Why is there a decline in traditional families
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- Created on: 12-04-17 11:35
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- Why is there a decline in traditional families
- More same sex families
- There are only a very small number of same sex families but has now become more socially acceptable.
- This because of campaigns by gay rights groups and changes in laws. e.g being able to teach about same sex relationships in schools and an equal age of consent
- Gay couples can adopt
- There are only a very small number of same sex families but has now become more socially acceptable.
- Cohabitation
- Less people practice religion nowadays. So they do not see living together or having a child outside marriage a sin.
- Sue Sharpe (2001) suggests that awareness of divorce is one reason why young people see it as a choice than a neccessity
- More lone-parent families
- The Divorce Act in the 1960s made it easier for people to get a divorce and usually one parent gets custody of the child
- More familes from diverse cultural backgrounds
- In the 1950s more people have come to live in the UK, for many reasons including needing asylum from war and including violence, joining family members who already live here.
- European law that allows people from the European Union to work in the UK
- More same sex families
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