Attitudes Towards Forms of Partnership

Pongrácz, Marietta; Spéder, Zsolt

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6609-2_5

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“…For instance, the data from the International Population Policy Acceptance Study (IPPAS) clearly show that Poles, together with Lithuanians and Hungarians, set an exceptionally high priority on marriage, strongly oppose the de-institutionalisation of the family and relatively often express the belief that children, family and the home ensure happiness and self-fulfilment (Pongracz and Spéder 2008;Stankuniene and Maslauskaite 2008). These findings are further corroborated by the data from the European Value Study, which showed that in 1999 family was viewed as an important life sphere by 91% of Polish respondents, whereas in other countries these percentages were substantially lower: on average 79% in post-socialist region, 83% in non-Catholic Western countries and 87% in Roman-Catholic ones (Giza-Poleszczuk and Poleszczuk 2004, p. 207).…”

Section: Polish Contextmentioning

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Does parenthood increase happiness? Evidence for Poland

Baranowska

Matysiak

2012

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In the recent decade demographers turned their attention to investigating the effects of children on self-rated happiness or life satisfaction. The underlying idea of this strand of research is to find out whether it pays off for individuals to become parents in terms of their subjective well-being, given the costs of having children. Following this line of research, this article studies the impacts of childbearing on individual-level happiness in Poland; a country which experienced a rapid decline in fertility despite the particularly strong attachment of young Poles to family values. To this end, we applied methods for panel data analysis which allowed us to control for endogeneity of subjective well-being and parenthood. Our results reveal a significantly positive effect of the first child on the subjective well-being of mothers. For men, this impact is weaker and most likely temporary since it weakens with the child's increasing age. An important finding is that neither for men nor for women does the positive impact of parenthood rise with an increase in parity. This may explain the persistence of low fertility in this country.

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Section: Polish Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does parenthood increase happiness? Evidence for Poland

Baranowska

Matysiak

2012

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“…This is suggested by data from the two Program and Policy Acceptance Studies (PPAS) conducted in 1990-1992 and 1999-2004 in several countries in the region. Both rounds of surveys showed that many people in Central and Eastern Europe have negative assessments of the family changes that have occurred there in recent decades (Dorbritz 2008a; 2008b; Pongracz and Spéder2008; Stankuniene and Maslauskaite 2008; Van Peer and Rabušic 2008) Yet, at the same time, the existence of such patterns in the West, which was seen as more developed and progressive, would likely have increased tolerance of the Western behavior and values concerning family life. The prevalence of the new behaviors in the West would have, thus, given them legitimacy in Central/Eastern Europe that would have made opposition more difficult.…”

Section: Explaining Marriage and Fertility Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Transformations radicales du mariage, de la cohabitation et de la procréation en Europe Centrale et Orientale: De nouvelles perspectives à partir de la conception idéationnelle du développement

2009

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In Central and Eastern Europe following the political transformations of the late 1980s and early 1990s there were dramatic declines in marriage and childbearing, significant increases in nonmarital cohabitation and childbearing, and a movement from reliance on abortion to a reliance on contraception for fertility limitation. Although many explanations have been offered for these trends, we offer new explanations based on ideational influences and the intersection of these ideational influences with structural factors. We focus on the political, economic, social, and cultural histories of the region, with particular emphasis on how countries in the region have interacted with and been influenced by Western European and North American countries. Our explanations emphasize the role of developmental models in guiding change in the region, suggesting that developmental idealism influenced family and demographic changes following the political transformations. Developmental idealism provides beliefs that modern family systems help to produce modern political and economic accomplishments and helps to establish the importance of freedom and equality as human rights in both the public and private spheres. The disintegration of the governments and the fall of the iron curtain in the late 1980s and early 1990s brought new understanding about social, economic, and family circumstances in the West, increasing consumption aspirations and expectations which clashed with both old economic realities and the dramatic declines in economic circumstances. In addition, the dissolution of the former governments removed or weakened systems supporting the bearing and rearing of children, and, the legitimacy of the former governments and their programs was largely destroyed, removing government support for old norms and patterns of behavior. In addition, the attacks of previous decades on the religious institutions in the region had in many places left these institutions weak. During this period many openly reached out to embrace the values, living standards, and economic, political, and familial systems of the West. And, the thirst for freedom—and its considerable expansion—operated in personal and familial as well as political and economic realms. These dramatic changes combined together to produce the many changes occurring in family and demographic behavior.

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“…Cross‐national differences in the prevalence and role of cohabitation have often been explained by societies being at different stages of the SDT (Heuveline & Timberlake, ; Kiernan, , ). In Western Europe, unmarried cohabitation and nonmarital childbearing are more socially approved of and legally protected than in Eastern Europe (Perelli‐Harris & Sánchez Gassen, ; Pongracz & Spéder, ). Thus, we expected Western European cohabiters to more frequently regard their union as an alternative to marriage and Eastern European cohabiters to more frequently view their union as a prelude to marriage or be classified as conformists.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%