www.population-europe.eu Key messages: Practitioners can provide valuable insights into the situation of today’s vulnerable families and help delineate areas where policy interventions are essential. No family configuration inevitably leads to vulnerability, but some are more “at risk” than others. Decisive for family wellbeing is the ability to combine family life with paid employment. From the practitioners’ perspective, policy measures to support families in need and to prevent the “reproduction of vulnerability” from one generation to another should focus particularly on education and the reconciliation of family and working life. Vulnerability in Times of Family Diversity – A Practitioners’ View Authors: Monika Mynarska Bernhard Riederer Ina Jaschinski Desiree Krivanek Gerda Neyer Livia Oláh Editor: Ann Zimmermann Population & Policy Compact Policy Brief No. 11 June 2016