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Introduction: Anette Fasang
Every affluent country has experienced substantial changes in partnership behavior – delayed and foregone marriage, increased cohabitation, increased divorce and separation, and the formation of new partnerships. Because shifts in partnership behavior often occur in the context of parenthood, they produce increasingly complex families and households where biological ties, coresidence, and legal rights and obligations do not necessarily coincide. This lecture examines the role of cohabitation itself in the formation of complex families.
Elizabeth Thomson raises the question of whether the relative ease of entry into or exit from a cohabiting partnership (in comparison to marriage) has generated a higher level of partnership turnover than would be the case if marriage were the only alternative. A particular focus is on partnership turnover among parents, the process that generates complex families and households. The analysis traces pathways to family complexity in Norway and Sweden where cohabitation has long been the norm for union entry and where first births occur more often in cohabitation than in marriage. As data permit, comparisons are made with other countries where cohabitation has not yet attained such normative status. The lecture concludes by identifying challenges presented by cohabitation and family complexity for the individuals experiencing them and for the societies in which they live.
Elizabeth Thomson is Professor Emerita of Demography, Stockholm University, and Professor of Sociology Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She directs the Linnaeus Center for Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe. She has conducted for example research on couple childbearing decisions, family structure and child well-being. Current projects include the relationship between education and the family life course in Europe, family structure and child well-being in Sweden, and the implications of union instability for fertility.
Anette Fasang is Professor of Microsociology at Humboldt University Berlin and Head of the WZB Project Group Demography and Inequality.
Discussants
Irene Böckmann, Research Fellow of the Research Unit Inequality and Social Policy at WZB and Nadiya Kelle, Research Fellow of the Junior Research Group Work and Care.
Hinweise zur Teilnahme:
To register, please reply by October 27, 2015 to: friederike.theilen-kosch@wzb.eu
The WZB provides child care during the lecture. If you are interested, please respond by October 15, 2015, indicating the number of children and their age to: friederike.theilen-kosch@wzb.eu
Termin:
28.10.2015 17:00 - 19:00
Anmeldeschluss:
26.10.2015
Veranstaltungsort:
Reichpietschufer 50, Raum A 300
10785 Berlin
Berlin
Deutschland
Zielgruppe:
Journalisten, Wissenschaftler
E-Mail-Adresse:
Relevanz:
überregional
Sachgebiete:
Gesellschaft, Politik
Arten:
Seminar / Workshop / Diskussion, Vortrag / Kolloquium / Vorlesung
Eintrag:
26.08.2015
Absender:
Dr. Paul Stoop
Abteilung:
Informations- und Kommunikationsreferat
Veranstaltung ist kostenlos:
ja
Textsprache:
Englisch
URL dieser Veranstaltung: http://idw-online.de/de/event51718
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