Social Indicators Research Series. Volume 49

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1 Family Well-Being

2 Social Indicators Research Series Volume 49 General Editor: ALEX C. MICHALOS Brandon University, Faculty of Arts Of fi ce Brandon, Manitoba Canada Editors: ED DIENER University of Illinois, Champaign, USA WOLFGANG GLATZER J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany TORBJORN MOUM University of Oslo, Norway MIRJAM A.G. SPRANGERS University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands JOACHIM VOGEL Central Bureau of Statistics, Stockholm, Sweden RUUT VEENHOVEN Eramus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands This new series aims to provide a public forum for single treatises and collections of papers on social indicators research that are long to be published in journal Social Indicators Research. Like the journal, the book series deals with statistal assessments of the quality of life from a broad perspective, It welcomes the research on a wide variety of substantive areas, including health, crime, housing, education, family life, leisure activities, transportation, mobility, economcs, work, religion and environmental issues. These areas of research will focus on the impact of key issues such as health on the overall quality of life and vice versa. An international review board, consisting of Ruut Veenhoven, Joachim Vogel, Ed Diener, Torbjorn Moum, Airjam A.G. Sprangers and Wolfgang Glantzer, will ensure the high quality of the series as a hole. For further volumes:

3 Almudena Moreno Mínguez Editor Family Well-Being European Perspectives

4 Editor Almudena Moreno Mínguez Department of Sociology and Social Work Universidad de Valladolid, Segovia, Spain ISSN ISBN ISBN (ebook) DOI / Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: Springer Science+Business Media B.V This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, speci fi cally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on micro fi lms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied speci fi cally for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a speci fi c statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (

5 Contents 1 Introduction... 1 Almudena Moreno Mínguez Part I Approaches to the Study of Family Well-Being 2 Conceptualizing Family Well-Being... 9 Shirley L. Zimmerman 3 Social Quality, the Quality of Life and Parents with Young Children in Europe Pamela Abbott and Claire Wallace Part II Family, Child Poverty and Well-Being 4 Child Poverty and Child Well-Being in Italy in a Comparative Framework Daniela Del Boca and Anna Laura Mancini 5 Child Well-Being and Lone Parenthood Across the OECD Simon Chapple Part III Work Family Balance and Gender 6 Parental Leave Policies, Gender Equity and Family Well-Being in Europe: A Comparative Perspective Karin Wall and Anna Escobedo 7 New Social Risks and Work-Family Balance Anders Ejrnæs and Thomas P. Boje 8 Spousal Well-Being: An Inquiry into the Links Between Household Income and Parental Task Division Joris Ghysels v

6 vi Contents 9 Working Parents, Family and Gender in Spain from an European Comparative Perspective Almudena Moreno Mínguez 10 Measuring the Past: Gender, Health and Welfare in Europe Since c Bernard Harris Part IV Youth, Elder, Migration and Social Work 11 Support and Success in Youth Transitions: A Comparative Analysis on the Relation Between Subjective and Systemic Factors Andreas Walther, Barbara Stauber, and Axel Pohl 12 Policies to Support Carers Frédérique Hoffmann, Manfred Huber, and Ricardo Rodrigues 13 Caught Between a Troubled Past and an Uncertain Future: The Well-Being of Asylum-Seeking Children in Sweden Ulla Björnberg 14 Empowerment, Well-Being and the Welfare State: Family Social Work in Spain Antonio López Peláez and Sagrario Segado Sánchez-Cabezudo Index

7 Contributors Pamela Abbott University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Ulla Björnberg Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden Thomas P. Boje Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark Simon Chapple Social Policy Division, OECD, Paris, France Daniela Del Boca Department of Economics, University of Turin, CHILD Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy Anders Ejrnæs Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark Anna Escobedo Departamento de Sociología y Análisis de las Organizaciones de la, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Joris Ghysels Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands Bernard Harris Division of Sociology and Social Policy, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Frédérique Hoffmann EuropeanCentre for Social Welfare Policy and Research (ECSWPR), World Health Organization (WHO), Vienna, Austria Manfred Huber European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research (ECSWPR), World Health Organization (WHO), Vienna, Austria Anna Laura Mancini CHILD-Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy ZEW, Mannheim, Germany Almudena Moreno Mínguez Department of Sociology and Social Work, Universidad de Valladolid, Segovia, Spain vii

8 viii Contributors Antonio López Peláez Universidad de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain Axel Pohl Institute for Regional Innovation and Social Research (IRIS), Tubingen, Germany Ricardo Rodrigues European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research (ECSWPR), World Health Organization (WHO), Vienna, Austria Sagrario Segado Sánchez-Cabezudo Universidad de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain Barbara Stauber Institute of Education, Tübingen University, Muenzgasse 22-30, D Tübingen Karin Wall Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Claire Wallace University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Andreas Walther Institute für Social Pedagogy and Adult Education, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Shirley L. Zimmerman, Ph.D. Family Social Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA