Margret Fine-Davis

Changing gender roles and attitudes to family formation in Ireland (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Recent decades have witnessed major changes in gender roles and family patterns, as well as a falling birth rate in Ireland and the rest of Europe. While the traditional family is now being replaced in many cases by new family forms, we do not know the reasons why people are making the choices they are and whether or not these choices are leading to greater well-being. While demographic research has attempted to explain the new trends in family formation and fertility, there has been little research on people's attitudes to family formation and having children. This book presents the results of the first major study to examine people's attitudes to family formation and childbearing in Ireland. Based on a nationwide representative sample of 1,404 men and women in the childbearing age group, the study was carried out against a backdrop of changing gender role attitudes and behaviour as well as significant demographic change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526100689
• Artikelnr.: 48795017

Autorenporträt

Margret Fine-Davis is Senior Research Fellow (Emeritus) in the Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences & Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin, and Director of the Social Attitude & Policy Research Group

Inhaltsangabe

1. Changing gender roles and family formation: overview of key issues and
previous research 2. Method 3. Attitudes to gender roles 4. Family
formation: attitudes and behaviour 5. Attitudes to having children and
childlessness 6. People's priorities and values 7. Attitudes to social
policies relevant to family formation 8. Predictors of family status 9.
Predictors of ideal and expected family size 10. The effect of family
status on well-being 11. Summary and discussion Index