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How Do U.S. Moms and Dads Feel About Work and Family?
Using the American Time Use Survey, this chapter explores how mothers and fathers experience specific daily activities utilizing four aspects of...
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To work or to care? Herausforderungen der Herstellung des Alltags von Mehrkindfamilien
In multi-child families, i.e. families with three or more children, social relationships are more complex due to the larger number of members, which...
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Partnership, Parenthood and Beyond: Between Traditional and Progressive Ways of Doing Polish Family in Ireland
This chapter employs a life course perspective to examine the gendered patterns of practices within Polish families in Ireland, particularly their...
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Work-life balance: redefining and rethinking the support framework
In light of the impact of new social risks (NSRs), finding a balance between work and other aspects of life has become an unavoidable challenge for...
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“I wanted to have a Christian family”: Affinities Between Religiosity and Family Styles Among Catholics and Evangelicals in a Low-Income Neighborhood in Santiago
This article explores the relationship between religiosity—as experiential and practical religious involvement—and family styles—as effective kinship...
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Family Histories and Stories That Made Me
To make sense of my own family history, I turned to others, I pieced together little clues strewn here and there like grains of sand. I also read...
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Introduction to the Thematic Series: Use and consequences of family policies among migrants and their descendants in Europe
This article is the introduction to the Thematic Series Use and consequences of family policies among migrants and their descendants in Europe . The...
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Family Dynamics, Gender and Social Inequality During COVID-19 Analysing Long-Term Effects
This book critically analyzes both the negative and positive impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic, focusing on changes in families, gender...
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The Interplay Between the Early Work and Family Trajectories of Young Adult Women Born in West Germany: Differences by Parental Origins
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper employs sequence analysis to identify “typical” early (observation window limited...
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Relationship-Status and Work-Life Balance Satisfaction: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses
Marriage rates are declining in prevalence in the Western world, and relationship formats are more varied. These significant demographic changes...
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Gendered late working life trajectories, family history and welfare regimes: evidence from SHARELIFE
Earlier employment choices based on family events in earlier life have an impact up until late working life, especially in welfare regimes that...
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Welfare, Work, and Aging
This chapter critically examines the development of recent policy and theoretical issues concerning the “extension of working lives” for older people...
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Rethinking Confucianism: Family Business and the Ritual Construction of the ‘Family’ in Japan and China
East Asian business systems are often referred to ‘Confucianism’, grounded in influential global value studies. We present the case for moving...
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Valuing the Contributions of Family Caregivers to the Care Economy
The purpose of this paper is to estimate the monetary value of Canadians’ family care work, to highlight inequalities within the family care sector...
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Social Work at Home: Dual Relationships
This chapter focuses on rural social workers’ experiences of living and working in the community they serve. It will involve an exploration of the...
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Sandwich Caregiving and Paid Work: Differences by Caregiving Intensity and Women’s Life Stage
Research shows pervasive connections between unpaid caregiving and labor market participation among women living in the United States. However, this...
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Introduction: Rurality and Rural Social Work
This chapter by the editors introduces the reader to the concept of the book: the rediscovery of rural social work and its place in a social work...
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Parallel trajectories and theorizations of religion and family in modernity: Toward an institutional logics perspective
Scholars theorize the effect of modernization on religious and familial institutions in a parallel way. Some argue that both are irreversibly in...
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Domestic Work in Contemporary France
The majority of domestic work in France is conducted on an unpaid basis within the household, and the vast majority of adults have to undertake at...
