Anne‐rigt Poortman
Biographic Data
| ID | 101587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne‐rigt Poortman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne‐rigt |
| FAMILY NAME | Poortman |
| SIGNATURE | POORTMAN A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5031-429X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 668 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Postdivorce family complexity and child problems
Objective: This study explores the prevalence of family complexity in Joint physical custody (JPC) versus sole physical custody (SPC) and investigates the relationship between custody arrangements and children’s socioemotional problems, focusing on the moderating effect of parental repartnering. Background: JPC is increasingly common and shown to be beneficial for children. However, the rise in family complexity due to parental repartnering raise…
Instability in Post‐Divorce Residence Arrangements and Child Difficulties
Objective This study examines the instability in post‐divorce child residence arrangements over a 10‐year period and its impact on children's socioemotional difficulties. Background The increase in shared residence arrangements (joint physical custody) has led to renewed interest in understanding how children fare in different post‐divorce residence arrangements. These arrangements may, however, change as circumstances likely change after divorce…
The Socioeconomic Gradient in Joint Physical Custody: A Comparison of 32 Countries
Objective This study investigates the association between mothers' socioeconomic status (SES) and joint physical custody among children, focusing on how the SES gradient in joint physical custody relates to its country‐specific prevalence. Background Joint physical custody has become increasingly common in post‐divorce family arrangements. While joint physical custody can have a positive impact on child wellbeing, it is more prevalent in higher‐S…
Parents’ perceptions of cohesion in diverse stepfamilies
The Mental Health of Female and Male Homemakers: A Longitudinal Study using Dutch Population Register Data
Homemakers-those staying at home while their partner works-often report higher life satisfaction and happiness than workers, but it remains to be seen whether this holds for their mental health. We investigate how the mental health of homemakers compares to their mental health while they were working, considering gender, parenthood, and homemaking duration. Using longitudinal Dutch (medical) register data from 2006 to 2021, we apply fixed-effects…
Fairness perceptions of the postdivorce division of childcare and child-related expenses
ObjectiveThis study examines how the division of childcare and child-related expenses after divorce affects fairness perceptions of mothers and fathers.BackgroundPrevious research has focused on married families and found that unequal divisions of household labor are often regarded as fair. This study investigates whether fairness perceptions are also common for divorced parents for whom the division of childrearing responsibilities may be a sens…
Financial contributions to stepchildren: The role of gender and postdivorce family structure
Profiles Among Women Without a Paid Job and Social Benefits: An Intersectional Perspective Using Dutch Population Register Data
Despite their potential vulnerability and untapped work potential, research on the group of women without a paid job and social benefits is limited. This study is the first to identify profiles among women in this group based on their intersecting economic, sociodemographic and contextual characteristics. A cluster analysis conducted on Dutch population register data from 2019 challenges previous research that lumped women without a paid job and …
Parental involvement in stepfamilies: Biology, relationship type, residence, and gender
Objective This study investigates the determinants of parental involvement in diverse types of stepfamilies. Background Most research has studied parental involvement in married stepfather families with resident children. This study also includes some of the more recent and emerging stepfamily types (e.g., living‐apart‐together [LAT] stepfamilies) allowing for a simultaneous examination of the role of biological relatedness, type of relationship,…
Whom do married and divorced parents consider kin
Despite the potential importance of kin to divorced parents in particular, prior research rarely studied how kinship patterns vary between married and divorced parents, nor within-group variations depending upon postdivorce residence arrangements and repartnering. We estimated mixed-effects logistic regression models using data from samples of Dutch married (N = 1,336) and divorced parents (N = 3,464) to predict the extent to which parents consid…
Fairness Perceptions of the Division of Household Labor: Housework and Childcare
An unequal division of housework has been found to be often regarded as fair, which may explain why women still do most household labor. This study extends previous research by also investigating childcare-an increasingly important part of household labor, which is likely to have a different meaning than housework. It examines how perceptions of fairness for both housework and childcare are influenced by the division of housework, childcare, and …
De werk-privé balans van gescheiden ouders: De rol van werkeisen, privé-eisen en hun combinatie
After a divorce, parents may face difficulties in combining work with the care for children. Few studies have examined the work-life balance of this particular group. Using data from 1.577 employed divorced fathers and 2.059 employed divorced mothers, we examined how work demands (long work hours, commuting times) and family demands (number and age of children, postdivorce residence arrangements) affected the work-family balance of divorced paren…
Parenting in Postdivorce Families: The Influence of Residence, Repartnering, and Gender
Objective This study investigates the role of residence (including shared residence), repartnering (including LAT relationships), and additional children (step‐ and half‐siblings) on parenting in postdivorce families, and whether patterns differ by gender and type of parenting behavior. Background Patterns of parenting are indicative of how parents redefine their roles and responsibilities after divorce and repartnering, but extant research has l…
Do Parenting Plans Work? The Effect of Parenting Plans on Procedural, Family and Child Outcomes
The Dutch legislature obligated divorcing parents to draw up a parenting plan when they divorce because it believed such a plan to be beneficial for reducing procedural and family-related problems, and ultimately increasing child well-being. In this study, the authors evaluate the effectiveness of the parenting plan for both procedural, family and child outcomes simultaneously, using a natural experiment. They use recent survey data from the Neth…
Joint lifestyles and the risk of union dissolution: Differences between marriage and cohabitation
Love, intimacy, and companionship are considered the cement of contemporary couple relationships. Yet previous research studying how the way that couples arrange their social life and leisure time relates to the stability of their union has focused exclusi
Postdivorce Parent-Child Contact and Child Well-being: The Importance of Predivorce Parental Involvement
Frequent parent-child contact after divorce is generally assumed to be in children's best interests, but findings are mixed. This study extends the small body of research about the conditions under which parent-child contact is more beneficial or less beneficial by examining the role of predivorce parental involvement. It is argued that the more a parent was involved in child rearing in the past, the more important postdivorce parent-child contac…
Shared Residence After Separation: A Review and New Findings from the Netherlands
In 2009 the Dutch legislator introduced a law that sought to encourage shared residence. We summarize key findings on shared residence from prior work in the Netherlands, and present new data. Previous research showed that shared residence has increased steadily in recent decades. Our recent estimates revealed that shared residence increased from nearly 20% in 2008 (prereform) to 28% in 2010 (postreform). Official court data showed a decline agai…
The timing of parenthood and its effect on social contact and support
The objective of this study is to investigate how the timing of parenthood affects social contacts and support
Children's Postdivorce Residence Arrangements and Parental Experienced Time Pressure
Although the rise in postdivorce joint physical custody has fueled scholarly interest in its impact on children, consequences for parents remain understudied. Because children's residence arrangements determine time and coordination demands associated with child care, this study investigated the relationship between postdivorce residence arrangements and parents' time pressure. Regression analyses on 4,460 formerly married or cohabiting parents i…
Family and Friends: Which Types of Personal Relationships Go Together in a Network
We examine the link between family and personal networks. Using arguments about meeting opportunities, competition and social influence, we hypothesise how the presence of specific types of family members (i.e., a partner, children, parents and siblings) and non-family members (i.e., friends, neighbours and colleagues) in the network mutually affect one another. In addition, we propose that-beyond their mere presence-the active role of family mem…
Child care by grandparents: Changes between 1992 and 2006
This study considers changes in child care by grandparents between 1992 and 2006 in relation to changes in mothers' need for and grandparents' opportunity to provide child care. Data from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam are used to compare two cohorts of Dutch grandparents aged 58–68 (N 1992 =181; N 2006 =350). Multi-level regression analysis shows that the probability that grandparents care for their adult daughters' children (N 1992 =261…
Why do intimate partners live apart? Evidence on LAT relationships across Europe
BACKGROUND: Most research asks whether or not cohabitation has come to rival marriage. Little is known about the meaning of living apart together (LAT) relationships, and whether LAT is an alternative to marriage and cohabitation or a dating relationship. OBJECTIVE: We examine across Europe: (1) the prevalence of LAT, (2) the reasons for LAT, and (3) the correlates of (a) LAT relationships vis-à-vis being single, married, or cohabiting, and (b) d…
Marriage and separation risks among German cohabiters: Differences between types of cohabiter
We propose a typology of different meanings of cohabitation that combines cohabiters' intentions to marry with a general attitude toward marriage, using competing risk analyses to examine whether some cohabiters are more prone than others to marry or to separate. Using data (N = 1,258) from four waves of the German Family Panel (PAIRFAM) and a supplementary study (DEMODIFF), we compared eastern and western German cohabiters of the birth cohorts 1…
