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The Formative Years: Pathways to Substance Abuse Among Girls and Young Women Ages 8-22
This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the various factors contributing to substance abuse among young females.
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Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
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February 01, 2003
Paternal Involvement and Infant-Father Attachment: A Q-Set Study
This study found that men's involvement with their infants predicted higher levels of infant-father attachment security.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Mens Studies Press
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March 22, 2004
Abstract
This study examined stay-at-home fathers and their integration of work and family.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Mens Studies Press
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September 22, 2004
Predictors of Paternal Involvement in Childcare in Dual-Earner Families With Young Children
This study examined fathers in dual-earner households to determine the percentage of time fathers spend as their child's primary caregiver.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Mens Studies Press
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January 1, 2006
Sexuality, Poverty, and the Inner City
This document contains two papers on poverty and sexuality in the inner-city and focuses on teenage sexual relationships and pregnancies, and the impact of increasing numbers of unwed mothers on the welfare system.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
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1994
Resident Fathers' Perceptions of their Roles and Links to Involvement with Infants
This study analyzed whether fathers' perceptions of the importance of their roles influenced their involvement with infants in five ways: caregiving, warmth, nurturing activities, physical care, and cognitively stimulating activities.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Mens Studies Press
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September 22, 2006
Revisiting Men's Role in Father Involvement: The Importance of Personal Expectations
This study examined expectant fathers' and mothers' expectations for paternal involvement to see if expectations for paternal involvement predicted paternal involvement postnatally.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Mens Studies Press
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March 22, 2005
What's at the Heart of the Canadian Family?
This study asked roughly 4000 Canadians at different life stages about their perceptions of family life today.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Institute of Marriage and Family Canada
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September 20, 2007
The Dove Report: Challenging Beauty
This report surveyed 1600 women ages 20 -65 in addition to 48 in depth interviews examining beauty in the context of self, social structure and one’s own life.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Unilever
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2004
The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
In this paper the authors observe that the well-being of women in the United States has improved over the past 35 years, but the measures of subjective well-being demonstrates that women’s happiness has declined, especially compared to men.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania
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September 17, 2007
Are We Having More Fun Yet? Categorizing and Evaluating Changes in Time Allocation
This paper provides two methods for collecting information about how people choose to allocate their time.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Princeton University and National Bureau of Economic Research
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August 23, 2007
The Puzzle of Boys Educational Decline: A Review of the Evidence
This paper reviews past research on the growing inequalities between the academic perfomance and achievement of girls and boys.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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The Centre for Independent Studies
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November 18, 1999
Australian Social Trends 2000: Income and Expenditure - Income Distribution: Female/Male Earnings
This article provides Australian statistics on wage and income disparities between males and females, and finds that, on average, men still earn more than women.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
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January 26, 2000
Australian Social Trends 1999: Work - Unpaid Work: How Couples Share Domestic Work
This article examines Australian statistics on how couples divide household chores, and how much time each gender spends doing domestic work.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
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January 26, 2000
Australian Social Trends 1999: Family - Family Functioning: Looking After the Children
This report calculates the time parents spend being involved in their child's care and related activities.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
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January 26, 2000
Australian Social Trends 2001: Income and Expenditure - Income Distribution: Value of Unpaid Work
This article uses Australian statistics to estimate the economic value of unpaid work such as housework and domestic duties.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
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May 20, 2002
Gender and Violence in the Mass Media
This paper discussess the gender stereotypes perpetuated by the media and looks specifically at the acts of violence by males towards females.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Health Canada
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1993
“He Doesn’t Realize That He Has To Be a Parent As Well As Someone Who Brings Home The Money”: Boys Talk about Their Parents’ Paid and Unpaid Labor
This study examines boys' perceptions of the role that their parents, particularly their fathers, should play in the family.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Center for Working Families
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May 01, 2002
Why Children Need Father-Love and Mother-Love
This article discusses homosexual parenting and its detrimental impact on child well-being and development.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Focus on the Family
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August 29, 2003
WHY CONGRESS SHOULD IGNORE RADICAL FEMINIST OPPOSITION TO MARRIAGE
This article provides a historical review of feminism, as well as relevant research on marriage and family, ...
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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The Heritage Foundation
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June 16, 2003
Converging Gender Roles
This paper reports that men and women are increasingly sharing economic and domestic responsibilities within the Canadian Family.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Statistics Canada
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July 2006
Understanding Fathering: The Early Head Start Study of Fathers of Newborns
This paper examines the impact fathers have on newborn children.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Mathematica Policy Research Inc
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May 2003
A Report From Canada's 'Gender War Zone': Reforming The Child-Related Provisions of the Divorce Act
This study looks at ways to refocus the litigation process more on children's wellbeing without overlooking concerns about spousal abuse and its effects on children.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Canadian Journal of Family Law
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August 25, 1999
Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark
This paper documents a significant wage gap between married men and women in the United States and investigates whether or not a similar marital earnings differential exists in Denmark.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Institute for the Study of Labor
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May 2005
Female Breadwinner Families: Their Existence, Persistence and Sources
This paper examines couple households in which the female partner in the primary breadwinner for the household.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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August 2004
Socialization to Gender Roles and Marriage Among Egyptian Adolescents
This paper explores differences in gender roles and attitudes among Egyptian youth aged 16 to 19.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Population Council, Policy Research Division
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2000
The Performance of Canada's Youth in Mathematics, Reading, Science and Problem Solving
Canadian students are among the top academically according to a recent international comparison of math, science, literacy, and problem solving abilities.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Statistics Canada
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December 2004
The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes: Do Fathers Matter?
