Families and Households - Increase in family diversity
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- Created on: 07-10-18 13:36
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- Explaining the long term increase in family diversity
- Late modernism
- Negotiated relationships are more work today - people prefer to be single
- It's not just about choice - structural, economic and social changes make the nuclear family less attractive
- Postmodern
- Same factors as relating to declining marriage and increasing divorce
- Individuals less constrained by religion and tradition
- Less stigma around single parent families and step parent families
- Reflects greater individual choice in postmodern society
- Economic Factors
- Increasing wealth explains long term increase in single parent families
- Rising house costs and general cost of living
- explains recent increase in multi generational and kidult families
- Feminism - changing gender roles
- Women establishing careers before marriage - more single parent families
- Most women now work and can afford to leave marriage and form single parent families
- The New Right
- See the decline of nuclear families as part of a wider moral decline
- Blame welfare policies for encouraging single parent families
- Social Policies
- Equal pay act
- Welfare
- Divorce act
- Late modernism
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