Alternative la modelul familiei nucleare şi schimbări ale comportamentului legat de fertilitate în Europa postbelică şi în societatea românească...
Alternatives to the Nuclear Familial Model and Recent Changes of Fertility Patterns in Europe and in the Romanian Society after 1990

Summary/Abstract: Alternatives to the Nuclear Familial Model and Recent Changes of Fertility Patterns in Europe and in the Romanian Society after 1990. This article deals with the major changes occured in the familial and reproductive behaviour of the Europe population and of the actual Romanian society, from the point of view of their impact upon the descending trend of fertility. Events like cohabitation, divorce, births outside marriage, which are very widespread in Western Europe and whose incidence has increased in Romania after 1990, have led to the diversification of family’s structure and relationships. The article contains a synthetical presentation of some data regarding divorce and outside marriage births, as well as of the factors that could explain such events, going from the economic ones to the ideational shifts, and to the impact of gender dimension on the changes in family and reproductive patterns. The emphasis is carried on two alternative forms to the nuclear familial model: the monoparental and the composed families, elected and analysed for the specific outcomes they produce on the demographic behaviour of young adulthood. Evolution of families is strongly relied to the economic, social, cultural and political situation of the society, but also the own families’ dynamism influences the evolution of the society. This reality underlies the idea that a correlation between family changes and trends of fertility needs to be studied both from a micro as well as from a macrosocial perspective.

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