Family diversity Flashcards
Households- Increase or decrease
Increasing:
- due to more young people going into higher education so live with friends in flat to save money
- raising cost of living means people cant afford to live alone
Cohabitation- Increase or decrease
Increasing:
- decline in stigma
- Growing secularisation means that more people accept cohabitation and see no wrong in it.
Same sex family-Increase or decrease
Increasing:
- More socially accepted
- same sex marriage was legalised in 1967 and in 2005 they were able to adopt children.
- The age of consent for homosexuals are now the same as heterosexuals.
Lone parent family-Increase or decrease
Increased:
- Greater economic independence of women
- less stigmatised
- Increase in divorce rates
Reconstituted-Increase or decrease
Increase:
- Increase in divorce rates allow lone parents to join together to create step-families.
- Growing secularisation means that less people find it sinful to remarry
Extended families- Increase or decrease
classic EF= is decreasing as housing is too small to fit large families and also growing house expenses.
Modified EF= is increasing as the growth of technology making it easier for families to still stay in contact with each other even though they are geographically spread out
However both types of EF are important as they provide support both financially and emotionally.
Beanpole family- Increase or decrease
Increase:
- Ageing population means there are now more elderly people so younger people don’t just have grandparents, but also great-grandparents.
-Child-centredness – people are having fewer children
-Increased life expectancy – people are living longer as
a result of improving health care so there are several
generations in each family.
LATs- Increasing or decreasing
Increasing:
- modern technology has made it so people can get into an online relationship which can result in a long distance relationship.
- Changes in social attitudes
- Changes in employment- might mean one of the partner needs to move to another country for work
Nuclear Family- Is still the most common type of family
However it is decreasing due to:
-Fewer people marrying so there’s less pressure on
marriage
-more freedom for people that do not marry
-fear of divorce scares people from marrying
Empty nest family- Increasing or decreasing
Increasing:
- children may move out to start a new family.
- children go off to learn
But also decreasing at the same time as…
-after kids finish uni sometimes they would move back in with their parents as they cannot live independently. They are referred to as clipped wings or boomerang generation
