It is Infant Mental Health Awareness Week! This year’s theme is ‘speaking up for babies’. This week, we want to highlight how we ‘speak up for babies’ within the CPFH research group by presenting three new PhD researchers in this field: facebook.com/CPFH.UA/posts/…

📢 Proud of several CPFH members and their colleagues! An interesting new publication: "Relationship between Classic Indicators of Health Behaviour and Contraceptive Choices in Women in Flanders" 👉 rdcu.be/dG1Ex #ContraceptiveUse #HealthBehaviour #ReproductiveHealth

🔦Researcher Spotlight! Today we shine a light on Amina Yakhlaf, who presented in the session "Cultural Sensitive Healthcare Services." Her research focuses on medical decision-making among people with a migration background.

How much does a child cost when parents separate? CPFH researcher Elke Claessens offers some insight into this complex matter. linkedin.com/posts/uantwerp…

Last Friday, several CPFH researchers took part in the third International Singles Studies Conference, in collaboration with the International Single Studies Association!

CPFH-member in the spotlight! 👏

Another CPFH-member in the spotlight! The team is clearly present at the conference on Health and Medical Sociology 👏

The CPFH-team was on a roll at the Society for Health and Medical Sociology Conference! European Society of Health and Medical Sociology

An increasing number of young adults in their late 20's stay with their parents. "The more uncertainty there is, the more easily living alone is postponed", says CPFH researcher Dimitri Mortelmans. Read the full article on VRTnws: vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2018…

Yesterday marked the closing event of the Family Solidarity project, a four-year interdisciplinary feat for which family researchers from the University of Antwerp, Ghent University, KU Leuven and Artevelde University College joined ranks. More info via: familysolidarity.be

Meet Fee, our newest CPFH colleague! Fee has joined a BELSPO project on "boomerang children" - young adults returning to live with their parents, with a particular emphasis on how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced this trend. We wish you the best of luck, Fee!

In a recent publication, CPFH researchers Anna Willems, Dimitri Mortelmans and Anina Vercruyssen find that the intensity of informal caregiving affects preferences towards welfare distributions and policies supporting informal caregivers in Belgium: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Meet Ewan! He’s recently obtained his master's degree in sociology and has joined Karel Neels' team on the INT-LIFE project, which explores how family dynamics influence the uptake and effectiveness of active labour market policies for non-economic migrants. Welcome, Ewan!

At the Conference of the European Divorce Network in Berlin, Dimitri Mortelmans and Elke Claessens presented their cross-cohort, cross-country exploration of dissolution across Europe, while Kimberly Jacobs presented her work on children's experiences in dissolving stepfamilies.

At the end of September, our team was present at the SHARE training sessions in Munich, Germany! This session marked the start of the anniversary edition of SHARE, celebrating 20 years of SHARE and the start of our fieldwork. More info on share-project.be

We're excited to introduce Fien, who recently joined the Co-PRIME project (co-prime.be) as a PhD researcher in our team. She will work on developing and evaluating an intervention to support the mental health of infants and their parents. Welcome, Fien!

In a recent publication, Julie Maes and Leen Marynissen delve into the underlying mechanisms through which the transition to parenthood exacerbates gender inequality in the division of paid work for couples with different migration backgrounds: mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/6…

In an interview for Libelle, Dimitri Mortelmans emphasizes the need for society to better understand and accommodate the perspectives of solo-living individuals. Link to the full article (in Dutch): libelle.be/familie/alleen…

In Gazet Van Antwerpen, CPFH researcher Elke Claessens considers the benefits and disadvantages of Birdnesting - the phenomenon where separated parents alternate living with their children in the original family household: m.gva.be/cnt/dmf2024102…

We bid farewell to our friend and colleague, who, after eight impactful years, is leaving the Centre for Population, Family and Health (CPFH) at the University of Antwerp. She will be greatly missed! Good luck in your next chapter, Nina! #goodbye #thankyou #CPFH