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This book offers a synthesis of social science and evolutionary approaches to the study of intergenerational relations, using biological, psychological and sociological factors to develop a single framework for understanding why kin help one another across generations. With attention to both biological family relations as well as in-law and step-relations, it provides an overview of existing studies centred on intergenerational relations – particularly grandparenting – that incorporate social science and evolutionary family theories. This evolutionary social science approach to intergenerational family relations goes well beyond the traditional nature versus nurture distinction. As such, it will appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines with interests in relations of kinship, the lifecourse and the sociology of the family.

Family Relations

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This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. Using an extensive sample of individual census data for nearly all countries on the continent, it offers a cross-national, comparative view of this recent demographic trend and its impact on the family. The book offers a tour of the historical legacies and regional heterogeneity in unmarried cohabitation, covering: Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, Colombia, the Andean region, Brazil, and the Southern Cone. It also explores the diverse meanings of cohabitation from a cross-national perspective and examines the theoretical implications of recent developments on family change in the Americas. The book uses data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International (IPUMS), a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. This large sample size enables an empirical testing of one of the currently most powerful explanatory frameworks for changes in family formation around the world, the theory of the Second Demographic Transition. With its unique geographical scope, this book will provide researchers with a new understanding into the spectacular rise in premarital cohabitation in the Americas, which has become one of the most salient trends in partnership formation in the region.

sociology --- family --- demography

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This book portrays men’s experiences of home alone leave and how it affects their lives and family gender roles in different policy contexts and explores how this unique parental leave design is implemented in these contrasting policy regimes. The book brings together three major theoretical strands: social policy, in particular the literature on comparative leave policy developments; family and gender studies, in particular the analysis of gendered divisions of work and care and recent shifts in parenting and work-family balance; critical studies of men and masculinities, with a specific focus on fathers and fathering in contemporary western societies and life-courses. Drawing on empirical data from in-depth interviews with fathers across eleven countries, the book shows that the experiences and social processes associated with fathers’ home alone leave involve a diversity of trends, revealing both innovations and absence of change, including pluralization as well as the constraining influence of policy, gender, and social context. As a theoretical and empirical book it raises important issues on modernization of the life course and the family in contemporary societies. The book will be of particular interest to scholars in comparing western societies and welfare states as well as to scholars seeking to understand changing work-life policies and family life in societies with different social and historical pathways.

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging --- Family --- Gender Studies

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Wealth and power characterize elites, yet despite the strong cultural influences they exert, their study remains underdeveloped. Partly because of complications resulting from access, scholars have tended to focus on groups affected by elite governance rather than on elites themselves. It is often overlooked that, in order to continue through time, elites have to empower new members. Choice has to be exercised over who achieves leadership, both by reference to the elite group itself and to the wider group over which it holds power. This book fills a gap in the current literature by providing the first rigorous interrogation of the choice and succession strategies of elites in various cultural contexts - from the transmission and preservation of financial power in urban contexts to the complex relation between subjectivity and the transmission of leadership positions in places as varied as the United States, Northern Italy and Lisbon. Various elite succession types are discussed, from self-avowedly 'traditional' leaders to the aristocracy, where choice is practically non-existent, to situations where leaders are elected from amongst a group of peers. The relationship between familial property and choice of successor in landholding families, small business enterprises, and peasant communities is also examined, as are ethnic monopolies.

anthropology of the family --- elite --- family history --- social reproduction

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Dieser Band vereinigt die Referate des am 29. November 2013 veranstalteten 12. Göttinger Workshops zum Familienrecht, der sich dem Pflegekindverhältnis widmete. Pflegekinder leben häufig über längere Zeit in unsicheren rechtlichen Verhältnissen, obwohl gerade für sie eine stabile rechtliche Situation wichtig ist, sei es durch Rückführung in die Herkunftsfamilie, Adoption oder rechtliche Absicherung der Pflegeverhältnisse. Eine Reform des Pflegekinderrechts wird deshalb seit vielen Jahren von verschiedensten Professionen gefordert. Den Auftakt der Veranstaltung bildete die Darstellung der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zu Pflegekindverhältnissen (Gabriele Britz), gefolgt von einem humanwissenschaftlichen Einblick in das Bindungs- und Erziehungserleben von Pflegekindern (Martina Cappenberg). Im Anschluss wurden die Instrumente der Hilfeplanung des Jugendamtes näher beleuchtet (Diana Eschelbach), bevor die Belastbarkeit der Einschätzungen von Sachverständigen und Jugendämtern im Rahmen von Rückführungsentscheidungen aus humanwissenschaftlicher Sicht vorgestellt wurde (Heinz Kindler). Es folgte ein kritischer Blick auf die Verbleibensanordnung als Instrument zur Sicherung von Kontinuität (Ludwig Salgo). Den Abschluss bildete eine juristische Problemanalyse des Umgangs von Herkunftseltern mit ihrem fremd untergebrachten Kind (Stefan Heilmann). Die Veranstaltung endete mit einer Podiumsdiskussion zum rechtspolitischen Handlungsbedarf im Bereich des Pflegekindverhältnisses. Band 15 der Reihe „Göttinger Juristische Schriften“ Die Reihe wird von der Juristischen Fakultät der Georg-August-Universität herausgegeben und macht Veranstaltungen an der Fakultät einer interessierten Öffentlichkeit zugänglich.

Family law --- Speeches --- Foster children