods ◽

The Family

This paper aims to analyse the family life course trajectories of 1970–1984 birth cohorts in Lihuania. It applies the sequence analysis methods and is based on the Families and Inequalities Survey Dataset collected in 2019. The method provides the opportunities to examine the family life course in a holistic way and has not been used in family demography research in Lithuania so far. The results prove that cohabitation became a normative event in the family formation process, the duration of cohabitation increases, however marriage remains the dominant family arrangement for childrearing. Clasterization of sequences revealed four models of family life trajectories, that reflect the diversity and de-standartization of the family life course.

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Changing Gender Role Expectations in the Family Formation Process Through the Lens of Ambivalence

Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research - Intimate Relationships and Social Change ◽

10.1108/s1530-353520170000011004 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 73-93

Author(s):

Kadri Raid ◽

Kairi Kasearu

Keyword(s):

Gender Role ◽

Formation Process ◽

Family Formation ◽

Role Expectations ◽

Gender Role Expectations ◽

The Family

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SOME PROBLEMS OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY OF THE MODERN SOCIETY

BULLETIN Series of Sociological and Political sciences ◽

10.51889/2021-3.1728-8940.04 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 75 (3) ◽

pp. 28-33

Author(s):

Daurenbek Kusainov ◽

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Ainur Sadyrova ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Protection ◽

Family Formation ◽

Modern Society ◽

Social Institution ◽

Middle Level ◽

Human Society ◽

Individual Subject ◽

The Family ◽

Sociology Of The Family ◽

The Individual

Marriage and the family are important institutions of human society. As we know, they include different private institutions: the institute of kinship, the institute of motherhood and fatherhood, the institute of property, the institute of social protection of childhood and guardianship, and others. The process of family formation is the process of assimilation of social norms, roles and standards that regulate courtship, the choice of a marriage partner, family stabilization, sexual behavior, relations with the parents of spouses.The sociology of the family in a narrow sense, as part of general sociology, as a theory of the “middle level”; considers a special sphere of life and culture of families. The sociology of the family deals with a group, and not with an individual subject of life activity. A group of people connected by family and kinship relations forms that part of the social reality that is studied by the sociology of the family, where the family lifestyle is at the forefront. The sociology of the family considers the individual as a member of the family, integral part of the society. The sociology of the family correlates with the sociology of the individual; it studies personality, first of all, through the prism of socio-cultural intra-family ties, family identity of the individual. In any societythe family has a dual character. On the one hand, it is a social institution, on the other-a small group that has its own laws of functioning and development.

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Family Formation and Parenthood

Children and the European Court of Human Rights ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198787518.003.0008 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 220-254

Author(s):

Claire Fenton-Glynn

Keyword(s):

Family Life ◽

Family Formation ◽

Same Sex ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

New Methods ◽

New Family ◽

The Family ◽

Reproductive Techniques ◽

The Right ◽

The Way

This chapter examines the interpretation of ‘family life’ under Article 8 and the way that this has evolved throughout the Court’s history. It contrasts the approach of the Court to ‘family life’ between children and mothers, with ‘family life’ between fathers and children, noting the focus of the Court on function over form. It then turns to the establishment of parenthood, both in terms of maternity and paternity, as well as the right of the child to establish information concerning their origins. Finally, the chapter examines the changing face of the family, considering new family forms, including same-sex couples and transgender parents, as well as new methods of reproduction, such as artificial reproductive techniques and surrogacy.

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Oocyte Donation: Ethical Perspectives

Reproduction Fertility and Development ◽

10.1071/rd9920605 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 4 (6) ◽

pp. 605

Author(s):

M Charlesworth

Keyword(s):

Embryo Transfer ◽

Family Formation ◽

Informed Choice ◽

Oocyte Donation ◽

The Other ◽

Infertile Woman ◽

Sufficient Information ◽

Donor Insemination ◽

Traditional Concept ◽

The Family

Oocyte donation is a means by which an infertile woman, who cannot produce her own ova, can have a child with the help of IVF and embryo transfer. Since it is a serious matter to donate one's gametes to another, both donor and recipient should be given sufficient information and counselling to enable them to make an informed choice and, as far as possible, to control the process. Forming a family by means of oocyte donation should also be seen within the broad context of the other various modes of family formation, namely by donor insemination, adoption, surrogacy, etc. The concept of 'the family' is a pluralistic one, as different forms of the family can coexist in our society. Family formation by oocyte donation should therefore not be considered to be deviant, or subversive of the traditional concept of the family.

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Fifty Years of Family Change

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ◽

10.1177/0002716214524521 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 654 (1) ◽

pp. 12-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 53

Author(s):

Frank F. Furstenberg

Keyword(s):

Family Formation ◽

Family System ◽

Nuclear Family ◽

Current System ◽

The United States ◽

Global Context ◽

Cultural Conditions ◽

The Family ◽

Gender Based ◽

Developed Nations

The first section of the article discusses how and why we went from a relatively undifferentiated family system in the middle of the last century to the current system of diverse family forms. Even conceding that the family system was always less simple than it now appears in hindsight, there is little doubt that we began to depart from the dominant model of the nuclear-family household in the late 1960s. I explain how change is a result of adaptation by individuals and family members to changing economic, demographic, technological, and cultural conditions. The breakdown of the gender-based division of labor was the prime mover in my view. Part two of the article thinks about family complexity in the United States as largely a product of growing stratification. I show how family formation processes associated with low human capital produces complexity over time in family systems, a condition that may be amplified by growing levels of inequality. The last part of the article briefly examines complexity in a changing global context. I raise the question of how complexity varies among economically developed nations with different family formation practices and varying levels of inequality.

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