scholarly journals Transformation of the desired family model in different generations: Results of the All-Russian sociological study

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-545
Author(s):  
T. K Rostovskaya ◽  
O. V Kuchmaeva
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Multivariate Statistical ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Family Model ◽  
The Family ◽  
Happy Family

The difficult demographic situation and the search for an effective model of demographic and family policy have revived the discourse about the Russian family model. The article aims at describing general and specific characteristics of the desired family model in different generations to identify vectors of transformation of the family institution and directions of the family policy. The authors conclusions are based on the statistical data, all-Russian population censuses (2002 and 2010), micro-census (2015), sample surveys of the Federal State Statistics Service, and the results of the authors research conducted in 2019. Ideas about the desired family model change under the influence of cultural and social-economic factors and differ between generations; therefore, a comparison of the opinions of different generations allow to identify transformations of the desired family model and directions of family policy. Family is still a significant value for Russians, but the model of the desired family changes towards nuclearization, mosaic family life models, decreasing role of formal mechanisms for regulating marriage, and increasing share of people who do not want a family. The discourse about the traditional family model, which is the basis of the Russian family policy, is supported by many Russians only formally. In general, Russians ideas about the desired family model change in the direction of liberalizing norms and attitudes to marriage and family life, and there are serious generational differences. Methods of multivariate statistical analysis allowed the authors to identify typological groups that differ in their ideas about the happy family.

The Synod on the Family

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Language Group ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Church Teaching

This chapter provides a case analysis of the Catholic Church’s Synod on the Family, an assembly of bishops convened in Rome in October 2014 and October 2015, to address the changing nature of Catholics’ lived experiences of marriage and family life. The chapter argues that the Synod can be considered a postsecular event owing to its deft negotiation of the mutual relevance of doctrinal ideas and Catholic secular realities. It shows how its extensive pre-Synod empirical surveys of Catholics worldwide, its language-group dialogical structure, and the content and outcomes of its deliberations, by and large, met postsecular expectations, despite impediments posed by clericalism and doctrinal politics. The chapter traces the Synod’s deliberations, and shows how it managed to forge a more inclusive understanding of divorced and remarried Catholics, even as it reaffirmed Church teaching on marriage and also set aside a more inclusive recognition of same-sex relationships.

Federal/State Responsibility for Child Welfare Services

1984 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-27
Author(s):  
Susan M. Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
State Government ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Family ◽  
Major Review ◽  
Set Up

In Victoria at the present time a major review is being undertaken into child welfare practice and legislation. The importance of this task is two-fold. Not only do children have to gain from a sensitive and workable final Report, but families too could find that they will be offered the support they need to assist in the difficult task of raising children today. It is hoped that the Review Committee will not concentrate solely on the rights of the child, but will also give due recognition to the rights of the family to a caring and protective environment.The Victorian Government was the first state government to adopt a family policy approach to dealing with the child. This was confirmed by the Norgard Report (1976) and formed the basis of a submission by the Victorian Minister of Social Welfare to the Federal Minister of Social Security (1977) which culminated in the Family Support Services Scheme being set up the following year. This joint federal/state program officially recognised the interaction of children’s rights and needs with those of their parents.

scholarly journals The Importance of Marriage and Family in the Narratives of Adult Children of Divorced Parents

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-171
Author(s):  
Maja Piotrowska
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Children Of Divorce ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Life Event ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
Church Law ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Happy Family ◽  
Attitudes Towards Marriage

