This paper, based on a Multipurpose survey on a large national sample of Italian households which has made possible to analyse parent-child and grandparent-child dyads, explores the impact of marital instability on relationships with adult children and with grandchildren. As in other countries,...

Avere un lavoro non è sempre una garanzia di protezione dalla povertà, per sé stessi e la propria famiglia. Ciò dipende da un lato dal livello di reddito acquisito con il lavoro, dall’altro dalla situazione familiare del lavoratore/lavoratrice. Mentre un basso reddito da lavoro non sempre...

Come e più di altre discipline, per chi fa sociologia essere presenti nei mass media, tv e stampa soprattutto, è un modo – una condizione e un’opportunità – di contribuire alla costruzione di una sfera pubblica non manipolata. Le riflessioni di chi ne dà testimonianza gettano luce su...

The aim of this article is to articulate the concepts of familialism and defamilialization as well as their indicators to assess whether and how welfare states, or regimes, differ not only in the degree to which they are defamilialized but also in the specific familialism form. In other words,...

In this report, we investigate the situation of workers who also care for an elderly parent in Germany. The study is based on qualitative, in depth interviews with care givers who are at least part time employed. The interviews aimed at detecting constrains and resources available to workers...

In the literature, cohabitation rather than marriage is presented as an indicator of weakening intergenerational ties, either as a cause or an effect. In this paper we compare the frequency of face to face and phone contacts between parents and their married and unmarried children living with a...