Identify and explain two ways in which demographic changes impact on family life

Question 1

point 1

Answer 1

One way in which demographic changes impact family life is that an aging population can lead to a burden on adults of working age who may need to care for elderly parents as well as raising children.

Question 2

example 1

Answer 2

Grundy and Henrietta found evidence that middle aged women are becoming part of a ‘sandwich generation’ where they are sandwiched between caring for their own dependent children as well as their elderly parents.

Question 3

explain 1

Answer 3

This shows that demographic changes impact family life as one of these changes is an aging population which now means women have to care for their parents now where previously when there was less old people this wouldn’t be the case.

Question 4

point 2

Answer 4

Another way in which demographic changes impact family life is that due to increased choice there is now much more diversity.

Question 5

example 2

Answer 5

Allan and Crow identify that the demographic changes as contributing to increased family diversity; an rise in the divorce rate, an increase in lone parent families, an increase in cohabitating families, a decline in marriage rates and an increase in step-parent families.

Question 6

explain 2

Answer 6

This shows that demographic changes impact family life as they have lead to a giant change in family diversity as previously a normal family would be the nuclear family but now different family types are acceptable.

Question 7

intro

Answer 7

Demographic changes are shifts in the population structure that have emerged in industrialised societies, in recent years these have effected family life.