Inhalt: "A major characteristic of the European family today is a new plurality of forms of private living with an increasing number of one-parent households as well as patchwork families, homosexual couples or intergenerational networks of reliable relationships. The growing number of private lifestyles is especially due to marriage's loss of significance, which is no longer a prerequisite for either sexual partnership or for parenthood. In feminist perspective these structural changes, the remarkable cultural change in gender relations and in family law are not to be lamented as family decay or loss of solidarity, since they also mean more freedom and equal rights of women and children. However, there are still deficits in family policies as regards the division of labour and care responsibilities. The contribution discusses the delays and contradictory consequences of German family policies and legal reforms in exemplary respects: the incessant problems of working mothers, the recent legal reform of maintenance for a spouse after divorce, and the legal recognition of registered homosexual couples. The feminist argument is that there is no Opposition between love and gender justice, on the contrary, that love even presupposes a practice of equal rights in all forms of private living." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Familie-Beruf; Europa; Familienform; Kleinfamilie; Ehe; Ehescheidung; Trend; Familienpolitik; Grundgesetz; Gleichstellung; Geschlechterverhältnis; Sozialpolitik; internationaler Vergleich; Gerechtigkeit; Familienforschung; Liebe; soziale Anerkennung; Geschlechterforschung
CEWS Kategorie:Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz