- Author:
Katarzyna Juszczyk-Frelkiewicz
- Author:
Montserrat Simó-Solsona
- Year of publication:
2015
- Source:
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- Pages:
245-260
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/tner.2015.41.3.20
- PDF:
tner/201503/tner20150320.pdf
This article presents the shape of the contemporary family in Poland and Spain which is based on developments that have taken place in these countries in relation to family formation and dissolution through an analysis of indicators such as: marriage, divorce, fertility, births outside marriage during the last three decades. The shape of the contemporary family keeps changing in both these countries, but the speed of changes is different. In Poland, changes in family formation have occurred much more slowly than in Spain, where the family is not only heterosexual marriage, but also homosexual marriage.
- Author:
Katarzyna Juszczyk-Frelkiewicz
- Institution:
University of Silesia in Katowice
- Year of publication:
2021
- Source:
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- Pages:
89-110
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/athena.2021.71.06
- PDF:
apsp/71/apsp7106.pdf
The paper focuses on the assessment of how effective the Korean government’s actions taken to increase the fertility rate are. South Korea is a country with a very low fertility rate which is below the replacement level. This demographic situation causes the ageing of the Korean population. The paper shows the contemporary family policy, the analysis of sociodemographic indicators and the analysis based on the data from the Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families in the two periods of time: in 2007 and 2018, in order to show changes in the fertility intentions among the Korean women – in the sociological perspective. The statistical analysis indicates that the majority of the respondents had no intentions of having children. The results indicate that the Korean government’s actions are not sufficient to create an environment supporting the family in fertility intentions and behaviour, which is reflected in the continued low fertility rate.