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Low Fertility and the Australian Dream: The Family Background of Australian Children
Author(s) -
Rowland D.T.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1991.tb00886.x
Subject(s) - dream , project commissioning , publishing , realisation , nuclear family , sociology , fertility , family life , economic growth , gender studies , political science , psychology , demography , law , population , economics , neuroscience , physics , quantum mechanics
Despite the attention focused on changes in the family in Australia, the majority of children come from conventional family backgrounds. Most parents still pursue the ‘Australian dream’ of nuclear family life and home ownership. Yet while traditional goals remain Influential among parents, economic and other constraints mean that only a minority of children actually spend their first fifteen years in circumstances approaching a realisation of the ‘Australian dream’.