Family Policies in Norway

Baran, Mette L.; Diehnelt, E. E.; Jones, Janice

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6771-7_6

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“…The growth in female education and economic activity and rapid cultural change in family norms have been taking place alongside a postponement and decline in marriage ( Lesthaeghe, 2014 ). High GDP per capita and extensive social support systems (including lower taxes for those who are single) makes marriage in Norway less of an economic necessity ( Baran, Diehnelt, & Jones, 2014 ). High levels of contraceptive use (the contraceptive pill was legalized 1967 in Norway) have contributed to lower social pressures for marriage, fewer marriages resulting from unplanned pregnancies, and higher proportions of people who choose not to marry ( Rijken & Liefbroer, 2016 ).…”

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Women’s spousal choices and a man’s handshake: Evidence from a Norwegian study of cohort differences

Skirbekk

Hardy

Strand

2018

SSM - Population Health

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Both high grip strength and being married independently relate to better functional capacity and health at older ages, but the combined effect of marital status and strength have not been investigated. Especially at older ages, declining strength can have adverse health and social consequences, where having a spouse could potentially help with everyday support and alleviate some of the negative effects of sarcopenia. We investigate how grip strength relates to being married among two cohorts of 59–71 year olds (born 1923-35 and 1936-48) in the Norwegian city of Tromsø, controlling for a broad set of health variables and sociodemographic characteristics. The baseline included N = 5009 participants of whom 649 died during follow-up. We find that for men, particularly among younger cohorts, the physically stronger are more likely to be married, but no relation is found for women. This is consistent with a hypothesis that women increasingly have selected male marital partners based on preferred individual traits, whereas men do not emphasize strength when selecting women. We find that both marital status and grip strength independently affect mortality, but there is no significant joint effect. However, the distribution of strength and marital status implies that more men than women and increasing shares of later born cohorts have a “double-burden” of low strength and a lack of support from a spouse.

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Women’s spousal choices and a man’s handshake: Evidence from a Norwegian study of cohort differences

Skirbekk

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Strand

2018

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“…Finally, it is important to keep in mind that health effects of family transitions may vary between countries. In particular, the rather generous social welfare policies in Norway (Baran et al 2014) may make breakups less burdening than elsewhere. It is also possible that the effects of dissolved marriages would be more different from the effects of dissolved consensual unions in settings where these living arrangements are more different than they are in Nordic countries.…”

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Mental and Physical Health Trajectories of Norwegian Parents and Children before and after Union Dissolution

Kravdal¹,

Wörn²

2023

Population & Development Rev

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The aim was to examine the mental and physical health trajectories of mothers, fathers, and children before and after union dissolution. Register data covering the entire Norwegian population, and including information on consultations with general practitioners in 2006–2018, were used. Constant unobserved characteristics were controlled for with individual fixed effects. As judged by the number of consultations, mothers’ and fathers’ mental health deteriorates before the dissolution but improves immediately afterwards. In contrast, a worsening mental health among children before the dissolution is followed by an even more adverse development afterwards. There is only modest evidence of predissolution increases in noninfectious physical diseases, but more clearly rising numbers afterwards especially for mothers and daughters. Less adverse trends are seen for infections, although mothers experience a sharp temporary increase at the breakup time. On the whole, mothers’ health is more adversely affected by dissolution than that of fathers. Daughters may have a disadvantage compared to sons, but results vary across model specifications. The results suggest that effects on children's health do not operate through parents’ health. With respect to union type, the health changes before and after dissolution of a consensual union are not very different from those before and after marital separation.

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“…To the extent that Norwegian children are influenced by the age at which they experience parental divorce (or disruption of their parents' consensual union), there is no obvious reason why such effects should not also exist in other settings. In fact, we might expect even stronger effects elsewhere, as the rather generous social welfare policies in Norway (Baran et al 2014) may serve to dampen some of the potentially adverse implications of parental disruption.…”

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Children’s age at parental divorce and depression in early and mid-adulthood

Kravdal

Grundy

2019

Population Studies

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This study aimed to assess whether children's age at their parents' divorce is associated with depression in early and mid-adulthood, as indicated by medication purchase. A sibling comparison method was used to control for unobserved factors shared between siblings. The data were extracted from the Norwegian Population Register and Norwegian Prescription Database and included about 181,000 siblings aged 20-44 who had experienced parental divorce and 636,000 who had not. Controlling for age in 2004, sex, and birth order, children who were aged 15-19 when their parents divorced were 12 per cent less likely to purchase antidepressants as adults in 2004-08 than those experiencing the divorce aged 0-4. The corresponding reduction for those aged 20+ at the time of divorce was 19 per cent. However, the association between age at parental divorce and antidepressant purchases was only evident among women and those whose mothers had low education.

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Family Policies in Norway

Cited by 4 publications

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Women’s spousal choices and a man’s handshake: Evidence from a Norwegian study of cohort differences

Women’s spousal choices and a man’s handshake: Evidence from a Norwegian study of cohort differences

Mental and Physical Health Trajectories of Norwegian Parents and Children before and after Union Dissolution

Children’s age at parental divorce and depression in early and mid-adulthood

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