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Household

Families and households

Prevalence of young children in polygynous households in sub-Saharan Africa

May 26, 2025 Emily Treleaven and Emma Banchoff
Children, Family, Household, polygynous, Sub-Saharan Africa

Polygynous unions are on the decline in sub-Saharan Africa, although uncertainty surrounding the prevalence and characteristics of children in these households remains. Emily Treleaven and Emma Banchoff find that the … Read more

Families and households

America’s single-parent households and missing fathers 

January 13, 2025January 13, 2025 Joseph Chamie
Americas, Children, Family, Household, USA

America leads the world in single-parent household rates, with the large majority of those households missing a father. Despite the public’s recognition of the importance of two-parent households for children … Read more

Families and households

Child care in America

January 13, 2025December 9, 2024 Joseph Chamie
Americas, Children, Family, Household, USA

America is facing a child care crisis: care services are costly and scarce and fail to meet the needs of families. The majority of U.S. voters, Joseph Chamie opines, feel … Read more

Families and households

Global household trends: converging sizes, divergent structures

April 8, 2024April 8, 2024 Maria Pohl and Albert Esteve
Children, Family, Household, world

Household structures reflect and affect social, economic, and demographic dynamics. Albert Esteve and Maria Pohl use the new CORESIDENCE database to explore the transformation of households over the last five … Read more

Families and households

Trends in child support agreements in the US, 1993-2018

February 12, 2024February 12, 2024 Maria Cancian, Molly A. Costanzo and Daniel R. Meyer
Children, Couples, divorce, Household, Marriage, Separations, USA

What are the trends in the prevalence of child support agreements in the US? Apparently declining, based on frequently used stock data, but in fact stable or even on the … Read more

Families and households

Children and (unequal) sharing of housework between partners in Hungary

January 23, 2023 Zsuzsanna Veroszta
Children, Europe, gender equality, Household, Hungary, woman

In addition to their childcare responsibilities, women with young children often have to do more housework, thus making an already unequal balance even more skewed. Zsuzsanna Veroszta shows that, in … Read more

Gender issues

Does culture influence the gender division of housework and childcare?

December 5, 2022 Elisa Brini, Anna Zamberlan and Paolo Barbieri
Couples, gender equality, Gender issues, Household

Gender inequality in the division of housework persists. Elisa Brini, Anna Zamberlan and Paolo Barbieri investigate if cultural heritage is resistant to changes in socioeconomic and institutional environment by studying … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

More equitable sharing of housework facilitates childbearing among dual-income couples

October 31, 2022October 17, 2022 Jolene Tan
Asia, childbearing, Children, Couples, Household, taiwan, woman, Work

As female labour force participation continues to rise in Taiwan, more women are faced with the dual burden of employment and household responsibilities. Jolene Tan highlights the impact of a … Read more

Families and households

The old and the new natalism are not at odds

September 26, 2022 Laurie F. DeRose
Children, Family, Fertility, gender equality, Household

Religion has historically been a pronatalist force, but because it fosters traditional gender role attitudes, it could impede a fertility recovery stimulated by gender equity. Instead, Laurie DeRose explains how … Read more

Families and households

Spain: a pioneer in gender-equal parental leave

September 23, 2021September 23, 2021 Teresa Jurado-Guerrero and Jacobo Muñoz-Comet
Family, gender equality, Gender issues, Household, Work

Gender equality in child care can be promoted through individual entitlements to a non-transferable and well-paid leave of equal duration for women and men. While this design is still rare … Read more

Families and households

Skip-generation household trends in low- and middle-income countries

June 3, 2021May 31, 2021 Zachary Zimmer and Emily Treleaven
Family, Grandparents, Household, world

Zachary Zimmer and Emily Treleaven find a growing global prevalence of households that have grandparents living with grandchildren with middle generation absent. Country-level factors, like labor force participation rates, explain … Read more

Families and households

Grandparents looking after grandchildren in England

May 21, 2021March 15, 2021 Giorgio Di Gessa, Paola Zaninotto and Karen Glaser
Family, grandchild, Grandparents, Household, Marriage, Old age

Giorgio Di Gessa, Paola Zaninotto and Karen Glaser find that, in England, most grandmothers and grandfathers provide grandchild care throughout the year to allow parents to undertake paid work. However, … Read more

Families and households

Sharing routine housework and desire for more children in East Asia

March 6, 2021September 21, 2017 Man-Yee Kan and Ekaterina Hertog
Asia, Family, Household, Marriage, Reproduction, Women

Low fertility levels have become a typical characteristic of industrialised countries where two distinct patterns are observed. A number of countries, especially in southern Europe and East Asia, have persistently … Read more

Families and households

The changing American age curve of divorce

March 4, 2021April 26, 2016 Lowell L. Hargens
Americas, Divorces, Family, Household, Separations

The incidence of divorce, like the incidence of many other demographic phenomena, varies greatly across the life course. Divorce is most prevalent during young adulthood and relatively infrequent among the … Read more

Families and households

The changing meaning of cohabitation in Europe and North America. Signs of convergence?

February 23, 2021July 14, 2015 Roberto Impicciatore, Maria Sironi and Paola Di Giulio
Americas, Couples, Europe, Gender issues, Household

The diffusion of cohabitation during the last decades is one of the most striking aspects of wider social changes that have taken place throughout the industrialized world. Over time, the meaning … Read more

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