This paper examines the extent to which fathers' gender role attitudes and behaviours affect their offsprings' attitudes, both independently and in conjunction with maternal influences.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Center for Family and Demographic Research
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May 2000
Attitudes Towards Infidelity - 2001
The survey asked 803 people which gender they felt was more likely to have an affair, whether each gender was more likely to have an affair than 20 years ago, and about the relationship between infidelity and marital satisfaction.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Ipsos-Reid/CTV
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March 01, 2001
Paternal Involvement with Children: The Role of Gender Ideologies
This paper examines the effects of parental gender ideologies on the nature and extent of fathers' involvement with their children.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Center for Family and Demographic Research
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2003
Gender Preferences for Children Revisited: New Evidence from Germany
This paper examines gender preferences for children among parents and childless couples in Germany.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
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May 2002
The Impact of Attitudes on Marriage Behaviour
This paper studies the way in which attitudes concerning such issues as gender roles, work, financial stability, and the economic and emotional implications of marriage affect the likelihood and timing of marriage in contemporary America.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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John Hopkins University
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1996
The Complexity of Fathers’ Parenting Responsibilities and Involvement with Nonresident Children
This paper examines the complexity of parenting for non-resident fathers, and looks at how the obligations and circumstances of these arrangements affect child support and visitation.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Population Studies Center
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June 2001
All the Ties that Bind: Race, Ethnicity, and Why Families Support Adult Children
This paper discusses racial and ethnic differences in parental support for adult children, and investigates factors that influence parents' decisions to support some of their children but not others.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Population Studies Center
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September 2001
Why Wed? Young Adults Talk About Sex, Love, and First Unions
This report looks at the results of a focus group study on attitudes towards marriage, cohabitation, and the related issues of gender roles, individual autonomy, premarital sex, and financial stabilty.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
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1999
Measuring Father Involvement in Young Children’s Lives: Recommendations for a Fatherhood Module for the ECLS-B
This paper examines current knowledge about fatherhood, father involvement in children's lives, and the impact of father involvement on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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National Center for Education Statistics
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February 2001
Gender, Employment, and Housework
This paper compares the employment status of, and the division of household labour, amongst married couples in Japan and the US.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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1996
The Impact of Gender Role Attitudes on Sterilization Decisions
This paper studies the impact of gender attitudes and roles on the occurrences of sterilization.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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April 2000
Marriage, Wealth, and Unemployment Duration: A Gender Asymmetry Puzzle
This paper looks at the ways in which men and women's success in securing employment is affected by their spouse's income.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Institute for the Study of Labor
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May 2005
Gender, Time Use and Models of the Household
This paper emphasizes the importance of factoring time use data into measurements of gender equality, household allocation of resources, living standards, and the behavioural effects of policy changes.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Institute for the Study of Labor
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June 2003
Job Protection: The Macho Hypothesis
This paper examines factors which motivate certain countries to adopt job protection legislation.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Institute for the Study of Labor
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June 2004
The Impact of the One-Child Policy on Child Well-Being and Gender Differential
This paper examines the effects of China's one-child policy on child well-being.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Center for Research on Families
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April 2003
The Influence of the Distribution of Household and Childrearing Tasks between Men and Women on Childbearing Intentions in Austria
This paper examines the influence of shared responsibility for child care and household labour on plans for future childbearing among couples with one child.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
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January 2002
Son Preference and Sex Composition of Children: Evidence from India
This analysis of demographic data demonstrates a preference for sons among parents in India.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Population Association of America
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2000
Correlates of Family Routines in Head Start Families
This study examines the relationship between family routines and other phenomena that affect the family.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative
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Spring 2004
Girls Preferred? Changing Patterns of Gender Preferences in the Two German States
In this study of gender preferences for children, the author suggests that preference for sons declines as the provision of social benefits by a welfare state becomes more generous, and the state replaces a son as a reliable source of income during times of economic hardship.
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Category:
Family Relations > Gender Differences and Roles
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
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September 1999
Gendering the Family Composition: Sex Preferences for Children and Childbearing Behavior in the Nordic Countries
This paper challenges the hypothesis that parents' gender preferences for children disappear in countries with high levels of gender equality.
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Family Relations > Gender |