Family Diversity Flashcards
Extended families - Brannen
Beanpole family-childcare, care for elderly relatives, long thin structure = low birth rates
Extended families - Wilmott
Even though the extended family is disperse, we still have contact through the internet/technology
Extended families- O’Brien and Jones
In their study they found 72% of respondents had been visited by a relative in the past week and 22% had a large network of local kin
Extended families- Ross Et Al
Suggests integration ties were stronger than ever with grandparents and grandchildren seeing each other regularly
Extended families- Phillipson and Downs
Found grandchildren visit their elderly relatives on a regular basis - particularly important for teenagers
Nuclear family- Young and Wilmott
Symmetrical balance family - more equal sharing of roles, extended family plays less of a role, closer relationships
Nuclear family- Chester
Nuclear family’s are still the most dominant and at some point we are in a nuclear family
Nuclear family- Leach
Cereal packet family (ideal family type), encouraged to see as perfect
Blended- Allan and Crow
Little research into blended families as they are seen the same as nuclear - “solving the problem of lone-parent families”
Blended- Burgoyne and Clark
Blended families suffer additional problems to nuclear families
Cohabitation- Morgan
Suggests that the reason we cohabit is because we are scared of divorce
Cohabitation- Flour and Buchanon
Argue that marriage is no longer economically necessary for women so fewer are choosing to get married
Cohabitation- Coast
Defines cohabitation as a “sexual but non-married partnership”. Teenagers now accept a period of cohabitation even if the marriage is the long term goal
Lone parent- Hart
The growth in lone parent is largely due to the accessibility of divorce. “Opportunities to escape”
Lone parent- Lewis
Notes there has been a change in government and EU policy, encouraging women back into work, especially those with children e.g. free childcare
Lone parent- Drew
Marriage is now a matter of choice and people who marry have higher expectations of happiness and if they are not met they are more likely to leave and start again
Lone-person - Wilkinson
States that we have had a ‘feminisation of the labour force or a ‘genderquake’. A shift in the economy to service sector work, which benefits women
Lone-person - Lambert
Notes that the growth of ‘financially independent women in their 20s and 30s’ has meant these women opt to live alone to prioritise careers
Lone-person - Giddens
Believes relationships are increasingly based on confluent live meaning emotional deep intimacy. We seek a pure relationship
Same sex - Calhoun
Is of the opinion that same sex households and relationships should be regarded as a normal nuclear family . Same sex families are just a variegation of the nuclear family theme.
Same sex - Hartley-Brewer
Maintained that the nuclear family was changing and the emphasis was on the fact a child has loving parents regardless of their sexual orientation
Same sex - Hopkins et al
Suggests many same-sex couples are not ‘sexual strangers’, rather they are marries with children and are the same in structure as the nuclear family
