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Since the mid twentieth century a lot has changed in the way couples live together. The employment rates of women have increased dramatically and the male-breadwinner/female-housekeeper-model regressed. Compared to the bourgeois ideal of the family (Parsons and Bales, 1955) the question of how to live together in intimate relationships has become one of individual reflection, choice and decision (see Giddens, 1992; Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 1995).
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© 2011 Riitta Jallinoja and Eric D. Widmer
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Ruiner, C., Hirseland, A., Schneider, W. (2011). Money and the Dynamics of Intimate Relationships. In: Jallinoja, R., Widmer, E.D. (eds) Families and Kinship in Contemporary Europe. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307452_10
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