1. What Predicts Egalitarian Attitudes Towards Marriage and Children: Evidence from the European Values Study.
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Yucel, Deniz
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SOCIAL aspects of marriage ,SOCIAL conditions in Greece ,SOCIAL conditions in Turkey ,IDEOLOGY ,TWENTY-first century ,MANNERS & customs ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
This paper explores the correlates of attitudes toward marriage and children in North Cyprus, South Cyprus, Turkey and Greece, using the most recent wave of the European Values Study (EVS) data. The results show the most support for the second demographic transition theory. The combined effects of education, religiosity, political ideology and gender ideology explain the most variance in family values among these four countries. Less religiosity and egalitarian gender ideology are correlated with egalitarian attitudes towards marriage and children throughout, but cross-country differences are also significant. The effects of parenthood, marital status, education, and political ideology are in the expected direction, yet the effects are not universal but country-specific. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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