Rise in Single Person Households

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Rise in Single Person Households

Causes

  • Deliberate choice to live alone
  • Temporary arrangement due to circumstances (e.g. partnership break up)
  • No choice - death of a partner
  • Jobs, money and geographic mobility
  • Age and gender
  • Changing attitudes

Effects

  • Continual rise in one-person households
  • People who choose to live alone are happy
  • Changing attitudes

Overall summary

Writers :-Hall et al (1999)McRae (1999)

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