6.1
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- Family diversity
- Functionalist perspective
- moved from extended to now isolated nuclear.
- Family had become privatised so kinship is no longer necessary
- Cereal packet family - ideological message portrayed in the media
- Most functional for society outlined by Parsons and Murdock
- Neo-conventionalist perspective
- Has been an increase in family diversity but not significant
- Biggest shift from nuclear to neo-conventional family
- Dual earners and conjugal roles are joint
- Nuclear family is in a decline
- Biggest shift from nuclear to neo-conventional family
- Has been an increase in family diversity but not significant
- Extended family
- Extended kin are less likely to live with them but stay in touch by technology
- Modified extended family
- 1.the local extended family 2. The dispersed extended family 3. The attenuated extended family
- Reasons for an increase in beanpole families
- decrease in birth rate
- smaller family sizes - fewer siblings
- increased life expectancy
- Single parent families
- Single parent families now make up 14.9% of all families with children
- reasons for single parent families
- Decline in social stigma
- CPOW
- Changes in divorce laws
- Functionalist perspective
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