Ausra Maslauskaite

Vytautas Magnus University · Department of Sociology

Ši mokslo studija tęsia surašymų informacijos analizei skirtų leidinių, kurie Lietuvos demografų buvo paskelbti remiantis 2001 ir 2011 metų gyventojų surašymų duomenimis, tradiciją. Studijos pagrindą sudaro 2021 metų gyventojų surašymo mikroduomenų analizė. Reikia atkreipti dėmesį, kad pastarasis surašymas buvo pirmasis Lietuvos istorijoje, kurio m...

Research shows that even though the time women and men spend on housework has slowly converged in recent decades, the time mothers and fathers invest in childcare has not changed as much. This paper aims to contribute to the literature on childcare by focusing on the two Eastern European countries of Lithuania and Belarus, which took very different...

The paper analyzes family and household types in the mid. 19th century Vilnius and Kaunas gubernijy. The research is based on the large-scale dataset composed of the archival census-like listings of individuals by family units and defined as inventories. The dataset covers the inventories from 1847 and it includes around 20 thousand individuals. Ba...

This paper aims to analyze the way religious identification and practices influence family practices in the division of labor in childcare and housework in contemporary Lithuania. The analysis is based on a quantitative survey (n = 3000) representing the last Soviet generation born between 1970 and 1984. The sample was distributed across five group...

Post-communist transition in Eastern Europe has affected social stratification and mobility. There is an argument that transition undermined the role of parental cultural capital and increased the importance of parental economic capital in determining the educational mobility of children. In this paper, we examine whether the parental cultural capi...

Although the attention scholars have paid to the question of how the involvement of fathers affects the well-being of their children in post-separation families has increased tremendously in recent years, the question of how fathers’ involvement affects their own well-being has been hardly examined. Using data from the cross-sectional survey “Fathe...

This paper aims to analyse the family life course trajectories of 1970–1984 birth cohorts in Lihuania. It applies the sequence analysis methods and is based on the Families and Inequalities Survey Dataset collected in 2019. The method provides the opportunities to examine the family life course in a holistic way and has not been used in family demo...

Using the cross-sectional Fathering after Union Dissolution in Lithuania survey data (2016), this chapter analyzes the quality of non-resident father-child relationships after a parental union dissolution. We assess the relationship quality perceived by fathers and focus on both positive elements such as intimacy and approval and negative ones such...

This article summarizes the evidence on the trends and social stratification of family changes in Lithuania, which took place in the last three decades. We focus on cohabitation and marriage, divorce, non-marital fertility and single motherhood. Overall, there is divergence by social class in family behavior. Non-traditional family behavior is more...

This study analyzes the attitudes towards the right to life and the religiosity of young people (16–18 years old) in Lithuania. We will focus on euthanasia and abortion as two cases indicating attitudes of young people towards the possible limitation of the right to life. Abortion and euthanasia are rarely debated in public in Lithuania; from time...

The concept of territorial capital describing the specificity of spatial socioeconomic dif- ferences in municipalities is underused in the Lithuanian academic discourse. The article focuses on different dimensions of territorial assets related to locally based resources including natural re- sources, socioeconomic dynamics, service provision infras...

Drawing on empirical data from biographical interviews with divorced Lithuanian men, this article examines how they undo fatherhood based on the breadwinner ideology. In a Lithuanian culture of strong economic obligations of men for child support and alimony and weak paternal rights to custody and care, the divorced fathers’ role consists primarily...

Using nationally representative data on nonresident fathers, this study examines father–child contact and child support payments in Lithuania. We focus on previously married and cohabiting fathers whose parenting rights and obligations are organized differently by Lithuanian legislation. Our findings demonstrate that previously cohabiting fathers’...

The article investigates the perceived changes in material well-being of single mothers due to union dissolution in Lithuania. The analysis is based on a nationally representative data set; our sample includes 415 single mothers with underaged children. At the core of the analysis is the effect of socioeconomic standing on the assessment of changes...

