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Ballard

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Asian families are more traditional

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Bhatti

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Izzat (family honour)

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Modood

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Asian families are becoming less traditional

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Bethuad

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String independent black women

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Chamberlain + Goulborne

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Afro-Caribbean mothers more likely to be supported by extended kinship

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Dale et al

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Black women tend to remain in full time employment when had children
Asian women have decreased economy activity when with a partner and children

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Rapoports

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Family life in britian characterized by diversity

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Foster

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Extended family live close by for working class

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Oakley

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Middle class more symmetrical
Idea of helping wife with houseowir implies it is her work
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Fitzgerald + weeks

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Children from same sex couples no different

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Chester

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Most people want marriage and children, happily ever after

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Ashford

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British have very traditional families

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De’Ath

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Tensions in reconstituted family as confused roles

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Fureudi

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Paranoid parents

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Morgan

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Cohabitation shows marriage going out of fashion

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Beaujouan

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Cohabiting before marriage is the norm

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Hall

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Freedom of being single, focus on career

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Wilkinson

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Genderquake

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Giddenns

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Confluent love - temporary, intense, fragile

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Mcrae

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Fear of divorce makes people reject marriage

Intimacy at a distance due to technology

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Leach

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Nuclear family has emotional overload

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Crocket + Tripp

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Normalisation of divorce

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Kiernan + Mueller

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Financial problems cause divorce

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Amato

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Risk factors for divorce e.eg. marrying young, different ethnic background

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Kurz
Economic position of women restricts divorce
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Allan + Crow
Divorce is now better for women financially
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Gittins
Women are more dissatisfied with marriage
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Thorne + Collard
Women expect more from marriage
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Fletcher + Parsons
People demand more from marriage
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Fletcher
High value placed on marriage | Family has retained its functions, other institutions added to functions not suppressed
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Smart
Family life can adapt to changes without disintegrating
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Stacey
Postmodernism, no ideal family type as diverse
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Dennis
New right, lone parents lead to delinquency
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Beck + Beck Gernshein
Individualisation - independence means more diversity
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Murdock
Functions of family: sexual relations, raising children, consumption, socialisation
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Parsons
Functions: socialisation, stabilisation of adult persi abilities Functional prerequisites: Instrumental and expressive role determined by biology Warm bath and best fit
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Engels
Capitalism led to the rise of the nuclear family, private property laws led to popularity of marriage, capitalism resulted in women being servant of the family
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Zaretsky
Family serves capitalism - having children creates a workforce, takes care of workers, enforces hierarchy, vital unit of consumption Patriarchy serves interests of capitalism, housewives keep capitalism going
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Ansley
Emotional support from wife is a safety valve for the frustration capitalism produces in a husband at work Women are the "takers of sh*t" as the frustration of men results in domestic violence
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Greer
Family disadvantages women
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Grundy + Henretta
Sanwhich generation of women caring for elderly and children
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Willmott + Young
Symmetrical family, joint conjugal roles, egalitarian marriage, extended replaced with privatised nuclear family 72% of men helped with domestic chores
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Dunscombe + Marsden
Emotional work is part of women's invisible labour, operate a triple shift of emotional, paid and housework
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DeVault
Women primarily responsible for planning and organising family meals
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Warner
Homme based mothers work 100 hours a week
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Bibby financial
Women spend 3x longer on demometstic work as men
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Hoschild
Women have main responsibility and less leisure time
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Gershuny
Gradual increase in housework done by men but both less likely to spend time on house work due to labour saving devices
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Hakim
Women and men have the same number of productive work hours of 8 per day
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Harkness
Men do more hours of payed work | Only group where women work more than men is couples without children
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Edgell
Men make important decisions, women make unimportant
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Leighton
Women make more financial decisions if husband is unemployed
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Hardill
Small shift towards egalitarian relationships but men still dominate decision making
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Pahl
Husband controls money management but shift away from allowance system
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Volger + Pahl
Women more likely to reduce spending for cutbacks
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Gattrell
Couples compete for control of children
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Delphy
First opression is of women by men, housewife is a patriarchal role, glass ceiling of assumed role
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Dobash + Dobash
Official statistics for abuse underestimate as victims not always come forward
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Stanko
One in four women and 1 in seven men are victims of domestic violence
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Nasroo
Men often intend on harming their partner whereas women usually act in self defence
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Sclater
Some behaviours are less easy to recognise as violence e.g. verbal abuse
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Ghate
Many parents agree snacking children is okay
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Taylor
Figures on child abuse are flawed
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Aries
Childhood developed from being treated as little workers and economic assets to having education and separate legal status in child centred society
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Stainton-Rogers
Two images - innocent vs wicked
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Palmer
Toxic childhood
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Postman
Endd of childhood
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Lee
Childhood has become more complex
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McCarthy
Pressure to be a good mother
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Gray
Fathers spend more time with children
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Lareau
Social class, cultural capital and parenting
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Nelson
Helicopter parenting
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Roseneil + Mann
Single parents face prejudice
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Park
More than one mother figure

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