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- Como evoluíram as famílias em PortugalPublication . Atalaia, Susana; Wall, Karin; Cunha, Vanessa; Marinho, Sofia; Ramos, VascoEm Portugal a dimensão média das famílias reduziu-se significativamente em 50 anos, passando de 3,8 pessoas por família, em 1960, para 2,6 pessoas, em 2011. O casal (com e sem filhos) continua a ser a forma predominante de organização da vida familiar (62% das famílias em 1960 e 59% em 2011). Nos últimos 50 anos assistiu-se ao aumento do peso relativo dos casais sem filhos (de 15% em 1960, para 24% em 2011), dos núcleos familiares monoparentais (de 6% em 1960, para 9% em 2011) e das pessoas que vivem sós (de 12% em 1960, para 20% em 2011) e à diminuição do peso das famílias complexas (de 15% em 1960, para 9% em 2011).
- Critical Review of Research on Families and Family Policies in Europe Conference ReportPublication . Wall, Karin; Leitão, Mafalda; Ramos, VascoThe aim of this Critical Review Report is to describe and report on the international conference "Families and Family Policies in Europe - A Critical Review", wich took place in Lisbon, at the Institute for Social Sciences (University of Lisbon), in May 2010. Organized by FAMILYPLATFORM consortium, the main objective of this 3 day conference was to carry out a critical review of existing research on families and family policies in Europe. Drawing on expert reviews of the state of the art, critical statements by stakeholders and policy makers, and debate on the major challenges for research and policies, the conference was organized with a view to providing a major forum for discussing and identifying the design of future family policies and research.
- Critical Review of Research on Families and Family. Policies in EuropePublication . Wall, Karin; Leitão, Mafalda; Ramos, VascoFAMILYPLATFORM’s aim was to develop and publish a European Research Agenda for Research on Families and Family Policy, in order to enable policy makers and others to respond to current and future challenges facing families. Four concrete steps were taken towards elaborating the Research Agenda: 1. Charting the contemporary field of research on families and family policy in the EU. 2. Critically reviewing existing research involving a wide range of stakeholders. 3. An innovative exercise to identify future challenges facing families, so as to highlight future policy issues and develop questions for future research. 4. Bringing together all of the work into a Research Agenda on Families and Family Wellbeing for Europe. Each of these areas has a dedicated chapter in this book, presenting the main results and findings of this work. More than 120 civil society representatives, policy makers, and scientific experts were involved in the work of FAMILYPLATFORM. The sharing and negotiating of sometimes contradictory perspectives and thoughts was an exciting challenge for everyone involved, resulting in a great deal of shared learning. We hope that this book passes on some of these rich experiences, thereby improving the wellbeing of families in Europe through research and policy.
- Social Inequality and Diversity of Families Working Report (April 2010)Publication . Wall, Karin; Leitão, Mafalda; Ramos, Vasco; Peixoto, João; Atalaia, Susana; Perista, Heloísa; Silva, Alexandra; Dias, Isabel; Costa, DiogoIn this state‐of‐art report we focus on some of the more relevant issues from the perspective of social inequality and families within and across European societies. We begin by addressing the three main topics included in this existential field by the Family Platform Project: migration, poverty, family violence. Additionally, we will look at two key issues which are important in contextualizing and discussing the above‐mentioned topics. First, we will summarize recent trends in social inequality in European societies. Secondly, we will review some of existing research on the relationship between social inequalities and families, by examining the impact of social inequality on family forms and dynamics as well as the transmission and reproduction of inequalities within families. Social inequality shapes family life, but families and their members must also be seen as actors in the system of inequality (transmitting inequalities to subsequent generations, reproducing them within the home and through their networks, and resisting the effects of inequality). Research review in this existential field was carried out separately on each of the abovementioned topics. Migration, poverty and family violence are large and autonomous fields of research which do not have common theoretical and methodological underpinnings or empirical data sets. For this report it was therefore important to grasp the major trends and findings within each research topic before moving on to broader conclusions on research into social inequalities and diversity of families in Europe.
- Household Diversity and the Impacts of COVID-19 on Families in PortugalPublication . Gouveia, Rita; Ramos, Vasco; Wall, KarinThroughout the world, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted family routines, relationships, projects and sociability, threatening the health, income, social cohesion, and well-being of individuals and their families. Lockdown restrictions imposed during the first wave of the pandemic challenged the theories, concepts, and methods used by family sociologists and the intersecting fields of gender and social inequality. By restricting physical interactions to co-resident family members, the household regained a privileged role as a crucial social laboratory for studying the impact of COVID-19 on family life. The difficulties encountered by individuals in maintaining and dealing with close relationships across households and geographical borders, in a context in which relational proximity was discouraged by the public authorities, exposed the linked nature of family and personal relationships beyond the limits of co-residence. The main aim of this article is to investigate the social impacts of the pandemic on different types of households during the first lockdown at an early stage of the pandemic in Portugal. Drawing on an online survey applied to a non-probabilistic sample of 11,508 households between 25 and 29 March 2020, the authors combined quantitative and qualitative methods, including bi-variate inferential statistics, cluster analysis and in-depth case studies. The article distinguishes between different household types: solo, couple with and without children, extended, friendship, lone-parent families, and intermittent arrangements, such as shared custody. A cross-tabulation of the quantitative data with open-ended responses was carried out to provide a refined analysis of the household reconfigurations brought about during lockdown. The analysis showed how pre-existing unequal structural living conditions shaped the pathways leading to household reconfiguration as families sought to cope with restrictions on mobility, social distancing norms, and other lockdown measures. The findings stress that, in dealing with a crisis, multilevel welfare interventions need to be considered if governments are to cater to the differentiated social needs and vulnerabilities faced by individuals and families.
