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How America Compares offers data and analysis on an encyclopedic range of social indicators, comparing the United States with 17 other politically stable, economically affluent democracies. Occasionally, there are more global perspectives, but most of the book examines commonalities and contrasts among these advanced democracies. Family life has been undergoing gradual but far-reaching changes in all these countries. People are getting married later, and are having few children. A major challenge in all these societies is how to combine the greater labour force participation of women with satisfactory support for mothers with young children.
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Tiffen, R., Gauja, A., O’Connor, B., Gittins, R., Smith, D. (2020). Family. In: How America Compares. How the World Compares. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9582-6_15
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