Familes & Households
- Created by: Jessica Speight
- Created on: 08-05-14 14:20
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- Families and households
- Beanpole
- A beanpole family is a family with one or more children who maintain regular contact with grandparents.
- Reconstitued
- A family which one or both partners bring children from a previous relationship.
- 2) these type of families cause tension as there is a lack of clear roles between adults.
- 1) 700,000 children are living in a reconstituted family in 2001
- A family which one or both partners bring children from a previous relationship.
- Extended
- Extended
- A family containing relatives in addition to the nuclear family.
- Classic extended
- A family containing relatives in addition to the nuclear family but also living together in the same residence.
- Modified extended
- A family containing relatives in addition to the nuclear family but not living together and only partially dependant on eachother
- Has the extended family disapeared?
- Young & Wilmott: the extended family support network had disapeared in the 70's due to 3 factors:
- 2) better transport meaning we can get around the country easier for better jobs
- 1)Rising wages and the welfare state
- 3)Reduction in the number of children at home, more entertainment at home.
- Young & Wilmott: the extended family support network had disapeared in the 70's due to 3 factors:
- Extended
- Ethnicity
- Black families
- 3)MIRZA higher rate of lone parent families reflects high values that black women place on independance
- 2) Black men are less able to provide therefore higher rates of desertion and marriage breakdown
- 4)REYNOLDS lone parents are stable and supportive
- 1)Black Caribbean are the highest proportion of lone parent families
- Asian families
- 2) Sometimes contain 3 generations .
- 1)Indian families are larger and least likely to live in a single parent family.
- 3)Need bigger families for support .
- Black families
- Homosexual
- Civil partnership act 2004
- Encourages gay and lesbian families as it allows them to get a civil partnership
- Changing in social attitude such as less strict religion has led to homoexuality being accepted and legalised in 1967
- New technology, adoption and surragacy allows homosexuals to have children.
- Civil partnership act 2004
- Life cycle
- The idea that everyone goes through cohabitation, the nuclear family and singlehood
- Beanpole
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