change in family patterns

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  • change in family patterns
    • changes to marriage
      • Fewer people are getting married
      • The divorce rate has gone up less stigma
      • People are marrying later in life
    • changes to partnership
      • There are more same sex couples and this is now legally recognised
      • More couples are ‘co-habiting’ (living together)
      • There are more people living alone
    • changes to children and families
      • Women are having fewer or no children
      • More births outside marriage
      • More step families (as a result of divorce and re-marriage)
      • More lone parent families
    • the Rappaports 5 types of family diversity
      • class
        • inequalities in lifestyle.
          • wealth and income
          • type of housing
          • financial problems
      • cohort
        • a cohort of individuals refer to those born in the same year.
        • Birth control pill.
        • Born in the time of comprehensive schools.
      • Organisational diversity
        • refers to the different types of family structure
          • single parent
          • reconstituted family
          • extended family
      • life course
        • the way the family changes through there life
          • divorce
          • remarriage
          • widow
          • birth of children
      • cultural ethnics
        • Britain is a multi ethnic society
          • Asian families
          • migration

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