Introduction; Vida Česnuityte, Eric D. Widmer, Detlev Lück.- PART I EXPLANATION OF FAMILY CONTINUITY AND CHANGE.- 1 Approaches to the study of family life: Practices, context and narrative; Julia Brannen.- 2. Family salience across nations: Configurations of morphological conditions; Eric D. Widmer, Olga Ganjour.- 3 Cultural conceptions of family as inhibitors of change in family lives: The 'leitbild' approach; Detlev Lück, Sabine Diabaté, Kerstin Ruckdeschel.- 4 The importance of the family as an institution: Findings from an Italian survey; Sara Mazzucchelli, Giovanna Rossi, Maria Letizia Bosoni.- PART II FAMILY ACROSS INDIVIDUAL LIFE COURSE.- 5 Influence of personal networks on decision-making in family
formation nowadays: Has it changed?; Vida Česnuityte.- 6 Relational networks of young couples and marriage choice paths in Italy: Data on membership and influence;Matteo Moscatelli, Donatella Bramanti.- 7 Rebuilding family? Continuity and change in family membership and relationship closeness in post-separation situations
Anna-Maija Castrén.- 8 Co-residence as a mechanism of relational proximity: The impact
of household trajectories on the diversification of personal networks;Vasco Ramos, Rita Gouveia, Karin Wall.- 9 The impact of co-residence trajectories on personal networks
in the transition to adulthood: A comparative perspective; Gaëlle Aeby, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Rita Gouveia, Vasco Ramos, Karin Wall, Vida Česnuityte.- PART III FAMILY PRACTICES.- 10 Why parents take unpaid parental leave: Evidence from Spain; Gerardo Meil, Pedro Romero-Balsas, Jesús Rogero-García.- 11 The creativity of mothering: Intensity, anxiety and normative accountability; Lisa Smyth.- 12 Farm fathers and their fathers: Flexible work and cultural change; Berit Brandth.- CONCLUSIONS: CHANGES AND CONTINUITIES IN EUROPEAN FAMILY LIVES; Detlev Lück, Eric D. Widmer, Vida Česnuityte
About the Author: Vida Česnuityte is Lecturer of Sociology and Social Policy and Head of the Sociological Research Laboratory at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Detlev Lück is Senior Researcher at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Wiesbaden, Germany.
Eric D. Widmer is Professor of Family Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
