Ausra Maslauskaite
Biographic Data
| ID | 249472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ausra Maslauskaite |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ausra |
| FAMILY NAME | Maslauskaite |
| SIGNATURE | MASLAUSKAITE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vytautas Magnus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8641-3492 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting Among Lithuanian Men
This article aims to analyze the intergenerational transmission of parenting among Lithuanian men. Numerous studies have proven that parenting can be transmitted intergenerationally, with both supportive and harsh parenting behaviours being passed on. However, to the authors’ knowledge, there is a lack of evidence stemming from Central and Eastern European countries where, in recent decades, substantial shifts have taken place in the family gende…
Fertility Intentions of Millennials Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic
We aim at investigating the connection between the negative change in fertility intentions and change in socio-economic resources (financial, mental, physical, life satisfaction) caused by COVID-19 containment measures for millennials in Lithuania. We use data from the Families and Inequalities Survey carried out in Lithuania in 2021. It is a representative dataset covering the cohort born between 1985 and 1989 (n = 1000). Analytically, we employ…
Families of the Past: Was the North-Western European Household System Prevalent in the 19th Century Lithuania
The paper analyzes family and household types in the mid. 19th century Vilnius and Kaunas gubernijy. The research is based on the large-scale dataset composed of the archival census-like listings of individuals by family units and defined as inventories. The dataset covers the inventories from 1847 and it includes around 20 thousand individuals. Based on the Hammel and Laslett (1974) methodology the research identifies nuclear, extended, and mult…
Covid-19 Pandemic and Fertility: What to Expect in the Future
COVID-19 pandemic has impact on many aspects of social life. The paper discusses the potential effect of the pandemic on fertility. It is based on the theoretical analysis of the impact of the past pandemic of modern world (Spanish flu) on the fertility and potential mechanisms which will be at play in the post-COVID-19 pandemic fertility trajectory. The paper also overviews the most recent demographic fertility and family statistics, which show …
Cultural Capital, Gender and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Post-Communist Space
Post-communist transition in Eastern Europe has affected social stratification and mobility. There is an argument that transition undermined the role of parental cultural capital and increased the importance of parental economic capital in determining the educational mobility of children. In this paper, we examine whether the parental cultural capital has played a role in educational mobility of cohorts born in 1970–1984 and what has been the con…
Religious Identity and Family Practices in a Post-Communist Society: The Case of Division of Labor in Childcare and Housework
This paper aims to analyze the way religious identification and practices influence family practices in the division of labor in childcare and housework in contemporary Lithuania. The analysis is based on a quantitative survey (n = 3000) representing the last Soviet generation born between 1970 and 1985. The sample was distributed across five groups according to religious identification and practices-devout religionists, somewhat devout religioni…
Family Life Course Trajectories: Results of the Sequence Analysis
This paper aims to analyse the family life course trajectories of 1970–1984 birth cohorts in Lihuania. It applies the sequence analysis methods and is based on the Families and Inequalities Survey Dataset collected in 2019. The method provides the opportunities to examine the family life course in a holistic way and has not been used in family demography research in Lithuania so far. The results prove that cohabitation became a normative event in…
Childcare in Lithuania and Belarus: How gendered is parenting in Eastern European countries
Research shows that even though the time women and men spend on housework has slowly converged in recent decades, the time mothers and fathers invest in childcare has not changed as much. This paper aims to contribute to the literature on childcare by focusing on the two Eastern European countries of Lithuania and Belarus, which took very different development paths after seceding from the Soviet Union in 1990. For our analysis, we use two recent…
