Single-Parent Families in Cyprus
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Abstract
This article utilises the findings of the research programme “Single-Parent Families in Cyprus (2004-2006)”,1 which attempted to map the phenomenon of Greek-Cypriot single-parent families, focusing on the social, psychological and financial dimensions. Four aspects in particular are highlighted: a) the major changes that Greek-Cypriot families have undergone in the past few decades, b) the phenomenon of single parenthood in Cyprus diachronically, c) the main differences between single-parent families, and other families in Cyprus (the comparisons draw on a wider survey of families in Cyprus, which the authors carried out in 2004), and d) the Cypriot state and its welfare policies as regards single-parent families.
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Keywords
single-parent families, families in Cyprus, support network, family roles and responsibilities, welfare system
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Esping-Andersen, G. (1990) The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge, Polity Press.
European Commission of Human Rights (1976) Report on Violence Against Greek-Cypriot Women. Geneva,Council of Europe.
Eurostat (2005) Live Births Outside Marriage. Available at [http://www.epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&plugin=0&langua
ge=en&pcode=cab13584].
Giddens, A. (2002) Runaway World – How Globalization is Reshaping our Lives. London, Profile Books Ltd.
Intercollege – Business Development Centre – Consultancy Unit, (2002) ‘Study for the Formulation of Demographic Policy – Proposal for Cyprus’. Research undertaken by Intercollege, Nicosia.
Josiane, C. and Riga, A-V. (1997) Unmarried Mothers: Women’s Movement from Suppression to Liberation [Ανύπαντρες Μητέρες: Γυναικείο Κίνημα απλο την Υποταγή στην Απελευθέρωση]. Athens, Gutenberg.
Loizos, P. (1975) The Greek Gift - Politics in a Cypriot Village. Oxford, Basil Blackwell.
Markides, K., Nikita, G. and Rangou, E. (1978) Lysi: Social Change in a Cypriot Village. Nicosia, Social Research Centre.
Moreno, L. (1997) ‘The Spanish Development of Southern Welfare’. Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados – Working Paper 97-04.
Peristianis, N., Avraamides, L. and Kokkinou, K. (2004) ‘The State of the Contemporary Greek-Cypriot Family’. Research undertaken for Nicosia, Research Center-Intercollege.
Peristianis, N., Fakiolas, N. and Kokkinou, K. (2007) ‘Study for Leisure Time, Employment, Relationships, Perceptions and Problems of the Cypriot Youth’. Research undertaken for Nicosia, Research Center-Intercollege and Institute of Social Innovation.
Peristianis, N., and Kokkinou, K. (2007) ‘Single-Parent Families in Cyprus’. Unpublished research. Intercollege, Nicosia.
Popenoe, D. (1993) ‘American Family Decline, 1960-1990: A Review and Appraisal’, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 55, pp. 527-555.
Statistical Service of the Republic of Cyprus. Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1881. Nicosia (extracted from Barry, F.W. (1884) Colonial Government. Report on the Census of Cyprus, 1881 with Appendix. London, Eyre and Spottiswoode).
Statistical Service of the Republic of Cyprus (1963). Demographic and Social Statistics: Population and Demography. Volume III Demographic Characteristics. Nicosia, Printing Office of the Republic of Cyprus.
Statistical Service of the Republic of Cyprus (1966) Demographic Report, 1965. Nicosia, Printing Office of the Republic of Cyprus.
Statistical Service of the Republic of Cyprus (1971) Demographic Report, 1970. Nicosia, Printing Office of the Republic of Cyprus.
Statistical Service of the Republic of Cyprus (2003) Census of the Population, 2001 – Households and Housing Units. Population Statistics, Volume III, Report No. 18. Nicosia, Printing Office of the Republic of Cyprus.
Statistical Service of the Republic of Cyprus (2006) Demographic Report, 2005. Population Statistics, Series II, Report No. 43. Nicosia, Printing Office of the Republic of Cyprus.
Stewart, A., Copeland, A., Chester, N., Malley, J. and Barenbaum, N. (1997) Separating Together – How Divorce Transforms Families. New York, The Guilford Press.
Thompson, P. (1999) ‘The Role of Grandparents. When Parents Part or Die: Some Reflections on the Mythical Decline on the Extended Family’, Ageing and Society, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 471-503.
Trifiletti, R. (1999) ‘Southern European Welfare Regimes and the Worsening Position of Women’, Journal of European Social Policy, Vol. 9, No. 1. pp. 49-64. London, Sage Publications.
Vassiliadou, M. (2002) ‘Questioning Nationalism: The Patriarchal and National Struggles of Cypriot Women Within a European Context’, The European Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 459-482. London, Sage Publications.
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“Single-Parent Families in Cyprus”. 2018. Cyprus Review 20 (1): 35-55. https://cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/258.