Zeitschriftenartikel
Economic conditions of stepfamilies from a cross-national perspective
Kreyenfeld, M. R., Martin, V.
Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, 23:2, 128–153 (2011)
Abstract
This paper investigates the economic conditions
of stepfamilies in Germany, the Russian Federation
and France using data from the first wave of
the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). The
analysis shows that stepfamilies more often report
economic hardship than nuclear families in
France and Western Germany. Socio-demographic
differences between family types – particularly
the fact that stepfamilies tend to be larger families
– explain the differences in economic well-being
between families in France. For Western Germany,
differences between nuclear and stepfamilies
remain after controlling for socio-economic
composition of different family types. For the
Russian Federation and Eastern Germany, we do
not find any statistically significant differences in
economic well-being between stepfamilies and
nuclear families. The major dividing line for
these regions runs between single parents and
other types of families.
Schlagwörter: Deutschland, family