- Evolução das estruturas domésticas em Portugal, 1960-2011Publication . Wall, Karin; Cunha, Vanessa; Ramos, Vasco
- Políticas de família em 2014 e 2015: principais desenvolvimentos. Observatório das Famílias e das Políticas de Família - Relatório 2014-2015Publication . Wall, Karin; Leitão, Mafalda; Correia, Sónia Vladimira; Ramos, VascoÀ semelhança dos relatórios anteriores, também este quinto relatório anual do Observatório das Famílias e das Políticas de Família (OFAP) é inteiramente dedicado à monitorização do desenvolvimento das políticas de família na sociedade portuguesa. Apresenta informação relativa a 2014 e a 2015 (apenas nos indicadores já disponíveis) e mantém como objeto de análise o enquadramento das políticas de família (programas, objetivos, organismos), tendo em conta duas grandes áreas de atuação: apoio económico e apoio na conciliação entre a vida familiar e a vida profissional.
- Geographical Mobility and Family Life: Comparing Generations from a Life Course PerspectivePublication . Wall, Karin; Aboim, Sofia; Ramos, Vasco; Nunes, CátiaGeographical mobility is a well-established trend in European societies, and social theorists have put forward the hypothesis that mobility patterns have an impact on family trajectories and on their processes of pluralisation and individualisation. Using a life course perspective, the main aim of this article is to provide evidence of the impact of geographical mobility on family life in Portuguese society. The mobility and family trajectories of three different generations in their early adulthood are analysed, with results pointing to a diversity of trajectories as well as to relevant connections between mobility variables and family trajectories. The article draws on data from a national survey on life trajectories conducted in 2010 on a representative sample of men and women (n=1,500) from three generations (born between 1935 and 1940; 1950 and 1955; and 1970 and 1975; n=500 per generation). Based on sequence and cluster analyses, we were able to identify seven patterns of mobility trajectories and four main types of family trajectories across the three generations. These reflect not only the biographies of individuals within our sample, but also the geographical and family changes that have been taking place in Portugal over the past few decades. Drawing on multinomial regression analysis, the article seeks to disentangle the complex linkages between mobility and family trajectories. To this end, we adopted a double angle approach by linking these two variables as predictors of each other alongside other key socio-demographic variables and life course events. The main findings reveal that geographical mobility is a significant predictor of family trajectories, even if its effects are dualistic: Mobility may work as a facilitator of standardised family trajectories (early transition to parenthood, for example), but it also predicts a higher probability of “non-linear” family trajectories. On the other hand, family trajectories are weak predictors of mobility trajectories. The latter are predicted by variables that reflect structural constraints, such as unemployment, but gender and generation effects also play an important role and provide evidence that mobility trajectories are anchored in specific historic and social contexts. Finally, we were also able to link geographical mobility to individualisation processes by examining its impact upon specific life course events related to family and gender relations.
- The Impact of Coresidence Trajectories on Personal Networks During Transition to Adulthood: A Comparative PerspectivePublication . Aeby, Gaëlle; Gauthier, Jacques-Antoine; Gouveia, Rita; Ramos, Vasco; Wall, Karin; Cesnuitytè, VidaOver the life course, individuals develop personal networks that provide essential resources, sporadically or on a daily basis, such as instrumental, emotional, and informational support. Those personal networks are composed of family (i.e., primary and extended kin) and non family ties (i.e., friends, colleagues, acquaintances) (Pahl and Spencer 2004). The prominence of specific ties varies across the life course depending on life stages, transitions, and events. Following the linked-lives principle (Elder et al. 2003), these transitions trigger changes in household composition, promoting different types of relational interdependencies. The level of interdependence with some household members may have a cumulative effect by strengthening the bonds, whereas with others the effect may be more ephemeral and lead to the exclusion of such ties in current personal networks. Thus, coresidence trajectories, such as the experience of growing up in a two or one-parent family, leaving the parental home early or late, moving in with a partner or Iiving alone, becoming a partner, divorcing, and other events, will differentially influence the composition of personal networks.
- Contextualising Personal Networks Across Birth Cohorts and CountriesPublication . Ramos, Vasco; Česnuitytė, Vida; Aeby, Gaëlle; Wall, Karin; Joyce, Dominique