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Negotiating the Life Course

Part of the Life Course Research and Social Policies Book Series (volume 1)

Editors: Evans, Ann; Baxter, Janeen

DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8912-0

ISBN: 978-90-481-8911-3

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Sep 11, 2012

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Baxter, Janeen; Evans, Ann

Pages: 1 –7

[Pathways through the life course have undergone considerable change in recent years. Compared to previous generations, young adults today face a very different set of choices and constraints to their parents and grandparents. The typical life course trajectory of leaving school, dating, becoming...
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Chapter 2The Second Demographic Transition Meets Globalization: A Comprehensive Theory to Understand Changes in Family Formation in an Era of Rising Uncertainty

Mills, Melinda; Blossfeld, Hans-Peter

Pages: 9 –33

[Since the late 1960s, there have been significant changes in partnership, fertility and family formation in many Western societies, first described in the concept of the second demographic transition (SDT). Since the 1980s, however, an additional series of broader transformations occurred, often...
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Chapter 3The Standard Family Life Course: An Assessment of Variability in Life Course Pathways

Thomson, Elizabeth; Winkler-Dworak, Maria; Kennedy, Sheela

Pages: 35 –52

[Despite dramatic changes in family life over the past several decades, survey data demonstrate that a ‘standard’ family life course remains a goal for the vast majority. The ideal family life course is to have a stable partnership with two or more children, and to have all of one’s children with...
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Chapter 4Generational Change in Leaving the Parental Home

Evans, Ann

Pages: 53 –67

[The transition to adulthood and family life in Western industrialized countries has changed dramatically over the past 30 years. This chapter examines leaving home and seeks to understand whether the drivers of changing age patterns in leaving home are motivated by ideational change or by...
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Chapter 5Relationship Pathways and First Birth in Australia

McDonald, Peter; Reimondos, Anna

Pages: 69 –98

[This chapter examines how relationship pathways to the first birth changed in Australia over a 40-year period using data from the Negotiating the Life Course project. During this period, 1975 to 2005, the age at first birth rose substantially and a higher proportion of women did not have a first...
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Chapter 6Employment and the Life Course: Birth Cohort Differences of Young Australian Women

Baxter, Jennifer A.

Pages: 99 –120

[This chapter examines trends in female employment in Australia using the detailed education, relationship, fertility and work history of respondents from the first four waves of the Negotiating the Life Course project. The work history data provide information about respondents’ employment...
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Chapter 7Who Gets Divorced? The Social Determinants of Marital Separation over the Life Course

Hewitt, Belinda

Pages: 121 –144

[As with most developed Western nations marriage dissolution has become a prominent feature in Australian family life over the last several decades. In this chapter data from the Negotiating the Life Course project is used to examine three key mechanisms through which social and demographic...
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Chapter 8Pathways Through the Life Course: The Effect of Relationship and Parenthood Transitions on Domestic Labour

Baxter, Janeen; Hewitt, Belinda; Haynes, Michele; Western, Mark

Pages: 145 –159

[This chapter examines variations in time spent on domestic labour and perceptions of the fairness of the domestic division of labour as men and women transition through two key life course events, marriage and childbirth. We use longitudinal data from the Negotiating the Life Course project...
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Chapter 9Fatherhood and Men’s Involvement in Paid Work in Australia

Gray, Edith

Pages: 161 –174

[Becoming a parent is an important transition in the life course, yet most research does not consider how becoming a father changes men’s lives. This chapter focuses on whether life events affect involvement in paid work for Australian men. Of central interest is whether becoming a father changes...
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Chapter 10Couple Strategies: Negotiating Working Time over the Life Course

van Wanrooy, Brigid

Pages: 175 –190

[The majority of Australian families with children have two parents in paid employment. This presents the couple with choices to be made about how to allocate and share responsibilities for both earning and caring. Decisions about participation in paid employment are not made in isolation and are...

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