Strong Family and Low Fertility: A Paradox? New Perspectives in Interpreting Contemporary Family and Reproductive Behaviour /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zuanna, Gianpiero Dalla (Editor), Micheli, Giuseppe A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: European Studies of Population, 14
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Geography.; Statistics.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Geography, general.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.