Children First? Intra-Household Inequality in Reconstituted Couple Households

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2348314
AutoresAlba Lanau (0000-0001-6226-8545, Centre D’Estudis Demogràfics, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume44
Fascículo4
Páginas891-908
Data de publicação2023-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Family Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0192-513X • E-ISSN: 1552-5481
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0192513x211055112
OpenAlexW3215472558
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas39

An increasing number of children are growing up in reconstituted households, formed by a couple and a non-common child. Reconstituted households tend to be poorer, which is associated with worse behavioural and developmental outcomes. Additionally, there is evidence that non-common children receive less economic support from their parents upon leaving the parental home. Using age-specific deprivation data collected in the 2014 European Survey on Income and Living Conditions this article compares the allocation of resources in reconstituted and intact couple households. It shows that indeed, children in reconstituted households are more likely to be deprived compared to those in intact households. However, it finds no evidence that reconstituted households are less likely to prioritise children. The findings hold across welfare regimes. Women are more likely to go without compared with men, although differences are small

Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Household income · Inequality · Sociology · Welfare · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology