The Growth of Family Diversity
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- Created on: 12-05-13 18:15
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- The growth of family diversity
- What is family diversity?
- Family diversity suggests that in any one era, no particular type of family is dominant or can be considered as the norm.
- Anderson - there has always been a diversity of family types.
- The cereal packet image of the family
- Found in the media
- Oakley - marketing and advertising often tries to sell products to what is seen as the typical family.
- Thorne - believes that gender, generation, race and class result in widely varying experiences of family lif
- Stereotype of the nuclear family misleading and there is no sense of family diversity.
- Family diversity in Britain
- Rapopports - spotted that the nuclear family has become the minority.
- Increase in more diverse family structures.
- Types of diversity
- Organizational - variations in family structure and the division of labour within the home.
- Cultural - differences in lifestyles between families of ethnic backgrounds and religious back grounds
- Class - families of upper, middle and lower class.
- Stage in life cycle - where families are in the stages of their lives.
- Cohort - group born over the same time period, have different family pattern to those of their parents generation.
- Reasons for diversification
- Allan and Crow - diversification has continued and there is no set course to the life cycle. also reflects on individualism - life choices.
- Rising in divorce increase in lone parent households.
- Increase in number of stepfamilies as remarriage becomes more socially acceptable.
- Rise in the number of couples cohabiting.
- New types of diversity
- Weeks and Donovan - increase in gay and lesbian households.
- Surrogate motherhood - this is due to the advances in new technologies.
- What is family diversity?
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