Skyrybų motyvai: Individualūs, partnerystės, skyrybų proceso veiksniai
This paper aims to analyze divorce motives and how they are linked with individual, partnership level and divorce process factors. Divorce motives are subjective accounts of the causes of divorce. Motives refer to perceptions and are different from structural causes of divorce, which often become the object of sociological inquiry. The paper is based on the analysis of the “Fathering after union dissolution” (2016) dataset, which collected inform…
Territorial development in Lithuanian municipalities: A territorial capital approach
The concept of territorial capital describing the specificity of spatial socioeconomic differences in municipalities is underused in the Lithuanian academic discourse. The article focuses on different dimensions of territorial assets related to locally based resources including natural resources, socioeconomic dynamics, service provision infrastructure, and place-making initiatives. It also examines the question of the interrelatedness of differe…
Undoing fatherhood: Postdivorce fathering practices in Lithuania
Drawing on empirical data from biographical interviews with divorced Lithuanian men, this article examines how they undo fatherhood based on the breadwinner ideology. In a Lithuanian culture of strong economic obligations of men for child support and alimony and weak paternal rights to custody and care, the divorced fathers' role consists primarily of their financial responsibility. By using the theoretical framework of undoing gender (Butler, J.…
Vyrų pakartotinos partnerystės: Individualūs ir ankstesnės partnerystės veiksniai
The aim of the article is to analyze the long-term trends in men’s repartnering patterns in Lithuania and to identify the factors associated with the increased risk of repartnering in the recent divorce cohort of Lithuanian men. The study focuses on men who have under-aged children from a dissolved union. The theoretical background of the study is based on the needs, attractiveness and opportunity perspective (de Graaf & Kalmijn, 2003) and Divorc…
Single Mothers Always Lose? Union Dissolution and Perceived Changes in Material Well-Being in Lithuania
The article investigates the perceived changes in material well-being of single mothers due to union dissolution in Lithuania. The analysis is based on a nationally representative data set; our sample includes 415 single mothers with underaged children. At the core of the analysis is the effect of socioeconomic standing on the assessment of changes. I use the level of education as the proxy variable for the measurement of socioeconomic position a…
Išsiskyrę vyrai ir poskyrybinės tėvystės modeliai
Analyzing 25 biographical interviews with divorced men of different class, education, professional involvement, living in three biggest Lithuanian cities, Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, the article distinguishes three broad types that reflect father’s identities and their different strategies utilized to make sense of their experience. Men of the first type comprised of fathers who espouse “new fatherhood” did not follow culturally prescribed scri…
Vienų motinų su vaikais šeimos Lietuvoje: Demografinės Ir Socioekonominės Charakteristikos
Šiuo straipsniu siekiama atskleisti vienų motinų su nepilnamečiais vaikais šeimų Lietuvoje paplitimo, demografines ir socioekonomines charakteristikas. Straipsnis parengtas remiantis 2011 m. Lietuvos gyventojų ir būstų surašymo individualaus lygmens duomenų analize, todėl suteikia naujos empirinės informacijos apie šio tipo šeimas. Nustatyta, kad Lietuvoje tik su vienu iš tėvų (tik su juo arba ir su juo bei kitais asmenimis) gyvena beveik trečdal…
Involving Nonresident Lithuanian Fathers in Child-rearing: The Negative Impact of Income Inequalities and Sociolegal Policies
Using nationally representative data on nonresident fathers, this study examines father-child contact and child support payments in Lithuania. We focus on previously married and cohabiting fathers whose parenting rights and obligations are organized differently by Lithuanian legislation. Our findings demonstrate that previously cohabiting fathers' involvement in child-rearing is more significantly associated with levels of individual income resou…
Būti tėvu po skyrybų: Tėvo kontaktai su nepilnamečiais vaikais
The aim of this article is to analyse the postdivorce father-child contact, to reveal the sociological factors and to contextualize them within the legal framework. The issue has been scarcely researched in Lithuanian sociology despite the high marital disruption rates and a large number of children spending part or whole childhood in the single mother households. The presented analysis is based on the national survey of single mothers and their …
