Strong family and low fertility:a paradox?

New perspectives in interpreting contemporary family and reproductive behaviour

Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna, Giuseppe A. Micheli (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

173 Seiten

2004 | 2004 ed.
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4020-2836-6 (ISBN)

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New perspectives in interpreting contemporary family and reproductive - haviour of Mediterranean Europe 1. THE NEW GEOGRAPHY OF FERTILITY AND THE FAMILY IN EUROPE The countries of southern Europe have begun to reduce conjugal fertility at a later date compared to most other nations in the west. This has been - plained by means of the category of delay: the backwardness of the pr- esses of accumulation and economic development being seen as the cause of the maintaining of the reproductive models of the past. Moreover, the inf- ence of the Catholic Church in Italy, Spain and Portugal is supposed to have delayed the processes of secularisation, rendering difficult the changes in mentality necessary for assuming modern patterns of reproductive behaviour not only for fertility, but also for the variables which are strictly linked to it, such as sexuality, contraception and abortion (Livi Bacci, 1977; Lesthaeghe and Wilson, 1986). 1. 1. The trends of very low fertility Now the panorama is very different. Since the mid-seventies, southern Europe has been washed by the tide of a lowest-low fertility (i. e. , TFR under 1. 5 for several a prolonged period, Billari et al. , 2003), which in some areas 1 has reached and maintained scarcely imaginable levels for years on end. Conversely, other areas of Europe, where fertility started to fall many d- ades earlier than in the regions of the sourth, have recovered or maintained considerably higher levels of fertility, often close to replacement level.

From the contents: Introduction.- New perspectives in interpreting contemporary family and reproductive behaviour of Mediterranean Europe.- Family formation and fertility in Italy: a cohort perspective.- Family ties in Western Europe: persistent contrasts.- Kinship, family and social network: the anthropological embedment of fertility change in southern Europe.- The banquet of Aeolus.- A familistic interpretation of Italy's lowest low fertility.- On the verge of a familistic interpretation.- Familism, moods and other alchemies.- References.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.9.2004
Reihe/Serie	European Studies of Population ; 14
Zusatzinfo	VI, 173 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 232 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-4020-2836-9 / 1402028369
ISBN-13	978-1-4020-2836-6 / 9781402028366
Zustand	Neuware