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Renewing the Family: A History of the Baby Boomers

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Authors:
  1. Catherine Bonvalet

    1. INED, Paris, France

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  2. Céline Clément

    1. Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, Nanterre, France

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  3. Jim Ogg

    1. CNAV, Paris, France

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  • Provides a complete history of the baby boomers’ lives, from birth to today Explains the different experiences of French and English baby boomers
  • Includes a comprehensive approach to the sociological changes of family life
  • Entails rich qualitative data in the form of excerpts from 90 detailed interviews
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: INED Population Studies (INPS, volume 4)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Catherine Bonvalet, Céline Clément, Jim Ogg
    Pages 1-13

  3. Baby Boomers in the Family

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. The Baby Boom Phenomenon

      • Catherine Bonvalet, Céline Clément, Jim Ogg
      Pages 17-40

    3. The Baby Boomers’ Childhood

      • Catherine Bonvalet, Céline Clément, Jim Ogg
      Pages 41-63

  4. Baby Boomers Against the Family

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. The Family in Perpetual Motion

      • Catherine Bonvalet, Céline Clément, Jim Ogg
      Pages 67-86

    3. Rebellious Teenagers

      • Catherine Bonvalet, Céline Clément, Jim Ogg
      Pages 87-108

  5. Baby Boomers in Alternative Families

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Life outside the Family: Working Women

      • Catherine Bonvalet, Céline Clément, Jim Ogg
      Pages 111-139

    3. The Family Wins Through

      • Catherine Bonvalet, Céline Clément, Jim Ogg
      Pages 141-168

  6. Baby Boomers with the Family

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Caught Between Parents and Children

      • Catherine Bonvalet, Céline Clément, Jim Ogg
      Pages 171-197

    3. Baby Boomers and Their Family Entourage

      • Catherine Bonvalet, Céline Clément, Jim Ogg
      Pages 199-227

    4. Conclusion

      • Catherine Bonvalet, Céline Clément, Jim Ogg
      Pages 229-240

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 241-268
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This book traces the history of the baby-boomers, beginning with an explanation of the cause of the post-war baby boom and ending with the contemporary concerns of ageing boomers. It shows how the baby-boomers challenged traditional family attitudes and adopted new lifestyles in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on 90 interviews conducted with baby boomers living in London and Paris, the book demonstrates how their aspirations for leisure and consumption converged with family responsibilities and obligations. It shows how the baby boomers emerged from an authoritative upbringing to challenge some of the traditional assumptions of the family, such as marriage and cohabitation. The rise of feminism led by the baby-boomers is examined, together with its impact on family forms and structures. The book shows how women’s trajectories veered between the two extremes of family and employment, swerving between the models of stay-at-home mother and working woman. It demonstrates how new family configurations such as solo parenting, and recomposed families were adopted by the baby boomers. Today, as they enter into retirement, the baby-boomers remain closely involved in the lives of their children and parents, although relationships with elderly parents are maintained primarily through a sense of duty and obligation. The book concludes that the baby boomers have both been influenced by and actors to the changes and transformations that have occurred to family life. They reconciled and continue to reconcile, individualism with family obligations. As grandparents often with an ageing parent still alive, the baby boomers wish to keep the independence that has been the hallmark of their generation whilst not abandoning family life.

Reviews

“This is an excellent book and makes for a compelling read. The authors make a valuable contribution in documenting the many changes in family structure over the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st century, with a detailed portrait of a large generation that went along for the ride.” (Rosemary Venne, Canadian Studies in population, Vol. 42 (3-5), 2015)

Authors and Affiliations

  • INED, Paris, France

    Catherine Bonvalet

  • Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, Nanterre, France

    Céline Clément

  • CNAV, Paris, France

    Jim Ogg

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Renewing the Family: A History of the Baby Boomers

  • Authors: Catherine Bonvalet, Céline Clément, Jim Ogg

  • Series Title: INED Population Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08545-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-08544-9Published: 27 October 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36056-0Published: 10 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-08545-6Published: 10 October 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2214-2452

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-2460

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 268

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations

  • Additional Information: Original French edition published by the INED, Paris, 2011

  • Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Population Economics, Demography

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