Sociology : Family : Family Diversity

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Cohabitation : Morgan
Suggests the reason we cohabit is because we are scared of divorce.
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Cohabitation : Flour and Buchanan
Marriage is no longer economically necessary for women so fewer are choosing to get married.
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Cohabitation : Coast
Defined cohabitation as a sexual but non-married partnership. More people have experienced it and more people accept it as a balid living arrangement.
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Cohabitation : Evaluation : Wilson
1991 - 2001 = 82% married were still together comparedto 61% of cohabiting couples.
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Cohabitation : Evaluation : Crow
Families are becoming more democratic and based on choice but the amount of change is overstated, there has always been a vareity of family types but people were more discrete.
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Lone-Parents : Lewis 2012
There has been government and EU policy encouraging women back into work, especially those with children. Women can financially support themselves and their children so they don't have to stay in unhappy marriages.
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Lone-Parents : Evaluation
Many women delay having children and many are being raised by grandparents or childminders, thus parent relationships are being effected.
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Single parents families by choice : Drew
Marriage is a matter of choice and people who marry have higher expectations of happiness and if they are not met they are more likely to leave and start again.
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Single parents families by choice : Evaluation : Dennis and Erdos
Lone parent families damage children. They argue children need a father figure for discipline and as a role model. They identify underachievement in education and juvenile delinquency as more likely.
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Blended/Reconstituted : Allan and Crow 2001
Suggests lack of research into blended families because they come across as a 'normal' nuclear family and seen as a solution to the 'problem' of the lone parent family.
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Blended/Reconstituted : Evaluation : Burgoyne and Clark
Claim blended families suffer from problems which other family types do not e.g. problems with co-parenting.
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Same Sex : Fitzgeral
Found there is no evidence that same sex families influence their childrens sexual orientation and they don't encourage behaviour that is 'inappropriate' for their sex.
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Same Sex : Evaluation
There is evidence to suggest same sex relationships have high domestic violence.
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Same Sex : Evaluation : Donovan et al
Men tend to report more sexual abuse than men.
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Nuclear Family : Young and Wilmott
Industrialised society meant families spent more time together and became more equal e.g. shared housework.
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Nuclear Family : Chester
The nuclear family is still the most dominant. Even if we don't spend all our lives in one, the vast majority of people are part of one at some point.
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Nuclear Family : Leach
The nuclear family is still the ideal family type and is what we advertise as the perfect cereal packet family.
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Nuclear Family : Evaluation
These studies are really dated, the nuclear family can't be the most dominant as 42% of marriages end with divorce and this doesn't include shell marriages.
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Singlehood : Wilkinson
Feminisation of the labour force - Gender Quake
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Singlehood : Lambert
Women have financial independence ans so are delaying marriage and cohabitation. F.I.T.T.
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Singlehood : Giddens
Confluent love - women look for soul mates and they won't settle till they find it, but men are not socialised to provide this.
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Singlehood : Evaluation
Bridget Jones Syndrome - women are lonely
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Extended Families : Parsons
This type of family was normally in pre-industrial society but rare today. Extended families gave way to isolated nuclear family.
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Extended Families : Wilmott
Contact with kin is important for middle and working class, despite the distance 2/3 of couples saw relatives at least weekly.
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Extended Families : O'Brien and Jones
The decline in the extended family and growth of the 'privatised nuclear family' but importance was still on visiting kinship.
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Multi-Cultural Families
Afro-Caribbean's have the lowest marriage rate and the highest proportion of never married mothers - more likely to be a lone parent with 50% containing one adult with dependent children.
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Multi-Cultural Families : Pryce
Described the typical afro-Caribbean family as turbulent.
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Multi-Cultural Families : Berthoud
Suggests that the attitude of young Caribbean women is 'individualism' which means many choose to live independently from fathers. Grandparents can provide a source of unpaid childcare.
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Multi-Cultural Families : Evaluation : Berthoud 2000
Argues that everyone is moving in the same direction but Pakistanis and Bangladeshis move slower.
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Marriage is no longer economically necessary for women so fewer are choosing to get married.

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Cohabitation : Flour and Buchanan

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Defined cohabitation as a sexual but non-married partnership. More people have experienced it and more people accept it as a balid living arrangement.

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1991 - 2001 = 82% married were still together comparedto 61% of cohabiting couples.

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Families are becoming more democratic and based on choice but the amount of change is overstated, there has always been a vareity of family types but people were more discrete.

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