Money Management in Families

Two widely held assumptions inform the starting point for thinking about money management in families: first, that family members pool incomes together in one pot; and second, that family members enjoy equal access to the financial resources of their households. Both of these assumptions have been subject to significant challenges over the last 25 years. Indeed, as Pahl demonstrated some time ago, the historical failure of sociologists to scrutinize the “black box” of familial economies obscured the existence of intrafamilial inequalities. Among heterosexual families this inequality remains strongly gendered: it is women and children who are reliant on the intrafamilial redistribution of money if they are to have equal access to financial resources

Economic growth · Economics · Inequality · Money management · Political science · Redistribution of income and wealth · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Work-Family Balance Challenges · Finance

• Money and Marriage

  Open Access•Jan Pahl•Money and marriage•1989

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• Money Management and Views of Civil Partnership in Same-Sex Couples

  Open Access•Carole Burgoyne, Carole B Burgoyne et al.•The Sociological Review•2011

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