What About the Grandparents? Children's Postdivorce Residence Arrangements and Contact With Grandparents
Despite the importance of grandparents in their grandchildren's lives, little is known about grandparent-grandchild contact after parental divorce. In this study, the authors investigated differences in grandparent-grandchild contact across 3 postdivorce residence arrangements (mother residence, father residence, and shared residence) using recent survey data from the Netherlands (N = 3,842). The results indicated that contact with maternal grand…
Understanding Diversity in the Meaning of Cohabitation Across Europe
Understanding Diversity in the Meaning of Cohabitation Across Europe
Attitudes Toward Housework and Child Care and the Gendered Division of Labor
Research on the division of household labor has typically examined the role of time availability, relative resources, and gender ideology. We explore the gendered meaning of domestic work by examining the role of men's and women's attitudes toward household labor. Using data from the Dutch Time Competition Survey (N = 732), we find that women have more favorable attitudes toward cleaning, cooking, and child care than do men: Women enjoy it more, …
Sex Differences in the Economic Consequences of Separation: A Panel Study of the Netherlands
Journal Article Sex Differences in the Economic Consequences of Separation: A Panel Study of the Netherlands Get access Anne-Rigt Poortman Anne-Rigt Poortman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar European Sociological Review, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2000, Pages 367–383, https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/16.4.367 Published: 01 December 2000
Interactions Between Cultural and Economic Determinants of Divorce in The Netherlands
This study examines the relationship between gendered family roles and divorce in The Netherlands. Cultural and economic aspects of this relationship are distinguished. Economic hypotheses argue that the likelihood of divorce is increased if women work for pay and have attractive labor market resources. Cultural hypotheses argue that divorce chances are increased if women adhere to emancipatory norms, independent of their labor market positions. …
Women's Labour Market Position and Divorce in the Netherlands: Evaluating Economic Interpretations of the Work Effect
Why do intimate partners live apart? Evidence on LAT relationships across Europe
BACKGROUND: Most research asks whether or not cohabitation has come to rival marriage. Little is known about the meaning of living apart together (LAT) relationships, and whether LAT is an alternative to marriage and cohabitation or a dating relationship. OBJECTIVE: We examine across Europe: (1) the prevalence of LAT, (2) the reasons for LAT, and (3) the correlates of (a) LAT relationships vis-à-vis being single, married, or cohabiting, and (b) d…
Labor and Love: Wives' Employment and Divorce Risk in its Socio-Political Context
We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à-vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is…
Non-resident Father-Child Contact across Divorce Cohorts: The Role of Father Involvement during Marriage
Using retrospective data from the Divorce in the Netherlands Survey 1998 (SIN98, N = 808), we investigate changes in children’s daytime contact and overnight stays with non-resident fathers across four divorce cohorts from 1949 to 1998. Our findings show that daytime contact and overnight stays increased over time. A modest part of this increase can be explained by a rise in fathers’ child-rearing involvement during marriage. Involved fathers are…
The First Cut is the Deepest? The Role of the Relationship Career for Union Formation
Using retrospective data from the survey Divorce in the Netherlands 1998, I examine the influence of the relationship career on chances of union formation. Frailty models accounting for unobserved heterogeneity show that previous union experiences reduce chances of union formation. Furthermore, formerly married persons are less likely to enter a new union than former cohabiters, and so are people who had short-lived prior unions or had children. …
How Work Affects Divorce: The Mediating Role of Financial and Time Pressures
This study examines whether the financial and time pressures associated with spouses' working lives play a role in the relation between work and divorce during the first years of marriage. Using retrospective data from the Netherlands, the results show that divorce is more likely when the husband works on average fewer hours and the wife more hours during the first years of marriage. Furthermore, couples facing more financial problems and those s…
Economic Resources and Remaining Single: Trends Over Time
An influential hypothesis in family research is that having many economic resources decreases women's and increases men's rate of entering a union. A more recent hypothesis is that the strength of the association between economic resources and union formation has weakened over time, given decreasing role differentiation by gender. Rather than looking at the timing of union formation, we look at its non-occurrence. Using the Netherlands Kinship Pa…
Life Outcomes of Childless Men and Fathers
Using data from the first wave of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS) for 1,451 men aged 40–59 we examine the impact of permanent childlessness. We extend on previous work by focusing on partnership history as a possible explanation for differences between childless men and fathers. Our results show that the impact of childlessness is weaker than we had expected. Many initial differences between childless men and fathers are attributable t…
