Mens & Maatschappij - Volume 89, Issue 3, 2014

Choice for bilingual education: the role of social background In the Netherlands, bilingual tracks in higher secondary education (TTO) are growing. Based on the literature on primary and secondary effects of social background and given the presumed advantages of these bilingual tracks, we expected that children from higher social backgrounds more often choose TTO than children from lower social backgrounds. Results bas Read More

Mothers on Social Assistance: Poverty, Resilience and Parenting Although prior research showed that poverty is related to less optimal child outcomes, how the duration of poverty and parental psychological resilience affect the parenting quality is less well understood. To help fill this gap, we used data from a survey of mothers on social assistance in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. In this study two groups of mothers were dis Read More

Choosing a personal budget: do differences in local policy concerning personal budgets lead to access inequalities? Dutch municipal authorities have a statutory duty to offer people who apply for support (by way of the Social Support Act) a choice between receiving support in kind or in the form of a personal budget, but are free to set their own policy regarding who is offered a personal budget and how attractive the perso Read More

Gender differences and deviant behaviour: differences between boys and girls in the influence of individual, family and country characteristics on deviant behaviour In this study, gender differences in adolescent problem behaviour and its possible causes on the individual and contextual level are analysed. The focus lies on differences between boys and girls in the influence of personality, family and national cultural context ch Read More