In this volume, the author explores the complex dynamics and patterns of family life, build on a range of material from Canada, the US, and the UK. Some of the topics include same-sex marriage and parenting, finances and child-birth, and the ‘immigrant family’.
The articles in this anthology deal with several challenges of generational, gendered, economic and sexual relations as well as with the changes of the institutions of marriage, state, religion, welfare and taxation. It focuses primarily on a European and North Atlantic context. but it also includes some refelctions on developments in Asia in a global era.
This book focuses on how dramatic changes in living conditions affected key parts of the life course of ordinary citizens: marriage and divorce. This comparative volume draw on newly available micro-level data, as well as qualitative sources such as war diaries.