The Transforming Educational Gradient in Marital Disruption in Northern Europe: A Comparative Study Based on GGS Data
A substantial body of research has accumulated on the socio-economic correlates of marital instability. Previous studies have shown considerable variation in the association between women’s educational attainment and marital disruption. This article complements existing research by investigating the pattern of this relationship across countries and its change over time. The main geographical focus is on Northern Europe but evidence is also presen…
Gender and Re-partnering after Divorce in Four Central European and Baltic Countries
This article analyses the demographic and social determinants of repartnering after divorce in four Baltic and Central European transition countries (Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, and Hungary), which, despite their common transition paths after the 1990s, developed distinct political economies and have different gender and family cultures. The article explores how the re-partnering chances of divorced women and men are shaped by the social division…
Men’s Educational Resources and Transition into First Marriage: Is there the Advantage of University Education
Based on the analysis of the data of the Census 2001 and the linked dataset of the Census 2011 and the 2011–2013 first marriage register, the paper explores the association between men’s educational resources and transition into first marriage in Lithuania. The theoretical assumptions of the study are related to the hypotheses of gender role specialization ant gender role combination. Both hypotheses argue that higher men’s educational resources …
Socio-economic determinants of divorce in Lithuania: Evidence from register-based census-linked data
Most existing evidence on the socio-economic predictors of divorce in developed countries comes from the USA and from Western and Northern Europe. This study contributes to the scarce literature about socio-economic determinants of divorce in Central and E
Skyrybos ir sutuoktinių socialiniai ekonominiai ištekliai
Lietuva išsiskiria vienais aukščiausių ištuokų rodiklių ES, kurie su nedideliais svyravimais iš esmės nekinta jau daugiau nei tris dešimtmečius. Nors skyrybos gana dažnos, beveik nėra tyrimų, nagrinėjančių ištuokų socialinį mechanizmą. Šio straipsnio tikslas – remiantis tiksliausia populiacijos lygmens, o ne atrankinių tyrimų informacija, atskleisti individo socialinių ekonominių išteklių įtaką ištuokos rizikai Lietuvoje. Pristatomas tyrimas* yra…
Education and transition from cohabitation to marriage in Lithuania
This article examines the role of individual educational resources in the transition from cohabitation to marriage in Lithuania over the past four decades that cover the communist and the transitional periods with various developmental stages of cohabitation. Two competing hypotheses were formulated based on cultural and structural approaches. The first hypothesis anticipated a stable negative effect of higher education, the second a positive gra…
Vienišos motinos, vartojimas ir socialinė atskirtis
Remiantis kokybinio biografinio tyrimo rezultatais straipsnyje analizuojami vienišų išsiskyrusių motinų, auginančių nepilnamečius vaikus, vartojimo ištekliai ir praktikos, galinčios reprezentuoti vieną iš socialinės atskirties dimensijų. Tyrimas atskleidė, kad skyrybos nebūtinai susijusios su vienišų motinų šeimų ekonominiais nuostoliais ir išteklių vartojimui sumažėjimu. Šiuo požiūriu šeimos, kuriose vyrų indėlis į šeimos biudžetą buvo nedidelis…
Past and present patterns of family formation in Eastern Europe: Does Hajnal’s delineation still matter
This article explores the link between historical and contemporary patterns of family formation. The theoretical underpinnings of the study were derived from Hajnal’s theory of historical nuptiality regimes in Europe. In general, the results suggest that all countries in the region share a common vector of changes in partnership formation, but at the same time the onset and advancement of these changes varies. The changesstarted earlier and have …
Transformation of Partnership Formation in Eastern Europe: The Legacy of the Past Demographic Divide
