3.9 Family Diversity

Question 1

What impacts family diversity?

Answer 1

Social class diversity: Modified extended families tend to be more common in working class whereas privatized nuclear families are more common in upper classes. Charles 2008 - classic extended families were practically extinct.

And Regional diversity: 2011 census data showed older industrial areas and very transitional rural communities tend to have more extended families. And inner cities have a higher proportion of families in poverty, lone parent families and ethnic minority families.