Families in which one or both adults in a couple bring children from a previous relationship.
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Argue that step families are at greater risk of poverty than first families as there are more children and the step father may also have to support children from a previous relationship who live else
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Families experience more poverty and they are more likely to live in poorer housing, less likely to go on family holidays and have less disposable income to spend on goods and services.
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Families tend to be more child centred as they take more interest in their children’s education and know how to work the education system.
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Argues that these family types are more socially acceptable as society is more tolerant of same sex relationships now.
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Given same sex couples the right to have their partnership legally recognised and therefore similar rights to married couples e.g. pensions, inheritance, property.
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People who live alone through choice, choosing this lifestyle, or people who live alone through no choice of their own, for example due to bereavement.
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A parent without a partner living with their dependent children.
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Sees the growth in lone parents as a consequence of an over generous welfare system that provides benefits for unmarried mothers and their children.
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Contains relatives in addition to the nuclear family e.g. grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins.