This article analyses the transformation in the mode of partnership formation in seven countries of Eastern Europe. The aim of the study is to provide an up-to-date account of the switch from direct marriage to non-marital cohabitation as it has progressed from the 1960s to the mid-2000s, using data from the Generations and Gender Surveys. Unlike previous analyses of partnership formation, we examined the extent to which crossnational variations,…
Gender and Re-partnering after Divorce in Four Central European and Baltic Countries
This article analyses the demographic and social determinants of repartnering after divorce in four Baltic and Central European transition countries (Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, and Hungary), which, despite their common transition paths after the 1990s, developed distinct political economies and have different gender and family cultures. The article explores how the re-partnering chances of divorced women and men are shaped by the social division…
Socio-economic determinants of divorce in Lithuania: Evidence from register-based census-linked data
Most existing evidence on the socio-economic predictors of divorce in developed countries comes from the USA and from Western and Northern Europe. This study contributes to the scarce literature about socio-economic determinants of divorce in Central and E
Involving Nonresident Lithuanian Fathers in Child-rearing: The Negative Impact of Income Inequalities and Sociolegal Policies
Using nationally representative data on nonresident fathers, this study examines father-child contact and child support payments in Lithuania. We focus on previously married and cohabiting fathers whose parenting rights and obligations are organized differently by Lithuanian legislation. Our findings demonstrate that previously cohabiting fathers' involvement in child-rearing is more significantly associated with levels of individual income resou…
Religious Identity and Family Practices in a Post-Communist Society: The Case of Division of Labor in Childcare and Housework
This paper aims to analyze the way religious identification and practices influence family practices in the division of labor in childcare and housework in contemporary Lithuania. The analysis is based on a quantitative survey (n = 3000) representing the last Soviet generation born between 1970 and 1985. The sample was distributed across five groups according to religious identification and practices-devout religionists, somewhat devout religioni…
Childcare in Lithuania and Belarus: How gendered is parenting in Eastern European countries
Research shows that even though the time women and men spend on housework has slowly converged in recent decades, the time mothers and fathers invest in childcare has not changed as much. This paper aims to contribute to the literature on childcare by focusing on the two Eastern European countries of Lithuania and Belarus, which took very different development paths after seceding from the Soviet Union in 1990. For our analysis, we use two recent…
The Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting Among Lithuanian Men
This article aims to analyze the intergenerational transmission of parenting among Lithuanian men. Numerous studies have proven that parenting can be transmitted intergenerationally, with both supportive and harsh parenting behaviours being passed on. However, to the authors’ knowledge, there is a lack of evidence stemming from Central and Eastern European countries where, in recent decades, substantial shifts have taken place in the family gende…
Undoing fatherhood: Postdivorce fathering practices in Lithuania
Drawing on empirical data from biographical interviews with divorced Lithuanian men, this article examines how they undo fatherhood based on the breadwinner ideology. In a Lithuanian culture of strong economic obligations of men for child support and alimony and weak paternal rights to custody and care, the divorced fathers' role consists primarily of their financial responsibility. By using the theoretical framework of undoing gender (Butler, J.…
Vienų motinų su vaikais šeimos Lietuvoje: Demografinės Ir Socioekonominės Charakteristikos
Šiuo straipsniu siekiama atskleisti vienų motinų su nepilnamečiais vaikais šeimų Lietuvoje paplitimo, demografines ir socioekonomines charakteristikas. Straipsnis parengtas remiantis 2011 m. Lietuvos gyventojų ir būstų surašymo individualaus lygmens duomenų analize, todėl suteikia naujos empirinės informacijos apie šio tipo šeimas. Nustatyta, kad Lietuvoje tik su vienu iš tėvų (tik su juo arba ir su juo bei kitais asmenimis) gyvena beveik trečdal…
The Transforming Educational Gradient in Marital Disruption in Northern Europe: A Comparative Study Based on GGS Data
