Family Diversity

Question 1

single Parent families

Answer 1

Easier divorce less social stigma feminism and changing roles of women

Question 2

Lesbian couples and gay couples

Answer 2

Less social stigma changes in law secularization advances in reproductive technologies

Question 3

Extended and reconstructed families

Answer 3

Easy divorce to tell legal changes sacralisation more social acceptance and less stigma about remarriages

Question 4

Lone parent households

Answer 4

Changes in women’s roles increase in divorce less stigma individuals have more money people choose to be single because of individualization

Question 5

Chester family diversity

Answer 5

Suggests diversity is an illusion the only view changed the family structure is that women go to work enrolls have become more symmetrical most people still live as cohabitating or married couples that have children

Question 6

New right family diversity

Answer 6

Opposed to family diversity seek conventional patriarchal nuclear family as the correct a normal type of family see the father’s role as instrumental and mother’s role as expressive

Question 7

Other factors affecting family diversity

Answer 7

Class diversity middle class of high incomes private education child-centered verbal punishments