The New Zealand family from 1840 : a demographic history / by Ian Pool, Arunachalam Dharmalingam and Janet Sceats.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-446) and index.

Pt. 1. Setting the scene. 1. The ideal family and its enemies from 1840. 1.1. Roles, responsibilities and restraints. 1.2. Family vulnerability and moral panics. 1.3. An overarching theme : Family change and family vulnerability. 1.4. Origins of New Zealand family behaviours : Outsourced or in-house?. 1.5. Where do we go from here? -- 2. Mapping changes in the New Zealand family from 1840. 2.1 The evolution of the New Zealand family. 2.2. A family transition model. 2.3. Interpreting and explaining family change. 2.4. What is known about the New Zealand family?. 2.5. The results of family research: Do they reflect family realities?. 2.6. Ethnic and cultural differences in family life. 2.7. Key concepts. 2.8. Conclusion --

Pt. 2. Trends in the New Zealand family. 3. The large family of yesteryear, trends 1840-1945. 3.1. The genesis of nostalgia about the large families of yesteryear. 3.2. Changes in family morphologies until 1945. 3.3. Maori family morphologies. 3.4. Pakeha family morphologies: British antecedants. 3.5. Early Colonial Pakeha family morphologies: trends. 3.6. Early Colonial Pakeha family morphologies: significance. 3.7. Pakeha family morphologies, 1900s-1940s. 3.8. Summary and conclusion: New Zealand families until 1945 -- 4. The large family of yesteryear : Factors underlying change. 4.1. Changes over the period, 1840-1945. 4.2. The impacts of family size changes on societal attitudes. 4.3. Factors having an impact on family sizes, 1840-1945. 4.4. The socio-economic context of family life, 1840-1945. 4.5. The family size transition: Decreasing levels, increasing variance. 4.6. Pakeha, other differentials. 4.7. Policy responses to family change and family needs. 4.8. Conclusion: The roots of the contemporary New Zealand family -- 5. The Baby Boom era, 1945-1973. 5.1. Delineating and documenting the New Zealand Baby Boom. 5.2. Changes in family morphologies, 1945-1973. 5.3. Factors driving change. 5.4. Impact on family functioning. 5.5. Impact of changes in family morphologies. 5.6. Conclusion -- 6. Redefinition of the Nuclear Family, 1970s to the 1990s : Trends. 6.1. The end of our golden age. 6.2. Overall changes in family morphologies. 6.3. Changes in family forms: the shift from marriage to cohabitation. 6.4. Changes in forms: Divorce, union dissolution, remarriage. 6.5. Changes in family formation, family sizes and the age-profiles of 'nuclear' families. 6.6. Changes in living arrangements: Shift-shares in household forms. 6.7. Changes in living arrangements: Sole-parent households. 6.8. Ethnic differentials in family morphologies in the Baby Bust period. 6.9. Socio-economic differences in trends. 6.10. Summary: A period of radical change -- 7. Redefinition of the Nuclear Family, 1970s to the 1990s : Explanations. 7.1. Factors driving family change. 7.2. Proximate factors driving change. 7.3. Casually more remote factors driving change: The macro-level social and economic contexts of family patterns and trends. 7.4. Policy factors driving change: The welfare state and its decline. 7.5. Micro-level economic and social factors driving change. 7.6. The impact of changes in structures and forms on the functioning of families. 7.7. Conclusion -- 8. The family in unchartered waters : Factors of reproduction in the Baby Blip and beyond. 8.1. An era of unprecedented patterns and trends: The 1990s and early 2000s. 8.2. Trends and differentials in family formation and their implications. 8.3. Conclusion -- 9. The family in uncharted waters : Morphologies and their determinants. 9.1. Shifts in morphologies: Their social, economic and policy contexts. 9.2. Household morphologies in 2001: Their types and structural features. 9.3. Family dynamics in the new millennium. 9.4. Less direct determinants of changes in family morphologies. 9.5. Conclusion: 'The shock of the new' or the entrenchment of Baby Bust trends --

Pt. 3. Towards a synthesis. 10. Conclusion : Continuity and change, parallelism and polarisation. 10.1. Trends: Does form follow function?. 10.2. Continuity and change. 10.3. The family transition: Key findings and their theoretical implications. 10.4. The future.

"Everyone belongs to a family and many of us have strong opinions about families should be like. An authoritative, definitive demographic history of the New Zealand family since 1840, this book is not merely a collection of statistics but interprets the changing story of the family and its makeup, its members and its impact at a time when opinions on this ancient institution range from nostalgia to shock to puzzlement. Using detailed and groundbreaking research spanning 165 years, the authors chart the move from the large family of the nineteenth century to the post-war Baby Boom, Bust, Blip and Deficit, the recent increase in family diversity and the modern trend towards unsustainably small families. In turn, this analysis of the 'building blocks' of society helps trace the changing attitudes and structure of society itself. In its account of the transitions in New Zealand, The New Zealand Family From 1840 provides vivid insights into the past but even more importantly suggests challenging implications for the future."--BOOK JACKET.

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