Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.3935/rsp.v2i2.529
Demographic Processes and Family Structure
Vlado Puljiz
; Studijski centar socijalnog rada, Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
Since the 60’s, in almost all European countries there has been a big shift in demographic trends. It primarily has been marked with a fertility rate decrease. The result has been a disturbance of the entire demographic structure. The main causes of this demographic recession are a changed relationship between young people and their family, the employment of women and birth control. A difference in family forms may also be attributed to these changes. A typical family nucleus, in which the father is employed and is the bread winner and the mother is a housewife and a child-raiser, is nowadays less common that other family forms. The family today is characterized by both parents employed (two bread-winners), and there is also a significant percentage of one-parent families and childless couples. The author analyzes demographic trends in the European countries in the recent period of time and the division of the classical conjugal family into several new family types. Demographic trends and changes in the family structure in the European countries are important factors in evaluating the demographic situation and its perspectives.
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29773
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Publication date:
1.2.1995.
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