6. social pressures discourage young people to live a single life because society portrays marriage life as the ideal state.
BERNARDES
WASOFF
STEIN
7. Argues that families are becoming 'neo conventional' where woman work for at least part of their lives.
CHESTER
POSTMAN
JEFFRIES
8. people see children as a burden, restricting individual choices and reducing personal fulfillment
BECK AND BECK-GERNSHEIM
ROSS
JERROME
9. used diaries from 3000 parents to discover the amount of time parents played with or read to their children. this had increased dramatically throughout generations, showing both mother's and father's parenting skills had improved over time
ARIES
GERSHUNY
OAKLY
10. most families live in households, but not all households are families.
CHAPMAN
LAWSON AND GERROLD
CHESTER
11. a secularised society has resulted in marriage becoming less of a sacred, spirtiual commitment in the eyes of god. Instead, it can be 'abandoned if it fails'
BERTHOUD
GIBSON
WILSON
12. carried out a survey and found that women spent roughly 100 hours per week on domestic tasks, 41 being childcare, compared to their husbands 48 hours of paid work
JEFFERIES
WARNER
POSTMAN
13. the reason for the change in family structure, is because the working class are expeirencing a more comfortable lifestyle, shorter working days ect, encouraging them to lead more privitised and nuclear families.
JENKS
WILLMOT AND YOUNG
FUREDI
14. homosexual couples look upon their household and family networks as chosen families.
DEVINE
WEEKS
FOSTER
15. the post-modern position allows individuals to make their own choices, leading to a less judgemental society as all types of diverse family structures becomes accepted
WALLIS
NEALE
LAWSON AND GARROD
16. women seek divorce in response to being treated as 'domestic slaves'
HART
MURRAY
RAPPORTS
17. argues children are becoming increasingly important to the consumer market. Children's tastes and choices in toys, games etc. have a major effect on what is purchased and produced.
SMART
BUCKINGHAM
FREUDI
18. argues the boundaries of childhood is breaking down, and it will come to an end. TV increasing shows real life scenarios, sex, disaster, death. Children dress, talk and act more like adults than ever before.
GERSHUNY
POSTMAN
PALMER
19. the traditional segregated division of labour between men and women in the home was breaking down.
DEVINE
PARSONS
CHARLES
20. fathers can no longer rely on their jobs to provide a sense of fulfilment and identity, meaning they look to their children to give them a sense of identity and purpose. However, the main prority of the children still lays with the mother
