And they lived happily ever after
Subtitle: norms and everyday practices of family and parenthood in Russia and Central Europe
By: [edited by] Helene Carlbäck, Yulia Gradskova and Zhanna Kravchenko
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Budapest; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9786155053573
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Family policy; Families
Notes: Some papers were presented at the conference "Family, Marriage and Parenthood in Eastern Europe, Russia and Sweden" held September 2008 in Sweden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1940s - 1980s:  the family as a basic unit of socialist society. Lone motherhood in Soviet Russia in the mid-20th century in a European context / Helene Carlbäck ; Family, divorce, and comrades courts: Soviet family and public organizations during the thaw / Elena Zhidkova ; A life of labor, a life of love: telling the life of a young peasant mother facing collectivization / Ildikó Morell Asztalos ; East German women going West: family, children and partners in life-experience literature / Christine Farhan ; Why does public policy implementation fail? Lithuanian office of state benefits for mothers of large families and single mothers, 1944 - 1956 / Dalia Leinarte ; The Latvian family experience with sovietization 1945 - 1990 / Majia Runcis; title: 1990s - 2000s: social transformation in the mirror of family life. "Two children puts you in the zone of social misery": childbearing and risk perception among Russian women / Anna Rotkirch and Katja Kesseli ; "Supporting genuine development of the child": public childcare centers versus family in post-Soviet Russia / Yulia Gradskova ; Everyday continuity and change: family and family policy in Russia / Zhanna Kravchenko ; Single mothers: clients or citizens? social work with poor families in Russia / Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Pavel Romanov ; Welfare crisis and crisis-centers in Russia today / Aino Saarinen ; Marriage and divorce law in Russia and the  Baltic states: overview of recent changes / Olga A. Khazova ; Doing parenting in post-socialist Estonia and Latvia / Ingegerd Municio-Larsson ; Gendered experiences in entrepreneurship, family and social activities in Russia / Ann-Mari Sätre.