The evolution of the Italian family over the past 30 years is reviewed using official and other published data. The author describes the effects of socioeconomic and regional factors on family structures, the importance of tradition and kinship networks, social policies, female labor force participation, and family stability and dissolution. The relationship between traditional and modern family behaviors is also discussed.
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Giovanni B. Sgritta (1988) studied this question.