FAMILY TYPES
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- Created on: 15-04-16 16:35
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- FAMILY TYPES
- Singlehood
- Nuclear
- a heterosexual couple living together with their dependent children
- decreasing
- the number of people living in family homes with children fell from 52% in 1961 to 36% in 2009
- 3 Reasons
- increase in other types of families e.g. singlehood
- fewer people gettting marriied and at an older age
- birth rates reducing due to emancipation of women and contraception advances
- Research
- ONS says their social trends 40 reports, 28% of home are single person households and 29% contain childless couples
- a heterosexual couple living together with their dependent children
- Beanpole
- a family whose members come from many generations, but with few members in each generation
- increasing
- average life expectancy for men is 81 and 83 for women
- 3 Reasons
- - modern family trees are longer and thinner - fewer people but living longer
- more great grandparents are surviving
- life expectancy increase
- Research
- McGlone - family an important source of emotional and practical support. Now a major source of care
- Dykstra & Knipscheer - older parents are not isolated from their siblings and children, 75% older people have monthly contact with at least 1 sibling
- Brannen - At the age of 50, 3/5 of the UK population have at least one parent still alive and over 1/3 are grandparents
- vertical links between generations are strengthened by increasing life expectancy, horizontal links are weakening due to divorce rate rise, fertility rate fall etc.
- a family whose members come from many generations, but with few members in each generation
- Same Sex
- a couple of the same sex marries, cohabiting or in a civil partnership
- same sex familes with children was 0.06% in 2016
- same sex families without children was 0.7% in 2013
- inceasing
- 3 Reasons
- legal for gay marriages
- same sex couples can adopt children
- more socially accepted
- Research
- same sex marriage became legal on the 13th march as the marriage (same sex couples) act
- a couple of the same sex marries, cohabiting or in a civil partnership
- Extended
- A family with 2 gnerations who live together/nearby or with 3 or more generations living close by
- Increasing
- 73% of over 18's had experienced life as part of household containing more than one generation of adults
- 3 Reasons
- finacial - rise in housing costs
- people are living longer
- care - its cheaper to care for own families rather than put them in a care home
- Research
- Bernerd Fletcher (2000) supprt definition of extended family as vertical extension of core nuclear family to include 3rd/4th generation
- A family with 2 gnerations who live together/nearby or with 3 or more generations living close by
- Blended
- the joining of two adults via marriage, cohabitation or civil partnership, where one or both has children from previous relationships
- increasing
- 10% families have 2 adult parents with children from more than 1 relationship
- 3 Reasons
- more socially acceptable
- rising divorce rates
- more couples re-marrying
- Research
- step families with depenadent children account for 7% of all families and there is evidence of increase
- the joining of two adults via marriage, cohabitation or civil partnership, where one or both has children from previous relationships
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