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Before examining the central topic of this chapter, that of ‘the significance of the family and marriage in the Federal Republic of Germany’, it will be useful to make a few preliminary points. First, more specifically, I will be considering the issue of the evolution of the present significance of the family and marriage, even though I will be concerned less with the long-term and more with the ‘modern’ period beginning with the creation of the Federal Republic about 35 years ago. Accordingly, I will be making use of data I have collected as part of a research project designed to examine ‘changes in the family in the Federal Republic of Germany since the Second World War’.1
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Nave-Herz, R. (1989). The Significance of the Family and Marriage in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Close, P. (eds) Family Divisions and Inequalities in Modern Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09337-3_5
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