A substantial body of research has accumulated on the socio-economic correlates of marital instability. Previous studies have shown considerable variation in the association between women’s educational attainment and marital disruption. This article complements existing research by investigating the pattern of this relationship across countries and its change over time. The main geographical focus is on Northern Europe but evidence is also presen…
Education and transition from cohabitation to marriage in Lithuania
This article examines the role of individual educational resources in the transition from cohabitation to marriage in Lithuania over the past four decades that cover the communist and the transitional periods with various developmental stages of cohabitation. Two competing hypotheses were formulated based on cultural and structural approaches. The first hypothesis anticipated a stable negative effect of higher education, the second a positive gra…
La transition vers de nouvelles formes d’union en France, en Lituanie et en Russie
E-ISSN: 2259-6100. Ta pati publikacija angliškojoje žurnalo versijoje anglų k. p. 153-207
Trys variacijos intymumo sociologijoje tema
The attentiveness towards the human experience in contemporary sociology is evident in the analysis of topics such as intimacy, love, body and others. The article argues that sociological analysis of the phenomena requires sociology to move beyond utilitarianism. This article is grounded on a discussion of the conceptions of intimacy in sociological theories of George Simmel, Peter Berger and Hansfried Kellner, and Anthony Giddens. In the histori…
Lytis, globa ir kultūriniai gerovės kapitalizmo barjerai Lietuvoje
The research aims to evaluate the opportunities for the welfare capitalism in the Lithuanian society and is directed toward the analysis of cultural conditions, which largely determine the success and efficiency of the social policy actions. The research objective is the analysis of gender inequalities, which are produced and reproduced in the family. Unequal distribution of care in family influences the gender opportunities, discriminatory attit…
Tarpusavio santykių kokybė Lietuvos šeimose
This article is dedicated to the exploration of marital quality in the Lithuanian families and based on the analysis of the sociological survey data (N=500). Marital quality is measured with the Marital Satisfaction (EMS) scale. The article examines the effect of marital quality on the emotional cohesion, conflict level, conflict management style, role sharing in the domestic work and attitudes toward the partnership formation patterns. Married o…
La transition vers de nouvelles formes d’union en France, en Lituanie et en Russie
On s’intéresse dans cet article à la transition vers de nouvelles formes d’union et aux déterminants culturels et structurels ayant conduit à ce processus dans trois pays : la France, la Lituanie et la Russie. Chacun a connu des évolutions très différentes au cours du XXe siècle : la transition a été régulière en France, retardée en Lituanie et distordue en Russie. Aujourd’hui, un seul facteur explicatif de l’union libre subsiste en France, la re…
La transition vers de nouvelles formes d’union en France, en Lituanie et en Russie
E-ISSN: 2259-6100. Ta pati publikacija angliškojoje žurnalo versijoje anglų k. p. 153-207
Lietuvos šeima ir modernybės projektas: Prieštaros bei teorizavimo galimybės
Pastarųjų dviejų dešimtmečių Lietuvos šeimos raida rodo, kad šeimos instituto struktūra artėja prie būdingos antrajai modernybei, tačiau kolektyviniai vaizdiniai atkartoja būdinguosius pirmajai modernybei. Straipsnio tikslas – paaiškinti šią struktūros ir kultūros prieštarą atsižvelgiant į Lietuvos šeimos modernėjimo socialinę istorinę raidą. Teigiama, jog Lietuvos šeimos raidą ir prieštaras galima paaiškinti trijų lygmenų veiksnių schema, kuri i…
Contacts between adult children and their parents in Lithuania: The effects of familial, individual and structural factors
The paper focuses on the frequency of intergenerational face-to-face contacts between parents and their adult children in Lithuania, and how they are affected by the parental family history events, the child’s life course events, individual and structural level factors. The main empirical findings prove that parental divorce negatively affects the father–child contacts and has no effect at all on the mother–child contacts. Moreover,the effect of …
Transformation of Partnership Formation in Eastern Europe: The Legacy of the Past Demographic Divide
