Families and households

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What percentage of lone parent families in the UK are headed by mothers?
Around 90%
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What are the four functions that Murdock uses?
Reproduction, sexual, economic, socialisation
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Who focuses on the Equal Opportunities Act 1970?
The New Right
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What does Engels discuss?
Promiscuous horde
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Who says that the nuclear family benefits men and the capitalist class rather than all its members?
Benson
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What is an empty shell marriage?
Where an unhappy couple stays together for a reason such as children with no love left
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Who proposes the 'march of progress' view?
Wilmott + Young
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What does Postman say about childhood?
That it is disappearing
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What is net migration?
The difference between those immigrating and those emigrating
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What does Squire 2003 talk about?
Matrifocal families
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Who critiques Parsons?
Laslett
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What did Evans and Chandler look into?
Pester power
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What do Marxist-feminists focus on?
Domestic violence
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How did the Matrimonial and family proceedings act change the amount of time a couple has to be together before they can divorce?
3 years to 1 year
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Which perspective favours individualism and choice?
Late modernity
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What does Smart say about family?
It goes beyond kin and marriage - Personal life perspective
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Who believes that the nuclear family remains dominant?
Chester
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What is common in the Asian culture compared to other ethnicities?
It is more traditional
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