Changing family patterns Flashcards
What are two of the biggest increases in household types?
Single person households and lone parent households, especially matrifocal ones(women being the head).
how much did the amount of single person households increase by int the 10 years between 2003-2013 and why might this be?
500,000, related to the increasing umber of divorces and the rise in the amount of over 65s living alone.
what is the fastest growing household type?
Multi family households increasing by 56% between 2004 and 2014.
how much did cohabitation grow from 1996 to 2012?
By 2.9 million couples.
What is a Beanpole family?
Increased life expectancy leads becoming closer to their grandparents and even great grandparents seeing them live with eachother in some cases.
Rapoport and Rapoports five types of family diversity.
- organisational diversity-difference in family structure.
- Cultural diversity- Differences arising from different norms and values of different cultures.
- class diversity- different relationships between parents and children of different class due to boarding school etc…
- life course diversity
- cohort diversity- difference created by historical periods, children who reached maturity during the 1980s may have depended on their parents longer due to high rate of unemployment.
What is Giddens’ individualisation thesis?
individual choice dictates family relationships:
- fixed roles no longer exist and people are free to make their own decision.
- Relationships no longer need to be maintained due to fixed social expectations.
What year did the lowest number of marriages take place in england and wales?
2009
Duncan and Philips’ discovery?
As many as half of the uks ‘single’ population as of 2013 were in a serious relationship however they were not cohabiting nor married.(living apart together).
How much did the average age of men and women getting married increase by between 1971 and 2011
8 years.
what percentage of marriages within the UK end in divorce?
More than 40%.
Why has the number of divorces fallen since 2000?
People marrying later on in their life course as well as the increasing number of cohabiters.
Main social and political factors explaining the increase of divorces in England and Wales?
- Easier to obtain due to acts such as the matrimonial causes act of 1973.
- Divorce is more socially acceptable.
- Higher expectations of marriage and better employment opportunities for women make them less financially dependent on their husbands.
- Marriages are increasingly focused on individual emotional fulfilment.
Sheerans theory?
Female core carer families are the most basic family unit evidenced by 90% of families being headed by a woman.
Cheal’s theory?
Postmodern society has lead to a break down of the traditional. Family structures have became fragmented and people now have more choice in their life. There is no longer one single type of family.