This article analyses the transformation in the mode of partnership formation in seven countries of Eastern Europe. The aim of the study is to provide an up-to-date account of the switch from direct marriage to non-marital cohabitation as it has progressed from the 1960s to the mid-2000s, using data from the Generations and Gender Surveys. Unlike previous analyses of partnership formation, we examined the extent to which crossnational variations,…
Past and present patterns of family formation in Eastern Europe: Does Hajnal’s delineation still matter
This article explores the link between historical and contemporary patterns of family formation. The theoretical underpinnings of the study were derived from Hajnal’s theory of historical nuptiality regimes in Europe. In general, the results suggest that all countries in the region share a common vector of changes in partnership formation, but at the same time the onset and advancement of these changes varies. The changesstarted earlier and have …
Skyrybos ir sutuoktinių socialiniai ekonominiai ištekliai
Lietuva išsiskiria vienais aukščiausių ištuokų rodiklių ES, kurie su nedideliais svyravimais iš esmės nekinta jau daugiau nei tris dešimtmečius. Nors skyrybos gana dažnos, beveik nėra tyrimų, nagrinėjančių ištuokų socialinį mechanizmą. Šio straipsnio tikslas – remiantis tiksliausia populiacijos lygmens, o ne atrankinių tyrimų informacija, atskleisti individo socialinių ekonominių išteklių įtaką ištuokos rizikai Lietuvoje. Pristatomas tyrimas* yra…
Education and transition from cohabitation to marriage in Lithuania
This article examines the role of individual educational resources in the transition from cohabitation to marriage in Lithuania over the past four decades that cover the communist and the transitional periods with various developmental stages of cohabitation. Two competing hypotheses were formulated based on cultural and structural approaches. The first hypothesis anticipated a stable negative effect of higher education, the second a positive gra…
Vienišos motinos, vartojimas ir socialinė atskirtis
Remiantis kokybinio biografinio tyrimo rezultatais straipsnyje analizuojami vienišų išsiskyrusių motinų, auginančių nepilnamečius vaikus, vartojimo ištekliai ir praktikos, galinčios reprezentuoti vieną iš socialinės atskirties dimensijų. Tyrimas atskleidė, kad skyrybos nebūtinai susijusios su vienišų motinų šeimų ekonominiais nuostoliais ir išteklių vartojimui sumažėjimu. Šiuo požiūriu šeimos, kuriose vyrų indėlis į šeimos biudžetą buvo nedidelis…
Gender and Re-partnering after Divorce in Four Central European and Baltic Countries
This article analyses the demographic and social determinants of repartnering after divorce in four Baltic and Central European transition countries (Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, and Hungary), which, despite their common transition paths after the 1990s, developed distinct political economies and have different gender and family cultures. The article explores how the re-partnering chances of divorced women and men are shaped by the social division…
Men’s Educational Resources and Transition into First Marriage: Is there the Advantage of University Education
Based on the analysis of the data of the Census 2001 and the linked dataset of the Census 2011 and the 2011–2013 first marriage register, the paper explores the association between men’s educational resources and transition into first marriage in Lithuania. The theoretical assumptions of the study are related to the hypotheses of gender role specialization ant gender role combination. Both hypotheses argue that higher men’s educational resources …
Socio-economic determinants of divorce in Lithuania: Evidence from register-based census-linked data
Most existing evidence on the socio-economic predictors of divorce in developed countries comes from the USA and from Western and Northern Europe. This study contributes to the scarce literature about socio-economic determinants of divorce in Central and E
Būti tėvu po skyrybų: Tėvo kontaktai su nepilnamečiais vaikais
The aim of this article is to analyse the postdivorce father-child contact, to reveal the sociological factors and to contextualize them within the legal framework. The issue has been scarcely researched in Lithuanian sociology despite the high marital disruption rates and a large number of children spending part or whole childhood in the single mother households. The presented analysis is based on the national survey of single mothers and their …
The Transforming Educational Gradient in Marital Disruption in Northern Europe: A Comparative Study Based on GGS Data
