Types Of Diversity & Reasons

Question 0

3 reasons for the increase in cohabitation.

Answer 0

Less stigma (changing attitudes), secularisation (less influence from religion), increase in divorce.

Question 1

What is cohabitation?

Answer 1

A partnership between unmarried couples in a sexual relationship living together.

Question 2

What is a same sex relationship?

Answer 2

Partnership between gay male and lesbian female couples living together in an intimate relationship.

Question 3

3 reasons for increase in same sex relationships.

Answer 3

Less stigma (changing attitudes), secularisation (less influence from religion, legal and social policy changes (same sex marriage Act 2013).

Question 4

What are one person households (singletons)?

Answer 4

People who live alone through choice or not.

Question 5

3 reasons for the increase in one person households.

Answer 5

Less stigma (changing attitudes), increase in divorce, chanting position of women.

Question 6

What are lone parent families?

Answer 6

A parent without a partner living with their dependant children.

Question 7

3 reasons for the increase in lone parent families.

Answer 7

Less stigma (changing attitudes), increase in divorce, changing position for women.

Question 8

Why are lone parent families are mainly headed by females?

Answer 8

Biologically suited, divorce courts give them custody, it’s more socially acceptable.

Question 9

What are reconstituted families?

Answer 9

Families in which one or both adults in a couple bring children from a previous relationship, often re-marry.

Question 10

2 reasons for an increase in reconstituted.

Answer 10

Less stigma (changing attitudes), increase in divorce and re-marriage.

Question 11

Give three characteristics of reconstituted families.

Answer 11

More children from step families are from the woman’s side.
Step families are at risk of poverty (more children).
Step families have extra tensions.

Question 12

An extended family has __________ in addition to the ________ family, e.g. Grandparents, aunts, cousins etc.

Answer 12

Relatives, nuclear.

Question 13

Parsons (1955) Extended families are important in ___-_________ society, but replaced by ________ families during industrialisation.

Answer 13

Pre-industrialisation, nuclear.

Question 14

Bell (1968) Research in ________ found extended families were common amongst the ________ class as they provided important _________ support between mothers and daughters.

Answer 14

Swansea, working, domestic.

Question 15

Charles (2005) Recent research in ________ has found the extended family to have largely ____________, except amongst Banglandeshi’s.

Answer 15

Swansea, disappeared.

Question 16

Willmott (1988) Extended families have ________ but not disappeared. They now exist as a ‘__________ _________ family’.

Answer 16

Declined, dispersed, extended.

Question 17

Chamberlain (1999) There are ‘multiple _______ families’ amongst Black Caribbean families - geographically _________ but relatives have lots of contact and support.

Answer 17

Nuclear, dispersed.

Question 18

What does child centred mean?

Answer 18

Middle class families invest more time in their children.

Question 19

Middle class families are more likely to use ___ ____ to look after their children.

Answer 19

Day, care.

Question 20

_______ ____ families are more likely to divorce.

Answer 20

Working, class.

Question 21

Black families have a ____ proportion of female headed lone parent families.

Answer 21

High.

Question 22

2 reasons for high percentage of black single parent families.

Answer 22

High rates of black male unemployment (unable to support their family), choice (wanting independence).

Question 23

Asian families are _______ because they have more children, and are sometimes extended.

Answer 23

Larger.

Question 24

2 reasons for Asian family structures.

Answer 24

They place a value on the extended family, marriage (at a young age - more rime to have more children).

Question 25

There is an increase in families where the partners come from _________ _____ backgrounds.

Answer 25

Different, ethnic.

Question 26

Reason for more multicultural families.

Answer 26

People choose a partner, whatever their ethnic group, which meets their personal needs and wishes.