Family diversity
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Oakley - growth of diversity
marketing and advertising often uses what it sees as a typical family to sell products
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allen and crow - reasons for diversification
rising divorce rate, increase in lone parent households,cohabitation,decline in marriage rates,rise in number of stepfamillies,more reconstituted famillies
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Roseneil
-the development of chosen famillies to the breakdown of the hetronorm
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Dench, Gavron, Young - Bethanal green
study in 1990's found that individualism replaced nuclear working class famillies in which cohabitation,divorce, seperation and lone parenthood were all comon.only Bangladeshi had a dominant pattern of convetional family life chester
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chester-the neo-convential family
challenges that the nuclear family is threatened by diversity, statistics are misleading
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silva and smart- agreeing with chester
cohabitating and married coules, many of whom have children or go on too remaind important to contemporary family life
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somerville-decline in trad familly exaggerated.
changes taking place : sex outside of marriage is common,more couple have no kids,increasing no of lone parents, greater diversity due to ethnic groups
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Bhatti- cultural diversity asian
asains hav strong family loyalty and maintain traditional family practices, male breadwinner, woman saw fam role as most important duty
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the police studies institute -afro carribean
found british african -carribean households had fewer long term partners and high rates of divorce and seperation
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chamberlain - afro carribean
brothers sisters uncles and aunts have more importance in a-c famiillies that in white british famillies.
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morgan- lone parenthood
changing relationships between men and women as important, with greater equality between the sexes making it more feasible for women to bring up children on there own , employment opportuinties for women encouge them to be non dependent on men. l
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british social attitudes survey - lone parent hood
younger age groups more accepting if parenthood outside marriage.its no longer regarded as necessary for an unmarried couple to legitimize a birth by having a shot gun wedding. still a disaproval of teenage pregnancies.
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murray - dependeccy culture
increase in lone parenthood is a result of an overgenerous welfare system which makes it possible for lone parents to live on benefits with housing provided by state created a culture of dependency.
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allan and crow
most lone mothers find a new partner within a few years and do not rely upon benefits through out there offsprings chidhood
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feinstien
used data from the british cohort study and found that working class parents show less interest in there childrens education than middle class parents
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blackstone and mortimore
working class just as interested in childrens education as middle-class parent but its just more difficult for them to take an active role in ssupporting them less knowlegde of edu system
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giddens - relashion ships in the modern world
intimate relationships have changed with modernity,
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beck and beck-gernshim
see individualization as the main characteristic of modernlife
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drew - social policy
different gender regimes in different goverments : familistic- suport trad nuclear fams , indivuidualistic -m and w should be treated the same
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abott and wallace- social pollice
the government of magret thatcher and john major did follow some pollicies supporting trad fam eg changed tax polies so cohab equal to married
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somerville- social police
althoughtony blairs government recognised diversity, it idealized fam life as a working example of mutual independence, care and resposibility and increased expectations about parental responsibility
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rising divorce rate, increase in lone parent households,cohabitation,decline in marriage rates,rise in number of stepfamillies,more reconstituted famillies
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allen and crow - reasons for diversification
Card 3
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-the development of chosen famillies to the breakdown of the hetronorm
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Card 4
Front
study in 1990's found that individualism replaced nuclear working class famillies in which cohabitation,divorce, seperation and lone parenthood were all comon.only Bangladeshi had a dominant pattern of convetional family life chester
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Card 5
Front
challenges that the nuclear family is threatened by diversity, statistics are misleading
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