This book gathers researchers from 22 countries to explore intergenerational family solidarity within their unique historical, cultural, social, and economic contexts. It integrates perspectives from various disciplines, offering insights into family relations, values, and policies across Europe.
This book which has been created in the framework of the EU-funded COST Action INTERFASOL brings together researchers from 22 INTERFASOL countries, who frame intergenerational family solidarity in the specific historical, cultural, social and economic context of their own country. Integrating different perspectives from social and political sciences, economics, communication, health and psychology, the book offers country-specific knowledge and new insights into family relations, family values and family policies across Europe.
Arvustused
This comprehensive study of families in Europe reveals the strength and variation in family solidarity and values. By drawing together detailed descriptions of continuity and change, Families and Family Values in Society and Culture provides a fascinating account of the social and cultural contexts that shape European family life. The case studies of families in different European countries compare demographic and welfare regimes to consider the challenges facing generations in Europe and responses to these. The book is an invaluable resource for researchers studying family life and inter-generational solidarity."" Clare Holdsworth, Professor of Social Geography, Keele University
""This book is based on the testimony of experts, each of them proposing analyses which are specific to their own society. It provides an opportunity for the reader to take a new look at the evolution of intergenerational solidarity in 22 countries, whose wealth, welfare systems, and demographic situations, as well as recent events (wars, migratory movements, ) offer specific challenges. It adopts the perspective of the insider to shed light not only on culture and values in each country, but also on conflicts between tradition and modernity, and between subcultures in the same society. The book thus allows better understanding of changes in intergenerational and gender relations, and the variety of solutions implemented or suggested to promote more satisfactory expressions of intergenerational solidarity for the next decade. Families and Family Values in Society and Culture provides an invaluable contribution for cross-cultural and social sciences researchers interested in understanding how different forms of solidarity arise from family and social dynamics."" Anne Marie Fontaine, Professor of Psychology, University of Porto
Series Editors' Preface.
Introduction to the Volume: Intergenerational Family Solidarity Across
Europe; Isabelle Albert, Mirza Emirhafizovic, Carmit-Noa Shpigelman, and
Ursula Trummer.
Chapter
1. Intergenerational Family Solidarity in Austria: Scientific
Evidence Seems Scarce, and Migration a Decisive Dimension; Ursula Trummer,
Sonja Novak-Zezula, and Lena Fuchs-Bouvier.
Chapter
2. Families and Family Values in Belgium: Country Report; Catherine
Coppée and Willy Lahaye.
Chapter
3. Intergenerational Family Solidarity in Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Sanela adi and Mirza Emirhafizovi.
Chapter
4. Intergenerational Family Solidarity: The Case of Croatia; Ljiljana
Kaliterna Lipovan, Andreja Braja-ganec, and Ivana Hanzec Markovi.
Chapter
5. Country ReportDenmark: Intergenerational Families in Denmark;
Anne Leonora Blaakilde and Anu Siren.
Chapter
6. Intergenerational Relations in a Rapidly Changing Social Context:
The Case of Estonia; Luule Sakkeus and Kairi Kasearu.
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7. Finnish Family; Helena Helve.
Chapter
8. Families, Family Values, and Intergenerational Relations in France
Today; Marie-Thérèse Letablier and Claudine Attias-Donfut.
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9. Families and Family Values in German Society and German Culture;
Katja Knauthe, Martina Brandt, and Andreas Hoff.
Chapter
10. Family Change and Family Values in Greece; Laura
Alipranti-Maratou (in cooperation with Vasiliki Gountsidou).
Chapter
11. Families and Family Values in Society and Culture: Country Report
of Hungary; Márton Medgyesi and Annamária Orbán.
Chapter
12. Intergenerational Relations Among Israeli Families; Carmit-Noa
Shpigelman and Cheryl Zlotnick.
Chapter
13. Country Report: Intergenerational Family Solidarity and Key Life
Domains in Italy; Donatella Bramanti, Matteo Moscatelli, and Camillo
Regalia.
Chapter
14. Intergenerational Family Solidarity in Lithuania: Context and
Patterns; Aura Maslauskait and Margarita Gedvilait-Korduien.
Chapter
15. Family in a Multicultural Context: Country Report for Luxembourg;
Isabelle Albert, and Andreas Heinz.
Chapter
16. Demography, Society, and Active Ageing: A Maltese Perspective;
George (Gino) Pavia.
Chapter
17. Intergenerational Family Relationships in Norway; Katharina
Herlofson, Tale Hellevik, and Svein Olav Daatland.
Chapter
18. Families and Family Values in Poland; Laura Dryjanska.
Chapter
19. Intergenerational Family Solidarity: A Brief Overview of Research
in Portugal; Marisa Matias, Irene Monteiro, and Susana Coimbra.
Chapter
20. Intergenerational Solidarity in Slovenia: Key Issues; Valentina
Hlebec, Tatjana Rakar, Vesna Dolniar, Andra Petrovi, and Maa Filipovi
Hrast.
Chapter
21. Families and Family Values in Society and Culture: Spain; Esther
Martínez Pastor and Miguel Ángel Nicolás Ojeda.
Chapter
22. Demography, Society, and Culture: The Profile of Turkey; Hatice
Çelebi and Nafiye Çidem Aktekin.
About the Authors.
Isabelle Albert, University of Luxembourg
Mirza Emirhafizovic, University of Sarajevo
Carmit-Noa Shpigelman, University of Haifa
Ursula Trummer, Center for Health and Migration
