1. Organisational diversity: families vary in their structures, the ways they organise their domestic division of labour and their social networks like links to extended family. Family structures that illustrate this sort of diversity include conventional nuclear families, one-parent, reconstituted and dual worker families.
2. Cultural diversity: families differ in their cultural values and beliefs. These different beliefs and values can affect people's life styles and ideas about gender roles, child-rearing, education and paid work.
3. Social class diversity: a families social class position affects the resources available to its members, role relationships between partners, and childbearing practices such as how parents discipline their children.
4. Life-course diversity: the stage in the family life-cycle that a particular family has reached. Newlyweds without children, families with young children and retired couples are all in different stages of the life cycle.
5. Cohort diversity: the particular period time in which a family passes through different stages of the family life-cycle. For example, over time divorce has lost its social stigma.
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