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Disturbing the Nest David Popenoe

Disturbing the Nest By David Popenoe

Disturbing the Nest by David Popenoe


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Disturbing the Nest: Family Change and Decline in Modern Societies by David Popenoe

Disturbing the Nest assesses the future of the family as an institution through an historical and comparative analysis of the nature, causes, and social implications of family change in advanced western societies such as the United States, New Zealand, and Switzerland by focusing on the one society in which family decline is found to be the greatest, Sweden. The founding of the modern Swedish welfare state was based in large part on the belief that it was necessary for the state to intervene in society in order to improve the situation of the family. Of great concern was the low birthrate, which was seen as a threat to the very survival of Swedes as a national population group. The Social Democrats pioneered welfare measures that aimed to strengthen the family, to alleviate its worst trials and tribulations, and to make possible harmonious living. With the Social Democrats remaining in power continuously until 1976, a period of almost forty-five years, Sweden went on to implement governmental family policies that are among the most comprehensive (and expensive) in the world. In view of this major policy goal of family improvement, the actual situation of the Swedish family today presents a genuine irony; some have claimed that Swedish welfare state policies have had consequences that are the opposite of those originally intended. Comparing contemporary Swedish family patterns with those of other advanced nations, one finds a very high family dissolution rate, probably the highest in the Western world, and a high percentage of single-parent, female headed families. Even marriage seems to have fallen increasingly out of favor, with Sweden having the lowest marriage rate and latest age of first marriage, and the highest rate of children born out-of-wedlock. The early pronatalist aspirations of the Swedish government have been spectacularly unsuccessful, as Sweden continues to have one of the world's lowest birthrates and smallest average family sizes.

About David Popenoe

David Popenoe is professor of sociology and co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University. He is the author or editor of ten books and numerous articles, and as co-chair of the Council on Families in America, he was the primary author of its pioneering 1995 report Marriage in America: A Report to the Nation.

Table of Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Family Change in History and Theory -- Chapter 1. What Is Family Decline? -- Chapter 2. Family Decline: The Career of an Idea -- Chapter 3. The Global Family Trend -- Chapter 4. The Rise and Fall in the West of the Modern -- Nuclear Family -- Part II. The Case of Sweden -- Chapter 5. Historical Development of the Family in Sweden -- Chapter 6. The Family as a Public Issue: The Development of -- Swedish Family Policy, 1930-1950 -- Chapter 7. Cultural Transformation: Family and Society in Sweden After the Mid-Twentieth Century -- Chapter 8. Beyond the Nuclear Family: The Changing Family in Sweden Today -- Chapter 9. The Swedish Family in Institutional Decline -- Chapter 10. Swedish Family Decline: A Search for Explanations -- Part III. The Family in Other Advanced Societies -- Chapter 11. Outposts of the Traditional Family: Switzerland and New Zealand -- Chapter 12. Family and Society in the United States -- Part IV. Conclusions -- Chapter 13. A Postnuclear Family Trend -- Chapter 14. The Social Implications of Modern Family Decline -- Bibliography -- Index.

Additional information

CIN0202303519A
9780202303512
0202303519
Disturbing the Nest: Family Change and Decline in Modern Societies by David Popenoe
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Inc
1988-01-08
410
N/A
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