Overview
- Area of rapid and fascinating change
- Timely update using new data from the 2011 Australian census and from the first ten waves (2001-2011) of the longitudinal HILDA survey
- The only contemporary volume on the subject
- Rigorous data analysis and thoughtful commentary
- Contributions from leading Australian demographers and sociologists
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- 2011 Australian Census
- Births outside marriage
- Cohabitation and living apart together
- Contraceptive use
- Family formation among same sex couples
- Family formation practices
- Fertility differentials
- Indigenous fertility
- Interethnic partnering
- Marriage and family life
- Partnering and fertility rates
- Relationship dissolution
- Repartnering and patterns of contraceptive use
- Separation and divorce
About this book
This book provides a detailed, up-to-date snapshot of Australian family formation, answering such questions as ‘what do our families look like?’ and ‘how have they come to be this way?’ The book applies sociological insights to a broad range of demographic trends, painting a comprehensive picture of the changing ways in which Australians are creating families.
The first contemporary volume on the subject, Family Formation in 21st Century Australia chronicles significant changes in partnering and fertility. In the late 20th century, cohabitation, divorce and births outside marriage rose dramatically. Yet family formation patterns continue to evolve, requiring fresh analysis. Even since the turn of the century, divorce has stabilized and fertility has increased.
Using information from the 2011 Australian Census and from large-scale surveys, leading Australian academics dissect recent trends in cohabitation, ‘living apart together’, marriage, interethnic partnering, relationship dissolution, repartnering, contraceptive use and fertility. Since there is more diversity in family formation patterns than ever before, the book also considers differences between groups within the Australian population. Which groups are more likely to marry, cohabit or have higher fertility? And how do patterns differ among indigenous, migrant or same sex attracted Australians?.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Family Formation in 21st Century Australia
Editors: Genevieve Heard, Dharmalingam Arunachalam
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9279-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9278-3Published: 28 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0142-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9279-0Published: 13 October 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 247
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Demography, Sociology, general, Family