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Where Are The Effects of Family Structure? The Educational Level, Current Partnership and Income Level of the Czech Adult Population Socialized in the Single Parent Families.
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The most of the sociological research as well as a popular discourse links the socialization in single parent families with various negative outcomes. Within the theoretical and empirical studies, there are two dominant explanations: the causal explanation (also kown as the stress-adaptation perspective) and the selection model (highlighting the spurious correlation between the structure of family and negative outcomes). Our perspective adds the institutionalization aspect, which seems to add explanation power in the specific context: we decided to explore, whether the nature of this relationship can be different in a society characterized by rapid rise of the non-marital fertility and high divorce rate. The situation of progressive de-institutionalization of marriage and the splitting of institutional unity of marriage and parenthood presents a specific environment: The normative forces and straint, connected with the situation of single parent families, can diminish rapidly and decrease the costs for the non-institutionalized forms of the social action. Using the dataset from Czech version of EU-SILC panel survey, we test the hypotheses concerning the differences between adult offspring socialized in the single parent or intact families. The impact of family structure was researched in three dimensions: the educational level of the offspring, their current partner situation and current income level of their households. The aim is to indicate the effects of family structure on the level of cultural capital, intimacy and labour market. The results of regression models suggest that the differences between people socialized in single parent compared to intact families are very small in the case of education, rather weak in the dimension of current partner situation and completely absent in the case of household income. These results challenge the causal explanations and make doubtfull the selection model of the family structure effects, thus the space is opened for the deepening of interpretation through the de-institutionalization mechanisms. |
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