Research Digest

More are pessimistic than optimistic about the future of the family; relatively few see marriage and parenthood as central to a fulfilling life. [Kim Parker and Rachel Minkin – Pew Research [...]

The American family has undergone significant change in recent decades. There is no longer one predominant family form, and Americans are experiencing family life in increasingly diverse ways. [...]

Association of labor market outcomes and family policies with fertility trends between 2002 and 2019 in 26 OECD countries. [Jonas Fluchtmann, Violetta van Veen and Willem Adema – OECD, 21 [...]

In 2022, close to 8 million children living in cities in the EU were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, meaning that over one-quarter of children living in urban areas experienced these [...]

The ideal number of children is lower among more recent than earlier birth cohorts and this shift is driven by substantially higher child-free ideals among recent cohorts.  [Kateryna [...]

The aim of this study was to conduct an exhaustive synthesis to determine which instruments and variables are most appropriate to evaluate foster care programs (foster, kinship, and professional [...]

Despite being a topical issue in public debate and on the political agenda for many countries, a global-scale, high-resolution quantification of migration and its major drivers for the recent [...]

This brief deals with ways to solve the fact that the United States is one of only seven countries in the world without any kind of national paid parental leave policy, and the majority of [...]

The aim of this publication is to provide an overview and detailed description of the demographic trends of the last 70 years for the populations of the Mediterranean as a whole. [Yoann Doignon, [...]

Children exposed to COVID-19 pandemic in Japan are behind 4 months in development at age 5. [Koryu Sato, Taiyo Fukai, Keiko K. Fujisawa et all – JAMA Pediatrics, 10 July 2023.] READ MORE