Are Italians and Spaniards Rethinking the “Traditional Family”?
A new study by Arnstein Aassve and Letizia Mencarini (both of Department of Social and Political Sciences, Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Bocconi University), together with Elena Bastianelli (postdoc researcher at Bocconi) and Alícia Adserà (Princeton University), offers a rather different picture: family ideals in Italy and Spain are far more modern than commonly assumed.