The Banquet of Aeolus

By Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna. 2001

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During the last fifteen years in the Western countries, the higher is the proportion of people aged 20-30 living in the parental home, the lower is fertility. In this paper I suggest that the familistic structure of family and society can help in understanding both these demographic behaviours, looking at the Italian case. Nevertheless, these patterns could hold in the strong-family area as a whole, i.e. the Mediterranean Europe. The familism refers to some social norms managing the relationships among members and generations within the nuclear family and kinship. Direct and indirect connections between familistic norms and marital and reproductive behaviour are described, using data from several sources for Italy during the new demographic transition. Finally, I argue that the triumph of the familistic society could be a pyrrhic victory, because the native Italian population risks being unable to reproduce itself.

Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Homeownership Regimes and Low Fertility (2010, background): “This regime is particularly strongly associated with difficult housing-market entry and is, therefore, unfriendly to leaving the parental home and family formation (compare Bernardi, 2005; Dalla Zuanna, 2001).”
Overview Chapter 4: Changing family and partnership behaviour: Common trends and persistent diversity across Europe (2008, background): “…on the part of their adult children, and commonly allow their children to pursue a sexual relationship with their partners in the parental home (see Dalla Zuanna 2001: 146 for Italy; the increased freedom and autonomy of adult children living with parents is also noted in the Spain chapter).”
Leaving home: a comparative analysis of ECHP data (2002, unknown): “First, the presence of long-term cultural continuities, with emphasis on the strength of intergenerational ties within societies, is evident especially when looking at differences between northwestern and southwestern Europe (Reher, 1998; Dalla Zuanna, 2001).”
The End of “Lowest‐Low” Fertility? (2009, background): “In Southern Europe, lowest-low fertility was associated with the persistence of traditional family patterns, late home-leaving, a shift to very late first births, relatively low female employment, and high unemployment among young adults (e.g., Billari and Kohler 2004; Billari 2008; Baizán, Michieli”
Low fertility in Europe: causes implications and policy options. (2006, background): “Moreover, the high integration of young adults in their parents’ home and extended family may even discourage union formation and fertility (Dalla Zuanna 2001).”
The Effect of Grandparental Support on Mothers’ Labour Market Participation: An Instrumental Variable Approach (2014, unknown): “Grandparental childcare is particularly common in the Mediterranean countries characterized by strong family ties (Dalla Zuanna, 2001).”