Creating a family without certainties
The article presents a consideration on the consequences that the lack of economic
security, caused by a temporary and not protected job, produces on the
choices to create a family, to have children for young couples. Considering the
job pattern, the research shows how the majority of works done by the interviewed
people presents standard organizational and professional outlines (tasks,
working-hours, place, group of colleagues). Moreover, for a small part of the interviewed
people, the job course costituted by more atipical or irregular job implies
vertical labour mobility rising to more qualified and protected positions,
whereas the majority manteins the same positions (qualified or not qualified) in
the labour market that they had at the beginning. Eventually there are strong social
and gender inequalities, considering the qualification level, the congruence
between degree of study and job-task, the salary and the career perspectives. The
development of a non standard job conditions more the forming of a couple and
the birth of a child for educated youngsters and people from the upper class, than
for those who are less educated and disadvantaged, because they have different
values and lower job ambitions. The family welfare, visible in a continuos flow of
money and sevice help gives youngsters the possibilities to get the emotional security
of the couple, but this is not enough in order to become parents, which
happens always later and always less. Indeed, this is hindered by the low salary levels
of young couples and by the labour uncertainty.In general, there is a reduction
trend for the aspirations of young couples and a too strong persistence of family
ties and conditioning. All this conflicts with the principles of freedom,
wealth, meritocracy which the advanced societies are based on.