Reconsidering the Northwest European Family System
Living Arrangements of the Aged in Comparative Historical Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7980306 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven Ruggle (0000-0001-5353-2578, University of Minnesota, corresponding author), Steven Ruggles |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 249-273 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00275.x |
| PMID | 20700477 |
| PMCID | PMC2917824 |
| OpenAlex | W2140180649 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 64 |
| References cited | 64 |
During the past four decades, historians and demographers have argued that historical Northwest Europe and North America had a unique weak‐family system characterized by neolocal marriage and nuclear family structure. This analysis uses newly available micro‐data from 84 historical and contemporary censuses of 34 countries to evaluate whether the residential behavior of the aged in historical Northwest Europe and North America was truly distinctive. The results show that with simple controls for agricultural employment and demographic structure, comparable measures of the living arrangements of the aged show little systematic difference between nineteenth‐century Northwest Europe and North America and twentieth‐century developing countries. These findings cast doubt on the hypothesis that Northwest Europeans and North Americans had an exceptional historical pattern of preference for nuclear families
Developed country · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Historical demography · Nuclear family · Perspective (graphical · Population · Sociology · Anthropology · Demography · History · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Rural development and sustainability
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