Investments in Marriage and Cohabitation: The Role of Legal and Interpersonal Commitment
Cohabiters have been shown to invest less in their relationship than married couples. This study investigated the role of legal and interpersonal commitment by examining heterogeneity within marital and cohabiting unions. Going beyond the dichotomy of cohabitation versus marriage, different union types were distinguished by their level of legal and interpersonal commitment, followed by an assessment of their association with joint investments (sp…
Child care by grandparents: Changes between 1992 and 2006
This study considers changes in child care by grandparents between 1992 and 2006 in relation to changes in mothers' need for and grandparents' opportunity to provide child care. Data from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam are used to compare two cohorts of Dutch grandparents aged 58–68 (N 1992 =181; N 2006 =350). Multi-level regression analysis shows that the probability that grandparents care for their adult daughters' children (N 1992 =261…
Income pooling strategies among cohabiting and married couples: A comparative perspective
Studies explaining why cohabiters are more likely to keep money separate than spouses have mainly focused on selection processes, without taking into account the heterogeneity within both union types in levels of commitment. Cross-national studies are rare
Dissolution risks in first and higher order marital and cohabiting unions
Women's Work and Divorce: A Matter of Anticipation? A Research Note
The most common hypothesis on the positive association between wives’ work and divorce is that the wife’s work increases the risk of divorce. Critics argue that the causal direction is the other way around and that women adjust their working hours in anticipation of divorce. These competing hypotheses are tested by comparing the effects of wives’ work between divorces that differ in the extent to which they were expected. Because women who do not…
Singles' relational attitudes in a time of individualization
Contact Between Grandchildren and Their Grandparents in Early Adulthood
Using cross-sectional data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study ( N = 1,231), this study examines the relationship between grandchildren and their grandparents across early adulthood. Age is used as a proxy for change during the grandchild's life course and the influence of major life course characteristics is examined. Results indicate that the majority of young adult grandchildren have contact with their grandparents, but the average freque…
Marriage and separation risks among German cohabiters: Differences between types of cohabiter
We propose a typology of different meanings of cohabitation that combines cohabiters' intentions to marry with a general attitude toward marriage, using competing risk analyses to examine whether some cohabiters are more prone than others to marry or to separate. Using data (N = 1,258) from four waves of the German Family Panel (PAIRFAM) and a supplementary study (DEMODIFF), we compared eastern and western German cohabiters of the birth cohorts 1…
What About the Grandparents? Children's Postdivorce Residence Arrangements and Contact With Grandparents
Despite the importance of grandparents in their grandchildren's lives, little is known about grandparent-grandchild contact after parental divorce. In this study, the authors investigated differences in grandparent-grandchild contact across 3 postdivorce residence arrangements (mother residence, father residence, and shared residence) using recent survey data from the Netherlands (N = 3,842). The results indicated that contact with maternal grand…
Fairness Perceptions of the Division of Household Labor: Housework and Childcare
An unequal division of housework has been found to be often regarded as fair, which may explain why women still do most household labor. This study extends previous research by also investigating childcare-an increasingly important part of household labor, which is likely to have a different meaning than housework. It examines how perceptions of fairness for both housework and childcare are influenced by the division of housework, childcare, and …
Postdivorce Parent-Child Contact and Child Well-being: The Importance of Predivorce Parental Involvement
Frequent parent-child contact after divorce is generally assumed to be in children's best interests, but findings are mixed. This study extends the small body of research about the conditions under which parent-child contact is more beneficial or less beneficial by examining the role of predivorce parental involvement. It is argued that the more a parent was involved in child rearing in the past, the more important postdivorce parent-child contac…
Family and Friends: Which Types of Personal Relationships Go Together in a Network
We examine the link between family and personal networks. Using arguments about meeting opportunities, competition and social influence, we hypothesise how the presence of specific types of family members (i.e., a partner, children, parents and siblings) and non-family members (i.e., friends, neighbours and colleagues) in the network mutually affect one another. In addition, we propose that-beyond their mere presence-the active role of family mem…
Older Parents Providing Child Care for Adult Children: Does It Pay Off
This study examined whether past grandparental child care is related to present support from adult children. On the basis of social exchange theory, the authors expected that grandparental child care creates a debt that is repaid in the form of receiving support later in life. Using data from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (N = 349 parents, N = 812 adult children), the authors found that grandparents who frequently provided child care for…
Sex Differences in the Economic Consequences of Separation: A Panel Study of the Netherlands
Journal Article Sex Differences in the Economic Consequences of Separation: A Panel Study of the Netherlands Get access Anne-Rigt Poortman Anne-Rigt Poortman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar European Sociological Review, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2000, Pages 367–383, https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/16.4.367 Published: 01 December 2000
Women's Labour Market Position and Divorce in the Netherlands: Evaluating Economic Interpretations of the Work Effect
Interactions Between Cultural and Economic Determinants of Divorce in The Netherlands
This study examines the relationship between gendered family roles and divorce in The Netherlands. Cultural and economic aspects of this relationship are distinguished. Economic hypotheses argue that the likelihood of divorce is increased if women work for pay and have attractive labor market resources. Cultural hypotheses argue that divorce chances are increased if women adhere to emancipatory norms, independent of their labor market positions. …
Past experiences and older adults' attitudes: A lifecourse perspective
In this study we apply a lifecourse perspective to an examination of older adults' attitudes about gender roles and moral issues. The study goes beyond previous research in that it examines the relationships between older adults' attitudes and: (a) experiences in the parental home, (b) people's own marital and work experiences through the entire lifecourse, and (c) the marital and work experiences of their children. The sample consists of respond…
How Work Affects Divorce: The Mediating Role of Financial and Time Pressures
This study examines whether the financial and time pressures associated with spouses' working lives play a role in the relation between work and divorce during the first years of marriage. Using retrospective data from the Netherlands, the results show that divorce is more likely when the husband works on average fewer hours and the wife more hours during the first years of marriage. Furthermore, couples facing more financial problems and those s…
Women's Work and Divorce: A Matter of Anticipation? A Research Note
The most common hypothesis on the positive association between wives’ work and divorce is that the wife’s work increases the risk of divorce. Critics argue that the causal direction is the other way around and that women adjust their working hours in anticipation of divorce. These competing hypotheses are tested by comparing the effects of wives’ work between divorces that differ in the extent to which they were expected. Because women who do not…
Parents' Expectations About Childrearing After Divorce: Does Anticipating Difficulty Deter Divorce
Divorce is costly for parents because of the challenges of meeting children's economic and socioemotional needs after separation. Using the National Survey of Families and Households (N= 1,935), we investigate whether expected economic and parenting costs deter divorce. Mothers expect higher economic costs than fathers, whereas fathers expect more parenting difficulties. Most parents, however, expect high economic and parenting costs. In a large …
The First Cut is the Deepest? The Role of the Relationship Career for Union Formation
Using retrospective data from the survey Divorce in the Netherlands 1998, I examine the influence of the relationship career on chances of union formation. Frailty models accounting for unobserved heterogeneity show that previous union experiences reduce chances of union formation. Furthermore, formerly married persons are less likely to enter a new union than former cohabiters, and so are people who had short-lived prior unions or had children. …
Dissolution risks in first and higher order marital and cohabiting unions
Adolescent alcohol use in the Netherlands: The role of ethnicity, ethnic intermarriage, and ethnic school composition
Ethnic differences in alcohol consumption among students seem to reflect differential alcohol use norms prevalent in their parents' country of birth. Alcohol use norms are presumably stricter in families with mono-ethnic parents and in predominantly Muslim schools than in families with ethnically mixed parents and in schools with fewer Muslim students
Contact Between Grandchildren and Their Grandparents in Early Adulthood
Using cross-sectional data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study ( N = 1,231), this study examines the relationship between grandchildren and their grandparents across early adulthood. Age is used as a proxy for change during the grandchild's life course and the influence of major life course characteristics is examined. Results indicate that the majority of young adult grandchildren have contact with their grandparents, but the average freque…
Parental Divorce and Sibling Relationships: A Research Note
This study examines long-term effects of parental divorce on sibling relationships in adulthood and the role of predivorce parental conflict. It used large-scale retrospective data from the Netherlands that contain reports from both siblings of the sibling dyad. Results show limited effects of parental divorce on sibling contact and relationship quality in adulthood but strong effects on sibling conflict. The greater conflict among siblings from …