Šiuo straipsniu siekiama atskleisti vienų motinų su nepilnamečiais vaikais šeimų Lietu­voje paplitimo, demografines ir socioekonomines charakteristikas. Straipsnis parengtas remiantis 2011 m. Lietuvos gyventojų ir būstų surašymo individualaus lygmens duomenų analize, todėl suteikia naujos em­pirinės informacijos apie šio tipo šeimas. Nustatyta, kad...

Divorced Men and Models of Postdivorce Fatherhood Summary Analyzing 25 biographical interviews with divorced men of different class, education, professional involvement, living in three biggest Lithuanian cities, Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, the article distinguishes three broad types that reflect father’s identities and their different strategie...

Child maintenance is an obligation in most of the EU countries and concerns all kinds of family patterns involving a child: divorced couples after a marriage and separated couples on the condition that the father has recognized the child. In Lithuania, failure to meet this obligation by the parents triggers the involvement of the state which takes...

p>This paper examines fertility and family policies in 15 Central and East European (CEE) countries to establish firstly, likely directions of cohort fertility trends for the coming decade; and secondly, to provide an overview and analysis of family policies in CEE countries, and to assess their impact on cohort fertility trends. Demographic analys...

A substantial body of research has accumulated on the socio-economic correlates of marital instability. Previous studies have shown considerable variation in the association between women’s educational attainment and marital disruption. This article complements existing research by investigating the pattern of this relationship across countries and...

Šiuo straipsniu siekta atskleisti tėvo santykių su nepilnamečiais vaikais tęstinumą po skyrybų ar partnerystės iširimo Lietuvoje ir įvertinti teisinio konteksto bei sociologinio lygmens veiksnių įtaką. Nepaisant aukštų ištuokų rodiklių, liudijančių, kad mūsų šalyje didelės dalies vaikų visa vaikystė ar jos etapai prabėga vien motinos šeimoje, iki š...

This article analyses the demographic and social determinants of re-partnering after divorce in four Baltic and Central European transition countries (Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, and Hungary), which, despite their common transition paths after the 1990s, developed distinct political economies and have different gender and family cultures. The artic...

Background: Most existing evidence on the socio-economic predictors of divorce in developed countries comes from the USA and from Western and Northern Europe. This study contributes to the scarce literature about socio-economic determinants of divorce in Central and Eastern Europe by examining the case of Lithuania. Objective: The study explores ho...

This volume contains detailed information on the law on ‘informal relationships’ in 28 European jurisdictions. An informal relationship refers to a relationship that is not formalised as a marriage or as a registered partnership/civil union between a couple. The expert members of the CEFL have drafted national reports on the basis of a detailed que...

This monograph focusing on groups at risk of social exclusion reflects current issues in the contemporary Lithuanian welfare system in which the dilemmas of neoliberalism, social justice and egalitarianism as well as the constant search for a better life are all intertwined. Difficult life stories of the members of these groups allow us to take a c...

Highlighting the questions of social recognition, opposition to stigmatization, everyday survival strategies, and subjective quality of life, the 355 remaining chapters in the book focus on different socially excluded groups. The analysis of quantitative data in the third chapter “Single Mothers, Material Deprivation and Quality of Life” demonstra...

Aušra Maslauskaitė, Domantas Jasilionis. Men’s Educational Resources and Transition into First Marriage: Is there the Advantage of University Education? Culture & Society, 2015, Vol. 6 (1), pp. 11-25. DOI: 10.7220/2335-8777.6.1.1. [IN LITHUANIAN, ENGLISH SUMMARY]. English Summary Based on the analysis of the data of the Census 2001 and the linked d...

The empirical foundation of the scientific study refers to unique and methodologically innovative census-linked longitudinal data from demographic registers. The study provides internationally comparable indicators of fertility, first marriages, first divorces, mortality by cause of death, and emigration by education, economic activity status, m...

This article examines the role of individual educational resources in the transition from cohabitation to marriage in Lithuania over the past four decades that cover the communist and the transitional periods with various developmental stages of cohabitation. Two competing hypotheses were formulated based on cultural and structural approaches. The...

