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NUCLEAR FAMILY
Definition

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Wife, husband, 2 kids

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NUCLEAR FAMILY
Postmodernist views

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No such thing as typical family. In decline since 60s

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EXTENDED FAMILIES
Definition

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Families with strong relationships to kin

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EXTENDED FAMILIES
Roles

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Males - help financially
Females - help with childcare and elderly

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EXTENDED FAMILIES
Vertically and horizontally

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Vertically - grandparents
Horizontally - siblings

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Young and Wilmott
Symmetrical nuclear families 1970s

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Responsibilities shared equally

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Responsibilities shared equally
Sociologist?

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Young and wilmott - symmetrical families 1970s

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EXTENDED FAMILIES
Dispersed extended families - digital tech helps stay in touch
Sociologist?

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Wilmott

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EXTENDED FAMILIES
Dispersed extended families - Wilmott

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digital tech helps stay in touch with families

  • come together special occasions
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LONE PARENT FAMILIES
Evidence that mothers are head of lone parent families

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•Judges favour mothers in court
-(ONS) 2013 1/4 families with dependent kids

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LONE PARENT FAMILIES
Stats

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•2% remarry after 5 years
•4% cohabit after 5 years
•7% single

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LONE PARENT FAMILIES
Gov Stats on poverty

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2x likely to live in relative poverty
Kids antisocial
Once kids hit 12, employment stabilises equal to couples

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SAME SEX FAMILIES
When could gay people adopt

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2002

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SAME SEX FAMILIES
What did they do before 2002

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Surrogate mothers

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SAME SEX FAMILIES
Lesbians and kids

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Mainly blood mothers to kids from previous marriages

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RECONSTITUTED FAMILIES
Definition

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Step families, remarriage, half siblings
-evolved from single hood

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RECONSTITUTED FAMILIES
Men in reconstituted families

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Men are increasingly likely to be living with other men’s kids as theirs grows up elsewhere

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RECONSTITUTED FAMILIES
According to ONS % that is reconstituted families

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RECONSTITUTED FAMILIES
Living apart together definition

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Couples together but bringing kids up in separate households

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RECONSTITUTED FAMILIES
LAT
Who favour this

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Young couples and old
Promises intimacy but freedom

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RECONSTITUTED FAMILIES
LAT
what does this evolve into?

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Marriage and cohabitation

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NON FAMILY
Individualisation thesis
Sociologist

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Beck and beck gernshiem

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NON FAMILY
Individualism - Families of choice

A

Friends become the new family
Pete are kids

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NON FAMILY
LIVING ALONE
Klineberg
Individualism - why is single hood increasing
3

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  1. Women more carefree
  2. Communication revolution - social media singlehood attractive
  3. Aging population - widows
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NON FAMILY
LIVING ALONE
Communication revolution definition

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Single hood glamorised by social media

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NON FAMILY
LIVING ALONE
Smith

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Old people dispersed extended families - visited by kids

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BEANPOLE FAMILIES
Definition

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•less aunts and uncles, more grandparents
4 gens. Inc life expectancy

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BEANPOLE FAMILIES
Sandwich generation

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Older middle aged generations who pay for elderly parents and adult kids

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COHABITATIONS
ONS trends in cohabitation

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•cohabit 4 years before marriage
•80% married previously cohabited - less likely to end in divorce
•2004-2014 increase by 30%
•fastest growing family type (doubled 1996-2012)

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COHABITATIONS
Why do people cohabit

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•trial run of marriage
•poorer cohabit to afford rent
•65+

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EXTENDED FAMILY SOCIOLOGISTS

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Young and Wilmott
Wilmott

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LONE PARENT SOCIOLOGISTS

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RECONSTITUTED FAMILY SOCIOLOGISTS

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SAME SEX SOCIOLOGISTS

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NON FAMILY HOUSE HOLDS

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COHABITATION SOCIOLOGISTS

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