changing patterns - cohabition, family types, childbearing, LPFs, globalisation Flashcards
cohabition
cohabition?
- unmarried couples living together increased
- 3.3mil families cohabiting
- same sex most likely to
cohabition
meaning of cohabition?
- temporary/ informal arrangement
- alternative to marriage, long term, stable & commited partnership without legal commitment
- preperation/trial for marriage, Chester: 80% 1st marriages preceded: cohabition
cohabition
Chandler?
- long term alternative, increase children born outside of marriage registered by both parents living at same address
cohabition
Benjin?
- young people choice cohabition: equal relationship than a (patriachal) marriage
cohabition - reasons
changing role of women?
- succesful in education, pursue own career
- less wiling to take on demands associated with housewife & mother role
- financhally independant & equality in cohabition: less need for marriage
cohabition - reasons
changing social attitudes & decline in stigma ?
- young people more cohabiting than older: attitudes
cohabition - reasons
increase secularisation?
- 2001 census: young people w no religion belief cohabit
cohabition - reasons
higher divorce rate ?
- cohabit instead of marriage
- remarriage increased
cohabition - reasons
Beck - reducing risk ?
- risk society, expecially effected by risk of divorce, cohabit to avoid risk w long term legal commitment
family types
extended family?
- family outside “nucleas”: aunts, uncles, cousins & grandparents
- vertical: multiple generations living together (grand parents & great grandparents)
- horizontal: aunts, uncles & cousins, uncommon in 20th century, pre-industrial & early industrial
- life expectancy then: horizontal, aging pop: vertical
family types
beanpole family?
- vertically extended w little or few “branches”
- multi-generational extended family/ vertically extended
- few siblings: fertility rate decreased: common
family types
matrifocial lone parent families?
- LP: mother of children, women given custody
- new right- murray: critise LPFs, lack male role model: deviant behaviour & anti-social children: underclass
family types
reconstituted families?
- 2 NFs split up & merge to form new (step-parents, step-brothers)
- rise in divorce & marriage decrease: common
family types
same sex couples?
- couple living w out children, or w children (adopted/natural)
- homosexual
family types
living apart together?
- not to cohabit, 10% adults in uk
family types
empty nest families?
- couples whos children have left home, ageing population
family types
boomerang families?
- children who have left home come back, after uni
family types
childbearing?
- families getting smaller: low BR
- women less children/ delaying until older/ never having any
childbearing
Murray?
- overgenerous welfare state, rise in LPs
- encourages women to have children, NF decreasing
- created a “perverse incentives”: rewarding irresponsable behaviour
- creates dependancy culture: rely on benefits
childbearing
Feminists - Siwa?
- critical of NR, concern of LPs
- welfare state is to push women back into traditional roles, undermine equality & independance of women
lone parenthood
lone parenthood
- rise in LPFs: SPFs
- 3x since 1971 britain: highest in europe
- 2019: 2.9 mil LPFs, 14.9% families
- london: 19.1% highest, SW England 10.9% lowest
- 9/10 matrifocial
globalisation: impact on changing family
Black Caribbean & black African families: high LPFs
Berthoud
- 2018: 24% black families were SPFs, 10% white
- Berthoud: “modern individualism” : choice, individuality, quality of relationships
globalisation: impact on changing family
Bangledehs, pakistani, indian families tend to be larger
Ballard?
- some households have 3 generations, rising value place on extended families in Asian cultures
globalisation: impact on changing family
European immigrants?
- high rates of NF & decreasing divorce rates
- shared households tempary
- european immigration decreased: brexit
