The Palgrave handbook of family sociology in Europe

This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe. More than sixty prominent European scholars' original texts present the field's main theoretical and methodological approaches in addition to issues such as families as relationships, parental arrangements, parenting practices and child well-being, family policies in welfare state regimes, family lives in migration, and family trajectories. Presenting cutting-edge research on findings, theoretical interpretations, and solutions to methodological challenges, it is a timely tool for researchers, teachers, students, and family practitioners who wish to familiarise themselves with the state of family sociology in Europe.

1. Introduction2. The Family of Individuals: An overview of the sociology of family in Europe, 130 years after Durkheim's first university course3. Gender, social class and family relations in different life stages in Europe4. What Law Has Joined: family relations and categories of kinship in the European court of Human rights5. Family demography and values in Europe: Continuity and change6. The configurational approach to families: Methodological suggestions7. Visual Family Research Methods8. Family transformations and sub-replacement fertility in Europe9. Reexamining Degenderization. Changes in Family Policies in Europe10. Familialisation of Care in European Societies. Between family and the state11. Who Benefits from Parental Leave Policies? A Comparison Between Nordic and Southern European Countries12. Family, poverty, and social policy interventions13. Redefining the boundaries of family and personal relationships14. Money in couples: The organisation of finances and the symbolic use of money in couples15. Sibling relationships: being connected and related16. "It's a balance on a knife-edge": Expectations of parents and adult children17. Non-parental childcare in France, Norway, and Spain18. Sharing the caring responsibility between the private and the public: childcare, parental choice, and inequality19. Shared parenting after separation and divorce in Europe in the context of the Second demographic transition20. Subjective well-being of children in the context of family change in Estonia, Poland, and Romania21. Assessment of parental potential. Socioeconomic risk factors and of children's wellbeing 22. Towards a 'parenting regime': globalizing tendencies and localised variation23. Migration and families in European society24. The multidimensional nature of family migration: Transnational and mixed families in Europe25. Intergenerational relations in the context of migration: gender roles in the family relationships26. Despite the Distance? Intergenerational Contact in Times of Migration27. Parenting and caring across borders in refugee context28. The contribution of the life-course perspective to the study of family relationships: advances, challenges, and limitations29. Varieties of youth transitions? A review of the comparative literature on the entry to adulthood30. Transitions in later life and the re-configuration of family relationships in the third age: the case of baby boomers31. From taken for granted to taken seriously. The Linked Lives Life Course Principle under Literature Analysis32. Afterthoughts on an "earthquake of changes"