Table of Contents:
  • Forming and maintaining relationships
  • Introduction: the social significance of relationships / John Ermisch & Malcolm Brynin
  • Living apart together / John Ermisch & Thomas Siedler
  • Gender differences in close friendship networks over the life cycle / Michele Belot
  • Leaving home / Maria Lacovou & Lavinia Parisi
  • The social significance of homogamy / Malcolm Brynin, Simonetta Longh & Álvaro Martínez Pérez
  • How close are couples? / Malcolm Brynin, Simonetta Longh & Álvaro Martínez Pérez
  • Relationships and social welfare
  • Young child-parent relationships / John Ermisch
  • Adult child-parent relationships / John Ermisch
  • Gender and time use over the life course / Man Yee Kan & Jonathan Gershuny
  • Residential mobility, mobility preferences and psychological health / Priscila Ferreira & Mark Taylor
  • Early labour market experience and the timing of family formation / Emilia del Bono
  • Unemployment and partnership dissolution / Morten Blekesaune
  • Marital splits and income changes over the longer term / Stephen Jenkins
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgements.