Abstract

Abstract Interrelated changes in the labour market and in family formation have resulted in what many have termed ‘new’ social risks for those in intimate relationships (e.g. Bonoli 2004). The traditional, married, male breadwinner family was long believed to offer protection against risk, particularly for women and children. Normative prescriptions as to the gendered contributions men and women were expected to make to families in respect of earning and caring were clearly understood and were underpinned by social welfare provision and family law.

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