Changing Gender Roles and Attitudes to Family Formation in Ireland

by Margret Fine-Davis

Recent decades have witnessed major changes in gender roles and family patterns, as well as a falling birth rate in Ireland and the rest of Europe. While the traditional family is now being replaced in many cases by new family forms, we do not know the reasons why people are making the choices they are and whether or not these choices are leading to greater well-being. While demographic research has attempted to explain the new trends in family formation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719096960
• ISBN13: 9780719096969
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"