Autor: Anna Rotkirch

Ann Buchanan is Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford, UK. She has been researching into child and family well-being, specifically fathering, grandparenting and divorce, for more than twenty years. At Oxford she directed the Centre for Research into Parenting and Children. Her work has an international profile and she was awarded an MBE in 2012. Anna Rotkirch is Research Director at Väestöliitto, the Family Federation of Finland, studying family ties and childbearing from sociological and evolutionary perspectives. She is Director of the longitudinal study of generational transmissions in Finland which follows the baby boomer generation and their adult children. Previous publications include (with Ann Buchanan, eds.) Low Fertility and Population Decline (Palgrave, 2013).