Browsing JSSISI: Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1847- by Subject "Family structure"

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    • The need for a law of adoption 

      McCabe, E. W. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1949)
      The practice of adoption is as old as history. It was known to the Babylonians and Greeks, and, coming closer to our own age, we can turn to the omniscient Shakespeare who, in Othello, puts into the lips of the Moor's ...

    • Reconceptualising families in the EU: changes in demography, households and the allocation of care 

      DREW, EILEEN PATRICIA (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1997)
      This paper charts the demographic changes characterising the last three decades, which have resulted in a diversity of family forms. It marks the magnitude of some of these changes, the exceptions to general patterns and ...