Abstract We live in a world where all the beliefs, passed from one generation to another, all our values are being redefined. Notions of marriage and family also receive different meaning. Today, the term „marriage” extends its meaning, not limiting itself to the naming of „entangled” couples by legal or church law. It also refers to people who consider themselves to be linked with each other, not only by legal terms, people whose relationships are different on various levels from the traditionally understood marriage. However, for generations we have invariably associated the notion of family with love, support, warmth and place of meeting with people important and valuable to us, on who we can count on and expect some help when we need it. Such an importance given to the family was revealed in my interviews with the adult children of divorced parents. People involved in my research often stressed the great value they associate with this smallest social group. Statements about marriage and family seem to be firmly rooted in the past experiences, which is reflected in their convictions concerning the impermanence of marriage and family systems. On the other hand, one can notice an intense longing for what they could not experience in the past - a stable and happy family. I believe that in the context of the presented narrations one can conclude that the divorce of the parents as the critical life event is strongly written in the identity of „the children of divorce”. It highly influences their attitudes towards marriage, family and relationships in general.

scholarly journals On the demand for demographic policy measures (analysis of the all-russian sociological study)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Rostovskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Policy Model ◽  
The Family ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Demographic Policy

The article analyzes the author's sociological research conducted in 2020 on the demand for demographic policy measures in ten subjects of the Russian Federation. The author notes the need for comprehensive, long-term, effective measures of family policy to build confidence on the part of young people in the reliability and effectiveness of the family policy model.

“Marriage under Two Roofs”: Feminism and Family Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 243-268
Author(s):  
Amy Aronson
Keyword(s):  
Birth Control ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Love Marriage ◽  
Novel Approaches ◽  
Private Domain

Crystal Eastman ardently pursued equalitarian feminism but also asserted that feminism must have three parts: politics and public policy; wages and the workplace; and—the distinctive final portion—the private domain of love, marriage, and the family. She believed millions of women like herself experienced acute feminist concerns not merely in the battle for economic opportunity in the workforce, or political representation and voice, but also from conflicts between their desire for the rewards of life beyond the home and for the rewards of family as well. She pursued this missing policy analysis for the rest of her life, advocating birth control in the feminist program, the endowment of motherhood, and feminist child-rearing and education. In unpublished articles, she also explored wages for wives and single motherhood by choice. All the while, Eastman was experimenting with a variety of novel approaches to integrating her feminism in own her marriage and family life.

Constituting Love in Persianate Cinemas

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-217
Author(s):  
Pedram Partovi
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Love Marriage ◽  
Economic Ties

Abstract Critics have long regarded the popular cinemas of India, Iran, and Turkey as nothing more than cheap Hollywood knock-offs. While scholars have recognized the geographic and economic ties between these film industries, few have noted their engagement with themes and images particularly associated with earlier Persianate courtly entertainments. Persianate cinemas have challenged modernist ideas of love, marriage, and family life exemplified in Hollywood features and instead taken up older aristocratic conceptions of the family in order to apply them to contemporary society.

The Lone Father and his Children: An aspect of Family policy

1980 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 35-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnold J. Katz
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Marriage Rate ◽  
Concomitant Increase ◽  
Single Parent Families ◽  
Australian Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government

Over the last few years the Australian family has again become a focal point for inquiry and intervention. Scholars and researchers, as well as the government, have suggested there has been a breakdown in Australian family life. This has brought in its wake a concomitant increase in divorce and separation, a surge of single parent families, and a decrease in the marriage rate. A broad range of activities has been initiated to both understand the parameters and substance of the subject, as well as to develop means of supporting and strengthening the family.

Understanding Continuities and Changes in Irish Marriage: Putting Women Centre Stage

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Family System ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family

Contemporary changes and continuities in marriage and family life can be understood by focusing on women. Five main patterns may make sense of these phenomena: women's continued identification with and absorption within the family system; negotiation within marriage; a feminised conception of love; an attempt to transform the structural and cultural parameters of marriage and family life; and an uncoupling of the traditional sequence of marriage, sexual activity and procreation. These patterns are not mutually exclusive, but may be differentially adopted by women at different life-stages and from different social classes. It is argued that women are involved in these various responses in an attempt to deal with the reality of the institutional structure of marriage within a social and cultural context which is not always responsive to their needs and interests.

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