Caring and Paying for Children and Gender Inequalities

Institutional Configurations in Comparative Perspective

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ID6080004
AuthorsKirsten Scheiwe (0000-0002-0790-9474, social sciences and pedagogics department of Hildesheim University in Germany, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume28
Issue1
Pages182-198
Publication date2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Family History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0363199002238560
OpenAlexW2158107648
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited3

Both family law and social law have an impact on the situation of families. This has held true since the times of the “poor law” (when family law was certainly more relevant for the wealthy and mighty strata of the population). Nowadays, other rules (such as those of labor law and tax law) and welfare state institutions come into play. In analyzing legal change, this interaction between family law and welfare law has to be taken into account. From this perspective, this article endeavors to answer the following question: how do institutions distribute the costs of children in terms of money and work between various actors, and what is the relevance of the rules for gender inequalities? The changes in the similarities and differences of the institutional configurations in four countries (Belgium, Federal Republic of Germany, Sweden, and United Kingdom) are reviewed for the past decades

Civil law (Civil law) · Family law · Inequality · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Population · Public law · Relevance (law) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Welfare · Welfare state · Work (physics) · Demography · Discrimination and Equality Law · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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