Attitudes Toward Housework and Child Care and the Gendered Division of Labor
Research on the division of household labor has typically examined the role of time availability, relative resources, and gender ideology. We explore the gendered meaning of domestic work by examining the role of men's and women's attitudes toward household labor. Using data from the Dutch Time Competition Survey (N = 732), we find that women have more favorable attitudes toward cleaning, cooking, and child care than do men: Women enjoy it more, …
Partners in crime? - De invloed van crimineel gedrag op huwelijkskansen en partnerselectie
Partners in crime? The impact of criminal behaviour on marriage formation and partner selection .Although it is well established that marriage has the potential to foster desistance from crime, little attention has been paid to offenders’ marital chances. The few studies examining the effects of criminal behaviour on marriage formation, have not taken into account the criminal behaviour of spouses. We employ data from the Criminal Career and Life…
Economic Resources and Remaining Single: Trends Over Time
An influential hypothesis in family research is that having many economic resources decreases women's and increases men's rate of entering a union. A more recent hypothesis is that the strength of the association between economic resources and union formation has weakened over time, given decreasing role differentiation by gender. Rather than looking at the timing of union formation, we look at its non-occurrence. Using the Netherlands Kinship Pa…
Life Outcomes of Childless Men and Fathers
Using data from the first wave of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS) for 1,451 men aged 40–59 we examine the impact of permanent childlessness. We extend on previous work by focusing on partnership history as a possible explanation for differences between childless men and fathers. Our results show that the impact of childlessness is weaker than we had expected. Many initial differences between childless men and fathers are attributable t…
Singles' relational attitudes in a time of individualization
The grandparent–grandchild relationship in childhood and adulthood: A matter of continuation
This study examined whether grandparents perceive adult grandchildren as frequent and important contacts by analyzing network membership. It additionally examined whether this network membership is related to relationship intensity during childhood. Network membership was assessed in 1992 (397 grandparents, 1,594 adult grandchildren) and at the 2005–2006 follow‐up (155 grandparents, 429 adult grandchildren) from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amste…
Childlessness and Norms of Familial Responsibility in the Netherlands
Using data from the second wave of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS) for 3069 female and 2096 male respondents, we studied differences in norms of universal and of personal familial responsibility between childless individuals and parents. Differences depend on the type of norm studied. Childless individuals, and in most cases only those who opt voluntarily for a childless life, express weaker norms of universal familial responsibility i…
Investments in Marriage and Cohabitation: The Role of Legal and Interpersonal Commitment
Cohabiters have been shown to invest less in their relationship than married couples. This study investigated the role of legal and interpersonal commitment by examining heterogeneity within marital and cohabiting unions. Going beyond the dichotomy of cohabitation versus marriage, different union types were distinguished by their level of legal and interpersonal commitment, followed by an assessment of their association with joint investments (sp…
Older Parents Providing Child Care for Adult Children: Does It Pay Off
This study examined whether past grandparental child care is related to present support from adult children. On the basis of social exchange theory, the authors expected that grandparental child care creates a debt that is repaid in the form of receiving support later in life. Using data from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (N = 349 parents, N = 812 adult children), the authors found that grandparents who frequently provided child care for…
Labor and Love: Wives' Employment and Divorce Risk in its Socio-Political Context
We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à-vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is…
Understanding Diversity in the Meaning of Cohabitation Across Europe
Income pooling strategies among cohabiting and married couples: A comparative perspective
Studies explaining why cohabiters are more likely to keep money separate than spouses have mainly focused on selection processes, without taking into account the heterogeneity within both union types in levels of commitment. Cross-national studies are rare
Non-resident Father-Child Contact across Divorce Cohorts: The Role of Father Involvement during Marriage
Using retrospective data from the Divorce in the Netherlands Survey 1998 (SIN98, N = 808), we investigate changes in children’s daytime contact and overnight stays with non-resident fathers across four divorce cohorts from 1949 to 1998. Our findings show that daytime contact and overnight stays increased over time. A modest part of this increase can be explained by a rise in fathers’ child-rearing involvement during marriage. Involved fathers are…
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