Family overview
Quick overview of Family.
- Created by: Charlotte Richardson
- Created on: 08-05-13 18:59
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- Family
- Difference between Household and Family
- Household: group of people living together (related or not)
- Family: people related to you either through blood or marriage
- Different family structures
- The modern nuclear family
- Reconstituted family
- Lone parent family
- Same sex family
- Empty nest family
- Beanpole family
- Conventional nuclear family
- NEW RIGHT: father= 'breadwinner' Mother= 'carer'
- Media still presents 'perfect families' ad 'nuclear families'
- FUNC: mother, father, children. Important to society
- Marriage in decline?
- Rise in cohabitation
- Rise in cost of marriage
- Easier for a divorce
- Women are more independent from men (financially)
- Social stigma decline
- Marriage is too glorified via media (people are disappointed)
- Changing family roles
- Life is becoming more equal
- Women are doing less housework due to education/ employment
- Men are doing more about the house (employed fewer hours so spend more time at home)
- Home is becoming a well visited place (entertainment is now at home, not at venues)
- Life is still unequal
- Dual burden
- Triple shift
- Invisible work
- Money management/ decision making
- Parenting/ childcare
- Life is becoming more equal
- Alternatives to family
- Not living in a family
- Communes
- Difference between Household and Family
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