Family and Household Diversity
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- Created on: 20-01-16 19:53
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- Family and Household Diversity
- The Classic Extended Family
- The Modified Extended Family
- Family members may live apart but still keep in touch with each other
- Family stay in touch through social media, email, letters
- Modern families find a way to stay in touch with each other
- The South Asian Communities
- Extended families tend to be larger than those from the UK
- Extended family life is still an important source of strength and support in these communities
- Traditional Working Class Communities
- Close-knit community life
- Long established communities dominated by one industry
- Little geographic and social mobility
- Children usually remain in the same area when they get married
- The Beanpole Family
- Great grandparents
- Grandparents
- Parents
- Children
- Grandchildren
- Great grandchildren
- Grandchildren
- Children
- Parents
- Grandparents
- People are living longer so there is an increase in 3/4/5 generation families
- Great grandparents
- The Modified Extended Family
- The MYTH of the Cereal Packet Family
- Why is it so misleading?
- The cereal packet family stereotype of a working father married to a home based mother taking care of two kids only makes up about 5% of all households
- No longer the best and most desirable type of family
- 'Natural family'
- Stereotype
- Traditional family life is being eroded
- Households and families
- Only 21% contained a married couple with dependent children
- 12% lived in lone parent families
- Families with dependent children
- In 2013 25% were lone parent families
- A number of these involved cohabiting
- Same sex couples with dependent children don't conform to the cereal packet image
- Untitled
- In 2013 25% were lone parent families
- Why is it so misleading?
- Cultural Diversity
- Caribbean families
- 'Modern individualism'
- Individual choice, independence and commitment based on the quality of relationships rather than custom, duty or a marriage certificate
- Low rates of marriage
- High rates of lone parenthood
- Lone parenthood is higher amongst Caribbean women than any other ethnic group
- Over 1/2 are never married lone parents compared to 1/10 white mothers
- Untitled
- 'Modern individualism'
- South Asian Families
- Extended family relationships are more common in minority ethnic groups
- Based on 'old fashioned values'
- Commitment to marriage, tight-knit families, strong sense of family loyalty, births within marriage, respect for parents
- Women's roles as housewives, having a large number of children
- Arranged marriages, husband's authority over wife's
- Women look after their family full time
- Married by 25, low divorce rates
- Caribbean families
- Social Class Diversity
- Modified extended families more common in working class
- Privatized nuclear families more common in middle class
- Growth in Singlehood
- 1/3 households contains 1 person living alone
- Under 1/2 are over pension age
- Growth of younger people living alone
- Decline in marriage, rise in divorce
- LAT relationships
- Autonomy, freedom
- Regional Diversity
- The way life differs in different geographical locations
- The highest no. of people living on the coast are those who are aged 65+
- Older industrial areas tend to have more extended families
- Inner cities have more poverty and ethnic minorities
- Traditional Route
- Living at home, leaving school, going into a job or higher education, then settling down
- The Classic Extended Family
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