How have families and households become more diverse?

Question 1

How have families and households become more diverse?

Answer 1

In the 1950s the ‘traditional nuclear family’ was much more common. Since then, the nuclear family has declined and other family and household types increased:

Question 2

The ‘main types’ of family which have ‘replaced’ the nuclear family:

Answer 2

Reconstituted families
Divorce-extended families
Single parent families
Single person households
LAT relationships
Multigenerational households
The modified extended family
Shared households/ families of choice

Question 3

Other forms of increasing family diversity

Answer 3

There are more cohabiting rather than married couples
There is more cultural (‘ethnic’) diversity
There are more openly same-sex couples and families
There is greater ‘organisational diversity’: of gender roles
There is greater ‘life-course diversity’
More adults are continuing to live with their parents