ChildLives - Family complexity and inequalities in children's lives in Europe: A child-centred life course approach

该项目旨在全面了解欧洲儿童生活中家庭复杂性(如离婚、重新伴侣、继父家庭)的趋势、不平等和后果。家庭变化不仅影响成年人，而且对生活在这些家庭中的儿童的生活也有重大影响。令人惊讶的是，相对较少的研究调查了欧洲各地儿童的家庭变化经历。我们对儿童一生中关于家庭复杂性的经历知之甚少，他们的经历是否因社会经济背景和国家不同而不同，跨国差异背后的原因，家庭复杂性增加对整个欧洲儿童生活的影响，以及家庭变化对未来儿童的潜在后果。该项目通过采取一种新颖的、以儿童为中心的方法来填补这些空白，并使用先进的纵向方法、机器学习和对大量欧洲数据的模拟相结合的方式跟踪欧洲儿童随着年龄增长的生活。其目标是：1.了解欧洲儿童整个生命过程中家庭复杂性的趋势。确定欧洲儿童生活过程中家庭复杂性趋势的不平等3。了解家庭复杂性对儿童生活的多个领域的影响。探索儿童生活的多个领域是否以及如何相互关联。开发一种预测未来儿童生活过程中家庭复杂性的方法通过其创新方法，该项目将从根本上促进我们对家庭复杂性及其对欧洲儿童生活的影响的理解。它有可能为人口统计学研究个人生活中的不平等开辟新的视野，并更具体地研究童年不平等。

This project aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the trends, inequalities, and consequences of family complexity (e.g., divorce, repartnering, stepfamilies) across children's lives in Europe. Family change not only impacts adults, but it also has major implications for the lives of children who live in these families. Surprisingly, relatively little research has investigated children's experiences of family change across Europe. We know little about children's experiences of family complexity across their lives, whether their experiences differ by socio-economic background and across countries, the reasons behind cross-national differences, the consequences of increasing family complexity for children's lives across Europe, and the potential consequences of family change for children of the future. This project fills these gaps by taking a novel, child-centred approach and following the lives of European children as they get older using a combination of advanced longitudinal methods, machine learning, and simulation on a large number of European datasets.The objectives are:1. To understand trends in family complexity across the life courses of children in Europe2. To identify inequalities in the trends in family complexity across children's life courses in Europe3. To understand the consequences of family complexity for multiple domains of children's lives4. To explore whether and how multiple domains of children's lives are interrelated5. To develop an approach to predict family complexity in the life courses of the children of the futureThrough its innovative approach, this project will fundamentally advance our understanding of family complexity and its consequences for the lives of European children. It has the potential to open up new horizons for the demographic study of inequalities across individuals' lives and for studying childhood inequalities more specifically.