Family diversity
- Created by: lw121x
- Created on: 10-05-15 10:22
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- Diversity in the family
- important trends
- nuclear family fall
- upset New Right
- divorce increase
- few 1st time marriages
- more couples cohabitating
- fewer children
- more same sex couples
- births outside marriage
- more lone parents
- nuclear family fall
- Statistics
- 2005 lowest marriage rate
- only 35% marriages religious ceremony
- but only 51% 1991
- 2003 44% young married 1991 63%
- divorce doubled 1961-69
- Patricia Morgan found that in Britain the marriage has not been supported by tax system
- British Social Attitudes Survey people still want to be married
- Cohabitation
- Berrington Diamond found that it was more common married before
- fastest growing family type in UK
- 1/4 cohabitating
- Same sex marriages
- 1967 decriminalised
- One person households 3/10 doubled 1960's
- half of these pensioners
- Child Bearing
- one in 4 born outside of marriage
- more women childless
- Lone Parent Families
- 1/4 families lone parent
- 90% headed by women
- 2 x as likely poverty
- family planning associating UK teen pregnancies largest in Europe
- England + Wales 6 x more than Netherlands
- important trends
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