title: The history of the family in Spain: past development, present realities, and future challenges.
abstract: "The article presents a brief overview of the historical study of the family in Spain, and deals with household work patterns, labor migration, adaptive strategies of households, and property devolution.  From a belated and rater timid beginnings in the early part of the 1980s, the growth of this field in recent years has been noteworthy.  The articles included in this volume are fitting testimony to the maturity achieved by this discipline in a very short amount of time.  There are many important methodological and conceptual challenges facing family historians in Spain today. If they are able to respond to them successfully, the future of the discipline will be a bright one indeed."
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authors.lastname: Reher
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005060:Europe; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006796:Household Work; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D013030:Spain; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Europe; Family And Household; Housework; Labor Migration; Literature Review; Mediterranean Countries; Microeconomic Factors; Migration; Population; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Southern Europe; Spain