Using aggregated vital statistic data this article investigates the long term trends of non-marital fertility in Lithuania, the structure of non-marital fertility considering the type of the child registration and the urban–rural and the spatial differentiation of nonmarital fertility. The results prove that non-marital fertility of single – mother...

Autoriai nagrinėja asmenų, ilgą laiką tarnavusių uždarose statutinėse organizacijose, integracijos į darbo rinką problematiką, jų galimybes pradėti naują karjerą. Monografijoje išnagrinėtos teorines prielaidos, leidžiančios užtikrinti sėkmingą tarnautojų ir karių, išleidžiamų į ankstyvąją pensiją reintegraciją į darbo rinką. Pateikiama ankstyvojo i...

This article analyses the transformation in the mode of partnership formation in seven countries of Eastern Europe. The aim of the study is to provide an up-to-date account of the switch from direct marriage to non-marital cohabitation as it has progressed from the 1960s to the mid-2000s, using data from the Generations and Gender Surveys. Unlike p...

This article explores the link between historical and contemporary patterns of family formation. The theoretical underpinnings of the study were derived from Hajnal's theory of historical nuptiality regimes in Europe. In general, the results suggest that all countries in the region share a common vector of changes in partnership formation, but at t...

The paper focuses on the frequency of intergenerational face-to-face contacts between parents and their adult children in Lithuania, and how they are affected by the parental family history events, the child's life course events, individual and structural level factors. The main empirical findings prove that parental divorce negatively affects the...

In the past two decades, the institute of the family in Lithuania acquired the structural features that are constitutional to the family of the second modernity. Nevertheless, in the realm of the family culture, society reproduces the beliefs and opinions that are typical of the first modernity. The article considers the social and historical devel...

On s’interesse dans cet article a La transition vers de nouvelles formes d’union et aux determinants culturels et structurels ayant conduit a ce processus dans trois pays : La France, La Lituanie et La Russie. Chacun a connu des evolutions tres differentes au cours du XX e siecle : La transition a ete reguliere en France, retardee en Lituanie et di...

On s’intéresse dans cet article à la transition vers de nouvelles formes d’union et aux déterminants culturels et structurels ayant conduit à ce processus dans trois pays : la France, la Lituanie et la Russie. Chacun a connu des évolutions très différentes au cours du XXe siècle : la transition a été régulière en France, retardée en Lituanie et dis...

Changes in family formation strategies in France, Lithuania and Russia are analyzed to detect new partnership formation patterns along with the structural and cultural factors underlying this process. Each country has undergone quite different transitions during the 20th century: France's has been consequent; Lithuania's, delayed; and Russia's, dis...

This article is dedicated to the investigation of attitudes towards family changes in the DIALOG countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and of the impact of the ideational factors of the second demographic transition (individualism, secularism and female emancipation) on these attitudes. Family transformation is discussed in terms of de-instituti...

This article is dedicated to the exploration of marital quality in the Lithuanian families and based on the analysis of the sociological survey data (N=500). Marital quality is measured with the Marital Satisfaction (EMS) scale. The article examines the effect of marital quality on the emotional cohesion, conflict level, conflict management style,...

Straipsnio tikslas – aptarti kultūrinius barjerus, kurie gali įtakoti gerovės kapitalizmo, užtikrinančio lygias lyčių galimybes, sukūrimo galimybes Lietuvoje ir sumažinti teisinių bei struktūrinių socialinės lyčių politikos veiksmų sėkmę. Straipsnyje teigiama, kad gerovės kapitalizmui būtina ne tik politinė valia, struktūriniai ištekliai, bet ir mo...

Šiuolaikinės sociologinės teorijos jautrumą kasdieninei žmonių patirčiai liudija dėmesys tokioms sociologiškai netradicinėms temoms kaip intymumas, meilė, kūnas ir pan. Bandydama suteikti sociologinę formą šiems reiškiniams, sociologija priversta peržengti ir genetiškų jai - utilitarinių argumentų ribas. Šis straipsnis skirtas intymumo sampratos ap...