Family and House Holds: Demography
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- Family and House Holds: Demography
- Family Size
- Families are smaller due to increase in life span.
- Extended family is easier to contact due to new tech
- House hold structure is more diverse as are family types
- Birth and Fertility Rates
- Baby booms after the 1st and 2nd Word wars
- Decrease in the long term.
- Reasons for decrease
- Change in rigidity of gender roles
- Falling infant mortality rates
- Children now an economic burden rather than an asset
- Reasons for decrease
- Beck and Gernsheim (1995) people more concerned with their individual needs.
- 60's Contraception became readily available
- Death Rates
- Steady decline in death rates
- Reasons for decline
- NHS provisions
- Improved maternity care
- Decrease in infections diseases.
- Education: Health, hygiene, Diet..
- Impacts of decline.
- Greater life expectancy (approx 80)
- Greater dependancy ratio
- More pensions for GVMT to pay for
- More bean pole family structures
- Grandparents play a greater role in family life such as child care.
- Social Policy: Welfare and NHS.
- Decline in death rates.
- Decline in infant mortality
- Plays a part in care for the elderly.
- Migration
- 1/4 of all babies born in the UK are the children of immigrants.
- More diversity of family structures.
- Asian families typically have a closer relationship with extended family.
- Family Size
- Natural Change: The difference in birth and death rate
- Dependancy Ratio: The number of dependant people to working people a specific country.
- Hybrid Identity: An identity that is made up of 2 or more identities.
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