games, focus groups with parents and children, a survey with parents, and behavioural experiments on advergames and in … parents play an important role in mediating their children’s online behaviour, parents are often not fully aware of the risks … children are exposed to increasingly sophisticated marketing techniques online which are often outside the purview of existing …

? Divorce is used as an inclusiveterm to include separations from marriages and from cohabiting unions.In the first part data … from the Family Resources Survey is used to identifythe characteristics of the divorced population. In the second part … adulthood. A number of insights emergedfrom our longitudinal analyses as well as from the cross-sectional analysisof the Family …

matching in the marriage market, and empirically evaluates thisin the context of arranged marriages among middle-class Indians … in-caste marriage. We find that in equilibrium, as predicted by our theoreticalframework, these preferences do little to … allows caste to remaina persistent feature of the Indian marriage market.[...] …

old), this study analyzes teenagers’ expectations and desires about marriage, having children, and becoming unwed parents … framework combines family context, opportunity cost, and social-psychological perspectives. Each perspective has predictive …’s education are aspects of family context that consistently show significant relationships with expectations and desires …

The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain.Using appropriate statistical …, there are strong linksbetween female employment, having children and union formation. Byundertaking a detailed micro …

This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia … theelderly in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It argues that public policy inthe region assumes the family as primarily …

This paper uses microdata from the United States, Britain, and Japan toexamine the effects of family leave coverage on … women's employment afterchildbirth. Our three sample countries provide a range of family leavepolicy regimes. The United … States had no national family leave legislationprior to the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993, but …

Gateway, London’s major growth area.Nearly half the families are lone parents and half are from an ethnic minoritybackground … havevery little control, and parents are upset by difficult housing andenvironmental conditions that they feel powerless to …

, intergenerational and family links indisadvantage, the labour market, deprived neighbourhoods, and the impact ofwelfare policy … - individual, family, community, national and global.[...] …