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Women’s Work Characteristics and Fertility Expectations
Previous research has shown that employment is an important social context affecting fertility, yet relatively little is known about the extent to...
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Parental Incarceration and School-to-Work Trajectories: A Life Course Perspective
Although previous studies suggest that parental behavior is associated with children’s adulthood outcomes, few studies have focused on the role of...
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Joint Family and Work Trajectories and Multidimensional Wellbeing
Informed by the life course perspective, this paper investigates whether and how employment and family trajectories are jointly associated with...
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What Happens at Home Does Not Stay at Home: Family-to-Work Conflict and the Link Between Relationship Strains and Quality
Family scholars have devoted much effort to understand relationship strains and couple well-being. However, surprisingly few longitudinal studies...
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Labour Market Participation: Family and Work Challenges across the Life Course
Having a job is an important indicator of economic and social wellbeing, and two-earner families are becoming the norm rather than the exception. As...
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Defamiliarising Family Benefits and Leave Policies
One dimension to understanding the relative constraints and opportunities women face in labour markets across the OECD is the extent of expenditure...
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Parental Work Characteristics and Children’s Insufficient Sleep
Insufficient sleep for children is an understudied risk factor for health issues and poor educational outcomes. We argue that research has paid scant...
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Family and Career Through a Gendered Lens
Context: “Motherhood penalty” has been a prevalent issue all over the globe. Motherhood for women of the one-child generation becomes difficult for...
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Populism and Family Values
This essay is an attempt to map and relook at the multiple ways in which the ideas of populism have brought in changes in family values. The essay...
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Does Twitter Data Mirror the European North–South Family Ties Divide? A Comparative Analysis of Tweets About Family
Previous research on the relationship between geographical distance and the frequency of contact between family members has shown that the strength...
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Impact of Absolute and Relative Commute Time on Work–Family Conflict: Work Schedule Control, Child Care Hours, and Life Satisfaction
Flexibility is crucial when employees manage their work and family demands and their commute between home and work. The current study examined...
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Even Now Women Focus on Family, Men on Work: An Analysis of Employment, Marital, and Reproductive Life-Course Typologies in Relation to Change in Health-Related Quality of Life
To a large extent health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is a product of life-course experiences. Therefore, we examined employment, marital, and...
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Constructing “Family” During Child–Family Separation
Gwenzi introduces child–family separation as an experience impacting adolescents and youths’ constructions of “family”. The chapter begins with a...
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Fertility and Family in China
Unlike Western societies, China shares totally different cultures and traditional practices. The differentials have also led to the variability of...
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Sustaining the Tradition in Multigeneration Families: Women’s Time Use and Unpaid Domestic Work in India
In India, social prejudices against women are culturally entrenched, and women carry an unfair and disproportionate burden of unpaid work, often...
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Anthropology of Family and Family Businesses Is Emic All the Way
This chapter advocates an anthropology of family and family business that takes the cultural specificity of the family and the family firm seriously....
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Mothers’ Work Schedules and Children’s Time with Parents
Prior research shows that mothers’ nonstandard work schedules are associated with worse child developmental outcomes. A key hypothesized mechanism of...
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Narrative, Health, Care and Family
There has been an increasing interest in aging and family within social science research, and this has been related to developments in aging and...
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Decent Work Environment and Work-Life Balance: Empirical Analysis of Banking Sector of Hostile Environments
A decent work environment is a crucial concept for promoting work-life balance. Using quantitative analysis with Partial Least Square_ Structural...
