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Protecting Families In A Global Economy, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Carmen Brun
Protecting Families In A Global Economy, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Carmen Brun
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
The globalization of the economy has placed tremendous pressure on the modern family. Throughout the developed world, marriage rates are declining, birth and fertility rates are falling, real wages are flat or declining, and hours of family external labor supplied are rising. Finding a spouse and raising children can be inconsistent with the demands of careers in the global economy of the new information age. Globalization of the economy tends to encourage individualism and mobility, in direct opposition to family relationships. Moreover; the extensive period of training that is necessary to compete in the global economy interferes with marriage and …