diversity and the decline of the conventional families

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dench garvron and young

carried out study in bethnal green in the 1990's to follow up young an dwillmotts study of the area from the 1950's. they found that earlier family patterns where wc residents lived in nuclear families with strong kinship links disappeared

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dench garvron and young 2

they have been replaced by the new individualism in which cohabitation, divorce, separation and lone parenthood were all more common.

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robert chester the neoconventional family?

he found the following features of family life have remained stable since ww2. most people are still getting married, met children are reared by natural parents, most people live in a household headed by a married couple, most people stay married.

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robert chester the neoconventional family?2

although the situation has changed since chester most of the above is still true

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statistics show

in 2020 70% of people were still living in household headed by couples. this represented a fall from 815 in 1971 but was still a large majority of the population.

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chester

believes that one major change has taken place in the life of nuclear families, a change in the roles of husband and wife. he accepts that, increasingly married women are employed outside the home and he calls this type of family neoconventional

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they have been replaced by the new individualism in which cohabitation, divorce, separation and lone parenthood were all more common.

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