A substantial body of research has accumulated on the socio-economic correlates of marital instability. Previous studies have shown considerable variation in the association between women’s educational attainment and marital disruption. This article complements existing research by investigating the pattern of this relationship across countries and its change over time. The main geographical focus is on Northern Europe but evidence is also presen…
Single Mothers Always Lose? Union Dissolution and Perceived Changes in Material Well-Being in Lithuania
The article investigates the perceived changes in material well-being of single mothers due to union dissolution in Lithuania. The analysis is based on a nationally representative data set; our sample includes 415 single mothers with underaged children. At the core of the analysis is the effect of socioeconomic standing on the assessment of changes. I use the level of education as the proxy variable for the measurement of socioeconomic position a…
Išsiskyrę vyrai ir poskyrybinės tėvystės modeliai
Analyzing 25 biographical interviews with divorced men of different class, education, professional involvement, living in three biggest Lithuanian cities, Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, the article distinguishes three broad types that reflect father’s identities and their different strategies utilized to make sense of their experience. Men of the first type comprised of fathers who espouse “new fatherhood” did not follow culturally prescribed scri…
Vienų motinų su vaikais šeimos Lietuvoje: Demografinės Ir Socioekonominės Charakteristikos
Šiuo straipsniu siekiama atskleisti vienų motinų su nepilnamečiais vaikais šeimų Lietuvoje paplitimo, demografines ir socioekonomines charakteristikas. Straipsnis parengtas remiantis 2011 m. Lietuvos gyventojų ir būstų surašymo individualaus lygmens duomenų analize, todėl suteikia naujos empirinės informacijos apie šio tipo šeimas. Nustatyta, kad Lietuvoje tik su vienu iš tėvų (tik su juo arba ir su juo bei kitais asmenimis) gyvena beveik trečdal…
Involving Nonresident Lithuanian Fathers in Child-rearing: The Negative Impact of Income Inequalities and Sociolegal Policies
Using nationally representative data on nonresident fathers, this study examines father-child contact and child support payments in Lithuania. We focus on previously married and cohabiting fathers whose parenting rights and obligations are organized differently by Lithuanian legislation. Our findings demonstrate that previously cohabiting fathers' involvement in child-rearing is more significantly associated with levels of individual income resou…
Vyrų pakartotinos partnerystės: Individualūs ir ankstesnės partnerystės veiksniai
The aim of the article is to analyze the long-term trends in men’s repartnering patterns in Lithuania and to identify the factors associated with the increased risk of repartnering in the recent divorce cohort of Lithuanian men. The study focuses on men who have under-aged children from a dissolved union. The theoretical background of the study is based on the needs, attractiveness and opportunity perspective (de Graaf & Kalmijn, 2003) and Divorc…
Territorial development in Lithuanian municipalities: A territorial capital approach
The concept of territorial capital describing the specificity of spatial socioeconomic differences in municipalities is underused in the Lithuanian academic discourse. The article focuses on different dimensions of territorial assets related to locally based resources including natural resources, socioeconomic dynamics, service provision infrastructure, and place-making initiatives. It also examines the question of the interrelatedness of differe…
Undoing fatherhood: Postdivorce fathering practices in Lithuania
Drawing on empirical data from biographical interviews with divorced Lithuanian men, this article examines how they undo fatherhood based on the breadwinner ideology. In a Lithuanian culture of strong economic obligations of men for child support and alimony and weak paternal rights to custody and care, the divorced fathers' role consists primarily of their financial responsibility. By using the theoretical framework of undoing gender (Butler, J.…
Family Life Course Trajectories: Results of the Sequence Analysis
This paper aims to analyse the family life course trajectories of 1970–1984 birth cohorts in Lihuania. It applies the sequence analysis methods and is based on the Families and Inequalities Survey Dataset collected in 2019. The method provides the opportunities to examine the family life course in a holistic way and has not been used in family demography research in Lithuania so far. The results prove that cohabitation became a normative event in…
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