Changing family patterns - Parents and children 2.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? SociologyFamilies and householdsASAQA Created by: Former MemberCreated on: 09-05-13 17:58 STEP families Acount for over 10% of families Reasons - increase in divorce Greater risk of poverty if the man has to support more children 86% of families have at least 1 child from a previous marriage 1 of 3 LONE-PARENT families Children are twice as likely to live in poverty 24% of all families Over 90% are headed my mothers Welfare state - MURRAY - 'Perserve insentives', over genrous welfare state Reasons - Increase in divorce, women share the expressive role (BOTT) 2 of 3 CHILDBEARING More women are remaing childless Women are having children later - 27.3 (2005) Over 4 in every 10 children are born out of marriage Women are having fewer children - 1.84 (2006) Reasons - Cohabitation, women are having children later when women are less firtile 3 of 3
1) Changing patterns of; marriage, cohabitation, separation, divorce, child-bearing and the life-course, and the diversity of the contemporary family and household structures 3.0 / 5 based on 1 rating
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