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、再婚、再婚家庭）的趋势、不平等和后果。家庭的变化不仅影响成年人，也对生活在这些家庭中的儿童的生活产生重大影响。令人惊讶的是，在整个欧洲，很少有研究调查儿童在家庭变化中的经历。我们对儿童一生中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而异，跨国差异背后的原因，整个欧洲家庭复杂性增加对儿童生活的影响，以及家庭变化对未来儿童的潜在影响。该项目采用了一种新颖的、以儿童为中心的方法，并结合先进的纵向方法、机器学习和大量欧洲数据集的模拟，跟踪欧洲儿童长大后的生活，填补了这些空白。目标是：1。了解欧洲儿童整个生命历程中家庭复杂性的趋势。确定欧洲儿童生命历程中家庭复杂性趋势的不平等。了解家庭复杂性对儿童生活多个领域的影响。探讨儿童生活的多个领域是否相互关联以及如何相互关联。开发一种方法来预测未来儿童生命历程中的家庭复杂性通过其创新方法，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。它有可能为研究个人生活中的不平等现象的人口统计学研究以及更具体地研究儿童不平等现象开辟新的视野。

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.