"Una rivoluzione tutta per se": le donne e il cambiamento demografico
In: Polis: ricerche e studi su società e politica in Italia, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 309-317
ISSN: 1120-9488
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In: Polis: ricerche e studi su società e politica in Italia, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 309-317
ISSN: 1120-9488
In: Problemi aperti 155
In: Population and development review, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 51-77
ISSN: 1728-4457
This article investigates childlessness in Italy. Trends in childlessness are presented and compared with trends elsewhere in Europe. Different paths to childlessness are outlined, using data from a survey carried out among childless women aged 40‐44 in five Italian cities in 2002. Individual characteristics of the childless and reasons for childlessness are investigated. As many as one‐third of the interviewees who live with a partner and do not suffer from any physical impediment are voluntarily childless. These women, in contrast to mothers, appear to be less religious and to have partners who are less religious; they tend to come from smaller families; to have been in a nonmarital cohabitation at least once in life; to have entered their first union later; and to have had, in the initial period of their union, temporary work and flexible work schedules and limited leisure time. In other cases, childlessness is the unintended outcome of a decision to delay having a child or the result of adverse external circumstances, particularly dissolution of partnership.
In: Polis: ricerche e studi su società e politica in Italia, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 405-430
ISSN: 1120-9488
In: Population. English edition, Band 61, Heft 4, S. 389
ISSN: 1958-9190
In: Population: revue bimestrielle de l'Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques. French edition, Band 61, Heft 4, S. 463
ISSN: 0718-6568, 1957-7966
In: European journal of population: Revue européenne de démographie, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 223-261
ISSN: 1572-9885
Fatherhood is in transition and being challenged by often contradictory forces: societal mandates to be both an active father and provider, men's own wish to be more involved with their children, and the institutional arrangements in which fathers work and live. This book explores these phenomena in the context of cross-national policies and their relation to the daily childcare practices of fathers. It presents the current state of knowledge on father involvement with young children in six countries from different welfare state regimes with unique policies related to parenting in general and fathers in particular: Finland, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, the UK and the USA