Exam Questions Flashcards
Outline how family diversity may have been affected by changes in marriage in divorce
The long term decline in marriage and increase in cohabitation and divorce
People get married later: afford- move into their own houses; stay living with parents into their 30s, increasingly common in recent years
Divorces involving children likely to create single parent households- for a period of time and then many will go on to form reconstituted families
Higher rates of divorce might also explain the increase in multigenerational households- as single mothers move back in with their parents
Outline how family diversity may have been affected by post-modernisation
Postmodernists argue that the increase in the diversity of family household structures reflects the fact that we live in a diverse, tolerant society in which people are free to choose any type of family
Choose to stay single
easier to be a single parents because there is less stigma associated
Less nuclear families because of the decline of trad and religion, less social pressure for marriage, staying married, having kids, so all other options become more viable
