Family: politics and attitudes under transformation
Departure from the standard of a male single-income household happened surprisingly quickly in Germany. Women still leave professional life when they have children. Two seemingly contradictory findings—two articles in the recently published March issue of the quarterly magazine WZB Mitteilungen. The issue focuses on the subject of family. The articles probe the field of controversy between tenacious role models and changes in cohabitation over generations.
Agnes Blome analyzes the triumph of the two-income model since German reunification. In the article “Borders of Change,” Nadiya Kelle shows how motherhood and career are still hard to combine. Matthias Pollmann-Schult and Mareike Wagner explain that children do influence their fathers’ work lives, and the authors also describe how.
Other articles in the issue: family income after separation and job loss, caring for elderly parents, the connection between education - special schools - and family, family-run companies, compatibility/reconciliation in the sciences and the 2013 German federal elections.